AD Built-In groups that should be avoided as best practice

I am on a 2008r2 domain. I spoke to a security engineer from Microsoft a few years ago. He mentioned some known issues that can occur from using some of the built-in security groups like Account Operators, Backup Operators, Server Operators,
etc. I know all of the users of those protected groups get stamped with the adminsdholder account, but does anyone have a good webpage that talks about which built-on groups should really be avoided as best practice? I am not as concerned with the actual
admin groups as those are pretty obvious.
Thanks,
Dan Heim

Because being member of those groups mentioned means you can effectively become a Enterprise Admin of the entire forest cause they can reset passwords, logon to domain controllers etc. Take his advice and don't use them, they exists as a legacy from Windows
NT 4.0.
Use delegation in Active Directory instead to delegate proper permissions.
Enfo Zipper
Christoffer Andersson – Principal Advisor
http://blogs.chrisse.se - Directory Services Blog

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Normally if anyone buys an apple product (mac) , it comes with a built-in-apps that should be considered ( built in ) , Then why when the mac faces a mistake or an error that forces it to format , these apps don't show up ? etc : iMovie , garageband

normally if anyone buys an apple product with a specific model (mac) , it comes with a built-in-apps that should be considered ( built in ) , Then why when the mac faces a mistake or an error that forces it to format , these apps don't show up ? etc : iMovie , garageband ...
considered it should be '' BUILT IN APPS '' ??
So does it really make sense that i should buy these apps again after i already payed an extra amount of money in the first place to get a model that includes them ??
after formatting my mac these apps should be there like its a whole new device that i opened !!!
I hope anyone with any useful information can share his thoughts or help with further steps .

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Time Machine 1.1 sometimes deletes backups that should keep

About two years ago I was intrigued about the disparition of several Time Machine backups. After changing to a larger external backup disk, I've been trying to follow the behavior of Time Machine. Overall, it seems to be quite predictable, corresponding to what is explained in its window: mostly keeping hourly backups during 24 hours, then, from these, only keeping the first one in each day during 30 days, and then, from these remaining backups, only keeping one per week as "space" permits. Since the new backup partition is large (240% of the HD disk), it is still far from removing oldest backup(s) in order to free space. However, in my system, Time Machine has removed more backups, which should have been kept, in at least two occassions:
Several weeks ago, one month after having the system down for several days, two or three backups (specifically 2012-07-24-002423 and 2012-07-29-120258) that should be kept as weekly ones were deleted, possibly trying to resyncronize to a new day-of-week for the new series of weekly backups to keep.
Recently, and possibly related with heavy memory load giving 7 GB of swap, TM "got crazy" during two activations, deleting up to eight backups, both daily and weekly ones, which were far from being the oldest backups in the volume.
Has someone else observed this kind of behavior? What can be done to avoid it? If, as it seems, it is a bug in Time Machine, how can I notify Apple?
Since Time Machine seems to have a limit of 5 old backup deletions per activation, and given that occasionally strange (and dangerous) behavior, I think that Time Machine should warn when backups older than one month are deleted, and ask permission when 5 or more backups are going to be deleted (at least giving the user the possibility of configuring it so). We are talking here of data security, so some precautions should be allowed when destroying large quantities of data, which otherwise may not be recoverable.
The essential details follow:
Strings in recent system.log messages containing "deleted backup" (first & last groups are normal, there was no hourly backup to delete between them):
Oct 27 00:30:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[34391]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-27-002110: 120.20 GB now available
Oct 27 02:27:42 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-03-22-232115: 132.85 GB now available
Oct 27 02:29:05 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-04-06-000633: 143.17 GB now available
Oct 27 02:30:23 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-28-002619: 146.29 GB now available
Oct 27 02:31:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-30-004344: 149.48 GB now available
Oct 27 02:31:50 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-03-000509: 152.58 GB now available
Oct 27 03:27:04 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-08-001931: 155.64 GB now available
Oct 27 03:27:40 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-14-003758: 159.26 GB now available
Oct 27 03:28:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-22-002147: 162.48 GB now available
Oct 27 11:37:36 iMac com.apple.backupd[35839]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-26-104655: 153.98 GB now available
List of backups dates in the backup volume, and free space, taken from the terminal (after deletions: note that the backups marked in red should normally be kept):
iMac:~ admin$ ls /Volumes/iMac\ HD\ Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/
2011-10-01-061010    2012-05-31-093201          2012-10-20-002816
2011-10-09-005429          2012-06-07-002543          2012-10-21-021504
2011-10-16-001503          2012-06-14-005742          2012-10-23-004109
2011-10-23-002554          2012-06-21-001427          2012-10-24-002334
2011-11-05-001403          2012-06-28-001245          2012-10-25-002414
2011-11-12-004617          2012-07-05-002056          2012-10-26-002613
2011-11-19-000532          2012-07-12-002639          2012-10-26-012840
2011-11-26-000431          2012-07-19-005850          2012-10-27-012731
2011-12-03-000109          2012-08-05-002510          2012-10-27-032628
2011-12-10-003557          2012-08-12-002739          2012-10-27-042813
2011-12-17-002907          2012-08-19-005740          2012-10-27-052837
2011-12-24-001228          2012-09-03-110847          2012-10-27-062824
2011-12-31-002103          2012-09-10-123630          2012-10-27-113711
2012-01-07-005520          2012-09-17-002437          2012-10-27-123817
2012-01-14-000913          2012-09-24-002309          2012-10-27-133739
2012-01-21-005206          2012-09-29-011601          2012-10-27-143746
2012-01-28-000105          2012-10-01-001701          2012-10-27-153817
2012-02-04-022951          2012-10-02-010201          2012-10-27-163745
2012-02-12-210133          2012-10-04-000909          2012-10-27-173738
2012-02-24-002145          2012-10-07-112125          2012-10-27-183838
2012-03-02-002405          2012-10-09-001929          2012-10-27-193814
2012-03-09-003236          2012-10-10-002008          2012-10-27-203751
2012-03-16-002756          2012-10-11-001416          2012-10-27-213752
2012-03-30-014934          2012-10-12-004500          2012-10-27-223747
2012-04-19-004318          2012-10-13-012506          2012-10-27-233844
2012-04-26-012354          2012-10-15-003823          2012-10-28-011809
2012-05-03-003008          2012-10-16-002207          2012-10-28-013726
2012-05-10-004554          2012-10-17-002306          Latest
2012-05-17-011942          2012-10-18-002230
2012-05-24-001808          2012-10-19-002253
iMac:~ admin$ df
Filesystem    512-blocks       Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   914062528 585638424 327912104    65%    /
devfs                226        226         0   100%    /dev
map -hosts             0          0         0   100%    /net
map auto_home          0          0         0   100%    /home
/dev/disk1s4 2343750000 1980326912 363423088    85%    /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine
/dev/disk1s3   976562504 568072864 408489640    59%    /Volumes/iMac HD SuperDuper!

Time Machine has unexpectedly deleted several more backups, all of them (marked in red) about 2 hours before the 24-hour limit, then returned to expected behavior. Here is the complete list of yesterday's deletions (there was no 9pm backup to delete):
Nov 5 04:04:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[18020]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-035134: 163.92 GB now available
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-114210: 155.69 GB now available
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-103500: 155.68 GB now available
Nov 5 12:06:51 iMac com.apple.backupd[20542]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-134014: 153.54 GB now available
Nov 5 13:06:34 iMac com.apple.backupd[20687]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-124112: 153.56 GB now available
Nov 5 14:06:28 iMac com.apple.backupd[20828]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-154128: 153.55 GB now available
Nov 5 15:06:37 iMac com.apple.backupd[21152]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-144118: 153.54 GB now available
Nov 5 16:06:20 iMac com.apple.backupd[21360]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-174138: 151.67 GB now available
Nov 5 17:06:31 iMac com.apple.backupd[21510]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-164144: 151.66 GB now available
Nov 5 18:07:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[21674]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-194018: 151.59 GB now available
Nov 5 20:48:14 iMac com.apple.backupd[21804]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-184044: 151.57 GB now available
Nov 5 21:33:14 iMac com.apple.backupd[22086]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-230603: 151.54 GB now available
Nov 5 22:33:30 iMac com.apple.backupd[22370]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-220537: 151.49 GB now available
Nov 5 23:32:21 iMac com.apple.backupd[23141]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-05-000610: 151.47 GB now available
And here is the complete log of Time Machine executions around the first unexpected deletion:
Nov 5 09:04:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 09:04:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 09:04:41 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.08 GB requested (including padding), 159.15 GB available
Nov 5 09:05:35 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Copied 1075 files (2.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 09:05:38 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 156.92 GB available
Nov 5 09:05:40 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Copied 175 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Backup completed successfully.
Nov 5 10:04:18 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 10:04:18 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 10:04:38 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 10.56 GB requested (including padding), 156.92 GB available
Nov 5 10:06:11 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Copied 1314 files (3.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 10:06:22 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 153.45 GB available
Nov 5 10:06:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Copied 744 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 10:06:36 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-114210: 155.69 GB now available
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Backup completed successfully.
Nov 5 11:04:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 11:04:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 11:04:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.14 GB requested (including padding), 155.69 GB available
Nov 5 11:05:58 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Copied 1223 files (2.3 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 11:06:08 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 153.41 GB available
Nov 5 11:06:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Copied 596 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 11:06:21 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-103500: 155.68 GB now available
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Backup completed successfully.
It's a bit disappointing this unexpected and opaque behavior.

'Error 30644: Page Group name should be unique' after page group is removed

Hi, I have removed a page group with name 'X'. But when i tried to create a new page group with the same name 'X', i encountered the following error message:
'Error 30644: Page Group name should be unique'
What could i do to create page group with the same name 'X'?
Thanks for any replies!

I just tried this on a 9.0.2.2.14 version and was able to add, delete, and add again witout an error. It is possible that there was some kind of error during the delete which caused a row in the DB to remain. Unfortunately, there is no way to be sure without delving into the tables and looking for the 'deleted' page group. Not recommended unless absolutely critical. Given that the display name is what is typically shown in most screens, is it reasonable for you to name the new one X1 with a display name of X? If so, that's the safest bet.

Flex mobile? should I avoid it?

Hi,
I need to develop an app for mobile... And it looks like the Flex mobile framework is a huge time saver!
But I know the adobe dropped Flex to Apache... Should I avoid using it?
Thanks
Gil

The AIR SDK and Flex SDK are different. For example you probably have AIR inside your flash environment but try loading something from the Flex SDK like something a spark component would use:
e.g. Flex:
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
Does that work for you? Probably not. It's only part of a modern Flex install.
Flex mobile introduces the spark components which are all mobile optimized. Adobe AIR is the runtime (VM) that gets exported captive and compiled down to ARM. You don't need to have a single Flex component in your AIR for Mobile project. AIR for Mobile does not require Flex.

Is there any built in function that prints numbers in words inXMLP

Hi Team,
This is regarding SR#3-7005716301 from Syntel Limited.
Customer is asking Is there any built in function that prints numbers in words in an rtf teamplate using xml publisher?
For example if the net amount is 100 dollars then it should print "ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ONLY"
Thanks in advance!
Leo

I do not know of any function available that lets you print the currency words (dollars, cents etc). Here is a link to a blog post that will allow you to print numbers in words.
https://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/numbers_to_words_update
Thanks,
Bipuser

Web limiting won't allow sites that should be OK

I have web limiting turned on and it seemed to work fine until today. Now it will not allow a site that should be allowed.
I have "targetsite" listed as an allowed site. I can go to www.targetsite.com. A link on targetsite redirects to www.targetsite.com/ContentDelivery.aspx?ca=parameter and this page is not allowed.
What else can I do to make this page available?
Peggy Thrasher

The Web Limiting feature of WMS2012 is very basic, but at least it's better than the one in WMS2011, which only worked with IE and slowed everything down. Because websites contain so many third-party content servers from Amazon, google, etc., I'm constantly
going into the source code of websites or my router's web filter to see what's missing and why only part of the website is coming up. Then I add all of those extra sites into the whitelist.
The WMS web limiting feature needs a wildcard feature and keyword feature (e.g. "ftp://*" to block all ftp sites). Perhaps even a checkmark screen for commonly blocked things like google images, ftp, etc.
It needs a global checkbox to block all traffic except for the whitelist but still respect the blacklist. That way we could also use the blacklist to fine tune the whitelist. For instance, we could whitelist google.com but then blacklist:
"*google.com/imgres?*" to prevent image URLs.
"*google.com/preferences?*" to prevent users from adjusting safe filtering
It needs a trusted site feature where it will trust all the links from a trusted site so you don't have to put a dozen extra URLs into the whitelist and hope the website doesn't switch content servers. I suppose this would be resource intensive because Microsoft
would have to look at the source code of every page or at least ones in this special trusted site section. It wouldn't be able to handle content in iframes (which are usually ads anyway), but it would be a start.
It needs a time schedule for web limiting.
It needs web limiting on a per user or per group basis, including for administrator accounts.
All of these features need to work with https traffic as well.

How do I send a text to a group that I have in contacts?

How do I send a text to a group that I have already in contacts?

It sounds like your spouse's phone number got attached to your family's Apple ID. Your boys are signed in under Settings>Messages and probably Settings>FaceTime on their devices. There are a few ways to fix this:
1.) If your boys have their own Apple ID(s), just go into Settings>Messages on each of their devices, sign out of your Apple ID, then sign into their Apple ID. You can create a new Apple ID for each of them (as long as they are 13 or older) straight from the device or by going to https://appleid.apple.com
2.) Instead of using separate IDs, you can add an email address for each of the boys to your spouse's current Apple ID that they use to send/receive their own iMessages. From your spouse or boys' device(s), access Settings>Messages>Send & Receive>Add Another Email... Once you have added any email(s) needed, you can then access the Settings>Messages>Send&Receive menu from each of your boys' devices. The address you added for each boy should be the only thing checked under "You can be reached by iMessage at:" and "Start new conversations from." If either or both of your boys have iPhones, they may also have their phone # checked under each section. That's fine, as the main idea is to make sure that none of you or your spouse's info is selected in these screens.
3.) Simplest of all: if your boys don't need to use iMessage, you can just logout from the Apple ID in Settings>Messages and turn off iMessage. If they have iPhones, your boys will still be able to send/receive SMS and MMS messages thru their carrier plan, but will not use iMessage at all. Alternately, if they do have iPhones, you could just sign out of the ID, and leave iMessage on, which would allow them to send/receive iMessages and SMS/MMS thru just their phone numbers.
I would also recommend taking a look at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755 for assistance in troubleshooting Messages and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538 for an overview of the linking of cell numbers to iMessage.

HT2486 I have a group that I use to send emails out to - many have multiple email address that I would like to send to both addresses.

I have a group that i send emails to. One of the contacts has two email address and would like emails sent to both. When i send from the group it only sends to one address. How can i choose to send to both addresses in the contact card?

Hi and thanks again for trying to help.
Definitely works ok from pc.
Have deleted and re-established account a few times now but still the same.
I have actually given up and added gmail account which is working fine.
Sends and receives no problem.
Bloody bigpond....
We are not remote at all. Sitting in the fantastic Pavilion Hotel in Phnom Penh. Another couple here having trouble but not bigpond. Hotel staff have tried to help but to no avail.
Giving up and stick with gmail until we get home then start trying to get resolution.
Problem actually existed on a personal wi fi network in Melbourne before we left so I should have tried to resolve it then.
Thanks again for suggestions.
R

HT1688 How do I send an email from my Iphone to a "group" that I have established in my Yahoo account

How do I send an email from my Iphone to a "group" that I have established in my Yahoo account?

So I have bought a couple of apps on my iphone and would like to transfer them to my itunes library, but not sure how.
iTunes > File > Transfer purchases
When I plug in my iphone and try and sync the two, I get a warning from itunes that everything on my iphone will be wiped and everything from my itunes library will be moved to it.
Have you changed the computer you are syncing with?

HT201365 I just I just updated to iOS 7 and now my calendars are not keeping the information on the days that should be marked. The info is there in my iCloud on my computer, just not on the iPhone. Has anyone had the same problem and what can I do abou

I just update to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4s. The calendars on my iPhone are not keeping the information on the days that should be marked. The info is there in my iCloud on my computer, just not on my phone. Has anyone else had the same problem and what can I do about it? Is it at bug in the iOS 7 update?

What do you mean by "on the days that should be marked"? Are you calendar events displayed on the wrong days?

Open PO items that should have been already delivered

Hi,
is there a transaction where you can see the open PO items that should have been delivered already up to a certain date? If a PO has several scheduling lines and also several confirmations were entered for the scheduling lines only quantities should be displayed were the delivery date is due (based on the selection date/usually the current date) on no GR was made so far.
I tried already ME2N with selection parameter WE101 but this shows all open items (in past and future).
And a problem I have in general is, that I dont see a direct link between the scheduling lines and the confirmations.
Cheers
Mathias

ME2L gives the same result. I dont want to see the delivery schedules that are in the future but only the ones that are overdue (delivery date in the past and no GR received).
I checked ME2V, as I did not know it. But this is for warehouse people I guess. It shows with volume/weight info what is expected as GR per day on document level.

Tabs: previous versions allowed for saving all tabs in a bookmark folder. The new tab groups do not behave this way. How can I save permanent set of tabs as a group that is available later, like the folder of bookmars was?

tabs: previous versions of firefox allowed for saving all tabs with a group name, so you could open them all again later at your convenience. The new firefox 4.0.1 has a new tab feature, but the tab groups do not seem to persist once you shut down, and are not saved as a folder in your bookmarks. What am I missing? How can I do what I want (save permanent set of tabs as a group that is available later, like the folder of bookmarks was)? Thanks

Right click one of the tabs, the "Bookmark all tabs..." option.
Does it do what you want?

A 6 hour installation that should have only taken 30minutes!! Very unhappy customer!!

I am very upset about a recent purchase I made at your store. I bought a fridge (an open box item) and it was going to be delivered on Friday, March 28. The delivery guy (Jake) came at about 10:30 and hauled away our old fridge and brought in the new fridge BUT then the trouble began. Jake said that the hose part we bought won’t fit the waterline and we need an adapter (looks like the size of a nut or washer – just a little part) I asked him if he had this part on the truck and he said he doesn’t carry parts on the truck and told me I need to go to town (I live 30 miles out of town!) and go to the store and get the part – I was a little confused because he was supposed to be installing the fridge. I didn’t know much about the fridge so I said ok, what would I need to tell them and he said tell them you need an adapter that is 3/4” to a 1/2”. So he kinked my waterhose and put a bucket underneath it but it still dripped a little bit so I hurried to town (it is about 11:30 now) to Best Buy to get the adapter and the guy in the appliance area didn’t know what I was talking about so they called Jake and he told the Best Buy employee what I needed and the employee said they don’t carry that part….. so I went to Lowes and they didn’t know what I needed because it didn’t make sense to them that I would need a 3/4” to a 1/2” adapter. I then went to Menards and talked to the appliance department and then they didn’t know so I was sent to the plumbing department and the lady was very nice there but she also didn’t think it made sense that I needed a 3/4” to a 1/2” adapter because waterlines are usually 1/4”. So I called up Best Buy while still at Menards and they had Jake (the delivery /installer) talk to the lady at Menards and explain to her what I needed so he told her the same thing – I needed a 3/4” to a 1/2” adapter. She said that the only thing they would have is 2 options a 3/4” to 1/2” adapter or 1/2” to 1/2” adapter (they both looked like the size that would fit a garden hose!! I didn’t think that was right but that is what Jake from Best Buy – the delivery /installer guy told the lady at Menards. So I bought those 2 parts and raced back home because now it was 1:30pm in the afternoon after running around for 2 hours looking for an adapter that Jake said I needed. I got home and was immediately livid!! The two parts were what I thought TOO BIG! Both ends were only 1/4”! So I called Best Buy again and talked to Mike (I didn’t get a last name) he was very nice and tried to be helpful . I explained what happened from the beginning (around 10:45am till now 1:30pm) and told him this is outrageous I am missing a whole day of work because of this when I could have been to work by 11:30am if Jake did this correctly. I told him I can text him photos of everything 1) The end of the water line 2) the end of the fridge 3) both ends held up together 4) each end by a tape measure to show it was only 1/4”. He said that would be very helpful so he game me his number and I texted the photos to him and I got a call 2 minutes late and he said “umm… I am so sorry for the inconvenience but all you need is an adapter for a female end to a make end and they have those parts on their trucks”, I asked if he was being serious because it was around 2:30pm now and I still don’t have my fridge installed! Mike said he would call Jake and tell him to get to our house and put the waterline on with the part from his truck. Mike called back after talking to Jake and he said that Jake was in Crookston, MN for a delivery but would come right back to our house as soon as he was done. Jake got to our house around 3:30pm and came in and I showed him the parts that I bought that HE told the lady at Menards I needed. He said he didn’t know what to do. I told him I talked to Mike at Best Buy and he said you have the part on your truck. He said he would go look. He came back in (sure enough) with the part!!! He connected the waterline to the fridge and it was done (Literally 10 minutes) and left around 4:15pm. I am so disgusted with the incompetence of your delivery guy/installer, for something that should have taken a total of 1/2 hour or less. My fridge should have been delivered and installed and I should have been on my way to work by 11:00am to 11:30am. Instead I spend a whole day running around and make numerous phone calls that were NOT NECESSARY. Then I tried to call the store and explain about what happened but Nichole – said she was the Home Sales Manager, said there was nothing the store could do and didn’t even acknowledge the incompetence of the installer and she didn’t even attempt to resolve this issue. I have make attempts to get this matter resolved but have not received ANY responses, I am hoping someone will respond to this message?!?
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Hello magicmel,
I’m positive you were excited to receive your new refrigerator, and expected the installation to go smoothly. Our installers should be knowledgeable in their field, and able to troubleshoot issues such as you described. It’s truly regrettable that Jake may not have known which part you needed, and sent you on a trip across town to look for a part that was unnecessary.
After running from store to store only to find that the part needed for your refrigerator was in the installer’s truck, I can imagine how frustrated you would be, as I would be infuriated if I were in your shoes. While I’m glad to hear that Mike was able to get things resolved with just a few pictures, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
I was able to locate your service order and refrigerator purchase, and I am sending you further information in regards to this experience via a private message. You can check your private messages by signing into the forum and clicking the envelope icon in the top right corner of the page.
Sincerely,
Tasha|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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I can see my thumbnails for my events in iphoto, but when I click to open the folder, no photos show up. However, when I hover over the thumbnail, it shows the flicker of images that should be inside the folder, as well as

I can see my thumbnails for my events in iphoto, but when I click to open the folder, no photos show up. However, when I hover over the thumbnail, it shows the flicker of images
that should be inside the folder, as well as # of images in each folder. It also occasionally says the following when I try to even open iphoto: "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete." So, I am scared to hit "upgrade" for fear I will never recover any of the images as the wording in this quote seems odd. The photos are not in the trash. Did I lose them all? Do you know if/how I can retrieve them?

iPhoto 08?
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.

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