Backup file management

I happened to notice my backup program backing up a lot of ipod touch backup files. I zipped into that directory to find over 150 backup files already. I couldn't find any setting as to how many backup files to keep around. Searching the forums the only other comment I found was a user asking if it was OK to delete old back up files. In his case the backups were already taking 1GB of space.
Are we really stuck with having to manually delete old Touch backups?? Anyone else have a backup directory that's gotten huge or just has thousands of files in it??

Kept an eye on the touch sync tonight. Once sync made 337 new files. yow.

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Windows 7 backup file management.

One of my users with a lot of data is getting a backup drive full message.
Does Windows 7 backup automatically manage deleting old backups so that new backups will fit on the drive?
I am assuming this is the way it works because it only makes sense. I just need confirmation.

Like Portlander above, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I found this thread "alive and kicking" after 4 years. I too have stuggled all this time to master Windows 7 backup and still haven't succeeded! I have managed to back up what I believe to be
the essential for the past year or so (data files mainly) albeit through playing with the settings as the default Windows settings just don't work for me (believe me I've tried everything).
So, content with my weekly back-ups which Windows reported were "effected correctly" for a year (I'm working with the French Windows so some of my message interpretations in English may not be exact).
Anyway, decided recently to give the computer a complete overhaul - delete all unused programmes, clean out unwanted files etc. I didn't want to go a complete re-install for obvious reasons, and I accept that my (Acer Aspire 9920G) computer is a bit long
in the tooth, but nevertheless does what I need.
First problem - I find I've got 57,000 (yes that's right) temporary internet files hidden in System Volume Information. Only by working with Foldersizes (v6) (a really neat appli which I might even buy when the 15 days free trial is up) did I get to see
and get rid of this crap. So I came to my backups and particularly the System Image Restore Points discussed in this thread. These went back to 2009 so I just wanted to get rid of all the old ones and only retain the most recent. Believe me I tried everything
(disable restore and reboot etc. etc.) which I've found on the many forums dedicated to the suject with no success. Finally I decided to format the hard disk I'm using to back up. Well, that worked for all the System Image Restore Points created automatically
when backing up to that physical drive which miraculously disappeared. BUT I'd used another physical drive from 2009 to 2011 and those System Image Restore Points still appear in:
Control Panel>System Protection>Restore System>Show Other Restore points
Worse still, when I click on Look for Programmes" on the earliest restore point (2009) I find that Windows could try to reinstall all the crap I've cleaned out and ignore all the programmes I've installed since. And I can't see how to get rid of all these
early restore points.
Anyway, moral of the story (sorry it's been a bit long).
My computer mag tells be that Cobian Backup is a good free alternative to the Windows 7 appli. I'm going to disable the Windows backup and go that route when I've finished this post.
I've been with Windows (and MS Office) all my PC life and was quite looking forward to trying Windows 8 and get a new touch-screen computer in the New Year when Windows 8 (Pro or whatever not RT) is available. Now most likely I'll just go Android. I really
do think that Microsoft has lost the plot.
Still not sure whether to laugh or cry!

Desktop Manager crashes when opening backup file with critical information

I was on a trip and a family member triggered my Bold's secure wipe (wrong password 10 times). I had made a back-up just before the trip and it contains very critical information. When I try to do a restore with Desktop Manager (4.7.0.32, same version as used to make the backup), it crashes as soon as I select the backup file. I tried opening the .ipd backup file from Advanced instead, with the handset disconnected, with the same crash result: "An unhandled win32 exception has occured in DesktopMgr.exe [4340]." where the number in the brackets is different every time.
Please help me, I will likely lose my job if I cannot restore the information from this backup!
Edit: I tried reinstalling the Desktop Manager, and same thing. I even tried 4.6 instead of 4.7 and again, same thing.
Message Edited by Prune on 12-31-2008 05:03 AM

Connected to the USB, can you do a Restore > Advanced and select the critical databases?
Are you connected to the PC via USB to a rear PC USB port--not a USB hub, or front monitor port?
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HT2674 I have an iMac purchased in May 2011. OSX Lion 10.7.3. I deleted backup file from the external hard drive. Now, the trash can will not empty some of the files deleted. File folder: "Core Services" contains a locked file: "boot.efi". It will not

I have an iMac purchased in May 2011. OSX Lion 10.7.3. I deleted backup file from the external hard drive which operates from Time Machine.
Now, the trash can will not empty some of the files deleted from the backup harddrive.
The trash contains-- File folder: "Core Services" which contains a locked file: "boot.efi".
It will not delete.
How do I get the trash can empty of these files?

Yes, the Old Master file has a folder for each year where I find all photos from that specific year. I am attaching a screen shot of the file.
In the meantime i have managed to download all photos (it did not download any video files though in mpg, avi, 3gp, m4v,mp4 and mov format) to a new iphoto library. Unfortunately the photos are quite mixed and often doubled up. I ma considering to purchase iphoto library which checks all duplicates in iphoto. this will save me a lot of time. What do you think?

How can I restore my 4S to an earlier backup after I transferred the backup file from my old computer to a new one

My case is a little bit complicated:
I had an iPhone, which was backed up with a Windows XP computer.
Then I bought a MacBook Pro, and I transferred the iPhone backup file to the MacBook Pro's corresponding location.
Then I bought a new iPhone, and I plugged the new phone into the MCBK pro.
But iTunes does not tell me how I can restore the new iPhone 4S with the old backup file.
What can I do?
Thank you!

If the backup is not listed is Settings>iCloud>Storage and Backup>Manage Storage then no other backups exist.

Possible to recover video after stupidly syncing and thus loosing backup file? :'-(

I have been so stupid.
My daughter of 3 managed to push 3 buttons on my ipad2 in the exact sequence needed to delete a most wonderfull video. In a panic, I ran to my imac and connected my ipad not realising that by doing so, it was syncing /backing up with itunes.
In each case, the iOS recovery tool of Dr Fone is not able to see anything except for the videos that are still on the ipad ...
And on the mac I can only find back one itunes file
So my questions are:
1) are these itunes backup files completely overwritten or is a new file made but the old copiy still somewhere on the mac yet made invisible?
2) does the syncing process overwrite the 'empty space' on my ipad (where the deleted video must be) and is this the reason that the dr Fone software can not retrieve my video?
3) is there any other tool out there more powerful out there to retrieve deleted files that have been deleted? like some forensics tools?
Thank you so so much in advance,

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Is there any downside to using a reference type library if I use Time Capsule and will do file management only from within Aperture?

Have done a lot of reading to get prepared to convert to Aperture 3 and have this question regarding setting up my library type.
I'm not a professional -just a heavy user hobbyist.
It appears that the major factors in using reference style is to backup the images with Time Capsule and always do moves or deletes from within the Aperture application.
If my architecture matters here's what I have that may be involved in photo management and editing:
iMac (latest 27" high power version with lots of memory)
Internal 2TB HD where the library is stored
External (FireWire) 2TB HD where the images are stored
External (FireWire) 6TB HD backup drive
In the future an iPad for remote work on images (when/if available) and a Mac laptop (for same remote use)
I see major downside issues to letting the library manage my files - such as inaccessibility (or awkward accessibility) to the images for other programs, and performance issues when the library gets large (thousands of images or 100+ gb in size)
The chief complaints I've seen regarding using a reference mode is the broken link issues created if file management is done outside of Aperture (adds, deletes, moves of files) and the inability to use the Vault function for backup.
One feature that I imagine I'd like to have is maximum integration with Final Cut Pro X and that's one area I haven't seen much on and would be interested to hear about if that integration is affected with the choice of managed vs referenced library types. (I like to produce film clips that are combinations of pics and video and want to be set up so that is done in the easiest fashion when working in FCP X)
I'm sure I've not seen all sides of this issue and would like to see some discussion around this question.
Thanks to everyone contributing!
Craig

Goody, Goody, you hit a few of my favorite subjects! Herewith some comments, with the usual caveats - true to the best of my knowledge and experience, others may have different results, YMMV, and I could be wrong.
I run Aperture on two machines:
-- 2007 Mac Pro with 2x2.66 GHz Xeon, 21 GB of RAM, a 5770 GPU, and multiple HD. I have about 11,000 images, taking up 150 GB. (Many are 100 MB TIFF, scanned slides)
-- 2006 Mac Book Pro with 1 2.0 GHz Core Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a 240 GB SSD.
Two very different machines.
-- Aperture Libraries are all the same - Managed or Referenced. If Managed, then the Master image files are inside the Package, if Referenced, they are outside, and you can have any combination you want. Managed is easier, but Referenced is not hard if you are the least bit careful.
-- While the sheer size of an Aperture Library is not a big issue, the location on disk of the different components can have a tremendous impact on performance.
-- Solid State Drives (SSD) read and write faster than regular Hard Disks (HD) and, what is more important, empty HD read and write much faster than full HD.
-- Aperture speed requires a combination of RAM, CPU, graphics processing unit (GPU) speed, and disk speed. The more RAM you have, the less paging you will see. With enough RAM, the next bottle neck is CPU (speed and cores) and GPU speed. But even then you will still have to fetch an image (longer if you pull the full resolution Master, read and rewrite the Version file, and update the Preview and Thumbs.
So what works?
-- RAM, RAM, and more RAM. 4 GB will work, but you will page a bit. 8 GB is much faster. On my old MacPro the sweet spot was about 16 GB of RAM.
-- Keep your Library on your fastest (usually internal) drive. Keep that disk as unloaded as possible. How do you keep it unloaded? Either buy BIG, 1 TB+ or move your Masters off onto another disk. The good news here is that as Master files are written only once and never rewritten, speed of this disk, as opposed to the disk that holds the Library, is not important. There is a one second pause as the Master is read into memory and, if you have enough RAM, that is it - the Master will never be paged out. If, on the other hand, you do not have enough RAM, and you do a lot of adjusting at full resolution, then the speed of the disk that holds your Masters will become very important due to paging.
-- I found that I picked up a tiny bit of speed by keeping the Masters on a dedicated disk. Thus, in your configuration, if you can dedicate that 2 TB FW HD to your Masters, you should see very nice performance.
Final notes on backups and archives:
-- One conventional wisdom is that you should make an archive copy of every image file before or as you load them into your system. (Aperture in this case.) This archive is then never touched or deleted.
-- An alternative approach is that you do not keep such an archive, but only the images that you have in your Aperture Library. And when you delete from the Library, you no longer keep a copy anywhere.
I do the following:
-- Card to Aperture. Card is then kept at least 24 hours until all of my backups have run. (I use three - Time Machine, Clone, and off site.)
-- I do not keep archive copies. If I decide to delete a file, my only recourse is to recover it from Time Machine during the six month cycle of my Time Machine backups. Thereafter, it is lost.
There are merits to both approaches.
Hope this is clear, correct, and responsive to your needs.
DiploStrat

I need help with a backup file that was deleted and now undeleted from my hard drive

Last month (May 6, 2011), I was updating my iPod Touch 4G with the new software that came out. I always make a backup of my iPod's data before I update it. While my iPod was updating I left my iPod and computer alone and was doing things around the house with my mom. And when I was done I went in my room to see if it was done and my computer decides that it was going to freeze and crash on me (with my iPod plugged in and stuck on the updating or verifying software mode.) I managed to get my iPod back to working condition again but losing everything on my iPod. I formatted my computer hard drive but I managed to get back the backup I lost. I need help on getting the backup into iTunes so I can get my data back. I am not Jailbroken and I plan not to Jailbreak. I however saved the backup file in a folder other than the Mobilesync folder. I am also running on Windows XP. Someone please help me and thank you in advance!

I was able to backup my iPod and I tried to restore my iPod again and it goes through the process and everything but it restores the temporary data that I had on there. It didn't restore application data or the current photos and videos that I had saved in Camera Roll before this all had happened. It is almost like it goes back to factory settings but I have some photos that were saved on the other backup that I was temporarily running on. The backup that I am looking to restore is the only backup file in the Mobilesync folder as of right now the others are saved somewhere safe for right now. Why doesn't it restore my application data or my Camera Roll pictures and videos that I saved before my computer crashed last month? Can this problem be fixed?

Can't recover backup files off of external hard drive. HELP!!! :(

Recently I had to restore my laptop to its factory settings. Before doing this I made a backup on my "2TB WD My Book Essential External Hard Drive", using a suggested back up program simply titled "Back Up Files". The file it made on it is called "MINWINPC" and it has 2 folders in it that are titled "backup Files 2011-12-08-042146" and "Backup Files 2011-12-08-051659". The second one is the only one with anything in it an application titled "Backup.1.exe".
here are the details of "Backup.1.exe":
File description: RestoreWiz Application
Type: Application
File version: 8.0.92.0
Product name: RestorWiz
Product version: 8.0.92.0
Copyright: Solft Thinks Copyright (C) 2008
Size: 2.93 MB
Date modified: 12/8/2011 5:17AM
WhenIi click on the "Backup.1" application it opens up recovery manager. It asks me what files I want to restore and where I want to restore my backup.
I choose OS( C: ). It then tells me the location my files will be restored to, C:\System Recovery files.
Then it starts scanning for files to restore. This lasts a minute or 2 before an error message pops up.
"Runtime error! program: G:\MINWINPC\backup.1.exe
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual .
Please contact the application's support team for more information."
I click ok to have another message from Microsoft windows pop up that says
"RestoreWiz Application has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I would really like to get my backed up files back onto my computer
My System Information:
Manufacturer & Model: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC/NM101UA#ABA
Type of Computer: Laptop
CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz 73 °C Penryn 45nm Technology
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 3624 (CPU) 69 °C
Mem: 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 398MHz (6-6-6-18)
HDD: 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C Video: Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz) 1024MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (HP)
Sound: High Definition Audio Device IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Bluetooth Hands-free Audio Bluetooth St
OS: MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor on ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (1600x900 60Hz) ;work res(1600x870 60Hz)
ISP: Suddenlink
My System Information:
Manufacturer & Model: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC/NM101UA#ABA
Type of Computer: Laptop
CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz 73 °C Penryn 45nm Technology
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 3624 (CPU) 69 °C
Mem: 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 398MHz (6-6-6-18)
HDD: 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C Video: Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz) 1024MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (HP)
Sound: High Definition Audio Device IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Bluetooth Hands-free Audio Bluetooth St
OS: MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor on ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (1600x900 60Hz) ;work res(1600x870 60Hz)
ISP: Suddenlink

sooooo no one has any suggestions?
My System Information:
Manufacturer & Model: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC/NM101UA#ABA
Type of Computer: Laptop
CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz 73 °C Penryn 45nm Technology
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 3624 (CPU) 69 °C
Mem: 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 398MHz (6-6-6-18)
HDD: 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C 244GB Seagate ST9250320AS ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C Video: Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz) 1024MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (HP)
Sound: High Definition Audio Device IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Bluetooth Hands-free Audio Bluetooth St
OS: MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor on ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (1600x900 60Hz) ;work res(1600x870 60Hz)
ISP: Suddenlink

Envy DV7 7212nr - I need the BIOS backup file.

Hi,
I installed the Lojack software on my laptop and the windows stopped working and started showing a blue screenerror. Because of this my laptop don't work and I can’t restore or reinstall Windows.
My laptop is a Envy DV7 7212nr.
The only solution is to rewrite the BIOS chip. But the BIOS file that HP provides to download can not be written directly to the chip because it is very large and can only be used when the laptop is running normally (this is not my situation).
So I need a BIOS backup's file to get record the BIOS chip. But as I don't have this backup file, I need another laptop like mine to get this BIOS backup file.
So I need someone who has this laptop help me.
Please, if you have the Envy laptop DV7 7212nr and you know make a backup the BIOS, please send this backup file it to me.
If I do not get this BIOS backup file, I will not have to fix my laptop.
Recalling that the file that HP offers for download not work. I need the file obtained by backup BIOS directly of a laptop Envy DV7 7212nr that is running normally.
Thank you.

This is the process to rollback to working version of BIOS.
1-Immediately after powering on hold/tap the Esc key.
2-When the menu appears, tap F2 for System Diagnostics.
3-In the list of items will be BIOS Management.Use the arrow key to move down & highlight it.Press Enter key.
4-You should now have a Rollback BIOS option.Use arrow key again to highlight and press Enter key.
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Question about Adding External Storage/File Management

I am using LR5.2 on mid-2011 MBA. Before long I will run out of space on the HD. I have one catalog of about 16K photos. I would like to purchase external hard drive for additional storage. I use Time Machine for backup. What is the best way to manage the additional storage and keep the catalog intact?
1) I currently have photos organized by date? i.e., Pictures/2013/2013-10-10/ etc. Should I keep this file organization as it is and then when importing new photos, select 'copy' from SD card and select 'Location' as new external drive?
OR
2) Should I move all photos to new backup drive to keep all files stored together? Would this be better for long term file management?
Any recommendations for best practices? Or is there a better to organize photos for current and future use?
Also, does the catalog stay in the same location under either 1) or 2)
Thanks in advance

I would suggest creating a root folder on the EHD. You will need to keep your EHD connected when working with Lightroom. It will show up like your Mac HD with the green light in the left hand panel.
Leave everything where it is for the time being but you may want to drag older folders to the EHD over time, as importing new photos, generating previews and using the develop module will usually be faster on the main flash drive of the MBA.
Don’t use Finder to move files/folders around. Always use the Lightroom Library and the database of files and your develop settings (catalog) will not get corrupted.
See this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4trWRAeOsuA

Final Cut Pro X File Management Issues

I have several issues
1. Does anyone know if it is possible to import from camera to the standard Mac file system? I can't see a way to avoid importing media in the FCP library and I definitely DON"T want any of my media files in the FCP library.
2. Also I know I can copy the media files out of FCP back into the file system but I am not sure how to delete the FCP copy and re-point everything to the media I have stored in a proper file structure on a specific media disk.
3. It doesn't seem to be possible to have FCP default new libraries to a media drive - it only wants to create them on the boot drive and the library has to be moved manually. Am I missing something?
4. Backup is an issue now - it looks like a change to any component within a library will trigger a backup of the whole library - it certainly does with the backup software I am using, and who knows what Time Machine does with FCP libraries... (but Time Machine DOES appear to delete files without notice when it runs out of space, so it is not suitable for any environment where permanent data retention is an issue - so beware...)
ps: don't EVER use the "move to library" function. If it crashes you won't get a reason, you can't undo or recover, and the originals may be deleted even though the media never made it to the other library. This is not good...

Hi Tom: It was "Move Event to Library" that crashed, deleting the media from the originating library but not copying it to the new library.
I lot of my issues are down to lack of familiarity with the new interface after migrating from the old Final Cut; manuals which are incomplete or in error; courseware created in earlier versions of Pro X and which have not been updated, and what I regard as counter-intuituive defaults and assumptions by the Apple development team. I spend a lot of time searching for answers: For instance I spent at least an hour searching in the manual and on the net for a way to extract or move the media from an FCP library. I came up with nothing. It would never have occurred to me to search for the term "consolidate".
Another thing that caused me an issue was that I copied a library from one drive to the other to create a backup before I started trying to regularise the media locations in the original library. I changed the name of the backed up library in file manager. When I open it, FCP still uses the old name - hence a library which is opened on one disk and appears to point to data on another. In fact I hadn't noticed that there were two libraries of the same name open at the same time in FCP - the apparently duplicated library was in fact the backup library on the other disk which was renamed in file manager but not in FCP.
In iTunes and Aperture, which both use this bundled library approach, you can only open one library at a time. FCP is different - and I have no problem with this, but any user familiar with the other products would assume, as I did, that FCP worked the same way. That it does not gives rise to the possibility of confusion.
FCP is a very complex piece of software. That means it is impossible to make it easy for a first timer to understand - an experienced Final Cut user has to unlearn as much as he or she has to learn - and all this places much greater reliance on the manuals. The writers of the manuals need to try and put themselves in the heads of their users and make sure that their TOC, Index and terminology corresponds to the thinking of the user - not the new terms they have created for the new version (e.g.: "consolidate media" - which means extract media from the library and move it into the file system, but who would know?)
In an environment where the file sizes are enormous; a library may contain several hundred clips and audio tracks organised in various events and projects; FCP can crash and "disappear" media; the manual is hard to search and the software behaves in an unexpected manner (library names in FCP do not necessarily correspond to the actual name of the library on disk and multiple copies of a library can all be open at the same time, with the same name) this all creates a great deal of stress. One mistake and a great deal of work can be lost irretrievably.
However, with your advice, I have consolidated the media files from my largest library and confirmed that the library holds only the metadata now. However, the new file organisation is unusable, so I will now need to change the file names and reorganise them into subfolders that make sense to me - I guess I will find out if this breaks FCP's links. At the same time I have to figure out which files in the original file structure correspond to the newly extracted files so that I only have a single set.
My big mistake was to copy the files into the library in the first place. This is the default, and also recommended on the Lynda courseware (which was created on an earlier version of FCP). Since most of my existing files were imported in the old version of FCP prior to the upgrade (so already on disk), this meant creating duplicates of all files initially. However, all the newer files are only in the libraries and not in the file system - reconciling this now is tricky. Since I retrieve SD cards on my notebook in the field and then copy to my Mac Pro, some of the new files have ended up in the file system and not in the library. I am yet to find out whether FCP will automatically pick up new files added directly to the file system, or whether they have to be "imported" through FCP before FCP can see them.
The overhead of all this duplication is enormous and the inconsistencies tricky, and it is only now that I understand better how FCP Pro X works (and that it can lose stuff) that I now realise I have to undo all of this and move the media back into file manager and out of the libraries.
If you have to transition to a new, and radically different, version in the middle of a project you really need to understand all the implications. I did not. And now that I do, it is difficult, stressful and time consuming to sort out.
If I were able to go back and give myself some advice it would be to ignore the defaults, create logical and sensible file structures for all your media, keep all media out of the libraries and use the file structure to force FCP to organise your clips in a logical manner so that you don't then have to go through and laboriously assign keywords to organise them in FCP.
I don't know if the way I work is very different to other film-makers. This is a doco - typically around 5% of what is shot will make it into the final program, and I double that because I use three cameras a lot of the time. That's about 40 hours of HD plus WAV audio files. Some of the clips are an hour in length and impossible to synch between the cameras until they are chopped up and new combined clips created - this is very laborious! An hour of HDD is about 400GB (more if I shoot raw) - so there will be about 2TB of data associated with this doco by the time I finish shooting. In an interview I record a separate audio track - and I generally use this as the master track since it is the only clip which can be guaranteed to run for the full duration. But FCP Pro X assumes that the master track will be a video file and it is not possible to add an audio file to the timeline first. I found a workaround - but, again, I am fighting FCP and the developer's preconceived ideas about how people might use this software.
Apart from the doco itself various other projects use the same media - but I don't want these projects cluttering up the doco library which is already cluttered enough. If the media is in the library I have to copy clips to other libraries for these other projects, leading to more duplication. Its another reason to move the media out of the library and another indication that FCP was not really designed for large projects.
Even just within a single library, file management is unsuited to the volume of files I use. For reasons known only to themselves, the FCP developers have used a very specific view of the file organisation - and its not the view I use in file manager (which is the column view). That makes using the file management in FCP very cumbersome - but its essential if you have a large number of clips. My smallest library takes 30 minutes to copy from one Thunderbolt2 disk to another, so creating a backup before changing things in a library is not a trivial event.
Also, the keyword process is clumsy and, I think, poorly conceived but it is the only way to organise clips if you haven't created a file structure prior to import. I haven't yet figured out how to erase the keywords I used for one event so that I can reassign the keywords for use in another event. But I assume that means that if I go back to the first event, I will have to put all the keywords back in - or ignore the shortcut keys and type them manually (which is necessary for much of the time anyway because there are only 9 - a good indication of the size of the projects for which this software was designed). Also, oddly, there is no shortcut key that I can find for turning on/off the keyword window - which is annoying because it takes up a lot of screen real estate). It is issues like this that leave the impression that FCP has been conceived as a kind of iMovie + and that it just isn't architected for real-world proper film making. It can be bent to that, and it has some nice features, but I find myself fighting it a lot of the time.
After all of this I can't find a reason why Apple would create library "files" anyway. What advantage does this provide over the standard file system? What are the implications for backups? (If you are backing up incrementally only the components within a library then how can you be sure any version of the actual library file is current? And if not, then is any minor change to any file in the library going to trigger a full backup of everything - (in this case 1TB+)? And how does this differ between various backup options? Again, assuming FCP users are mostly making home movies, with small file sizes and using Time Machine then a library concept might make sense. But that is iMovie thinking. And that Apple have implemented a "move to library" function without any transactional integrity (no deletions should be made until the successful copy is confirmed) further underpins the non-professional positioning of this product.
I hope it improves with age...
But thanks again for your help - it was timely and very much appreciated.
Stephen

How to find total size of RMAN backup files?

Hi there
env: Oracle 10gR2, RHEL 64bit
My client has a production database where rman backups are taken: Level-0 backup every Sunday and Level-1 Monday thru Saturday.
I have very limited access to this production database because it is being managed by third party and they won't provide me my required info (not sure why). I do not have access to their rman repository. To connect to the database I have to login to an intermediate server and then login to the database server. I have no access to Enterprise Manager. So in short, my access is limited. I want to gather the information on total size of rman backup files - both for a Level-0 and Level-1 backups separately. I understand that this info can be retrieved from rman repository. Are there any data dictionary views/tables where I may get this info?
Best regards

Hi,
Have you searched in forum check this:https://forums.oracle.com/thread/1097939
HTH

Where is the file management utility on my HP Pavilion dv5-1150us Entertainment notebook pc?

I am trying to hookup a WD My Passport Ultra 2TB external drive for backup on my notebook. It tells me to check the file management utility to see if the WD File Setup is listed. How do I go to and find that utility?

Hi,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41501-42000/sp41698.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Right click the IDT device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall.
When complete,download and reinstall the Chipset driver on the link below.
Chipset Driver - Windows Vista.
When the reinstallation has completed, shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 30 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
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