ACR 4.2 Setting Questions

I recently took a series of pictures with the Canon 40D white balance set to
daylight. When I look at the white balance numbers in ACR they are not the
same for each picture.
Why is this?

Rob - I believe that OP did shoot raw, or ACR would not show him him color balance numbers.
Ramon - the question was not why his color looked different. It was why the color balance settings differed from image to image, given that they were fixed in the camera.
I believe that when ACR is set to "As Shot", then it should represent the color balance as set in the camera. In my experience, it has done this.
EmJayPrice - do you have the color balance in ACR set to "As Shot"? If not, that would certainly explain it.
David

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I am planning to switch from Windows XP to the Mac running Leopard. I am now running CS2 in Windows, but will upgrade to CS3 on the Mac. I am maintaining my RAW file settings in ACR central database and my Bridge cache in a centralized cache file. I've searched the forums but couldn't find answers to my migration questions: 1. Can one move the ACR database file from Windows (in folder C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw) to a folder somewhere on the Mac to preserve the settings on RAW files that are also moved to the Mac? Or does one need to export individual XMP files for the RAW files in Windows and move both the RAW files and their associated XMP files to the Mac? 2. I have a similar question for migrating the Bridge cache from Windows XP to the Mac. Can one somehow move the Bridge cache over (I think it's in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Bridge\Cache\Thumbnails\) or do I need to export the cache for each folder and subfolder and move them over along with the folders and subfolders? I would appreciate any help or pointers to any Adobe documents or directions. Thank you.

Man-Kong,
Since you said that you were also migrating from CS2 to CS3 I would have said that their cache files were incompatible. That is what I experienced with CS1, CS2, and CS3 in the past. But Thomas indicated it should work. I must be missing something.
The XMP files move fine for me. The local cache (folder) files have completely different names with each version and I see no evidence that they can be shared. This is also a problem with archived CDs. CS3 always has to rebuild cache if they were archived from CS1 or CS2.
Since the central cache must have some folder references, and this structure will be completely different on Mac, I dont see how it can work. It doesnt work for scripts or actions either.
So my humble recommendation is to set your preferences to store cache and XMP files in the local folders where possible. Then simply bite the bullet. Each time you visit a folder for the first time in the new environment, cache will be rebuilt.
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I am trying to determine what the best setup recommendations are for creating non_English Oracle 10g databases. I have not had much experience building databases for non_English locales, so this is getting a little overwhelming as I have been researching Oracle's Database Globalization Support Guide. Obviously it has a wealth of information and I am trying to determine what applies to us at this point and time.
Generally when someone buys our product they create a new Oracle instance for our app. I need to be able to recommend proper database settings/parameters for potential global customers who purchase our software to run on Oracle.
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Your questions are certainly valid but you have not given any details about your application: what it does, what technologies and access drivers are employed, and what client operating systems are supported. This determines how much effort is required to make the application Unicode-enabled and what are the risks coming from each of the possible approaches.
As long as your application can work with single-byte character sets only and as long as it is not expected to contain multibyte data, and as long as it supports Windows only, the Oracle character set corresponding to relevant Windows ANSI code page is the correct choice. For English, French, German, Spanish, and other Western European languages, WE8MSWIN1252 is right one.
Processing of WE8MSWIN1252 is easier and somehow faster than processing AL32UTF8 (i.e. UTF-8) data. One character corresponds to one byte and this simplifies some aspects of text processing.
On the other hand, world becomes smaller and smaller in the Internet area. Companies that never did any business abroad start to talk to customers around the world because somebody found their website. Western European companies take advantage of the European Union enlargement and start making business in new countries. Therefore, it is dangerous to assume that a company currently interested in a monolingual, single-byte solution will not want to migrate to a multilingual and multibyte solution in few years.
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2) Do not use VARCHAR2 columns longer than 1000 characters, CHAR columns longer than 500 characters, and PL/SQL VARCHAR2/CHAR variables longer than 8190 characters. This guarantees that in the future no AL32UTF8 string will exceed the hard limit of 4000/2000/32760 bytes. Use CLOB for longer text.
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