Bootcamp installation deleted files

During Bootcamp installation of Windows 7, I selected the wrong flash drive to create an install disc and thus lost many important files. Is it possible to recover those files (from an external hard drive)? Please help me, they are the results of over hundreds of hours of work.

There are commercial software file recovery programs available for purchase,
not certain how well they work or the steps they require one to go through to
attain results. Such as:
Date Rescue 3 - prosoft:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
And there is this free-running software utility that can be used
for different kinds of file and image recoveries... it may work.
•PhotoRec - Digital Picture and File Recovery:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Hopefully you can recover most files safely.
The overwritten status is problematic.
Good luck & happy computing!

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Windows 8.1 installation Keep personal files option - does it delete files in drives other than c

i am installing windows 8.1 . I am not getting an option to select custom installation. Does this delete files in my drives other than C?
I want to install windows in c drive and want to keep the files in my D and E drives. What to do?

Hi,
No matter which method do you use, it would not affect your D and E drive if you don't format them during your installation.
Which version of Windows was running on your computer now? "Upgrade" option is only available when a supported version of Windows is already running on the computer.
Please refer to the following table to check if you could keep some file:
Update to Windows 8.1: FAQ ("Will i be able to keep my files, settings, and apps?" section)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Aperture installation deleted all image files from MacBook Pro.

After installing Aperture 3, I noticed that all the image files I had on my MacBook Pro immediately disappeared. These were stored in various locations throughout my computer depending on subject (e.g. "Emergency Response Training", "Summer 2009", "Car Restoration" and so on). A small number were in the "Pictures" folder but most were kept in other locations. All the folders and subfolders where these images were stored are intact but the images are gone. There is simply a "thumbs.db" file inside and the folder size is about 6 kb on average.
I did nothing other than install Aperture (no importing or library creation) and none of these images or folders are in the Aperture library. A similar thing happened with iPhoto where all my iphoto thumbnails show up but there appears to be no actual photo. No images prior to Aperture installation appear anywhere on the Macbook using tailored queries with "Find".
Apple support indicated that Aperture would not search out these photos unless prompted and would never delete them but It's hard to imagine how else this could have happened, as it happened only during installation (subsequent photos are fine) and targeted all image files in every location. Hard drive is new and indicates no problems.
Any ideas what might have happened - and, more importantly, how I might be able to recover the missing images? Unfortunately, my upgrade to Lion obliterated my DNS 321 back up disk, as well, and I don't yet know if I can recover those files.
Thanks for any help you can offer.

Apple support claimed it was impossible for Aperture to delete files, as well, Allen. All I can tell you is I installed Aperture and the files immediately disappeared. I installed Aperture with the intention of learning its capabilities over the ensuing months, as I had never used it before, and so made sure to do nothing but install and launch so I could have a look at it and see how it was set up.
The network hard drive obliteration occured when I was trying to transfer novie files from my Macbook to my DNS 321 network drive, which I use to store all my backups and most of my media files. I've done this countless times with Snow Leopard without a hitch. However, when I tried it with Lion the system locked up during the transfer and I lost my connection to the drive. Once I managed to reconnect, I found that I couldn't get into the folders on the network drive anymore. All that would come up was a "My Documents" folder, which had no content. After doing a websearch I discovered that Lion no longer supports DNS 321 and that others with similar style drives had been having similar problems. What might be unique to my situation was that when I hooked up an old PC to the DNS 321 I was able to get back into my original folder set up but I found that the folders labelled from (A to J) were missing entirely and that the remaining folders had no content.
So, as I mentioned in my first post, the only input from me was installation and launch of Aperture and the only thing I was doing with my network drive was transferring movie files from the Macbook to the DNS 321 drive. If neither of those actions could possibly have caused the problems I described, I'd be very eager to learn what did.

Cannot delete file SAP0000.TSK.bck

hi
   I am installing ECC5.0 ides on windows 2000.
    I have finished intalling central instance but when doing database instance i am getting following error
This is a trace of SAP0000.log file
DbSl Trace: ORA-1403 when accessing table SAPUSER
(DB) INFO: connected to DB
(DB) INFO: DbSlControl(DBSL_CMD_NLS_CHARACTERSET_GET): WE8DEC
(TSK) ERROR: file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ECC_50_ABAP_NUC\DB/SAP0000.TSK.bck already seems to exist
             a previous run may not have been finished cleanly
             file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ECC_50_ABAP_NUC\DB/SAP0000.TSK possibly corrupted
D:\usr\sap\IDS\SYS\exe\run/R3load.exe: job finished with 1 error(s)
D:\usr\sap\IDS\SYS\exe\run/R3load.exe: END OF LOG: 20071112112456
Now as you can see here it is saying about SAP0000.TSK possibly corrupted .Considering this line i have one more trace in SAP0000.log file just before this which says that
DbSl Trace: ORA-1403 when accessing table SAPUSER
(DB) INFO: connected to DB
(DB) INFO: DbSlControl(DBSL_CMD_NLS_CHARACTERSET_GET): WE8DEC
(TSK) ERROR: couldn't delete file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ECC_50_ABAP_NUC\DB/SAP0000.TSK.bck
(TSK) ERROR: OS error message: Permission denied
(DB) INFO: disconnected from DB
D:\usr\sap\IDS\SYS\exe\run/R3load.exe: job finished with 1 error(s)
D:\usr\sap\IDS\SYS\exe\run/R3load.exe: END OF LOG: 20071112044011
Can nebody guide me on this ....
regards
Siddharth

Hi sunil
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error message returned by DbSl:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
(IMP) INFO: a failed DROP attempt is not necessarily a problem
(DB) ERROR: DDL statement failed
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DbSlExecute: rc = 103
(SQL error 942)
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siddharth

Cannot delete file on win7 after upgrading to Lion

After upgrading Lion OS X, I can not delete file on Lion partition from win 7. It always says "This file is too large...".
Also, My 2 HFS partition will not show on win 7. How to solve it?
I did upgrade BootCamp to 3.3

What your going to need to do is c boot and install OS X (10.6) from the disk, onto a blank external drive (format the drive first in Disk Utility: GUID OS X Extended (J))
Once 10.6 is installed, hold the option key and boot from the 10.6 external drive, go through setup with your same user name, and Software Update to 10.6.8
Then download and install DataRescue ($99) onto the external 10.6 drive and attach another blank external GUID OS X extended formatted drive and run DataRescue to recover your files to that drive. There will be a lot.
Data Rescue will read the 1's and 0's of the files themselves regardless of what your partition map says, before they are overwritten.
After that's done, access the second external drive and pick though the files to recover.
Once you have gotten all your data, you need to install all your third party programs on the external drive from original sources and update. Then move your files you've recovered to it.
Once that' is all done, erase one drive and download Winclone, and clone the Bootcamp Windows to the empty drive.
Then use Disk Utility to Erase with Zero the entire internal drive of all partitions and everything. (select the drive makers name and size on the far left) Format GUID OS x Extended Journaled like always.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the 10.6.8 external drive to the internal drive, disconnect the external drive and boot from the internal drive and then install Lion on the internal drive. You can hold option key, click on Purchases to download Lion again.
Use Bootcamp to set up Windows partition, then follow Winclones directions to clone Windows back into the Bootcamp partition.

Convert flash drive for Windows 8.1 bootcamp installation from mbr to gpt

Trying to run Windows 8.1 pro x64 on my mid 2010 15" macbook pro. Get stuck during bootcamp installation in Windows because my partition table isn't compatible (MBR but needs to be GPT). My hard drive seems to be Logical partitions/volume etc, while my flash drive was formatted into MBR seemingly by bootcamp, or otherwise not altered into the GPT like it maybe should have.
Generally followed this guide http://www.howtogeek.com/186907/how-to-install-windows-on-a-mac-with-boot-camp/
Steps I took:
Had to use terminal/Xcode to edit info.plist from bootcamp to allow flash drive installation through bootcamp on my mac (removed the "pre" method).
With all three bootcamp options selected, managed to partition the drive
When restarted, my computer had black screen with "no bootable device found".
Restarted again, holding alt/option
Flash drive was now available as one of two options (the other being my standard mac drive)
Windows Setup loaded. Selected language/imputed key/select version etc.
Here is the strange part, the division of the disk does not include "bootcamp" anywhere in the title (like it should according to the guide), and is about 10gb smaller than my partition (assume this is a normal result of windows installation/os files etc). When I try to format the partition, it says I can't, and explains that I can't use MBR, need to use GPT.
Attempted to rewrite disk with Shift F10 Diskpart, list disk, etc, but here it shows drive 0, 1, and 2, (rather than drive 0 partition 1,2,3,4, with 4 being my bootcamp I think). This seems to be a method for installing windows on a windows pc, and I didn't go through with it because I didn't want to loose my mac os yet.
I am not proficient with coding/terminal use, and don't know if there is an option to list partitions etc, so I'm stuck. I can backup my mac and potentially change my partition table etc, but I feel like restoring with time machine would then wipe my existing partition. Is there a workaround I could use? Is there a specific sequence of backups/restores that would work? I'm also okay with manually drag and dropping the files I want back onto a clean slate computer if necessary. Or would simply buying and burning a disc with windows save myself the hassle? Please advise.
Sorry for long question, wanted to get info out right away. Can include more if necessary. Thank you all for your time.

TheMonark wrote:
I input that into mac terminal while running os? And then you'd like me to post the results on this discussion board?
Yes. It also helps if there are any calculations to be done with disk sectors.
My optical drive works fine, but I moved to France and didn't bring any disks. Would it be easier and safer to just burn my windows iso onto a disc and run it through bootcamp that way? I'm thinking the answer is yes at this point.
Yes, if you have a built-in Optical drive, Bootcamp expects to boot from the Optical drive, because it sets the CSM-BIOS layer for Windows to boot from the Optical drive settings in the NVRAM.
I'm about to head out to celebrate a birthday, but I will post back here in about 14 hours.
Enjoy the party!
Do you recommend just buying a DVD and doing it that way? I could easily return my info.plist to normal, and as far as I know, my optical drive works fine. Seems simpler if it would work with my copies of osx and windows. What do you recommend?
The changes in info.plist enable creation of the USB, but do not influence the boot device pointer that BCA will set when switching to the Windows Installer. My recommendation is to get DVD writable media (DVD+R or equivalent) and burn the ISO to a physical DVD and use BCA to install windows using the BCA USB and DVD media.

Windows 7 on bootcamp installation problem

hi all,
i just had a new imac and was trying to install a windows home premium OEM 64 bit on bootcamp. installation is going fine until the completion stage where your suppose to set up winodws for first use, all it did is become a blank/ black screen and nothing happens. i waited for a long time until i decided to install it one more try. no luck. i tried to remove the partition and partitioned it again on bootcamp and had another go at installation, still no joy. have anyone had similar problems? i just prefered to install a windows natively instead of using parallels. can someone help me please? i would really appreciate it.

I made the mistake when setting up bootcamp by not formatting the partition during the windows setup.
So you could make sure you have partition on the mac side, and then when setting up i the windows side formattig the partition space before files are copied.

OSX Lion won't boot after Bootcamp installation interrupted

Hello, I started a Bootcamp installation on my OSX Lion Mac Pro. Once I realized that I could only use Windows 7, I had to hold off on the installation until I located my Windows 7 disk. I had set the Bootcamp partition size to 100 GB on a 500 GB Drive. Due to threatning weather, I shutdown the computer.
Now the OSX Lion does not boot! I have been reading much information on this topic to see about fixing the problem. I talked to Apple Support and so far it is still not working. I was able to boot using the recovery partition "Disk Utility -> First Aid -> Repair Disk". When I ran Repair Disk there were some errors reported and repaired, then OSX still not booting. I installed Lion on another drive using recovery and that works OK. I was hoping to install Lion on the original drive and still not disturb my data files like music, photos, etc. That volume with OSX is greyed out and does not mount. I am thinking that the GPT had been modified and since Windows was not installed on Bootcamp, there is no way to boot on the original drive /dev/disk2. I read about a backup GPT, so I am wondering if I can use the backup GPT to fix the boot problem.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
David

Thanks for the fast reply. Ill try this again. Did this the first time, but wouldn't boot again. I've since done a,fresh install of Lion, and it created the proper recovery partition. I didn't have this before, because I cloned my old drive, when I upgraded to an SSD drive. Didn't know about the recover partition. Ill try again, and see if I can get it to work.
Just need to figure out the driver situation, with my Nvidia Quadro Mac video. Not worth trying again, if I have to use default generic video drivers.

Macbook pro mid 2009, yosemite 10.10.2 bootcamp installation windows 7 problem

i have a macbook pro mid 2009 and yosemite 10.10.2 installed. my bootcamp is 5.1.3 and i cant install windows 7. every time i create the usb installer and restart the mac to install windows the usb installer dont appear. what i do?
I try to make a uefi usb installer but The screen frozen when i click on efi boot

Your Mac has (or used to have) a built-in Optical drive. You need a physical DVD for Windows and a USB2 flash drive for BC drivers. Bootcamp Info.plist modifications cause more problems than they resolve.
Your Mac is also not UEFI compliant, late 2013+ Macs are the first ones to be, so EFI boot will not work.
From the un-modified Bootcamp Info.plist file...
        <array>
                <string>MacBook7</string>
                <string>MacBookAir5</string>
                <string>MacBookPro10</string>
                <string>MacPro5</string>
                <string>Macmini6</string>
                <string>iMac13</string>
        </array>
        <key>PreUSBBootSupportedModels</key>
        <array>
                <string>MacBook7,1</string>
                <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
                <string>MacBookPro8,3</string>
                <string>MacPro5,1</string>
                <string>Macmini4,1</string>
                <string>iMac12,2</string>
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Installed OS X Snow Leopard on external HDD, now won't allow me to delete files from Mac internal drive

Hi,
I am stuck! My 1 TB iMac 27" decided to stop booting up and would only stay at the grey screen with the apple, gear turning and progress bar. When it got to a certain point on the progress bar it would shut down. Thanks to so many helpful people and their experiences I was able to try many different things including (Command + S, typing /sbin/mount -uw / enter , chmod 775 / enter, logout enter, then rebooting holding down Command + V) and (Reinstalling OS X and using Disk Utility to repair - came up with Disk can't be fixed).
Nothing worked until I read a couple of very wise answers who said "Your hard drive is not dead, but too full...keep at least 10% free at all times". I was down to about 1% (ooops!) Thankfully hubby had bought me an external HDD for Christmas, onto which I installed OS X and being connected to my iMac, it recognized my internal Macintosh HD and all my files are there. Phewww! But I don't want to use my external HDD as my startup disk, I wan't to keep my Macintosh HD for startup but it is too full to repair and select as startup.
My problem is that I cannot delete files from Macintosh HD, and I've tried to unlock files/folders but they don't seem to be locked. But when I drag them to the trash can it says "The item ... can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted." Again, many helpful answers online, but nothing is working. I have 2 Finder windows open, one with external HDD (new startup disk), and old HDD (Macintosh HD) but all items in Macintosh HD can't be altered or deleted (right click doesn't highlight to change the name). So if I can't delete my files, I can't reinstall OS X and repair disk and select it as my startup disk. I'd be so thrilled if someone can help me. I have tried unlocking folders, and I downloaded 'Trashit'. Neither worked, so I figure because it has the little pencil crossed out on the menu bar that it is protected somehow...I just don't know how/what to do. Thanks

Ok, so I'll try set it out a bit clearer than my first post,
This is what I've done, and the results:
1. My son unplugged working iMac Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2, 1TB with only 11GB available space
2. Turned it on and got the white screen, apple, turning gear and load-up bar
3. Turned Mac off and waited 1/2 a minute.
4. Turned Mac back on...(same as 3.), tried again many times
5. Began searching internet for answers (see original post)
6. Found answers and did the following:
               1.     Put OS X installation disk into drive
               2.     Attached External Hard Drive
               3.     Installed OS X onto External Hard Drive (With a different name & password to original HDD)
               4.     Found Macintosh HD still worked so tried to delete files only to get message saying                                           files couldn't be deleted (see original post)
I've tried changing the permissions in 'Get Info' and this is what happens:
1.Right click Macintosh HD - says "You can only read"
                                                  Name: System - Read & Write
                                                             Admin -   Read & Write
                                                             Everyone - Read only
2.Click on padlock to unlock - doesn't turn black to be able to change anything
3.Check the box "Ignore ownership on this volume" (someone else advised to do this)
4.Name changes to 'mydrive (Me)'
5.Lock padlock and Name still says mydrive (Me) but still 'You can only read'
I don't know what is wrong or what to do, but perhaps you are right LowLuster, that because I named them different names it is protected in some way.
My thought now is to copy all my files to the external HDD and then erase and install again on my internal HD, but I really need my calendar, emails etc from my old HD and not sure they can be found on the old HD to copy over.
Still stuck!

WARNING: DATA LOSS - EMET 4 reporter deletes files

NOTE: This EMET issue was moved here from this original post: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/gallery-wlsettings/photo-gallery-crash-emet-reporter-deletes-file/e5a510c8-e0fb-4d33-8179-8ee7a18d11e5?rtAction=1377879230389
Discovered a bug in EMET 4.0 running on Windows 8 (desktop).
Steps to reproduce:
open a .jpg graphic... opens in Photo Gallery.
hit the "Edit, Organize, or Share" button, top left menu bar.
Program crashes and opens a "Photo Gallery has stopped working"/Close program prompt.
EMET opens up a "Do you want to send more information about this issue?" prompt.
When you click Yes/Send with the EMET prompt it DELETES YOUR FILE - no recycle bin, no warning.
It appears to be a problem with EMET. I closed the Photo Gallery prompt and the program closed, file deletion did not occur until the EMET prompt was sent/closed.
UPDATE: Discovered a new unwanted behavior... it will delete the file when you hit the DONT report button as well. I guess the only way is to close the prompt window and not to choose the REPORT or DON'T REPORT buttons.

NOTE: The below entry describes a problem with the default EMET 4 configuration for Windows Photo Gallery which led to the discovery of this bug. It is taken from (duplicated from) this post... http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/gallery-wlsettings/photo-gallery-crash-emet-reporter-deletes-file/e5a510c8-e0fb-4d33-8179-8ee7a18d11e5
---------------------------->>
I did not reinstall Photo Gallery here (not needed)... I think the problem is with EMET.
With the previous entry, where I was asked to disable EMET and test Photo Gallery, I may not have disabled it fully via the task manager... so I got the expected crash. I just tested with EMET running but with all the mitigation checkboxes unchecked for
WLXPhotoGallery.exe, and I was able to use the "Edit, Organize, or Share" button in Photo Gallery properly with no crash.
I will have to experiment with which EMET mitigation check is causing the crash when using the "Edit, Organize, or Share" button. The default EMET installation list had all mitigation checkboxes checked for this program. If someone happens
to know the proper checkbox configuration for WLXPhotoGallery.exe please post.

!!! Statements of Logic Deleting Files and messing with System are True !!!

This morning I answered some guys post about Logic deleting everything in the same level as the project folder under certain circumstances. I Tried trouble shooting for him but could not recreate it.
Then this happened to me today:
When working in Logic 8 in Leopard all of a sudden it stopped communicating with my Unitor8 via USB. I restarted but the Unitor 8 Which I reset twice would NOT communicate with L8 anymore. It would remain in patch mode (red light lit though CPU is running)
I've had this erratic behavior many times since the past years on many computers so it wasn't really new. All one needs to do is reinstall the Unitor Family driver.
So I decided to do so:
I inserted my Logic Studio DVD and opened the installer and checked ONLY the Unitor family Drivers. After completed install I restarted the Mac. Everything went fine. So I booted L8. While booting I saw my hardrives on the right side of the desktop flash once. I thought that to be strange and took closer look.
Now my boot drive was missing from all the drives on the desktop and in the sidebar window...
I tried to Apple+Click on a Application in the dock. The finder opened the applications folder and showed me the app I had clicked on. But I could not navigate to the root of my System Drive even via the "path" sysmbol in the toolbar. So I hit shiftappleg and entered /Volumes/MySystemVolume - it showed my volume "Grayed Out" in the finder window...
I tried repairing the disk and permissions but nothing was wrong with my boot drive apparently besides the fact that the finder (and all other applications when wanting to open or save) could not "see" my system drive... I could launch all the apps normally that were residing on the SystemDrive in the AppFolder... So this kept getting weirder...
So I opened my favorite application Tinkertool System and went to the Tab Files and chose the underlying tab "Attributes" which shows me Macintosh HFS and Finder Attributes... I pulled my SystemDrive onto the Drop Area and discovered something VERY amazing: The Display in Finder option had mysteriously been altered to "INVISIBLE"
I changed it to Visible and there it was - My System Drive... Showing up in the finder...
I made a restart to make sure everything was OK....
After the restart the following settings had VANISHED:
1) Pixadex = ALL ICONS (I had 230 MB) of sorted icons stored in my Application Support Folder
2) All my Safari Book marks were gone - They were still in ~/Library/Safari - but the Bookmarks.plist was UNREADABLE even with a text editor and XML editor
3) Numerous other applications had LOST their authorization preferences so I had to re-authorize many of my Audio Unit plug-ins...
4) My Dock had been reset
5) My Monitor arrangement had been reset...
6) My date and time had been reset
7) My energy settings had been reset.... (I had NOT zapped the P-RAM)
Since installing Leopard 2 weeks ago - I have CAREFULLY monitored ANY activity after INSTALLING anything in order to be able to troubleshoot - and this problem definitely occurred right after installing the USB Family Drivers and launching L8....
There was really NO HARM done other than the sweating that I did troubleshooting but if L8 is capable of doing what happened to this other guy loosing his whole folder and now doing this to me - where are the limits? When is someone going to get REAL hurt.
Please Apple - I am sending you this post as a BUG report as well - could you PLEASE look into this as there has to be some kind of VERY dangerous MALFUNCTION within Logic or its Installers.

Wow, I was just joking with the medication thing. I didn't actually think it was seriously a mental health issue. Sorry.
In any case, though, if he has full access to the Mac, mental health issues or no, there's not a whole lot to do about it. If it is possible to take away administrative privileges without causing a huge fuss, then you can limit his access to certain things. However, you can't mess with privileges on a Time Machine backup (doing so breaks it), and that means he's going to have access to at least parts of the backup. Which means he can trash at least some of the backup data, and if he deletes files from the TM backup using the Finder, he'll have essentially trashed the whole backup. He might as well have the ability to delete all the files on the machine if he has the power to delete backups.
Honestly, in this situation, he should either only be allowed to use an account with Parental Controls on, which may not be an option (I don't know how offended he would be at such a suggestion), or he should be using a different computer entirely and have no access at all to his wife's computer. Alternately, have his wife keep a backup that is hidden - ie, connect the backup drive periodically and then remove it and hide it so he can't mess with it. That will at least secure the backup.

Windows installer deletes user favorites on Drive D

Much of Windows 8.1 reinstalling Windows in a User-preferred way is great, but it can backfire, badly. Windows 8.1 Full Version (Pro) cleaned Drive C using DiskPart.exe as per usual and installed Windows 8.1 to Drive C. During installation Windows installer
specifically targeted and deleted all Favorites from Drive D where all user file copies are stored between installations. No other user files were deleted.
Related? Favorites was included in Windows 8.0/early 8.1 personal folders, and is no longer located there: all personal folders including Favorites were typically moved to Drive D disk, including Favorites from C:\Users\Favorites, when it was removed from
Personal Folders (Regedit, namespace keys). On the one occasion where Windows installer mistakenly deleted Drive D favorites, Windows installer was replacing a Windows installation where favorites were uniquely copied to Drive C default location, rather
than being moved to Drive D. This was the only occasion when Windows installer 'attacked' user files, and this was the only occasion where my Microsoft Windows 8.1 Account 'experienced' favorites being copied from another drive to the C drive (rather than
the usual folder properties Location change).
First, has anyone else been effected by this bug (irregularity)? Second, since Windows reinstallation is 'pre-empting' and making decisions concerning user data, Should not the Account interface provide a way for the User to manage what is otherwise
reckless installer behavior (other than the end-game Start screen Account layout Synch, obviously)? Minor Registry bug, or new installer functionality surfacing?
2014... 30 years an artist (web design, not development)

Kate Li,
Thank you for your interest. Did I note that R & D engineers from three Teams (setup, activation, security) have been looking at my machine?
Microsoft account server restores favorites after 3 days
PROBLEM... Three days after Windows 8.1 OS installation deleted my Favortites (see above), Microsoft Account server restored the files that Windows Setup mistakenly deleted. Set aside 5 hours + to integrate finally restored favorites. Thanks people,
kindly continue reading.
Open Internet Explorer.
Right click top bar to show Favorites. Click top right corner favorites star.
Drag and drop new address bar links onto star to place in root "Favorites" folder. Favorites folder links must be manually removed one-by-one using right click. Links can also be dragged between folders.
(note that contents of "Favorites bar" folder are displayed across top of browser window when Favorites bar is showing. "Favorites bar" is shown in the Favorites Star dropdown. When "Favorites" toolbar is selected, "Favortites
bar" toolbar should be a Favorites toolbar dropdown menu-tree explored and well-adapted in Vista+ versions, but hidden in Windows 8.1 since Favorites is removed and replaced by just "Favorites bar". When "Favorites bar" toolbar
is selected, existing 2013 Windows 8.1 favorites toolbar shows. This unique favorites architecture easily added to existing Windows Internet Explorer will offer huge customer benefits...
(note that each drag-and-drop Favorites Star menu action immediately closes menu as if there was only one action to perform! Internet Explorer Favorites Star drop menu is missing a standard active-x functionality built into Windows, and
very oddly missing from the Star menu. Favorites Star drop menu should lock in place until star is clicked to close, so that users can select and maintain multiple links using copy, move, delete actions without the menu constantly closing after each desktop
(office) action...
So two things for R & D to fix.
1.) Add "Favorites" on top of "Favorites bar" to browser top bar right right-click options, adding options to open in File Explorer or add-remove from toolbar display.
2.) Adapt current Favorites Star drop menu to include missing active-X Click-To-Close action, for easy favorites links and folders management... without (#$$$) slamming after every mouse action, interrupting work-flow!!!
WORKAROUND.
Windows browser Favorites benefit from extensive OS security oversight. One unfortunate result of this oversight is that large favorites collections in fact destabilize the entire Operating System. Oversight also means
that favorites management is exceedingly cumbersome.
We have implemented two advanced but helpful Favorites customizations that allow user to open two or more important link folders in File Explorer, so that links can be reasonably managed: one folder is the default C:\Users\Favorites folder and the other
folder is a large collection of personal links (personal links folder contains an archive of over 2,000 Internet links (a quantity far too large for Windows to store in default oversight Favorites location). Here now are the two folder path links added to
the Favorites Star root folder (using File Explorer to create and add the links manually to the default Favorites folder):
C:\Users\username\Favorites
Drive:\archive folder name
Drive:\another archive folder name
Due to Microsoft's favorites oversight preoccupation, security for archived links in other local locations is simply managed by traditional Windows Defender or third party security.
Outside of the Internet Favorites folder security zone, in regular User folders. The oversight zone is extremely helpful in front-end Internet applications. However, Users require more default flexibility
in management of a system-wide local favorites. The two-plus folder customization described above offers advanced users quick and easy customization,
for the existing Favorites architecture only. Change is coming!
The click-to-close Favorites Star Menu is needed.
"Favorites" and "Favorites bar" right click top bar accessalso further implements existing security, customer easy-of-use, and work-flow.

Labview 8.2 application builder - installer deletes previously installed programs

Problem Description :
I've been developing with LabView for 8+ years and recently had to upgrade from 6.1 to 8.2 because of compatibility issues with LabView, MAX, DAQ and SERIAL. LabView had always been so intuitive and efficient, but that has changed to some degree sometime after 6.1 IMO. I won't get further into that, but I am having several problems with Application Builder and particularly, with creating an Installer and installing test programs. I haven't seen many posts on this subject so I assume I am doing something wrong.
In 6.1, I could build a program and create an installer in minutes, and all in the same step - Click on Build and the installer was created. I could also locate my files anywhere I wanted. Unfortunately the process in 8.2 is no where as simple as one has to create a build and installer separately. So far, I haven't been able to distribute my installer files where I want them according to our internal procedures. The build portion works fine and I can locate my files as needed, but not so for the installer (at least I haven't figured it out yet). The main problem is that I have some common DLLs that I'd like to locate in a common directory for all of my programs, but it seems like I'm stuck putting them in the installation directory of every program that I write. Again, it is fine in build. There doesn't seem to be any flexibility in changing the location of the files in the installer. I did see a post somewhere that mentioned that DLL files must be located in the system directory if you don't want them included in the build or installation. I would just like to install the dlls to a common directory and not include them in every installation directory. Just like I did in LV 6.1!
This is a relatively minor problem compared to what happens when I try to install the programs.
I have five separate programs for which I have recently built and created installers with the limitations that I've described above. I can install one program on my machine and it runs properly. If I try to install any of the
other four, they will delete the previous installation - all the files are deleted (they all have different names). What I think is going on is that the installer thinks that these five programs are the same and simply overwrites the previous installation. One reason I believe this, is because I tried an installation and it failed with the error message that there was already a higher version installed. The higher version it was referring to was almost certainly the one program I could install, but certainly not a higher version of the one I was trying to install (it didn't exist yet). After I uninstalled the one program, I could install any other four. It doesn't matter if I install on the build computer or the target computer (ATE).
What am I doing wrong? Please help me to resolve this problem.
I wan't the build and install files in the same exact location:
Example of my five programs and the locations of build and install:
C:\KIK2-LabView\Customer Name\Base Part Number1\Program1.exe.......
C:\KIK2-LabView\Customer Name\Base Part Number2\Program2.exe.......
C:\KIK2-LabView\Customer Name\Base Part Number3\Program3.exe.......
C:\KIK2-LabView\Customer Name\Base Part Number4\Program4.exe.......
C:\KIK2-LabView\Customer Name\Base Part Number5\Program5.exe.......
The support files will also be put in the corresponding directories. The common files were supposed to go in the KIK2-LabView directory instead of copies in every installation directory.
Is there something I have to do with the registry? In 6.1 it was all automatic.
I hope there are simple answers to my problems, but I have yet to find them out. I have been able to find very little info on Application Builder, and nothing that is comprehensive.
Thanks!

Thank for the reply, Andy
I have scoured the Help files and this forum which helped me to create the build and installer, but they didn't address any of the problems that I described in my post. I tried to make sure that I exhausted numerous resources before posting and requesting help.
I appreciate the response, but you didn't quite get to my most important problem - that when I try to install a program from the created installer, it overwrites my previously installed program. Actually I have found the answer in a different thread. --->  http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=140&message.id=16146. My problem is that I cut and pasted all of my project files and made the appropriate changes specific to each new project. If you don't create brand new builds and installers in these projects, you will create duplicate registry keys, even though all of the names, numbers, files, etc. were changed to be completely unique. I opened the .lvproj file in notepad and found several registry keys to be the same; here is an example:
<Property Name="UpgradeCode" Type="Str">{831013BF-9112-45AA-BF13-A13F08098841}</Property>
All of the projects that I created by cut and paste (and edit) method had this same exact key (as well as other keys) which was causing the previous install to be deleted/overwritten or gave me the message that a higher version already existed.  Again, this happened even though all of the project data was completely unique after it was edited, including the project filename (of course). Finally, I completely rebuilt my projects from scratch starting with "New Project" and voila, they now all install properly. Obviously, none shared any of the same registry keys.
I don't know if this is something that was overlooked, but it is so much easier to cut, paste and edit projects when they are very similar.   Unfortunately I have found out the hard way that new build and install spec's must be created. Is there a change that can be made to the Project File in LabView so that when certain information changes (like the executable file name) that new registry keys will be generated? It is obvious that you don't want someone to accidentally install a lower version of the project over a newer one, but it would have prevented my work time loss (several days) and will prevent time loss for others in the future as well. Could you at least consider allowing the developer to generate new keys like was available in LabView 6.1?
Also concerning the location of files, I previously had done all of what you said and can locate the build files where I want. However, in the Installer (Source Files Tab), when I create the folders in [Windows Volume], all of the files from the build spec are put into the SAME directory, regardless of where they were located in the build spec. If I try to delete one file, all will be removed. I can't place individual files where I want them to go in the installer (if they are a part of the build). Example: In the installer, I created the subfolders KIK2-LabView\Customer\UUT Base Part Number on the [Windows Volume] directory and set the UUT Base Part Number as default. I want most of the files to go into the default directory, but a few of the dependent dll's should go into the KIK2-LabView folder as they are common to many other programs/projects. In short, I don't need or desire 50 copies of these dlls on my ATE. I was able to locate the installer files anywhere in LabView Pro 6.1, but so far I can't figure out if this is possible in 8.2. It would appear that it is not.
Thanks,
John W.

IPhoto 08 and Deleting Files

I recently upgraded from iLife 06 to ILife 08 and having major problems with new version of *IPhoto 08.* First and foremost, messages began showing that my startup disk is almost full and to delete unwanted files. I'm assuming this is happening because of ILife 08 installation including SuperDuper and Lacie external hard drive. No matter, before doing any installations I did massive backups to external hard drive and cds. Once ILife 08 was installed, I began deleting unwanted pictures within *_IPhoto Library via the Finder_* including File browser when I had Photoshop open. Unbeknownst to me, this is not recommended due to possible corruption of IPhoto. OK, apparent this is happening because when I go to IPhoto there are blank photos when I do a full screen.
My question is what is the best way to delete ALL originals and duplicates of older iphoto 06 pictures including other unwanted pictures in current IPhoto 08 Library? Will I have to uninstall IPhoto 08 then go into my finder and start deleting pictures like I used to do whenever I wanted to delete files? Of course, even then I always had blank photos within IPhoto.
BTW, with ILife 08 installed, I have deleted (trashed) all sorts of applications such as iMovie, and iDVD to free up space. This has made barely any difference. My main criteria is to delete HUGE pictures no longer needed in my IPhoto 06 (or rather IPhoto 08 too) Library Folders. Also considering I'm tapped with my current disk space, currently unable to download any programs such as duplicate annihilator, etc.
Hope this isn't to confusing. Any help overwhelmingly appreciated!
Cheers,
June

June
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Let's get this out of the way:
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
The way to delete pics from iPhoto is to do it in the iPhoto Window. Drag the pics from the Library to the iPhoto trash. iPhoto Menu -> Empty the trash.
Deleting a pic here or there is not going to make a difference to your HD space? How big are these pics? 2 - 5 mb if they're from a point and shoot camera, 10 - 15 from a dslr? Why not move your library to the external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
As you've been mucking about in the iPhoto Library Folder then you'll need to start over and create and populate a new library:
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
To use Photoshop with iPhoto:
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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