Can't Reconnect

I brought a couple thousand pics into the Organizer (Get Photos & Videos / From Files & Folders) and tagged them. Now, when I double-click on a thumb in the Organizer, it says the file is missing and goes looking for it... but never finds it.
If I click on "Browse" and find the photo and click "Reconnect" it says "File already exists in the catalog." I notice that it scans my second hard drive (F:), as well as my C: drive. The full message is "File already exists in the catalog. F:\pictures\DSC-0264.jpg was not connected to C:\pictures\DSC_0264.jpg"
If I use "File" / "Reconnect" it seems to scan my whole system, but again fails to reconnect.

I am new (about 2 months) to PSE 8 and have been having a 'Can't Reconnect' problem and could never reconnect anything even when I browsed. Long story short: Solved the problem early on by deleting the photos causing the problem. Everything was going well when I decided to clear out all photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery. Stupid move, I wasn't thinking. I also know PSE 8 wants all work done in the program. Had all photos backed up before PSE 8 was installed. I am in the process of loading all photos (about 800) to the organizer.
Hope someone can learn from my experience. My question is: I did back up all my folders on cd's the night before the "BIG GOOF" - what will happen if I try to load them onto my husband's computer after installing PSE 7 or PSE 8? Was afraid to try it on my computer. Will there be an "encryption" in the data for each photo because of reconnect, causing the same problem making the cd's useless on either PSE 7 or 8? I guess I could try a hand full of photos to test the waters. Can my daughter use the cd's on her photo program (not Photoshop....), without any problem?
I don't like the Reconnect function and have, I think, disabled it. I am sure there are those who find it helpful. All said, I like the program and feel comfortable with it. But, I am still learning. On the positive side, I can now look at each photo with a fresh perspective for editing purposes. Any help would be appreciated.

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I had my iTunes musical library on an ext. drv. WD 2TB, ‘MY BOOK ESSENTIAL'. Three weeks ago, my computer was infected by a virus that fried it. It did not affect the external drive. I bought a new computer: a laptop, Dell XPS, Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium. I have been able to connect the WD external drive; however, I am not able to see the musical library in my iTunes or Explorer. ‘My Computer’ shows the external drive as ‘G:’ 95% full. It reads, 32.1 GB free of 1.36 TB. When I click on the drive to see its contents, it shows nothing. The library in iTunes also shows nothing. Can anyone help, please? How can I reconnect my old musical library to my new laptop and iTunes? Many thanks.

Hmm, viruses don't generally "fry" drives. They can make bootable operating systems not bootable, hide data, and corrupt executable files. Software can potentially wipe all the data from the drive but it shouldn't be able to physically damage the drive. Bah! What's done is done.
As to unhiding your files assuming they are just hidden....
Hit Start > Run, type in CMD and press enter. Type the following at the prompt and then press enter:
attrib -h -s -r g:\*.* /d /s
This tells windows to clear the hidden, read-only, and system flags from all files on the drive, assuming of course your profile has the power to "see" the files and change them.
If that doesn't work then you may need to take ownership of the drive first. The drive may have security settings that make it "belong" to an account on your old system. Right-click on the drive in Windows Explorer and click Properties. Click the Security tab, the Advanced button, the Owner tab, then the Edit tab. Make yourself the owner, then you can make any other changes to the security settings you want to back on the Permissions tab. (If you can't change the owner log out and log back in as Administrator). For iTunes your account (or everyone) and SYSTEM need full access to all files. Any changes you make should be applied to "This folder, subfolders and files", should be inheritable and you should also replace the permissions on all child objects.
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I have a MacBookPro, an iPad and an iMac using a wifi connection with an airport extreme base station. Lately I am having trouble with connection time outs. Right now the laptop and ipad are connected okay but the iMac has timed out and I can't reconnect

Please help. Just the last week or so (maybe since Apple released a new software update for my Airport, I keep getting kicked off the net and can't reconnect - it doesn't even show my wifi network in the list of available networks. I am considering resetting the airport as detailed in the manual. If I do this will it act as a new one and can I set it up as from the beginning. My Mac is running OSX 10.6.8 and if I try to use the airport setup assistant it tells me i can't use this version of the app with the version of my OS (because I have upgraded my OS ) I assume
I get a message saying my network requires a WPA password and when I put it in it says connection timeout - meanwhile here I am on my laptop and connecting okay to the net that way - so strange.
If I connect directly to the computer I have a good connection so it is not my ISP
I am 64 and a woman and I thought I was reasonably savvy having had Macs since 1992. This has me stumped and I really would like some advice - otherwise I think I'll just go iout andf buy a new airport.
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apikoros wrote:
The Utility transferred all of the AE's settings, so I still have to change the password, which leaves me with only 2 other questions, I think:
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Resetting the password you will need to do for each device... the utility cannot even see those old units.
So you will have to do it for each one.. think it through.. because as you change passwords the others will lose connection.. so start from the express which are wireless extending .. change those first.. and go back up the chain.. as each one changes it will drop off the network.. until you reach extreme and change that. Then you might need to reboot the whole network to get everything talking again. If something goes wrong.. just pluck that one out of the mix and plug in ethernet.. reset and redo the setup. That is my preferred method anyway.. do everything in isolation one by one. By ethernet and then nothing goes wrong.
2) Who's the treasonous SOB who spilled the beans to you about the ICBM in my back yard?!?
N.Korean hackers.
[Edit] Whoops-- one more question: I want to partition the TC's disk, but Disk Utility doesn't see it. What do I need to do?
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Look at Q3 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
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I have an iphone 4. I disconnected it from my iTunes account but I am still using the iphone and the Apple ID. If I make a purchase will it work? Also, how can I reconnect my iphone to my Apple ID?

I have an iphone 4.
I disconnected it from my iTunes account but I am still using the iphone and the Apple ID.
If I make a purchase will it work?
Also, how can I reconnect my iphone to my Apple ID?

Do you mean that you removed the phone from the 'manage devices' section of your iTunes account ? If you do then that won't stop you being able to purchase items on your phone - you only need to be logged into an account to be able to purchase with it.
If you do mean the 'manage devices' section then you can associate, or re-associate, a device (or computer) by using iTunes Match, or automatic downloads, or redownloading past purchases on it : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627

I lost my Iphone 3GS. My brother has given me his Iphone 4 now. We both use the same notebook to update and sync our phones. I would like to know how can i reconnect back to my account using the Iphone which was previous used by my brother.

I lost my Iphone 3GS. My brother has given me his Iphone 4 now. We both use the same notebook to update and sync our phones. I would like to know how can i reconnect back to my account using the Iphone which was previous used by my brother.

If you are saying that you both have iCloud accounts and use the same icloud ID, then yes, the contacts will be deleted. The idea is that all devices using the same icloud ID are kept in sync. You need to use different IDs. You can keep the same iTunes ID so you can share the songs and apps. But use different icloud IDs.

Images Offline, NAS Drive in Finder but can't Reconnect

Aperture 3.0.2, Mac OS 10.6.3
I have all referenced images on network drive. It's all there in the finder but aperture says it's offline. Furthermore, the reconnect button is always greyed out.
Even more odd is sometimes when I relaunch Aperture, it finds the images but they're ephemeral. (I can right-click to Show in Finder successfully once or twice then it's offline again.)
I have tried rebuilding library to no avail. I've tried copying referenced images to local drive and I still can't reconnect (greyed out) - I'm totally stumped.

I found the best articulation of the solution at MacCreate: http://aperture.maccreate.com/2008/03/01/reconnecting-images-in-aperture-2-when- moved-between-drives/
How the "Reconnect ... " dialog works is not at all obvious. In fact, it is somewhat misleading because so many of us were incensed over the apparent claim that our drives were offline.
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It would be clearer if the columns were labeled "Volume", "File Status", "No. of Files", but such labels would increase the column widths.

Images are offline and can't reconnect

Two projects in my Library show the files to be "offline" or "missing." When I select them all and "Manage referenced files" the aperture library doesn't show up in the pictures directory, and I can't reconnect because of this. The Aperture Library can be seen in Finder and all of the other projects seem to be fine. I haven't done anything such as a backup or moving files or etc.

Ok. So in general we have the Aperture Library/"Files for each folder"/"*.approject for each project"/"a folder for each import session"/"a folder for each image"/"Files for each image"
1st I tried to copy the *.approject file to a different location and reconnect from the different location. However the *.approject did would not appear in the Manage reference files dialog.
2nd I moved the *.jpg file from the "a folder for each image"/"Files for each image" to a different location. Went into aperture and deleted all the files from the project. Then re-imported the files from the new location. This worked.
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Can't reconnect Missing Referenced Masters

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Here is an example
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Interesting. The User Manual I was reading is a PDF and it defines the badge as this. Note that the badge is flipped in the two versions and the PDF doesn't mention FaceBook or Flickr.
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I was in the middle of downloading an update and my I4 disconnected. Now I can not reconnect to itunes. My phone wont power down. It just has the apple symbol with a bar underneath. How do I fix this.

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Can't reconnect PSD files.

Hi
My partner (Final cut Studio 2) send me a project file. We're collagorating on this project. I have FCE 4.5.
I was able to reconnect all the media but he also sent me some layered PSD files. I can see them in the finder, but when I try to reconnect them, I get an error msg "The file does not have enough video tracks to reconnect to stripe at time 00:00:00;00 in sequence "xxxx.psd. Click okay to make this item independent and go to the next clip or Cancel to skip all clips from this file"
I'm still learning this FCE. How can I reconnect these files fo my FCE sees them? All the video clips have been reconnected and rendered and play fine on my MBP except for these PSD files.
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Allen

It's in the sequence and on the timeline but showing off line. Anyway Mike said if I re-imported them I'd loose the layers. There's 3 sections, 1st is all the layers, then each of the 2 graphics are seperated one at the begining and one at the end. they're title seq.
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Thanks anyway. I'll let you know what happens.
Allen

Offline media, can't reconnect

I have a MacBook Pro 17", Mac OSX10.4.11, FCE 4.0.1, Lacie hard drive with firewire.
So close to being finished with this project! Hit the Fire Wire connections and it disconnected from the computer. Only a few items in the timeline were offline. Went through reconnect procedure. Automatically found the files. Hit "connect", but nothing happens to the files. Interesting, some (not all) of the offline clips in timeline are not offline when I go to their "bins", so I deleted and replaced these clips. But I can't reconnect the others. I did try rendering "all" but they are still offline (in timeline and in bins). Would forcing a rebuild using this method http://www.fcpbook.com/Video3.html help or not?
Any suggestions?

Thanks for answering! I've read everything and nothing seems to help. I've pretty much given up!
I only changed the name of each subclip, as I made it. When I click on the individual offline clips, in my timeline and click to reconnect, the computer takes me directly to the location of the original stored clip, with it's original name. When I click on "choose", it lists it and I have a the choice to click on "connect", but when I do, nothing happens. Just stays offline.
I've worked on several other FCE projects and never had this problem. Feel like I've finally got the program somewhat understood. I have moved on and re-captured the media that was offline. I have pretty much decided, I'm too frustrated to continue using FCE, in the future.

I have 10.8.3 installed. I use Cisco VPN but this hangs after 57 minutes and 35 seconds. I disconnect but can't reconnect straight away but have to wait about 10 minutes then have another 57 minutes

I use a mac with 10.8.3 installed. I use Cisco VPN & citrix receiver to connect to work via my home wireless which connects & works brilliantly but then hangs after 57 minutes and about 35 seconds. I disconnect but can't reconnect straight away although it goes through the motions but doesn't find a connection. I have to wait about 10 minutes (or restart the MAC) then it connects fine again and I have another 57 minutes. I previously used 10.6 for a while without any problems and then the VPN just stopped connecting? after trying to resolve without success I upgraded the OS hoping that this might fix the issue which it has but created this other problem! I can live with it but thought there may be some way to correct this surely. I'm not heavily technically minded and have read reports about the racoon service may be causing this but not sure how you do this very simply step by step
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Bluez-{utils|libs} 3.11-1: mouse can't reconnect

since bluez-{utils|libs} upgrade to 3.11-1, my bluetooth mouse can't reconnect to my computer. detailed steps:
0. fresh boot, with hidd --server running
1. put mouse in pairing mode
2. hidd --connect 00:12:5A:64:27:21
3. connection is successful, pointer moves
4. wait for mouse to go to idle mode
5. move mouse, pointer does not
6. hidd --list does not show mouse
7. redo 1.-3. ok.
8. reboot
9. same as 5.
10. same as 6.
some relevant info in dmesg, right after step 2.:
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
input: Microsoft Mouse as /class/input/input6
l2cap_recv_acldata: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
l2cap_recv_acldata: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
step 3. can go on for hours if steps 4. or 8. never happen.
expected results: mouse should auto-reconnect in steps 5. and 9. and should be listed in steps 6. and 10.
reverting to bluez-{utils|libs} 3.10-1 make things work again.
Last edited by lloeki (2007-06-12 12:01:38)

this seems to be a sort of discoverablility issue. some other posts led me to add 'discovto 0;' in device section of hcid.conf, and it works now in 3.11 as it did in 3.10.
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Last edited by lloeki (2007-06-12 12:01:28)

PC disconnects from VPN after several hours, can't reconnect until PC reboot.

Hi,
I started using a private VPN for video gaming in general since last month, but I've started running into a problem I cannot fix... my PC tends to disconnect from the VPN after a while (6~12 hours of use?) and I can't reconnect to any VPNs until I reboot my
PC.
However.. my normal internet connection seems to work fine.
When I try to reconnect to the VPN after I get dropped, I'm welcomed by this error:
http://puu.sh/bicqT/0a6f1f8537.png
I'm on Windows 7 64bit and I use the default windows VPN client... idk what's it called, it's what you setup in the network and sharing center.
I've tried the following things:
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*diagnose the issue with windows 7 network diagnostics
*/flush DNS cache
*/release and /renew lease
*reset internet connection
*using a neighbor's internet connection and I'm still unable to connect to any VPN until PC reboot.
-- diagnosing the wireless adapter after the disconnect from VPN happens leads to this...
http://puu.sh/bibQs/9873c02068.png
http://puu.sh/bibn7/93ec6f0934.png
http://puu.sh/biboF/3c9f865f15.png
http://puu.sh/bibpw/b204c59f01.png
http://puu.sh/bibq9/a10d3246d1.png
I cannot repair it through diagnostics.
Anyway, it's a problem on my end because I share the VPN with 2 other friends and they don't experience this problem... >_<
If there's any information missing, please tell me and I'll provide.
Thank you for any help!

Hi,
could you tell me do you run more than one VPN connection on your PC?
Did you try to delete and re-configure the VPN?
What type of security software are you using? Any kind of software which might block the traffic or close the port in case it thinks that something fishy is going on?
Could you determine which manufacturer is your Wireless card, visit their website and download the latest drivers directly from their site. Or if you are using laptop, visit manufacturers website and download wireless drivers.
You can try to update the drivers manually.
What about that 'Enable logging' thingy? Can you enable it and when the next time disconnection happens, you might determine what is the exact issue with the VPN.
Please click on Propose As Answer or to mark this post as and helpful for other people. This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Can I reconnect Time Machine backup after drive swap on OS X 10.6?

Hi,
I swapped my MacMini's HD few days ago (previous one was dying, had hardware issues). I used CCC and replaced with a hybrid drive. So far, so good. However, when I plugged back the external USB drive were I keep my Time Machine backups, it is not being recognized, TM wants to run a new full set.
I did some research and discovered that TM may use the HD or machine's UUID and that's why it's triggering the new FULL.
I also found this article by Pondini (which seems to be a guru on the topic, lol ):
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090213071015789
But attrb is not working, I guess such command it's not available on 10.6.8 ? ...
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** EDIT **
The trick did not work :-(
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