Back to CR10.5

Is there a way to work with Crystal Reports 10.5 (for VS2008) from VS2010?
I converted my apps to VS2010 and CR13, and it all looked OK, until it ran at my customers machines.
From then: only problems.
I compile now in x86, because the x64 runtime just doesn't work. (All non reproducable problems, so this means it is instable).
And also the x86 runtime does not work proper from a citrix server.
All problems I did not have with version 10.5. This version always worked like a charm.
So, again the question, is there a way to work with VS2010 in combination with CR 10.5?
Otherwise I have 2 options: go back to VS2008 (almost impossible) or search for another reporting engine (also almost impossible).
Pleas help me, I am desperate!

I do understand your frustration, but;
Thread [CRVS2010x64 runtime bugs|CRVS2010x64 runtime bugs; was closed by you. You can always re-open it. At this time, I can not call this a bug. You do not need to give us your system. You do have to tell us how to reproduce the issue though.
Thread [CRVS2010 crosstab symbolfont bug|CRVS2010 crosstab symbolfont bug;. The issue has been sent to QA. A Service Pack for CRVS2010 will be released end of February. Note that this does not guarantee that the issue will be resolved there.
Re. BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder.dll. This is a known issue. I've posted at least couple of times in these forums on that (ADAPT01500142). Again this has been reported to QA for a fix. However, note that this error / warning has no impact on the functioning of the SDK. None at all. Period.
So, given the above, if the crosstab issue is critical, unfortunately you are correct in that you may have to go back a version. If it is not critical, let's see if a fix will be released in SP 1.
Which leaves us with [CRVS2010x64 runtime bugs|CRVS2010x64 runtime bugs;. I would recommend reopening that thread. I am sure Don will be happy to help you out - if he is given the information he requests so that he can reproduce the issue.
Remember you always have the option of creating a phone case here:
http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/en_US/pd/productID.98078100?resid=S6I@hgoHAkEAAGsiyVkAAAAR&rests=1282226845369
If the call results in an issue being recognized as a "bug", your case will be refunded.
Ludek
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Dec 8, 2010 10:59 AM

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CR10 viewer : Error ODBC Access on Windows Vista with multi-JOIN

Post Author: Stephane
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Hi all,
I've got an error using a report in CR10 viewer on Windows Vista + Access 2000 :
"Echec de l'ouverture d'un jeu de lignes. Détails : 4200:[Microsoft][Pilote ODBC Microsoft Access] Erreur de syntaxe dans la clause FROM."
wich can be translate :
"4200:[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error in FROM clause."
This error only appear on Vista + Access, not on Vista + SQL and not on XP + Access.
The SQL query of my report (see details below) contains lots of INNER JOIN and 2 LEFT OUTER JOIN. If I replace those 2 LEFT OUTER JOIN by 2 INNER JOIN, the reports displays (but is wrong).
Somebody knows this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Stephane.
The SQL query below :
SELECT TblDataCurrentValue.`ValDtaId`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValIdShape`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValOk`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValMain`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValIndex`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValValue`, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValValueId`, TblDataLinks.`LnkDtaIdPrimary`, TblDataValues.`ItmValue`, TblDataValues.`ItmColor`, TblData.`DtaLabel`, tblGraphs.`GId`, tblGraphs.`GName`, tblGraphs.`GRef`, TblShapesGraph.`ShTextShape`FROM ((((`TblDataCurrentValue` TblDataCurrentValue LEFT OUTER JOIN `TblDataValues` TblDataValues ON TblDataCurrentValue.`ValValueId` = TblDataValues.`ItmId` AND TblDataCurrentValue.`ValDtaId` = TblDataValues.`ItmDtaId`) INNER JOIN `TblData` TblData ON TblDataCurrentValue.`ValDtaId` = TblData.`DtaId`) INNER JOIN `tblGraphs` tblGraphs ON TblDataCurrentValue.`ValIdGraph` = tblGraphs.`GId`) INNER JOIN `TblShapesGraph` TblShapesGraph ON TblDataCurrentValue.`ValIdShape` = TblShapesGraph.`ShIdShape`) LEFT OUTER JOIN `TblDataLinks` TblDataLinks ON TblDataCurrentValue.`ValDtaId` = TblDataLinks.`LnkDtaId`WHERE TblDataCurrentValue.`ValOk` <> 0ORDER BY tblGraphs.`GId` ASC, TblDataCurrentValue.`ValIdShape` ASC

Moving back to the 10_2 instant client works. Not certain why there is an issue with the 11_2 client.

Break in a Line Chart in CR10

I have a line chart that displays data points, with a line that joins the points.
Back in CR9, if there was a null value for a date, the line would stop at the prior date, and then start up again at the next date with a value.
In CR10.5, this does not appear to be the case, there is now a line that "spans" the date with a NULL value and connects the pre and post ceeding data points.
Is there any way I can get this break to appear for NULL values in CR10.5?

Hello,
CR for VS 2008 is version 10.5, same as the version you found the doc on. There has only been on patch for VS 2008 and I doubt that changed the charting features. No new patches will be available for that version.
All I can suggest is you download the Trial version of CR 2008 to see if that works for you.
I'm also going to move this post to the Report Designer forum.
Don

Issue with .ttf font family in CR10.2

Hello Community,
I'm writing this because one of our client run into an issue using .ttf (Opentype TT) fonts in Crystal Report 10.2, running on Windows Server 2008 R2.
As I learned CR10.2 is discontinued and unsupported now. The live chat advised me to ask the community and so I'm doing here.
The fonts work alright in all app on all platform. In this case, however the client cannot access the Bold nor any Italic versions from the software. Seems to me that CR10.2 can not use style-linked fonts and so making a family of fonts with no style-linking could be a solution.
There is also an issue with the ligatures: the f+i ligature renders as a single f. This could be solved by turning off the ligature but my client is unsure whether that can be done.
I'm looking for any information on these. Any help is highly appreciated!
Best
Béla

Hi Bela,
Back to the original issue... You are correct. When using the Style option in the CR Designer it works fine when previewing on the DEV PC because the Font Glyphs are mapped accordingly. When run in an application on someone elses PC though those mappings are not there...
So if you want to use BOLD then you MUST select the "font name" with "BOLD" in the name.
For example:
BentonSans Bold is what you need to use.
You should not use the Styles to select it when used in a .NET application:
Leave it as Regular....
The reason is in CR Designer ( both standalone and Embedded in Visual Studio ) use legacy runtime and the GDI.dll and usp10.dll to do the page rendering. In a VS .NET application it uses GDIPlus.dll to do the rendering and it has limitations when it comes to how font Glyphs are handled and the font Mapping feature of windows.
Also, how are they able to select the font? Are you using the craxddrt.dll ( embeddable Design Control ) in your application? This is not allowed, you are not licensed to be using it or distributing it in any application, only allowed to design reports in the VS IDE only.
Or did you build your own Report Designer using the RCAPI's?
Don

VS2008 CR10 upgrade to VS2013 CR2013

I have an old ASP.NET 2.0 Website written using VS2008 with CR10. I just had to upgrade my server and it is now running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x64. The old CR10 doesn't seem to work, so I used chat support back on 8/18 and they told me that I had to upgrade to CR2008 in order for it to work. They provided me with a download and a 30-day demo license. I upgraded the project, and installed the redistributables on my server, and it worked great. I then went to buy a CR2008 upgrade license, and they tell me that CR2008 was discontinued as of...8/18. GRRRR!!!!
So now I am stuck, but I figure I will bite the bullet and upgrade my website project to be VS2013 using CR2013. I purchase the CR2013 upgrade license, but I cant seem to find any of the assemblies that I used to use.
Here is what my assemblies used to be for CR10:
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Framework, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Desktop.Report, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
and it used the httpHandler:
<add verb="GET" path="CrystalImageHandler.aspx" type="CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalImageHandler, CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
When I installed the CR2008 demo it upgraded my project to use the following assemblies:
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=12.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc, Version=12.0.1100.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=12.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore, Version=12.0.1100.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Framework, Version=12.0.1100.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=12.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
and this httpHandler:
<add verb="GET" path="CrystalImageHandler.aspx" type="CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalImageHandler, CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=12.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
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The SDK no longer comes packaged with Crystal itself. Instead, it's available for download here: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824 Use the "Install Executable" to install the integrations into Visual Studio. The other files are for various types of deployments and you'll install one of those on your server.
If you have an earlier version of Visual Studio where you've installed the version 10.x assemblies of the Crystal SDK, you'll have to uninstall that SDK prior to installing Crystal for VS - the two versions are not side-by-side compatible.
There are some MAJOR differences in the SDK. First off, you won't use any of the CrystalDecisions.Enterprise assemblies - they're not in the regular CR SDK any more (they're for connection to Crystal Reports Server or to BO Enterprise and are included in the BI Platform .NET SDK.) Most of your code should still work as is, though.
-Dell

I install window 8 and Unfortunatly all drive format. And all drive mix, now i have only 1 DRIVE C. I want Bit locker Drive's data Back

Last sunday i install a window 8 and this window format my all drive & make it 1 drive (DRIVE C). Before all of this i have 5 drive in different size with 1 Bitlocker protect drive.
So i try data recovery software to recover my data. i got back all my data without that ( bitlocker ) protected drive.
so please guys help me how can i get back data from bitlocker protected drives.
please please help me.

Hi,
I sorry for your experience, but there is no way to recovery the data encryped by BitLocker untill now.
BitLocker is designed to make the encrypted drive unrecoverable without the required authentication. When in recovery mode, the user needs the recovery password or recovery key to unlock the encrypted drive. Therefore, we highly recommend
that you store the recovery information in AD DS or in another safe location.
Please refer to the link below for the statement:
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ee449438(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_RecoveryInfo
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

How can you get your data back on i tunes

Hi i am Justin,
I have i phone and i have i tunes here is my problom. last night i formatted my HP windows 7 computer and i backed up my pictures and backed up i tunes witch i thoght i did becasue i backed it up on my external 500 MB hard drive and with out making a folder and c oping i tunes i only backed up library and before the format i went to edit, preferences and adavaned in i tunes (sorry about the bad spelling) becasue apples's step by step i read and saw the pictures were to go and i thought i can back up i tunes that way. My phone has 333 songs all my pictures apps and contacts and there is no way to re copy from the phone back in to i tunes i do not use i cloud becasue (one i do not want to pay for more space) and 2 the free version tells me i do not have enough space to back it up so i am worried one sync i will lose all my info. these songs are from cd's i have and off the Internet before the courts stopped Napster and Lime Wire. Sos what should i do just unstalli tunes and leave my computer as a re charging stastion? or is there any secret way to get all my things back then this time i can make a folder and do it right in case the next time i have to re format my drive from a problems or need to what is the best case here?
Justin

Sync is only oneway, from PC to your device. Unless you have the music on your PC, iTunes is going to wipe out what you have on your device if you are syncing to a new library.
You can only transfer Purchased music over to Itunes on your PC.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
As for you own music, you may have to use a third party software. A good Free one is called Sharepod which you can download from Download.com here:
http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2

Error Level 10: I have this error where a plugin broke that I had to remove because it was not finding it. How do i install it back so it functions?

8/29/2014 7:15am
It seems to me that if Microsoft's platform can not fix it with the troubleshooter that the troubleshooter sucks. It does not know when errors are thrown so your developer sucks on creating software for errors that are popping up in your software?
if a error is thrown in Windows 8 it should catch it upon a thrown error in programming? This hsould be a level 1 ticket. Since when I call you support for error in your product no one wants to address problems in your software and get mea tech to resolve
it?
The question now is how do I fix this and why is it causing me an internal error 500 for my web server install?
I may have other issues but I need access to my web server through my browser I used fsocketopen to troubleshoot it?
It gets back a internal 500 on Gecko process in firefox and on IE it just won't serve out the document in my web server abyss or apache? So the question is what service is broken so I can't serve my [web server] pages out? Let me go through all the event
logs that I have with errors below?
Under Applications:
1) Failure to load the application settings for package microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe. Error Code: 10
2) LMS Service cannot connect to Intel(R) MEI driver. Error level 1
3) Failure to load the application settings for package microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe. Error Code: 3
4) SearchIndexer (3476) Windows: The database engine attached a database (1, C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb). (Time=0 seconds)
5) Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.125, [4] 0.000, [5] 0.000, [6] 0.000, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000, [11] 0.000, [12] 0.000.
Saved Cache: 1 0: Evenet Id level 326.
6) SearchIndexer (3476) Windows: The database engine started a new instance (0). (Time=0 seconds)
7) Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.000, [4] 0.000, [5] 0.000, [6] 0.000, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000. eveent level 105
8) SearchIndexer (3476) Windows: The database engine (6.03.9600.0000) is starting a new instance (0). Error Level 102
Under Security:
1) We might want to check this out here User Account Management changed?
Under Setup: no errors.
Under System below:
1) Name resolution for the name win8.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded.Event level 1014
2) Intel(R) 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
Network link is disconnected.
3) The system has returned from a low power state.
Sleep Time: ‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎29T05:10:07.602701000Z
Wake Time: ‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎29T13:13:47.945773100Z
Wake Source: Device -USB Root Hub : Error level 1
4) The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{58565081-3013-43B6-AE07-CC89C71F6036} because a master browser was stopped. Event Id 8033.
5) The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\_??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_EPSON&Prod_Storage&Rev_1.00#7&2d369789&0&533536503532383375&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}. Event error 219.
6) The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\{3c83e4cf-28e9-11e4-827b-b8ac6f8aec21}#0000000000004000. Error Level Id 219.
7) The UMDF reflector was unable to complete startup because the WUDFPf service was not found. This service may be started later during boot, at which point Windows will attempt to start the device again. Error Id 10114.
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9) The supersafer64 service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified. Event ID 7000.
10) The SNMP Service encountered an error while accessing the registry key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration. Error: 1500.
11) The SAS Core Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified. 7000
12 The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL prefix http://*:80/ for site 1. The site has been disabled. The data field contains the error number. 1004
13) The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\_??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_EPSON&Prod_Storage&Rev_1.00#7&2d369789&0&533536503532383375&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}. Error level 219
14) Name resolution for the name win8.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded. Error level 1014.
Now I need help with all these error since Windows 8 with maybe 15 applications is failing after no setup errors? What would cause these we need to find out? Since I can not use your product with so many developer errors? and to put out a products that doesn
work is pointless? So please call me and have some help me through the errors and tell your support to stop ignoring the errors that broke the products?
Sincerely, William Dunlap {removed} N. Academy blvd, 201, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 http:\\interfacesone.fnhost.org
{removed}. I need a tech to help me get my web server up?

So now you don't release the security breaches in windows 8. You mean to tell me that you can use Powershell - Using WMI to breach security in VB apps on the web by getting my file structures?
What is this all about?
1 Set VPN NIC Settings
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Set VPN NIC Settings
$error.clear | out-null
cls
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
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Not enough arguments
Usage :
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"; exit }
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if (!($netAdapt)) {
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$guid=$NAC.settingID
"Setting DNS Toggles"
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#$strShowNicKeyName
$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $server)
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("$strShowNicKeyName",$true)
$showIcon = $regKey.GetValue("ShowIcon")
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Get Network Data from servers
$myfile = get-content servers.txt
echo "Server   IPs   Subnet   GW" | out-file "Results.txt" -Append
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Is this possible on any machine with power shell and if so how is access done?
William Dunlap

Most of my equipment has toasted, and I need the data back.

I must have been a very, very bad person in a past life. This week has been more technologically harrowing than I'd thought possible.
My cherished Titanium Powerbook died after a valiant battle, and the Apple techs said that there was nothing they could do, Apple just doesn't support such antiques (not sure if they meant me or the PB). They did let me download my files onto my 80G Smartdisk FireLite, and though the PB hard drive was acting a bit wonky and transfer was slow, I got most of the files. Most everything already had been backed up on the FireLite, but I grabbed the remainder. This means that My Entire Life resided on the FireLite.
I was about to download the files onto the G4 cube, and plugged in a USB hub with an optical mouse and a jump drive on it--and something started to burn. The jump drive, the mouse, and the hub fried. Now it looks as though the well-named FireLite is toast too, since though it powers up, it won't mount and nothing recognizes it. The cube is fine.
I still have the hard drive from the late lamented Powerbook, so if it holds up a bit longer, I ought to be able to save most if not all the files. Can I do this myself if I can get an external case to power the PB drive? And if the PB drive does indeed hold up, could I continue to use it? (This would be helpful, since the MacBook Pro won't run Classic, which is necessary in the short term for all my current programs and most peripherals.)
If an external case is feasible, can someone give me specs for what to get? I'm hoping it's affordable, though I'd also look for one to borrow.
If it isn't feasible, would someone please shoot me now?
Thanks.

Hi A,
Just one thought to add: I would get a FireWire enclosure so if you ever want to clone an entire HD on a Mac, you would then have a secure backup which was also able to boot said Mac.

Back up using time machine and external hard drive

Hello,
I am having a difficult time deciding the best way to back up important documents.
I have:
1TB internal hard drive
3 TB external hard drive and
1TB external hard drive
I currently have about 1TB worth of data to be stored, but that will increase to about 1.5TB once I get a bunch of stuff off the HD camera's hard drive. I would like to keep my internal hard drive somewhat free to keep the computer running fast, but also want to make sure I am properly backed up.
Should I put ALL (or nearly all) of the files on the 3 TB external hard drive, and have time machine back that up and not worry about the rest? I'm a little weary about putting all of the files on one device even if it is backed up by TM.
If I do this, do I need to back up the 3 TB external drive in addition to using TM?
Thanks!

iMac11,2
OS X 10.6.8

Data Back Up Plan

Hi,
My internal hard drive, 320 GB, 'fully loaded', on my 2 year old imac crashed 10 days ago.
Since I had the extended warranty, the 'local' Apple store replaced the internal drive within hours
at no charge and even loaded Snow Leopard and iLife. With a well updated TimeMachine on an external hard drive I was back working at my imac the next day. When I realized after the crash that my precious 250 GB of pictures in Adobe Lightroom and iPhoto, along with a few videos were saved on just one older Maxtor external hard drive, it made me think about a more solid back up procedure.
The idea now is to move all big volume files to one or more external hard drives.
In the meantime I have transfered the iPhoto and Lightroom files to an external hard drive (WD MyBook II, 2x1 TB in RAID 1), which gives me the first layer of back up: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/552322-REG/WesternDigital_WDH2Q20000N_2TB_My_BookStudio.html
In a second step I am planning on making a clone (with SuperDuper or CarbonCopy) of the internal hard drive (mainly operating systems and applications) and the external hard drive (all big data files) on one additional external hard drive, i.e. OWC Mercury Elite AL Pro Raid 0, 2 TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME8Q7T20GB64/
I am looking for advise here:
Do SuperDuper or CarbonCopy (I only know the names from the discussion forums) allow me to make a clone from 2 separate hard drives
Would it be good practice to create a large clone of ultimately 2 TB with ALL files or wouldn't it be better to make 2 clones , one of the internal and one of the external drive.
TimeMachine had helped me to get back to work quickly after the crash. I expect to fill the WD 1TB drive rather quickly. Where should I plan on using Time Machine in my new back up plan?
Would appreciate comments and advise.

reckling wrote:
Do SuperDuper or CarbonCopy (I only know the names from the discussion forums) allow me to make a clone from 2 separate hard drives
No. A clone is of your boot volume only. But those apps can make separate backups of multiple drives, either to multiple drives or to separate partitions on the same drive.
Would it be good practice to create a large clone of ultimately 2 TB with ALL files or wouldn't it be better to make 2 clones , one of the internal and one of the external drive.
2 is not only better, but your only option with CCC or SD.
TimeMachine had helped me to get back to work quickly after the crash. I expect to fill the WD 1TB drive rather quickly. Where should I plan on using Time Machine in my new back up plan?
There is no "right" answer, just a number of possibilities. Some thoughts:
You could use TIme Machine to back up both your internal HD and the WD set to the OWC, if it's at least twice the size of the data on both. It looks like it can be configured as a +Concatenated RAID set+ (both drives into a single 2 TB volume), so that should work well.
Or use TM to back up your OSX drive, and CCC or SD to back-up the media drive.
The CCC or SD backups usually aren't practical to run more than once a day, so consider them your "secondary" backups.
Also strongly consider getting something off-site (safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, etc.), so you're also protected against fire, flood, theft, direct lightning strike on your power lines. Portable external HDs are great for that. Some things may even be appropriate to take to DVDs.
The problem with that is, there aren't many portables over about 640 GB (LaCie has a 1 TB for either $300 or $400: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11357).
CCC is donationware, so you can use it free for a while. If you decide to keep it, send them some $$ so they can keep it up to date. SD has a free version, but to do updates (rather than a full replacement) or automatic scheduling, you need the paid version (about $30). Either is available via Google, VersionTracker.com, or MacUpdate.com.

Should I Give it Up and Go Back To Tiger?

That's the decision I'm wrestling with right now. My issues are not legion. Mostly they revolve around three things: Stability, Usability and Speed.
STABILITY:
I get odd freezes and random program crashes that have now twice resulted in having to push the power button to reboot. The mouse moves, but nothing works, no menus, can't even bring up the Force Quit window to quit an offending app.
In one day Mail crashed over-and-over until I could no longer use the computer and shut down and pulled out my PowerBook to send an email! After rebooting and fsck'ing and repairing Permissions the problem seemed to go away, but I have way too many crashes of even Apple programs that ought to be playing nicer with Leopard.
I also get a LOT more bouncing beachballs with Leopard in almost every app than with Tiger. Although my main Mac is not Intel or even G5, I should still be well within the system requirements for Leopard with a dual 1.25GHz G4 with 1.75 GB of RAM. My system drive has over 100GB open (I have four internal drives equaling 1.3TB) and I keep all of my software updated.
I do have one 2nd party PCI USB 2.0 card that doesn't require drivers and it works, but I haven't tested Leopard without that card, but I do have USB 2.0 devices that I need to run, so that alone would require a step backward if I couldn't run the USB 2.0 card because of some odd compatibility issue.
USABILITY:
Two things just irritate the heck out of me and one is a minor irritant that I probably just need to learn more about
One is the lack of hierarchical menus in the dock. Unlike a lot of people I like Stacks, but I'd like to have the option to go seamlessly from a Stack to a hierarchical menu.
The other is the inability to put a custom icon on a dock drive or folder. I have to create a dummy folder, put a blank space at the front of the name and use it as the icon for the item, but even then, all those icons behind it clutter up the look of the folder/drive and thus, the dock as a whole. There should be an option for having a SINGLE clean icon without going through odd gymnastic to get one!
I have a very small issue with the behavior of Spotlight. In Tiger, a Spotlight search's results were displayed in a more quick and orderly way, at least that how it seems to me. In Leopard when you click "show all" although it categorizes them as I have it set up in Spotlight's preferences, there isn't a clear delineation between classifications and there is no "info" button to quickly see the path and general info for the file. To see info you have to right click and choose "Show Info" unless I am missing something.
However, the addition of Boolean logic categories by option-clicking the plus sign or clicking to add categories to the search rules negates a lot of my gripe about Spotlight. I'd like to see it be as responsive as Tiger, but it's hard to argue with the ability to drill-down to exactly what you're looking for.
But, Spotlight is also MUCH slower than Tiger's Spotlight which leads me to:
SPEED:
As mentioned, I have one of the fastest G4s and a dual processor to boot and I'm nearly maxed on RAM, so you'd think Leopard would run faster, but there is a general lag in usability across the board. Not a killer lag, but noticeable and the aforementioned beachballs pop up enough to add even MORE of an irritating lag to the process. I find myself hitting "Force Quit" a LOT more often and seeing "'program x has stopped responding" in the Force Quit menu.
I like Leopard. There are some nice features that truly do improve the overall utility of the OS, so I think it's a good release, but there are just too many issues for me now, maybe because of my G4 PowerMac, it seems to have fewer issues (except for the speed thing) on my FW 800 Powerbook, but for now I want fast and logical and Tiger is all that.
I will return to Leopard if I step back because it's just too good an update to ignore and it is after all, the future of Macs, but right now Leopard is killing my productivity. On more than one occasion I've lost data before saving when a crash happened and that was a VERY rare occurrence with Tiger.
JoeL
Message was edited by: joeldm

Thanks for the responses!
I always do a clean install, backing up, formatting the drive, etc. I find it reduces the number of issues overall.
I was going to do a dual-boot setup with Tiger originally, but I've had such good luck with OS X updates that I wasn't concerned. But since I've had these problems, I hadn't revisited that option so, since I eventually will return to Leopard that may be a good solution.
However, I just read elsewhere after writing this as one of you mentioned, that the 10.5.2 update is slated to be a big release with a lot of fixes, so that may be worth the wait before doing anything precipitous.
There is one very odd thing, though . . . I have an iPhone and while I could sync without a problem initially, recently I've had some issues syncing until now I can't sync at all. I took the iPhone in and they swapped it out for a new phone, but I came home and had the same issues, so before returning to the Apple store I tried it on my PowerBook (running Leopard) and sure enough, it synced with no issues!
So I'm wondering if there isn't some problem that may be hardware-related that is causing me to have more issues on the PowerMac side than on the PowerBook side? I think I need to strip the PowerMac down to its original components, basically unplug everything but the keyboard and mouse, remove that USB card and see what happens.
It ran fine under Tiger so I'm not happy about having to do this, but hey, it's the price of progress and at least it's not that "other" OS!
BTW, I think it's funny how some tech writers are trying, straining to compare the issues that some of us are having with Leopard with the Vista release which was an unmitigated disaster!
I'm content to work through it until I find the same stability I had under Tiger with this new cat . . . let's hope the new update does the trick. Anyone heard a release date for 10.5.2?
Thanks for the suggestions!
JoeL

SoundTrak Crashed!! How I got my data back.

If you get the beachball during a record, by what could be the screen saver kicking in or the disk drive going to sleep (all of which should be disabled to start with), then you might get a file which shows size and a good time of creation, but it won't play or show a waveform. In fact even Audacity won't touch it. Here's how to recover the data. Hopefully you know your settings you were using, aka 48khz, 44.1 etc. For the sake of this post, I used 24bit 44.1khz AIFF sample rescue information. Bear with me.
First locate your bad file in the soundtrak pro recordings folder. Duplicate it. Note its size. Take the copy and get it to the desktop. Do not muck with the original.
Download the 0xED (thats the name) hex editing app. You can also have a dupe file of a working file from an earlier session. Your going to want to copy it as well and put it on your desktop. You'll need the header info from it.
Open your known good file wih 0xED. Highlight and copy from the beginning of that file address 0000000 thru 0000FF7 with a contrl C on the keyboard.
Open your bad file copy. They can both be opened at the same time. Highlight those same addresses and contrl V that data into your bad file. Pay close attention thats all you changed. Nothing should have shifted anywhere else. If you screwed up, cntrl Z out of that and try it again until it looks like a clean paste. Yes the data is going to be different in your paste operation as thats why your file is hosed to begin with. Hopefully you just now patched your file. SAVE the potential repaired file using the save icon in 0xED. Open our repaired file
with Audacity, or SoundTrak Pro. You should have a workable file now. If not, go back and try again as perhaps you messed something up or didnt save the repair properly. Its crucial you use data from a good file of the same settings to fix the bad one. If your not sure of the settings you used, try a couple possibilities. Most people use the same settings with only a few variations so your choices should be few hopefully. NOTE: To test your file, close out all instances of the bad file in Sountrak Pro or your new file won't chck out if it is indeed fixed. DO a fresh load of your new file into a freshly started Sountrak Pro or Audacity.
What else have I used? I used SoundHack a few times. Its a bit strange and clunky. The results are hard to nail down. I ended up with a file that played like MickeyMouse but I was able to use Audacity to cut the speed down by 50% and save the audio.
The problems I encountered to get me to this point were as described in the beginning of this write up. I had the beachball. One time Sountrak just quit without warning. Again, the data was there but just wasnt closed out properly.
I hope this saves someone from a disaster. It saved me. I never gave up.
cheers
Johnny
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Message was edited by: johnnyU by all means drop me a line if this helps anyone. I'd love to know.

if you did not do a back up of your phone and memory card there is no way to get back the information. you can't roll back anything the memory or firmware once done is done for good. sorry i know this is not good news
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Help Needed: Returning Back to Windows 8 after downgrading to Windows 7

Hi guys, im just new here.
I have a MSI GE40 gaming laptop which I bought 2 months back.
Within those 2 months of usage, I always encounter my laptop to be very slow in shutting down. It always take, maybe up to 10 minutes to fully shut down. The screen goes black but the power button stays on orange color, & as I said, it takes a long time for the power button to be completely unlit. But for start up, its blazing fast.
Thinking that windows 8 itself is the culprit of super slow shutting down, I searched the net on how to downgrade to windows 7.
Of course I did make a back up first on a 16gb usb flash drive using the pre-installed recovery software from MSI which was completed successfully.
Then I made some tweaks on the bios (ie select legacy & disable secure boot) & boot using windows 7 installation DVD, deleted all partitions (since the notebook comes with GPT partition) to be able to install windows 7. I installed all the drivers which I downloaded from MSI website specific to my notebook.
But the problem is not solved, it is still very slow in shutting down, & now even boot up becomes very slow too.
So I downloaded & execute the firmware & bios for windows 7 from msi website (again, specific to my model). But still the same, the notebook is still very slow both in shutting down & start up.
So I decided to go back again to windows 8, I tried to boot from the flash drive (I adjusted from the bios & make the flash drive to be the first priority) but it did not boot from it. I tried F11 on start up & selected to boot from usb flash drive but again, to no avail.
So the last one I did was downloaded windows 8, make a bootable flash drive out of it, boot from it and luckily, I succeed - I have now again a windows 8 msi ge40 laptop.
But I wanted my laptop to be reinstated to factory setting, i.e, all preinstalled softwares are there, the bios is default for windows 8. So I tried to update the bios to the one for windows 8 again (since I downgraded the bios to the one for windows 7 when I downgraded the OS to windows 7). But I could not update the bios, the laptop is not booting from usb flash drive containing the bios.
I tried also to recover using F3 on start up but the system does not recognize the flash drive (with system back up). I tried also on PC settings but to no avail.
Now guys, I need your help.
How can I return back my laptop to default factory settings?
Thank you.
(sorry for my not so good English)

Hello:
I think it's not only about the OS version, you need to return this back to your shop to repair with the slow shot down issue, because the OS should be shot down in 30 seconds, far from your GE40 times.

A few days ago i bought the macbook pro in a Providence. In late Summer i will come back to my Country - Ukraine. I would like to know about a tax for my laptop. Can i return tax? Through the TAX FREE or return in airport? What should i do?

A few days ago i bought the macbook pro in a Providence. In late Summer i will come back to my Country - Ukraine. I would like to know about a tax for my
laptop. Can i return tax? Through the TAX FREE or return in airport? What should i do?

You need to talk with the tax authorities in the countries to which you traveled and that of your home country. We are all end-users liek you and not Apple agents.

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