BIG DUPLICATE PROBLEM

So my computer recently got a new hard drive and when I re-installed iTunes, it just dumped all my music back into the iTunes library. The thing is, I have thousands of duplicates now, and I don't know how to get rid of them. Is there a way to do it without deleting each one? Please keep in mind that some of the "duplicates" are actually ones I want to keep, such as in the case that a live version of a song is identified as a duplicate of the studio recording. So just automatically deleting every single duplicate would also delete a bunch of songs I want.

You could try one of Robert Jacobson's scripts - itunesremoveduplicates
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/
The scripts come as a single files on the green download button. You select the script you want when you run it.

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Hi duplicate problem

Hi,
I have a very big duplicate problem.
I only have +- 1900 contacts but there are now 21500 contacts in my icloud contacts.
I tried to delete all but it does not work,
Then I tried to delete the folders
Then I sat here for almost one day trying to delete one by one, but when I restart my phone and lap top they are all back?
Can icloud support delete all the unnecessary ones perhaps please?
I live in Thailand; does support have an email address?
How does one actually contact them with future problems?

The following link has a section "Troubleshooting duplicates with iCloud Contacts" that may help: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3998
The main support page is https://www.apple.com/support/contact/ -- I suspect but cannot verify that will automatically direct you for your country.

Email and big wifi problems.

Email and big wifi problems.
Why does it take 6 minutes to send a photo attachment when my iphone 4 will do it in 30 to 40 seconds ?
Why will my email account be recognised and log on only half the time?
Why does the wifi keep dropping out?
Why does the speed and signal vary when I'm sitting two feet away from by wifi router?
All settings in my phone have been reset twice as per advice from vodapone

Thanks very much, jjgraphics. I will grit my teeth and try India once more, as you suggest, and then get in touch with the moderators.
Karen.

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Big Eudora problem, small Finder issue-- related?

I use Eudora for my email, and unfortunately my big Eudora problem is not getting solved in the Eudora message board; after half a day of Eudora quitting unexpectedly and then working fine but just for a few minutes if I restarted my computer, now when I launch Eudora, my Finder crashes-- everything disappears but the background image, and the computer is frozen.
The reason I'm posting here is that before it reached this stage, there were other weird things that didn't relate to Eudora: I would try to launch Flash, and Flash couldn't open a new blank file. I would try to launch something else, and an error message would say that some component in a Library wasn't found. All of these things are not happening anymore; as far as I know, only Eudora is misbehaving, but one odd feature remains: every finder window is showing, next to the search field in the upper right, a large question mark, and next to that there is a folder icon. If I click on the folder icon, I'm taken to one particular folder in my HD that has no significance to anything that I can tell. If I click on the question mark, I get "the item can not be found." (Hence the question mark, I guess). But what are those doing there in every finder window? Is there supposed to be a folder icon at the middle-top-right of every finder window? I don't remember one there.
I have done an archive-and-install of OS 10.4.6, but the finder window business is still the same.
The hardware test CD that came with my PowerBook says all hardware is okay. Disk Warrior finds no problems. Disk Permissions are okay in Disk Utility. I ran Clam Xav, and it found four copies of viruses: three (called Email.Ecard-6) in my In box and in two mailboxes with older In messages, and one (called Email.Phishing.Pay-8) in my Out box. I put all of these files in the trash and restarted my laptop, launched Eudora and the finder crashed. I reinstalled Eudora and the same thing happened, although I had put the infected boxes back in place before reinstalling Eudora.
I don't know where the problem is.
Any advice, please?
Paul

Ciao Von Stripes,
I've just found the solution:
Open - System Preferences, then open - Spotlight
There is a list of categories.
Find - Files on the list, then click, drag and drop to the position number 1 and "voilá"
I hope it works for you too...

Hello, I have a big batterylife problem with my brand new iPod touch 4Gen 8GB white. Please help...

Hello, I have a big batterylife problem with my brand new iPod touch 4Gen 8GB white. Please help?

What battery life are you getting? Is it short when you are using the iPod? When it is sleeping?

Big Permissions Problem: "You Cannot Change The Contents Of This Folder"

I installed Tiger some time ago (and need to upgrade now from 10.4.6 to 10.4.9).
I haven't used it much since some of my software will only run under Panther.
In any case, I'm using it now and have been having big permissions/user accounts problems.
I have two users on the computer "robert" and "ra", both with admin privileges (I set up two because I was trying to get around these problems -- I'd be very happy with just one).
I have 10.4.6 installed on an external HD and boot from that into Tiger (I have Tiger on another external HD as a backup, and my main HD in the iMac has 10.3.9 -- that's what I boot from when I need to run older programs).
In any case, both "robert" and "ra" have ADMIN privileges. But I get weird ownership problems. For instance, if I am logged in as "ra" and try to play a Realplayer file streaming from the web (in Firefox 1.x), I get the error
/Users/robert/Desktop/307e6wz7 could not be saved, because you cannot change the contents of that folder.
I check the ownership of the "Desktop" folder -- read/write for "ra".
If I right-click I can save the Realplayer file to the desktop.
Same with other links.
I've also noticed other ownership problems (blocked folders at finder level) but can't duplicate tonight. Is this an obscure error, or is there something amiss in ownership recognition? Is there some way I can sort all out? Login in as "root" and set all right?
Thanks
G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Yes they do. When you installed them you dragged these particular apps to the Applications folder. Doing so automatically attributes the program with the ownership attributes of the account owner who installed them - 'robert.'
Proper application installers install apps under the system/admin ownership. You can try to fix these apps by changing their permissions:
Select the app and CTRL-click to open the contextual menu. Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Select the Contents folder and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Ownership and Permissions section click on the tiny arrow icon to expose the panel. Click on the little lock icon to authenticate. Change permissions as follows:
Owner = system with Read/Write privileges
Group = admin with Read/Write privileges
Other with Read-Only privileges
Click on the Apply To Enclosed Items button. Close the lock by clicking again on the lock icon.

The big iChat problems. Audio/Video (now completely broken in 10.7.3), the "not-authorized" problem

So, I am running iChat on OS X Lion 10.7.3 on an early-2011 MBP 13'' . These problems have been here for a while, though (I got my comp with 10.7.0). I have AIM/GMail/Yahoo connected..
One problem is the issue of non-authorized people. There is a list of "not authorized" people that I have to scroll past in my "offline" section of iChat buddies before I actually get to the real offline contacts. Big note here: All these people have the address (something)@aol.com. These contacts have come up as a result of my gmail connection. You see, a few months ago Gmail and AIM did this chat unification process where @aol.com contacts can be just added into Gmail for chatting. These @aol.com copies come up asking for an invite when the REAL AIM address person talks to me. The invites leave once I press decline, but then they stay on my list as not authorized. If I delete these "not-authorized" copies, the invites will come up again and the cycle will repeat. It is a nuisance considering how much of these false contacts are on my list.
Second problem is video/audio chat in general. This issue really applies on AIM/Yahoo—there is nothing for Gmail because people usually use the web interface which simply doesn't work with iChat video/audio. If the people used Google talk, the issue written below would probably come up.
See, what happens is that…(now in 10.7.3), video/audio chat is simply broken, simple as that. My contacts always tell me that an error has occurred when trying to accept my video chat invite. It simply doesn't work. They are using AIM desktop in most cases. When it DID used to work (to a very limited extent, I'll say; it was hit or miss earlier pre 10.7.3, now it's just miss), it was just video but NO audio. They could see/hear me, I could only see them. When I did audio chats, they hear me, I..don't hear them (so audio chats were pointless). The only case where this problem doesn't happen is where it's Mac to Mac, iChat to iChat. VERY limited in use of audio/video chat, if you ask me.

Hi,
If AIM contacts have been added to your Google Buddy List then I would login to Google and remove them from there (the iGoogle or GoogleMail web pages will show the Chat option)
Whilst they are still in the List then the Authorization request will probably be resent (In this case it is probably being generated by the method Google are using to add the AIM names as iChat only sends it once).
Google/Jabber Video chats is only iChat to iChat and so is Yahoo with iChat 6.
The Yahoo App streams Video which People can be allowed to see and Audio is added in as an Audio Chat.
The connection Process is not the same and iChat/AIM
Jabber and Google use Jingle to Connect (in fact Google's version is not that compatible with other Jabber apps).
This means iChat to the Standalone PC app or any Web Browser using the Google Video Plug-in (PC or Mac) or to any Jabber app that is using a Google ID (or a Jabber ID) will not work.
On the iChat to AIM on a PC.
This has always been a bit of a hit and miss affair.
Some people have no trouble but other spend ages trying to set things up and never find the solution.
This is the Original Users Tip (up to about AIM5.9)
A "replacement" for that tip that has not made it across yet.
I have yet to try Video to the Web Login version that is now on offer.
However I would limit the Bandwidth in iChat Menu > Preferences > Video Section to 500kbps (possibly try 200kbps for 1-1 chats) as you will not know the interent speed available to the Buddy if they are using the web login.
Comparisons
When you compare iChat actual functions to what you would like it to do it can appear to be limited.
On the basis that you would want your IM app to be able to have Buddies from other services listed in a Buddy list (combined) or Lists which apps do you know of can do that and Video to some of them ?
Adium and ProteusX can both have Buddies from the major Services ina Buddy List but don't do Audio or Video.
Yahoo and MSN both allow the other's Buddies in the list but I am not sure about Video or Audio chats
They cannot connect to Jabber or AIM buddies even for text chats.
Jabber does depend on the server you use and whether that does Transports for you to have text chats with other services.
Instructions for iChat.
Mercury IM is a JAVA version of MSN and still has not got to Audio and Video
Similar for aMSN
Gizmo5 and YakforFree both died...
Skype is Cross Platform but is only 1-1 in Video chat. (cost extra for 3 and 4 way chats)
Yahoo had dropped support for their Mac version now iChat has the Yahoo option (you can still download it - IT being the beta it has been for years).
2:40 PM Saturday; February 11, 2012
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 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
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Big graphic problem on MacBook Pro

First, I appologize for my english but i'm french !
So, I have a very big problem since I have upgrade to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro mid-2010 (Core i5 2,4Ghz / 4Go / 320Go) : when the graphics card switch from the Nvdia to the Intel3000, it turn like this :
So I need to restart. There is no problem when I start with the Intel3000.
Only append when it switch from the Nvidia to the Intel3000.
So I use gfxCardStatus to only use the Nvidia but I'm waiting for a fix from Apple with the next update of Mountain Lion.
Great update ...

Reply to myself but can help other people : after a "clean install" of Moutain Lion, using a USB key, no more problem, even with gfxCardStatus !
And big big improvement of system reactivity.

Broken Ftp Connection and big files problem

I have a problem with big-files downloading.
Does anybody know how to resume downloading using FTP-connection?
Or how can I get bytes from FTP connected file using something like random access to avoid the restart of downloading the file?
"InputStream" does not support "seek"-like methods.

From RFC 959
RESTART (REST)
The argument field represents the server marker at which
file transfer is to be restarted. This command does not
cause file transfer but skips over the file to the specified
data checkpoint. This command shall be immediately followed
by the appropriate FTP service command which shall cause
file transfer to resume.
You should also be aware of RFC 959 Section 3.4.2 on BLOCK MODE transfers which is what allows FTP to REST a connection and "skip" n-bytes of a file.

Big generic problem

I'm having a big problem. Look at this:
public class Person {
public class Employee extends Person {
public class Bank {
private List<Person> people = new ArrayList<Person>();
public List<Person> people() {
return people;
Now the problem:
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Bank b = new Bank();
b.people().add(new Employee()); // This was to be forbidden, but
// the compiler doesn't complain
In the class Bank I declared a list to contain only Person objects:
private List<Person> people = new ArrayList<Person>();
and a method to return it, with the same generic type:
public List<Person> people()
so, how could the compiler let me add a person of type Employee in the class
Test? No matter if I change the declaration of the people() method to accept
only objects of class Person and above, like this:
public List<? super Person> people()
it still compiles and I still can add Employee objects to the list that were
supposed to hold just Person objects.
So, the question is:
HOW COULD I RETURN A LIST IN A METHOD WITH A GENERIC TYPE THAT HAS SUBCLASSES AND THAT I CAN MAKE THE LIST TO ACCEPT OBJECTS JUST OF THAT TYPE, NOT OF ITS SUBCLASSES? So, this is type safe. I don't want the list of the example above to accept objects of type Employee, just Person.

so, why can I add Employees to a list declaredthis
way
public List<Person> get() {
return people; // <--- list of Person
}I don't see how it can be said any more clearly -
BECAUSE AN Employee IS A Person!
wouldn't it be to behave the same way as you
said?
Is
the proplem related to a param and a return
type.
With params with works, but not with returntypes?
I don't understand your point!Look if I'm really understanding this thing:
public void add(List<Person> p)
private List<Employee> e = new
ArrayList<Employee>();
obj.add(e) // Error. It's not exactly a PersonNow:
public List<Person> people();
private List<Employee> e = new
ArrayList<Employee>();
obj.people().add(new Employee()); // Ok. But why?An Employee is a Person. But in the first code it
didn't let me add an Employee to a method acception a
Person. That's what I want. But why the second code
worked. Isn't it the same thing. The param type in
both examples is a list of Person.To be more clear in the first code:
public class Obj {
public void people(List<Person> p)
private List<Employee> e = new ArrayList<Employee>();
Obj obj = new Obj();
obj.people(e) // Error. It's not exactly a Person

Transferring, converting and duplicate problems.

Please please bare with me with my questions, and keep in mind I'm okay with computers but not an expert by any means.
I have been packing around an external hard drive for several years now with aprox 70gb of music and audio books.
I am on the road all summer and decided I just want all my audio with me instead of being in the mood for a certain genre of music and not having it with me.
So I have recently purchased the 160gb iPod.
I'm excited to get everything transferred over but I'm running into a few hair pulling problems.
A lot of my music on the hard drive was copied onto my computer years ago via windows media. So iTunes needs to convert these.. Which I think is working okay.. But I do get a lot of duplicates in my library. (Copies of the same song will either be lightly texted, and then solid black. They all appear to play. So I'll go through and delete say the lightly texted ones. (This happens if I choose the solid black ones too) I have them removed from iTunes but not perm from my computer...because im too scared of doing perm damage to my music library With not being 100% sure where these are perm removing it from.
HOWEVER, while I was doing this and thinking it was going along great, I started noticing it would delete my entire album I was working on! I was only deleted what I thought was duplicates and leaving a set of tracks in the album and the entire thing would disappear from my iTunes.
THis has also happened when I have deleted the "broken" tracks. The ones with ! Next to the song. I'll have the track fixed under it which plays, but once I delete the broken track, even the good track disappears.
i have several problems but this one is killing me. I have too much music and way to small of a hard drive on my pc to have it duplicating songs. And too much music to go back ripping the songs to Apple from the original cds.
Help!

Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
See also Make a split library portable.
tt2

Another RMAN duplicate problem - RAC database to single instance

Hi,
I have a problem with the RMAN duplicate procedure and was hoping someone can help.
I would like to create a duplicate of our production RAC database on a separate, stand-alone, database server on another site. This duplicate will be used for intensive querying by another business unit who I don't want to have access to our production database.
My procedure goes like this:
1. Create a disk (not ASM) based backup of the datafiles and any archived redo logs:
"run {
allocate channel d1 type disk;
backup format '/u02/stage/df_t%t_s%s_p%p' database plus archivelog delete input;
release channel d1;
2. Tar and scp these files to the same location on the stand-alone database server.
3. In the meantime, work has been happening on the production database and further archived redo logs have been generated. I don't really care about these logs for the purposes of the duplicate however, I just want to duplicate to the point of the recent backup. To do this, I run the following SQL to determine the sequence number that I should be duplicating up to:
"select max(sequence#), thread# from v$archived_log where deleted='YES' group by thread#;"
4. Duplicate the production database to the stand-alone database (all the SQL Net stuff is working).
"run {
set until sequence (value returned by above SQL statement);
duplicate target database to XXX;
However, my problem arises because I don't know how to handle the fact that there are two threads. I understand that each thread relates to one of the RAC instances, I just don't know which one to specify for the duplicate. We have a database service which the client application connects through, and that service runs on on or other of the instances. Should I just care about the logs from the instance where the service is currently running?
Am I even approaching this is the correct way?
I look forward to any help that people may be able to offer.
Regards,
Phil

Hi Werner,
Thanks again for your help, there is still something wrong though. "list backup of archivelog all;" shows:
BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
3784 202.34M DISK 00:00:08 28-OCT-09
BP Key: 3784 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20091028T111718
Piece Name: /u02/stage/df_t701435838_s3820_p1
List of Archived Logs in backup set 3784
Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
1 9746 569095777 28-OCT-09 569150229 28-OCT-09
1 9747 569150229 28-OCT-09 569187892 28-OCT-09
1 9748 569187892 28-OCT-09 569231956 28-OCT-09
1 9749 569231956 28-OCT-09 569259816 28-OCT-09
2 7931 569095774 28-OCT-09 569187902 28-OCT-09
2 7932 569187902 28-OCT-09 569259814 28-OCT-09
BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
3787 1.04M DISK 00:00:02 28-OCT-09
BP Key: 3787 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20091028T112222
Piece Name: /u02/stage/df_t701436142_s3823_p1
List of Archived Logs in backup set 3787
Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
1 9750 569259816 28-OCT-09 569261110 28-OCT-09
2 7933 569259814 28-OCT-09 569261108 28-OCT-09
You can see that the highest sequence number is 9750 of thread 1, and that the Low and Next SCNs are 569259816 and 56926111. However, when I look at the output of the RMAN duplicate command:
contents of Memory Script:
set until scn 569505448;
recover
clone database
delete archivelog
executing Memory Script
executing command: SET until clause
Starting recover at 28-OCT-09
allocated channel: ORA_AUX_DISK_1
channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1: sid=39 devtype=DISK
starting media recovery
Oracle Error:
ORA-01547: warning: RECOVER succeeded but OPEN RESETLOGS would get error below
ORA-01194: file 4 needs more recovery to be consistent
ORA-01110: data file 4: '/u02/sca-standby/data/users.260.623418479'
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 10/28/2009 16:12:55
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-06053: unable to perform media recovery because of missing log
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 2 seq 7936 lowscn 569411744 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 2 seq 7935 lowscn 569321987 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 2 seq 7934 lowscn 569261108 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9758 lowscn 569471890 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9757 lowscn 569440076 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9756 lowscn 569411439 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9755 lowscn 569378529 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9754 lowscn 569358970 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9753 lowscn 569321882 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9752 lowscn 569284238 found to restore
RMAN-06025: no backup of log thread 1 seq 9751 lowscn 569261110 found to restore
you can see that something is setting the recovery SCN to 569505448 which higher even then any of the archived logs mentioned above. If I select current_scn from the production database, this gives me 569528258 which is closer to the value which RMAN is expecting to recover to than any of the archived redo logs.
Can you think what might be causing RMAN to try to recover to this value? and why does it appear to be ignoring the SET UNTIL SEQUENCE command?
Cheers,
Phil

Big disk problems - or big-disk problems?

Hi there!
I have really big problems. I try to set up a 45 GB Western Digital Caviar 450AA (secondary IDE controller, master-drive). I patched my machine with the recommended patch cluster which also contains patch no. 110202-01 for the ata-drivers. I am able to fdisk the drive with a geometry file using fdisk with options. I am also able to partition the disk with the native solaris 8 x86 format tool. I label the disk - fine so far. But when I try to build a filesystem on it, newfs terminates wih errors. I afterwards tried to set up a scsi-disk with 4,1 GB (IBM DCAS 34330). The same problem occured: newfs (as well as mkfs with options) terminated with the following error message:
mkfs: bad value for size: 0 must be between 1024 and 0
mkfs: size reset to default 0
mkfs: bad value for ntrack: 6 must be between 1 and 0
mkfs: ntrack reset to default 16
seek error on sector -1: invalid argument
That's pretty strange, isn't it? I don't know wheter Solaris x86 is that different from Solaris SPARC edition. Perhaps I'm too dumb to get this machine working and should put my fingers off Solaris x86 edition.
Could anybody in this world help me? Or has anybody the same problems? You know - it's just for my collegues: they are now calling me brad...
Greetings
SERGEJ

Two choices:
- Call Apple (1-800-MY-APPLE) and order, for nominal cost, the original DVDs.
- Or order the SN disk from Apple
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

Duplicate Problems (RMAN is looking at the wrong backup)

We are running into a problem when we try to duplicate our database. Here is the process we use to duplicate:
delete old backup files (we only use RMAN for cloning so we don't need them)
set prod db environment variables<run rman
connect target sys/####;
backup database;
exit;
set test db environment variables<shutdown test database, rename test db folder (in case we missed getting something important out) create a new folder for test db.
start test db (nomount)
rman
connect target sys/####@PROD
connect auxiliary sys/####@TEST
run
allocate auxiliary channel disk1 type disk;
duplicate target database to TEST;
we get this error:
channel disk1: reading from backup piece E:\RMAN\PROD\BKUP_PROD_610891176_1
ORA-19870: error reading backup piece E:\RMAN\PROD\BKUP_PROD_610891176_1
ORA-19505: failed to identify file "E:\RMAN\PROD\BKUP_PROD_610891176_1"
ORA-27041: unable to open file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 2) The system cannot find the file specified.
failover to previous backup
The backup file RMAN is trying to read is the backup from our previous clone. How can I tell RMAN to look at the backup we just made?
I've run "list backup;" and the most recent backup is shown there. We've run into this problem a couple of times now, but not everytime. I can't find any rhyme or reason for why it works or fails but the process is the same sometimes we can just wait a half-hour or an hour and it works. Anyone have any ideas that could help?
BTW - We aren't using a recovery catalog.

http://dbataj.blogspot.com/2006/12/duplicating-database-with-recovery.html

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