Automatically add guides to guide layer

Hi, is there a way to make any guides I create automatically go into a guide layer? the main reason for this is that I always forget to highlight the guides layer when drawing guides and it's also extra clicking, and I end up with loads of guides clogging up the other layers. And I'd have thought that the program could easily deal with it. Failing that, is there a way to select all the guides so I can move them all in one go?
Cheers,
Jarrick

> is there a way to make any guides I create automatically go into a guide layer?
No.
> is there a way to select all the guides so I can move them all in one go?
Select one guide, then Select > Same Stroke Color, then switch to your guides layer and paste (making sure "Paste Remembers Layers" is not checked in the Layers palette).

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pwmiller wrote:
> I have a layer used only for audio. For testing
purposes, I wanted to speed up
> publishing by omitting the audio layer. I simply turned
it into a guide layer.
> Flash isn't suppose to export content on guide layers,
but it still publishes
> my audio.
>
> Why isn't audio get excluded from my published file?
>

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There's a smell of cheesy Freefoot in the air, f***h***dave :-) *
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* F***h*** is a bit like Shakespeare's Scottish Play, not to be named in the theatre.

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Hi,
i got a question: Should i automatically add x86_64 to my PKGBUILDs or not? I'm only running 32bit.
My default behaviour always was to not add it and wait until somebody sends me a comment like "hi, it's running fine on x86_64, please add..." or "hi, you need to blablabla to get this running on x86_64" and then i would normally drop the package with a comment that i'm unable to maintain 64bit packages.
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@Masuto
I am one of the people who asked you to add x86_64 to pkgbuilds, more specifically - petri-foo && ebumeter - which both compile fine and work on x86_64. Which is exactly the reason i asked you to add x86_64. ie: i use both of those packages, almost daily on my 64bit system and didn't ask you to add x86_64 without first making sure they worked okay. Also, even if their was a (later) problem of x86_64 version not compiling - the problem would be reported upstream to the developer, as a problem like that should be reported upstream, rather than expecting the packager to have to fix the developers the code.
I'd also like to point something out here; I did not make any demands, nor did i say this;
masuto wrote:hi, fix your shit, x86_64 is so common these day
Now here is actually what i said;
triplesquarednine wrote:
*please* fix your pkgbuild;
==> ERROR: ebumeter is not available for the 'x86_64' architecture.
Note that many packages may need a line added to their PKGBUILD
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64bit CPUs are pretty much standard these days, so you should have x86_64 specified in there.
cheerz
I see a big difference in your interpretation of what i said vs. what was actually said;
I politely asked you to fix your pkgbuild and 'cheerz' also indicates a salute / thanks / gratitude / appreciation...
Maybe i am wrong to assume you 'should' have x86_64, using the reasoning that 64bit CPUs dominate the market and are quite common place ~ but when both packages are working fine for 64bit and only require adding x86_64 to the arch=() in order for x86_64 users to use them - i can't imagine any reason to not add them.
do we really need to have separate x86_64 pkgbuilds/AUR for either of those packages?
food for thought.
Last edited by triplesquarednine (2012-07-18 18:03:22)

Based on wich file information does iTunes sort music in "Automatically add to iTunes" folder?

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Title                      : Against All Odds
Performers                 : {Phil Collins}
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AlbumArtistsSort           : {}
AlbumArtists               : {Phil Collins}
Composers                  : {Phil Collins}
ComposersSort              : {}
TitleSort                  :
AlbumSort                  :
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Genres                     : {Adult Contemporary}
Year                       : 1984
Track                      : 7
TrackCount                 : 0
Disc                       : 1
DiscCount                  : 1
Lyrics                     :
Grouping                   :
BeatsPerMinute             : 121
Conductor                  :
Copyright                  :
MusicBrainzArtistId        :
MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
MusicBrainzTrackId         :
MusicBrainzDiscId          :
MusicIpId                  :
AmazonId                   :
MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
MusicBrainzReleaseCountry :
Pictures                   : {}
IsEmpty                    : False
Artists                    : {Phil Collins}
FirstArtist                : Phil Collins
FirstAlbumArtist           : Phil Collins
FirstAlbumArtistSort       :
FirstPerformer             : Phil Collins
FirstPerformerSort         :
FirstComposerSort          :
FirstComposer              : Phil Collins
FirstGenre                 : Adult Contemporary
JoinedArtists              : Phil Collins
JoinedAlbumArtists         : Phil Collins
JoinedPerformers           : Phil Collins
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EndTag                     : TagLib.NonContainer.EndTag
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AlbumArtistsSort           : {}
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Composers                  : {R. M. Sherman}
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TitleSort                  :
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Comment                    :
Genres                     : {Film-musik}
Year                       : 2007
Track                      : 6
TrackCount                 : 0
Disc                       : 1
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MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
MusicBrainzTrackId         :
MusicBrainzDiscId          :
MusicIpId                  :
AmazonId                   :
MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
MusicBrainzReleaseCountry :
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FirstComposerSort          :
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MusicBrainzArtistId        :
MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
MusicBrainzTrackId         :
MusicBrainzDiscId          :
MusicIpId                  :
AmazonId                   :
MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
MusicBrainzReleaseCountry :
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FirstPerformer             : Contributing artists
FirstPerformerSort         :
FirstComposerSort          :
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I have a large CD collection (>3000) that I've ripped to iTunes in ALAC format; I only listen to CD or better quality music, so I don't have any mp3 or AAC files in my iTunes library. I keep my music on an external hard drive. I recently bought a larger external hard drive and moved all of my music to that drive. For some reason, iTunes chose to put all of my music in a folder called "Automatically Add to iTunes". This was fine, except that I could no longer see the contents of the hard drive; however, I did know that the files were there, becasue of the disc space that they consumed.
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Heath Watts wrote:
If only this were the case. I tried to move several albums into the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder, which resulted in thousands of albums being erased from the folder. One should be able to drag a music folder into the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder without iTunes erasing the original contents of the folder.
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