Best practices managing multiple iPhoto librarys

I think that my challege in managing multiple iPhoto libraries is shared by a lot of amateur photographers. My wife and I both have Apple MacBook Airs and we both take and upload photos. About every three months I merge the two iPhoto libraries with the iPhoto Library Manager. Then I take the output of the merge and replace both MacBook iPhoto libraries.
Thinking out loud, would it be easier and less labor intensive to have both my wife and I share the same library? I remember reading a caution statement regarding the possible iPhoto file corruption when sharing.
Any suggestions?

Thinking out loud, would it be easier and less labor intensive to have both my wife and I share the same library? I remember reading a caution statement regarding the possible iPhoto file corruption when sharing.
The alternative would be to keep separate photo libraries - one for your wife and one for you.
I found it much easier to haveseparate photo libraries and just share the best photos with the other family members, after they have been tagged and edited. Export them and give them the other family members to import them to their libraries. Or transfer them using a shared photo stream.
This avoids fighting about which photos to keep and how to adjust the photos.

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My wife and I share our account for our iPhone Applications and Songs in iTunes.
Can someone point me to a topic that covers a best practice for multiple iTunes syncing?
I travel a lot and keep my iPhone synced to my Macbook Pro while she uses the workstation at home to sync to. We keep the addresses and contacts and calendars synced through MobileMe, however, I'm trying to find the best way of pushing applications and songs I've bought over to the other PC so they're still around while I'm traveling for her to sync with.
Thoughts?

Hi Steve,
Might be trying for solution for a long time, If i understood your question clear let me clarify you few points.
You are trying to access the bex query which is designed with the exit's in the background based on the logic and trying to call the entire dimensions and key-figures in a single connection. Then you are trying to map those data in the charts.
Steve, try to make more connections based upon the logic and split them. use the same query but split them by sales per customer group, sales per day, sales per week by making three different connections and try. You can merge the prompts from all connections.
Hope this Helps!!!
Sorry if i misunderstood your question.
--SumanT

Best practice: managing FRA

I was not sure this was the most appropriate forum for this question; if not, please feel free to make an alternative suggestion.
For those of us who run multiple databases on a box with shared disk for FRA, I am finding the extra layer of ASM and db_recovery_file_dest_size to be a minor inconvenience. The Best Practice white papers I have found so far say that you should use db_recovery_file_dest_size, but they do not specify how you should set it. Currently, we have been setting db_recovery_file_dest_size rather small, as the databases so far are small and even at 3x the database size, the parameter is still significantly smaller than the total disk available in that diskgroup.
So, my question; is there any downside to setting db_recovery_file_dest_size equal to the total size of the FRA diskgroup for all databases? Obviously, this means that the amount of free space in the diskgroup may be consumed even if db_recovery_file_dest_size is not yet full (as reflected in the instance V$RECOVERY_FILE_DEST). But is that really a big deal at all? Can we not simply monitor the FRA diskgroup, which we have to do anyway? This eliminates the need to worry about an additional level of disk management. I like to keep things simple.
The question is relevant to folks using other forms of volume management (yes, I know, ASM is "not a volume manager"), but seems germane to the ASM forum because most articles and DBAs that I have talked to are using ASM for FRA.
Most importantly, what ramifications does "over-sizing" db_recovery_file_dest_size have? Aside from the scenario above.
TIA

As a general rule, the larger the flash recovery area(db_recovery_file_dest_size ), the more useful it becomes. Ideally, the flash recovery area should be large enough to hold a copy of all of your datafiles and control files, the online redo logs, and the archived redo log files needed to recover your database using the datafile backups kept under your retention policy.
Setting the size of DB_FILE_RECOVERY_DEST_SIZE must be based on following factors.
1) your falshback retention target,
2) what all files you are storing in flashback and
3) if that inclueds backup then the retention policy for them or how often you move them to tape
The bigger the flash recovery area, the more useful it becomes. Setting it much larger or equal to you FRA disk group does not cause any [b]overhead that is not known to Oracle.
But there are reasons why Oracle lets you define a disk limit, which is the amount of space that Oracle can use in the flash recovery area out of your FRA disk group.
1) A disk limit lets you use the remaining disk space for other purposes and not to dedicate a complete disk for the flash recovery area.
2)Oracle does not delete eligible files from the Flash Recovery Area until the
space must be reclaimed for some other purpose. So even though your database size is 5GB your restention target is very small but if your recovery_dest_size is much larger it will just keep filling.
3)Say in my case I have one FRA disk group of 150GB shared by 3 different databases. Based on the nature and criticaly of the database I have different size requirement of flashback recovery area for these databases. So I use varrying db_file_recovery dest_size (30GB, 50GB,70GB) respectively for meeting my retention target or the kind of files and backup I want to store them in FRA for these databases.
Oracle Internal Space management mehcanism for Falshback recovery area itself is designed in such way that if you define your db_recovery_file_dest_size and DB_FLASHBACK_RETENTION_TARGET at a optimal value, you wont need any further administration or management. If a Flash Recovery Area is configured, then the database uses an internal algorithm to delete files from the Flash Recovery Area that are no longer needed because they are redundant, orphaned, and so forth. The backups with status OBSOLETE form a subset of the files deemed eligible for deletion by the disk quota rules. When space is required in the Flash Recovery Area, then the following files are deleted:
a) Any backups which have become obsolete as per the retention policy.
b) Any files in the Flash Recovery Area which has been already backed up
to a tertiary device such as tape.
c) Flashback logs may be deleted from the Flash Recovery Area to make space available for other required files.
NOTE: If your FRA is 100GB and 3 databases have thier DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST set FRA then logically the total of db_recovery_file_dest_size for these 3 databases should not exceed 100GB. Even though practically it allows you to cross this limit.
Hope this helps.

Best practice for multiple instances of the same BEX query

Hi there,
I'm wondering what's the best way to use multiple instances of the same BEX query. Let me explain what I mean:
I have a dashboard with different queries feeding different period of time such as: week to date, month to date and so on. One query for each since it is based on a user exit.
For each query I want to show different data in different sections of my dashboard. Per example: sales per directors or sales per customer group, sales per day, sales per week and the like.I tried to connect a simple bar chart via a direct connection but with no success due to the multiple lines generated by the addition of the sales director, customer group, week number and so on.
My question is about the way to connect the different queries efficiently in order to show the different data while avoiding multiple useless lines.
The image above shows the query browser where, per example, for a Month to date query there will be mutiple line for each week as well as one line for each director. If, for two different components, I want to show data per week and data per director or other representation what is the best practice:
Add another instance of the same query and only put the week information and another one will only the director info?
Should I bind those to the excel file and use formulas to make final calculations?
Will there be a performance issues for adding different instances of the same query
I have 6 different queries (read 6 user exit that filters time via user exit).
Depending on the best practices there might be 4 instances for each for a total of 24 instances in the query browser.
I hope my question is clear enough, if not please do not hesitate I'll clarify as much as possible.
Regards,
Steve

Hi Steve,
Might be trying for solution for a long time, If i understood your question clear let me clarify you few points.
You are trying to access the bex query which is designed with the exit's in the background based on the logic and trying to call the entire dimensions and key-figures in a single connection. Then you are trying to map those data in the charts.
Steve, try to make more connections based upon the logic and split them. use the same query but split them by sales per customer group, sales per day, sales per week by making three different connections and try. You can merge the prompts from all connections.
Hope this Helps!!!
Sorry if i misunderstood your question.
--SumanT

Best Practices for multiple authors using single project?

We are having many issues, particularly with moving, renaming, and multiple check out warnings. We have a single project with many authors and it seems like RH is not designed to work that way. There is an article in the RH devnet-archive in an article entitled "Sharing RoboHelp Project Among Multiple Authors" that says"
"At first there may be the temptation to let every author work on every file in a project. This is certainly not a best practice. Regardless of source contraol, it is always best to designate certain authors as owning certain content-related sections, folders, or topics within a project -particulary at the folder level."
This statement, and our experience seems to indicate that RH is not a true CMS as we had envisioned. What are the best practices for this scenario to avoid stepping on each others toes and having problems with source control.

I have moved this to the source control forum for the gurus there to answer.
Meantime I must admit I read that statement the same way as you first time. However, on rereading I think what the author is saying is not that what you want cannot be done, rather it is best practice to guide authors to work in discrete areas.
I will leave it to the author or another guru to give you a more complete answer.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Best Practice, Going from iPhoto to Aperture 3

I'm looking for advice on a best practice of moving from an iPhoto Library to Aperture 3. That is, if I even should do so.
I know that I can keep the photos in place (in iPhoto) and still access them from Aperture. (Or import just selected photos as needed.) Assuming disk space isn't an issue, would it not be better to import all of the iPhoto library into Aperture and only use Aperture going forward?
Is there a reason I might want to consider another path?
Any other setup advice for about to be first time users would be appreciated. Anything from your experiences you'd wish you had done differently etc.
Thanks

Welcome to Aperture. The question of whether to use just one photo app be it iPhoto or Aperture or to try and use both has been covered here extensively.
The short answer is to pick one of the applications and commit to it. Trying to use both in some combination is at best going to make your life miserable and at worst, well whats worst than a miserable life?
I know that I can keep the photos in place (in iPhoto) and still access them from Aperture. (Or import just selected photos as needed.) Assuming disk space isn't an issue, would it not be better to import all of the iPhoto library into Aperture and only use Aperture going forward?
Yes you can keep the photos in iPhotos library, you can move them into Aperture library or you could move them to some other place on your disk and have Aperture access them from there. Again if your going to use Aperture then the best advice is to only use it.
Any other setup advice for about to be first time users would be appreciated. Anything from your experiences you'd wish you had done differently etc.
Take the time to become familiar with the different possible configurations of the Aperture library. The User manual is a good place to start, they did a good job explaining it all. And of course use this list, there are may good posts if you search for them, and many good people willing to offer advice.

Configuring AD Sites and Services best practice for multiple office site ?

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Can anyone here please suggest me or share the link of what is the best practice in configuring the AD Sites and Service for single AD domain with multiple office sites ?
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Best practice for multiple email accounts

Hello
I have set up a Mac mini server with virtual hosts. So, how is the best practice to set up email accounts for each host? I want to have emails like
[email protected]
[email protected]
and
[email protected]
[email protected]
and so on.
Should I create groups for each domain, and then user "info" and "contact" in each group. Or just add a user something like "infomysite1" and have a second short name "[email protected]"
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Best regards, Magnus

If user1@domain1 and user1@domain2 are the same person then you just add the other domain to Hosting-> Local Host Aliases. Same user will get all mail for both domains.
However, I'm presuming that the user1@domain1 and user1@domain2 are two separate people (i.e., same name but different mail account). If so...
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Best practices for sharing iPhoto libraries across multiple Macs

I have a pair of iMacs running 10.6.x. and iPhoto 11 connected via Ethernet to an Airport Extreme. I am looking for a way to share my iPhoto library between the two Macs.
I found an Apple Support note on the topic (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198) which states that a disk image is a supported location for a shared iPhoto library (with limitations acceptable to me) and it strikes me that this would be a way of hosting a shared iPhoto library onto a NAS device.
Am I missing a simpler solution or, more importantly, am I missing any blindingly obvious caveats? I'd love to hear from anybody who has tried this (successfully or otherwise) or anybody who has a better idea. I haven't bought a NAS device yet, so I'm open to alternative suggestions.
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Members of my family use either one of a pair of iMacs.
The only user who edits the iPhoto library is me and I only need read/write access from one machine.
iPhoto library access limited to one user at a time is acceptable and practical in my case.

Easiest:
If the other users only get to see the Library then just use iPhoto Sharing.
Enable sharing in the iPhoto Preferences on the Host machine, then go to the other macgine and in the same location enable 'Look for Shared Libraries'
Other forms of sharing will give the users read/write access to the Library.
A strong warning: If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.
Regards
TD

MVC �Best Practice� (handling multiple views per action/event)

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Best practice for multiple VIs talking to same PXI

I am looking for a reccomended practice for my use case, which I feel has to be what a lot of people do/need.
I have a NI-SCOPE PXI device, but this applies to most instruments on some level. I have multiple VIs that do simple things, such as one VI that changes the horizontal settings, one VI that changes trigger settings, one VI that reads the current trace from the scope. How can I have multiple VIs talk to the same instrument, some of them might even be called at the same time.
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Gate Keepers and Key Masters,
What is the best way to manage users who run background jobs?
For example currently we have a special system user with SAP_ALL that is only used to schedule jobs with. and we manage who has authorization to schedule jobs.
We are told that this is not the best way to go about it and that we have to remove SAP_ALL from that user. I don't see a very good way to eliminate SAP_ALL profile, short of analyzing every single batch job that is already scheduled, and creating or assigning existing roles for each job or step. Even that doesn't guarantee that authorizations given to my batch user would be enough to run any jobs that may be scheduled in the future.
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as a matter of fact the cleanest way is giving to the backgroud job's user only the authorizations to perform programs and steps he have to.
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Hope to be useful.
Best regards,
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