Applettv and possible corrupt iphoto ???

I have been attempting to get my Appletv to work across the last few days. From the Appletv discussions there have been a number of reports of problems syncing the iphoto library.
I have not yet been successful getting my iphoto library to be recognized for an appletv sync.
So, amongst the many things I have tried, I created a new clean iphoto library and imported some sample pictures from my original library of about 19000 pictures. Appletv/itunes immediately recognized the library and all was fine. So I am convinced that a successful iphoto Appletv sync can occur with my equipment and setup.
One of two hypotheses that I have for why my real iphoto library is not recognized by Appletv is that my original iphoto library is perhaps corrupted in some way. (I have had a lot of problems including multiple and frequent kernal panics across the last year stemming from first, a bad motherboard in my G4 and later bad apple ram in my new intel mini.)
I have tried all of the iphoto rebuild options multiple multiple multiple times times across the last year. (With the bad hardware/ram, the rebuild process never completed. Now with the mini in good condition these rebuilds seem to finish successfully.)
So is there an alternative way to rebuild or uncorrupt my original library of 19000 pictures or if that is not possible is it possible to reconstruct a new clean library with the existing alblums intact?

Often when the other iLife applications (iMovie, iDVD, etc.) can't see your iPhoto library, the problem is in the albumdata.xml file. This is usually caused by a bad keyword in your iPhoto library. Non-ascii characters, returns, and spaces can trigger the problem. One user had a blank keyword that wasn't visible in the list; once she deleted it the problem was resolved.
To help pinpoint the bad keyword, you can look at the xml file. Compare it to Dave E.'s description in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3870956&#3870956. If you see a similar error, go back to your keywords list in iPhoto and either delete or rename the offending keyword.
You change the keywords in iPhoto's Preferences. There you can rename, add, delete , or reorder the keywords on your list.
I really don't know if this is related to the aTV problem. It's just something to check.

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As many have reported already, I was also a user of Aperture staring at the beachball and finding my computer hanging completely up to the point I was ready to give it flight lessons for free. I might have done this to my MacBook Pro if I was not leaving for an overland trip to Capetown from the Netherlands in a Toyota Land Cruiser in 2 days. If you want to read about the trip: www.africaminded.com.
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*My aperture setup*
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3. Remove the "com.apple.Aperture.plist" file from the Preferences folder.
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1. Quit Aperture.
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How long did this take me? All in all about 3 days but not full time luckily. How many real corrupted images? None - something else in the project data was messing everything up.

WOW!
I'm REALLY impressed by your exhaustive and detailled description!
How long did it take to write? Sure longer than the import itself...
Thank you so much. I got a working import of Ap2 lib before but your description have me various hints for handling problematic or faulty projects.
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Anyhow, I am looking to remove all photos from iPhoto because during the migration of all my photos from PC to MAC, somehow my timeline became messed up and all my photos that have been logged my dates since 1998 are now all messed up.
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You are dragging the files to the iPhoto Trash bin and then using the iPhoto->Empty Trash menu, right?
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See? No secrets.
I can be confident that they'll be backed up with Time Machine,
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and they will remain in their original format (unless I edit within iPhoto),
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I don't plan on using it for any other purpose so a small capacity drive will suffice.
If you really only want such a small capacity drive.. what about just buying a 32GB or 64GB USB memory stick.
You should still have a back up to the internal hard disk of the AC TC.
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AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
OFFSET_1               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
OFFSET_2               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE CONVERTTOBLOB
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               BLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_CLOB               CLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
BLOB_CSID               NUMBER               IN
LANG_CONTEXT               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
WARNING               NUMBER(38)          OUT
PROCEDURE CONVERTTOCLOB
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               CLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_BLOB               BLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
BLOB_CSID               NUMBER               IN
LANG_CONTEXT               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
WARNING               NUMBER(38)          OUT
PROCEDURE COPY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               BLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_LOB               BLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE COPY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               CLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_LOB               CLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE CREATETEMPORARY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
CACHE                    BOOLEAN           IN
DUR                    BINARY_INTEGER          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE CREATETEMPORARY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
CACHE                    BOOLEAN           IN
DUR                    BINARY_INTEGER          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE ERASE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE ERASE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE FILECLOSE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN/OUT
PROCEDURE FILECLOSEALL
FUNCTION FILEEXISTS RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
PROCEDURE FILEGETNAME
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
DIR_ALIAS               VARCHAR2          OUT
FILENAME               VARCHAR2          OUT
FUNCTION FILEISOPEN RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
PROCEDURE FILEOPEN
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN/OUT
OPEN_MODE               BINARY_INTEGER          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE FREETEMPORARY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
PROCEDURE FREETEMPORARY
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
FUNCTION GETCHUNKSIZE RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
FUNCTION GETCHUNKSIZE RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
FUNCTION GETLENGTH RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
FUNCTION GETLENGTH RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
FUNCTION GETLENGTH RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
FUNCTION GET_STORAGE_LIMIT RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
FUNCTION GET_STORAGE_LIMIT RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
FUNCTION INSTR RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
PATTERN               RAW               IN
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
NTH                    NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
FUNCTION INSTR RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
PATTERN               VARCHAR2          IN
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
NTH                    NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
FUNCTION INSTR RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
PATTERN               RAW               IN
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
NTH                    NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
FUNCTION ISOPEN RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
FUNCTION ISOPEN RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
FUNCTION ISOPEN RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
FUNCTION ISTEMPORARY RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
FUNCTION ISTEMPORARY RETURNS NUMBER(38)
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
PROCEDURE LOADBLOBFROMFILE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               BLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_BFILE               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
PROCEDURE LOADCLOBFROMFILE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               CLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_BFILE               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
BFILE_CSID               NUMBER               IN
LANG_CONTEXT               NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
WARNING               NUMBER(38)          OUT
PROCEDURE LOADFROMFILE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               BLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_LOB               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE LOADFROMFILE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
DEST_LOB               CLOB               IN/OUT
SRC_LOB               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
DEST_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
SRC_OFFSET               NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE OPEN
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
OPEN_MODE               BINARY_INTEGER          IN
PROCEDURE OPEN
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
OPEN_MODE               BINARY_INTEGER          IN
PROCEDURE OPEN
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN/OUT
OPEN_MODE               BINARY_INTEGER          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE READ
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                RAW               OUT
PROCEDURE READ
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                VARCHAR2          OUT
PROCEDURE READ
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN/OUT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                RAW               OUT
FUNCTION SUBSTR RETURNS RAW
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
FUNCTION SUBSTR RETURNS VARCHAR2
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
FUNCTION SUBSTR RETURNS RAW
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
FILE_LOC               BINARY FILE LOB      IN
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN     DEFAULT
PROCEDURE TRIM
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
NEWLEN                NUMBER(38)          IN
PROCEDURE TRIM
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
NEWLEN                NUMBER(38)          IN
PROCEDURE WRITE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                RAW               IN
PROCEDURE WRITE
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
OFFSET                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                VARCHAR2          IN
PROCEDURE WRITEAPPEND
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               BLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                RAW               IN
PROCEDURE WRITEAPPEND
Argument Name               Type               In/Out Default?
LOB_LOC               CLOB               IN/OUT
AMOUNT                NUMBER(38)          IN
BUFFER                VARCHAR2          IN
SQL>

Possible corrupt or injected data

Hello,
I have a question for the SQL Server security experts.
My scenario is as follows: I am currently migrating data off a legacy system, and into another. This system is notoriously hard to work with, and has been severely abused over the years. Many logical associations were broken, and band aided
back together. It is a sunset system, however demographic data still needs to be retrieved.
Upon loading the data into a slowly changing dimension in another system, I am running into an issue where the same values will not equal themselves. I have tried converting the data types, stripping all non-ascii characters from the string data.
I have checked the data lengths, all equal similarly length and stored string data. I am detecting no hidden characters within the string as well. There is no reason why this data won't equal itself. My only conclusion at this point is that
it is either corrupted or injected.
Are there any suggestions on how to detect possible corruption or injection? I have read many articles around sql injection, and I suspect that I am dealing with binary data injected onto the end of the string data. However, when I check the
byte size it looks normal.

Physical corruption you would detect with DBCC CHECKDB
Corrupted foreign keys you could detect with DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS
If someone has maliciously manipulated the data in order to conduct any kind of second order attack via SQL Injection or otherwise, it really depends on the skillfulness of the attack how easily one could detect & comprehend that.
Hidden character may also have gotten into the system by badly written applications and imho are not necessarily an indication of an attack.
Maybe you could show us a sample.
If you truly suspect an attack going on though, you should follow your hopefully existing escalation procedures and get the system ready for a forensic investigation by making sure nothing can get changed any more. Unless you want to keep
that system running to try to catch the attacker “live”. But I do not recommend using a production system as a honeypot if you don’t know exactly what you are doing (and probably not even then).
Andreas Wolter (Blog |
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