3 iMacs storing files
We have 3 iMacs & an Airport Time Capsule.
We want to store files in 1 place so all 3 iMacs an access them.
Whats the best & easiest way to do this?
Hello!
The Time Capsule has a harddrive in which you can store files. All three of your Macs can connect with it as long as they're all in the same network and subnetwork.
However, a little note from experience: all of that should work fine, but the Time Capsule HDD is meant for back-ups and not storage. So I recommend you connect a USB-Harddrive to the Time Capsule's USB port on which you can store your three Macs' files.
This HDD doesn't have to be of a particular brand, as long as it's using USB and has it's own power cable.
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I could not log in to this Support Community with my UPDATED Apple ID (and this is another issue I can't believe Apple just says "NO, you CAN'T!" - deleting other (old) Apple IDs we've created by mistake or a long time ago and being able to have it all on ONE SINGLE UPDATED Apple ID - ALSO saving Apple's storage servers, etc.).
Anyway, my Apple ID for better communication is [email protected] (but I really couldn't log in here - it kept saying that the e-mail is already registered, etc. I know it, I'm trying to use it here, that's all...
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I used iDisk when MobileMe was still alive, and it was great to have my files from work, home, any backup (whatever we want) uploaded and synced and used in our Macs, iPhones and iPads. If we have the OPTION of an iCloud Plan (the top one, for example), but we just don't like the automatick backups for the iPhones and iPads, nor the Pictures' sync function.. Why can't we just have the SAME simple and efficient/great service of the iDisk installed in each device?!
Do we really have to go back and downgrade back to the free iCloud Option (just for keeping the e-mail) and paying extra for DropBox, Google, Microsoft, any other services?! I have nothing against them - I actually have DropBox and it works great because it REMINDS me of iDisk!! But WHY NOT just keep it simple and closed with 1 company/platform/option - Apple's iOS, OSX, etc.
That's why I decided to have a Macbook Pro, an iPhone 4S and an iPad 3rd. Generation (for example, along with other products and services such as Apple TV).. I know I'm CHOOSING to stay with 1 world, that's fine. And that's why I didn't (yet) go for a Samsung phone or another tablet.. I wanna stick with 1 pattern and I have chosen Apple's..
Just can't understand such an innovative company make such decisions (such as shutting down iDisk or not letting us just DELETE Apple IDs we do NOT use anymore).. Please, just some guidance or confirmation if that's correct: No way of uploading files others than Numbers', Pages' or Keynote's!!??
Thank you very much!!
Peace.Thank you Roger.
That's exactly what I was afraid of...
During all the time I have been a loyal customer of Apple's products and services, these have been the only 2 issues that I really can't understand (specially when we look at Apple's strategies and management)...
1) Not being able to DELETE (simply delete or deactivate) old or duplicated Apple IDs... I have 3 different Apple IDs but only one is the real Apple ID I use for everything, with all my purchases and services (such as e-mail) related to it (Why won't Apple jus let people delet, deactivate or - at least - merge Apple IDs?! That would help everyone, including Apple when we think about costs, storage, database maintenance, etc.) - Actually, even when I gave up on trying to delete other Apple IDs, I tried to have the one I really use and have organized to use my @me.com address as the Apple ID itself (as Apple asks us to do - and makes sense, of course). But never worked. Just because I created that Apple ID with a @hotmail.com account (since it asks for a valid e-mail when you create an Apple ID, it NEVER lets me now change my Apple ID to my @me.com e-mail address - I mean JUST having my @me.com e-mail address as my primary e-mail and my Apple ID (for example, having that old @hotmail.com e-mail address out of it, cleaned..)!
2) The other issue was this one, about iDisk. Of course there must be reasons for having it shut down, maybe the apps used by iPhone and iPad, along with the folder on Mac OSX, is way too complicated, expensive, full of bugs, I don't know. But if we decide to pay for 50GB of online storage, why even THINK about different options for files we use?! I have Dropbox, I've read about Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive, etc. But I just wanted to STICK with a single ALL-APPLE solution.. That is.. Pay the annual fee for the 50GB and just still keep any file I want on the cloud with iDisk. So, what Apple tells me is that if I have other files than iWork or PDF (and some few exceptions), I should actually downgrade to "free" iCloud and decide to PAY for another solution (organization), such as DropBox, Google Disk or Drive (I don't really know), Micrsoft's SkyDrive..
Of course there's the strategy of getting more and more people to use Pages, Numbers and Keynote (buying them for iOS and Mac OSX, as I already have and love them). But "killing" iDisk and just telling users to look for other storage solutions doesn't really sound like Apple.
I have seen so many questions here about both issues (deleting or merging Apple IDS + iDisk back since we pay for storage) that I really believe Apple should reconsider these issues or, at least, open the issue and let us know what would be the best "partner solution" for iCloud...
Thanks a lot!
All the best...
Eduardo Rocha.
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Using File Browse to update stored file
Hi all,
I have a form with a File Browse item on it which is (surprisingly!) used to upload a file and associate with a record. The filename is stored in a varchar column in the table. This works fine when I create (INSERT) the initial record and I can retrieve the stored file just fine. However the problem I have is when I want to update the uploaded file. It seems the normal mechanisms for update / save requests don't apply to uploaded files. My other attributes get updated fine but the new uploaded filename is not reflected in the table.
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http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=40740
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Hope this example code will help you:
procedure upload_bestand( p_file_name in varchar2
, p_file out nocopy blob
, p_filetype out nocopy varchar2 )
is
-- Cursor voor bepalen bestand uit apex_application+files
cursor c_file ( b_file_name in varchar2)
is
select aaf.filename
, aaf.mime_type
, aaf.blob_content
from apex_application_files aaf
where aaf.name = b_file_name
r_file c_file%rowtype;
begin
open c_file ( b_file_name => p_file_name );
fetch c_file into r_file;
if c_file%notfound
then
-- Upload van bestand niet geslaagd
close c_file;
raise e_file_err;
end if;
close c_file;
-- Geupload bestand uit temp_upload tabel verwijdern
delete from apex_application_files
where name = p_file_name
commit;
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p_filetype := r_file.mime_type;
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Thanks this has helped me solve the problem.
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? I can't open any folder to view the original stored files (not that I care to change them). But I used to be able to see these stored pictures in their folders?
? This mirroring would seem to be a great backup solution but I can't find any discussions and am now thinking there is a problem that should be fixed?
I don't get it.
Thanks for any ideas...Your files are stored in the iPhoto Library. By default this is in your Pictures Folder. With iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is now a Unix Style Package File. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
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Some FYI:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
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This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
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Hello,
We have built a custom solution (custom objects, transactions, number ranges, UIs, etc.) to handle certain kind of requests in our SAP system. Now we would like to add file attachment functionality to our transaction(s) - in other words we want that the users will have possibility to add files as attachments when creating new requests or changing the existing ones.
What is the best approach to handle this requirement? From user interface point of view this is not an issue. I am familiar with the different file uploading possibilities within classic dynpro and web dynpro. The question is that how to store the files and where.
I don't think that storing the files into the SAP DB is really an option due to the large amount of large files. (I think that this would be quite easy to implement.) We have content server(s), but they have been configured as DMS - they are storing some engineering documents etc. into these content repositories.
Would it be possible to store the documents into these DMS content repositories (if yes, how can we do it?) and make a link between the file and our documents into a custom table? As far as I understand we really cannot start using the document info record functionality for our custom objects (or perhaps we can, but it will require a quite massive work effort.)
Or is it just the best option to configure new content repositories as type ArchiveLink, and then store the documents into these new content repositories?
Any other options?
Any thoughts are welcome.
Regards,
PaWell, first I am instructed to ask this question in DMS forum. When I close this thread and open a similar one in DMS forum, I am being reported to abuse the system???
EDIT: The thread in DMS: Storing file attachments
EDIT2: I opened this thread again...
Edited by: Pa Pa on Jul 24, 2009 10:11 AM
Edited by: Pa Pa on Jul 24, 2009 10:13 AM -
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Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Time Machine
Turn Time Machine "ON"
Click Select Disk
Choose your Time Capsule
Click Use This Disk
The first backup will begin in a few minutes.
If you decide to delete your old backups, do this before you back up the "new" Mac as listed above.
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Hi All,
I have created an RFC that creates DMS document using BAPI_DOCUMENT_CREATE2.
CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_DOCUMENT_CREATE2'
EXPORTING
DOCUMENTDATA = BAPI_DOC_DRAW2
PF_FTP_DEST = 'SAPFTPA'
PF_HTTP_DEST = 'SAPHTTPA'
IMPORTING
DOCUMENTNUMBER = G_DOCNUMBER
RETURN = BAPIRET2
TABLES
DOCUMENTFILES = GIT_BAPIDOC_FILES2.
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Please guide through.
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please note that DMS BAPIs require always a SAPGUI channel or open RFC
connection to start the SAPHTTP/SAPFTP program that is used to up- or
download files to the client. If the BAPI ist executed in background
mode, the system doesn't know from where to get the original file.
Please do not use BAPIs in background mode, use APIs instead. They are
more flexible regarding RFC calls (background processing). I hope the
SAP note 504692, which contains sample programs for special
checkin/checkout cases could be useful for you. Please read this note and use the sample
programs as a basis for your own coding. Further please see also note
796709 which also might contain useful information for such cases.
Best regards,
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