Calm down
Lots of folks have gotten some serious bunches in their undies here over problems with the Mac App Store, but let's calm down and step back for a minute. Consider...
*The Mac App Store is brand new*
If something doesn't work just yet, back off, give it a few days and wait for the dust to clear. If that something that didn't work cost you money to not work, go contact Apple or the developer of the app in question, whichever is appropriate. Resolution will probably not be found here for such things.
*The Mac App Store does not replace the internet*
You survived just fine on Wednesday without the Mac App Store. Just because the Mac App Store appeared on Thursday does not mean that the same day all developers stopped selling Mac software any other way. If an app isn't listed, or can't be purchased, or whatever, go buy it the way you would have done it on Wednesday.
*The apps are (mostly) not made by Apple*
If an app that you bought or downloaded from the Mac App Store crashes, doesn't work as advertised or has other similar issues, you need to talk to the developer of that application. Complaining about it here won't bring resolution.
*TNSTAAFL (in other words, there's no such thing as a free lunch)*
Don't expect apps to be free just because you bought the same app for your iPad. That's not how the development world works. Some developers may offer such deals, but most probably won't. They had to pay a lot of programmers to port the program to another platform (yes, Macs and iPads are separate platforms), and they have to pay for that somehow.
Similarly, don't expect free major updates to paid software. Just because the Mac App Store offers an update mechanism does not mean that major new releases will be obtained as updates for free through that mechanism. Again, developers have to pay for programmers to create those major updates, and they have no reason to do so if they can't get paid for them.
I'm sure that, over time, more FAQ-type questions will come up, but I think that covers what's come up in the last 24 hours!
I understand what you mean, but you should understand easily that is very annoying to spend money to something NOT working.
This is not the place to address that kind of issue, unless you're having a problem with the App Store application itself. If you are, then I will gladly personally refund you the purchase price of 10.6.5 to 10.6.6.
And since there is no place to contact apple but this forum..
Of course there is:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/
And, BTW, you are not contacting Apple on this forum, you're contacting Apple users.
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Hi, please review this doc for a discussion of IOS Firewall and IPS DoS protection configuration:
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Highlighted firefox.exe in TM and clicked End Process. Both processes disappeared from TM.
Have opened and closed FF a couple of times since with no problem.
However, the OP seems to indicate that this is a problem that re-occurs.
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You are far more likely to get help if you calm down and explain the problem. By that I mean, what did you do? What happened when you did that? What error messages did you receive (be as exact as possible)? What steps did you take to troubleshoot ("everything" is not the correct answer here).
As it stands, all we really know is that you want to sync music and you can't and that you are upset. So, now that you have vented, start a new thread without the hyperbolic references to cancer. I'm sure someone will be able to help you.
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As above, I updated my phone, no jail break no nothing and its stuffed. All the money I have spent on in app purchases all gone?
I am gutted, all because if Apple stuffing up? That is not fair. Has anyone else had a similar experience with the recent update?Thanks Malvin, I have calmed down a bit, it still says 5minutes till back up is complete, I did sync my phone. At this point I will just be relieved to get it to turn on to normal, then I will start worrying about apps.
What on earth is wrong with the updates? I think I am just going to ignore them from now on. The previous update locked my itunes and I couldn't access my apps untill i downloaded another app (thanks to these forums).
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Everybody settle down about Lion!
So far Lion has been out for 4 days, sure there are going to be bugs its the first version of a new operating system!, of course everything isnt going to be perfect. Apple is already seeding (or about to seed) 10.7.2 for developers and this should fix some bugs and problems.
People need to settle down about simple little bugs, i have two macs that i upgraded a couple of days ago and so far havent had any bugs whatsoever, and even if i come across some i certinetly wont retreat back to Snow Leopard.LION OS X 10.7 NOT READY FOR BUSINESS!!!!
So from what I gather, everyone should calm down because a couple of guys claim that the majority of users are having no problem. Those that are having trouble should enjoy the amazing features and perhaps import data back from your time machine backups...
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tried defrag, chkdsk /f and couldn't complete
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so...thought drive was bad...copied what I could from drive and returned for warranty replacement
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??? should I fix ccleaner registry problems?
didn't BSOD during safe mode
went back to normal mode, same spoolsv.exe error
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what would you do?
should I give up and try to upgrade to Vista and hope it fixes everything?Seems like your OS files have gotten corrupted - from Command Prompt try SFC /SCANNOW with the OS CD-ROM in a drive. You also need to calm down and run some basic diagnostics, e.g. memtest86+ like someone else said and then run WDC diags on your remaining drives and a full Windows scan of at least the boot drive with CHKDSK /R or "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" with the Windows scanner.
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OK, now I'm admittedly a relative Apple noob, so bear with me.
According to the Mac OSX Server Getting Started Guide - page 15-17:
"iCal Server makes it easy to share calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate events."
However - as evidenced here - it doesn't appear that iCal Server is intended to share calendars at all, in fact it seems to only allow single users to make their own calendars and whatnot:
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Essentially my requirements (and understanding of how it works) are this:
ipod/iphone users as well as macs, and PC's running Outlook 2007 should be able to connect to a centralized calendar, whereby users can schedule other users for meetings and work items.
Every user should be able to view the calendar and at a glance see what has been scheduled.In general, what you need to do is use the "iCal Server Utility".
You use that application to create a "Resource" or a "Location". These would be what you would consider a "group" calendar (ie, a "room reservation" or "staff vacation" calendar.)
Once you create this "Resource/Location", then you can allow your users to have read/read-only access to that calendar.
The only tricky thing about this is that Apple inexplicably removed the ability to set permissions to these resource/location calendars from a GUI, so you have to do it via command line according to these basic steps:
First determine the locations' record name in OD:
dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 list /Places
Let's say that is 'vacation'. Next determine the record name of the group you want to add as a delegate. Let's say that is 'testers'.
To see who currently has delegate access do:
sudo calendarservermanageprincipals --list-write-proxies locations:vacation
To add the group do:
sudo calendarservermanageprincipals --add-write-proxy=groups:testers locations:vacation
Do the --list command again to verify the change.
Use -read- instead of -write- if you want read-only delegates rather than read-write.
This has worked fine here. I suggest submitting an "Enhancement Request" to http://bugreporter.apple.com and ask them to put a GUI option in the "iCal Server Utility" for this (it used to be in the GUI in 10.5's "Directory.app" program...) -
Time Machine and File Permissions
'Twere I to rate this question's technicality on a scale of 1 through 10, it would rate 8. Just warning you. Unix people will be especially useful for this.
Okay, so, before the problems started, my hard drive had three partitions. One for OS X, one for file storage for Ubuntu Linux, and one called the "Swap" partition, which somehow relates to Ubuntu (the Ubuntu installer put it there, I've no idea what it's for). Here's a makeshift diagram of what my partition map used to be:
I ran out of space in my OS X partition. You see, I've recently had the fortune to obtain some rather fantastic software. The downside is that the software (and it's files) take up roughly 53GB. I won't trouble with you what it actually is (though it should have dawned on some people by now). Between OS X and Ubuntu Linux, OS X prevailed. As far as I'm concerned, Linux will have to wait 'till I have a larger hard drive.
So, I fired up Disk Utility, and tried to remove the two Linux partitions. It told me it was "Preparing to erase [insert Linux partition name]". It told me that for an hour. After one hour, I said screw it, I'll do this the "hard" way.
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So I went straight to my desktop and fired up Migration Assistant, and went through the steps till it asked me to select a Time Machine backup. But there were none to select from. I waited a full minute, my fear growing steadily to terror. Finally, I realized that my data was gone, and flipped out. My inner geek, which was screaming at me to calm down and look inside my external, was shackled and thrown into a tiny corner of my now completely panicked mind. This lasted for roughly two minutes. After regaining myself, and opened my external. It contained one folder named Backups.backupdb. I opened it, and inside I found Neomiranda (Neomiranda is the name I gave my computer). So far so good. Inside the folder of Neomiranda, I found 2008-02-20-060526.inProgress. Another 30 seconds of flipping out over the idea of .inProgress. After awhile, I had the sense to right click on it, and hit the "Show Package Contents" option.
Inside were three folders, with three corresponding log files. I quickly realized that each one was a backup. The first two were empty, which I anticipated. Those were my two attempts while figuring out what to exclude, so I could get a backup to fit on my external. The third contained another Neomiranda folder, which contained all my data. Everything except my Pictures folder was there.
So, I went back and forth, manually restoring my data. When I'd finished, I started up a few apps to check that everything worked. Not everything worked. Mail wouldn't even get a bounce from the dock, Firefox told me there was a copy of itself already running, and iTunes complained that I had either a locked disk or insufficient permissions. Acting on iTunes' advice, I set out comparing the permissions of various folders I'd copied to the permissions of their equivalents on another, fully functional, system. Everything checked out. Nothing was locked, and everything had the correct permissions. I fired up Disk Utility and had it a run a permissions repair. It spat out a great deal of stuff that it apparently found wrong, and apparently fixed, but ultimately, it had no effect.
I cannot find anything wrong with any permissions, but I've got a feeling that's where the problem is. Why? Because any time I want to do anything to a folder I've copied, or anything inside a folder I've copied, it wants my admin password. Despite no apparent differences in permissions between folders I don't need a password for and between folders I do need a password for, I need a password for folders I have copied from my backup.
I've not looked into file ownership, as I couldn't find a way to even find out who a file belongs to, much less actually change ownership to anything. If I end having to use chown at a bash, fine with me, but I'm not a Unix man. I'll still need help with it (though I do know how to use the man command).Same problem and for months now. I haven't been able to find a solution, but I suspect that's because I don't know exactly what's wrong.
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DETAILS? OK OJ, here's the details. Firefox has crashed a b'zillion times (I'm an artist, Jim, not a mathematician!) so when they said download 4.0, I wasn't sure about it. But I did it.
And, when I turned my attention to what it had given me, I found that it had absconded with ALL of my internet passwords that weren't supporting my specific name. Except that confounded BonemanHA which is what Google used to screw up my account at youtube. (thanx, again, googz! I know you're watching all of this) but, that's besides the point.
Then it crashed again.
Froze and crashed.
I'm starting to think the firefox is nuzzling the arctic poles.
I swear on a stack of bibles...and lightning comes down and kicks my ass.
I calm down, the next day I pretend nothing has happened, go about re-establishing my passwords (is this too long? Will someone come out of he electronic closet in my computer to tell me if it is? I HATE writing a bunch of words only to look up and see it stoped at Dear so'n'so,)
Anyway, now it asks me if I want to download 4.0....
I should mention now that I LOVE to bring laughter to folks. Times are too hard on paople as it is, and a small mission of mine is to bring a smile, however small to people that i can. My smiley face is a lil hat guy with a big smile:
d=^))
and if he tells a joke (did you hear about the two guys that walked into a building/ Man...You'de have thought they would use a door or climb in a window or something.)
dX^D
But when it regularly asked if I would download fire 4.0 I was more of
d=^|
so. I downloaded it again, because like everyone else, I get tired of the nagging whiney attitude.
Only, it didn't download the second time, either.
It DID...
but, it didn't.
I know it was a partial because my pretty birds are gone. That was what I chose for the top bar.
And...before you get too much of a laugh going about a guy having the pretty birds up top, consider this...
I'm 6'5", 225 pounds, and although 60, can still cut and chop a cord of wood a day for burning in the Winter.
But, it doesn't matter, does it?
The birds have flown the coop. (maybe they're pigeons?)
I still get asked to download 4.0
some of my passwords are still a mystery to me.
(I use different passwords at different places...just a security dealio, eh?)
So...dunno what else I can say.
It still freezes occasionally (once a day) but that beats crashing two and three times a day.
I get done with shipping out error reports, too, because sometimes it's my fault.
Impatiently banging on the keypad doesn't normally get ANYTHING done, but, it worked once...so I do it again.
Sometimes.
Well, I see there's more questions below, so, I best be moving along.
I'm almost sure that I'm leaving behind a mad techie who's sure I wrote too much
or
someone sitting there getting a good laugh.
Hope for the laugh, but...could you explain this to a tech, please?
I'm not so much a tech.... more of a user.
(ps...mixt reviews on Tron 2 It was good to see a second try but I think it went askew with a mismanaged plot line)
boneman
d=^))Please do the following.
Click '''Help '''| '''Check For Updates'''. The option to update should appear and version 3.6.17 should download and install.
However, sometimes things go pear-shaped and you get version 3.5.19. If that happens, repeat the same steps to update to 3.6.17.
Once you have 3.6.17 installed, you'll get the opportunity to update to the current version which is 4.0.1 ''Please don't do that for the moment because you first of all have to update your plugins''. To do the latter, please do the following.
Go to http://www.java.com/en/ and install the latest version of Java.
Update Adobe Shockwave for Director via http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
Update Adobe Flash via http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Update Adobe Reader via http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO
For security details regarding the Adobe updates, see: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-02.html
Once you've updated all those, go to '''Help '''| '''Check For Updates '''again to update to version 4.0.1 -
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In preparation to rebuild my Windows Search Index, I installed the Adobe PDF iFilter for 64-bit on my system (Vista Business 64). When I finally rebuilt the index, I wasn't too surprised by what I saw happen, namely, the SearchFilter.exe process would kick in whenever I wasn't using the system and just eat RAM. One time I turned it on and it had allocated over 4,000 MB (and my system only has 4,030 MB available) so of course it was forcing all the other processes to hard fault (ie. everything was moving like molasses--for example, it took 20 minutes to put the thing to sleep). But I just let it do it's work, figuring that perhaps this was to be expected relative to the small library of PDF's that I've accumulated on my computer, ranging from LaTeX generated text files, to containers for hi-res scans. So, after a day and a half of basically not using my laptop, everything finally calmed down and I enjoyed the benefits of searching the content of my library from the Windows Start menu--for a short while.
However, to my dismay I've encountered the problem that this freezing of my computer would now occur after everytime I download a new PDF (in this particular case they were Google Books scans) and then left the computer to idle. Again, the SearchFilter.exe would allocate all of my RAM for itself and just push everything else onto the Virtual RAM, which means the SLOWEST possibly fetching you can get. I had to uninstall as this was making my computer unusable for 15-30 minutes after each idle. Everything is back in working order without the iFilter, but I would like to know if anyone has reported such problems on x64 systems. Obviously, I will also report the problem to Microsoft, since the search engine should certainly have the precaution to handle such memory problems. However, it is a problem that is created by the Adobe PDF iFilter interacting with the Windows Search engine.Hello,
We believe we have figured this out. It looks like it has to do with the length of the default folder location for the Adobe iFilter.
I was able to reproduce the issue and the following resolved it for me. See if this resolves it for you all as well.
Here is how to get Adobe Version 11 PDF filter to work.
1 . If you haven’t already, run the following in SQL Server:
Sp_fulltext_service ‘Load_os_resources’, 1
Go
--you might also need to run:
sp_fulltext_service ‘Verify_signature’,0 --This is used to validate trusted iFilters. 0 disables it. So use with caution.
--go
2. Stop SQL Server. (Make sure FDHost.exe stops)
3.
Uninstall the Adobe ifilter (because it defaulted to having spaces or the folder name is too long).
4.
Reinstall the Adobe iFilter and when it prompts for where to install it, change it to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\PDFiFilter
5. Once the installation finishes, go the computer’s Environment variables. Add the following to the PATH.
C:\Program Files\Adobe\PDFiFilter\BIN
NOTE: it must include the BIN folder
NOTE: If you had the OLD location that included spaces, remove it from the path environment variable.
6. Start SQL Server
7. IF you had an existing Full-text index on PDFs, drop the full-text index and recreate it.
8. You should now get results when you run sys.dm_fts_index_keywords('db','tblname') --Note: Change db to be the actual database name and tblname to be the actual table name.
Give this a try and see if this fixes yours.
Sincerely,
Rob Beene, MSFT
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Updating from 3.1.2 to 5.1 on 3rd gen?
Well, the only concern I have is this: I have a 64 gig, so of course, I have many, many apps and music files. I just bought this new laptop, and I can't authorize the iTunes library, so my music and videos aren't really recovered/transfered. Now I al
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Authorization object for table
Hi All, I have created a table in Se11 and not allowing maintance generator. Can any one please suggest if I am not allowing table maintaince then how I can attach authorization object to the tabe. Thanks, Sandeep.
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i don't know what I'm doing wrong I'm pretty frustrated?