Chase GW letter? tips or suggestions?

Hey everyone. I just love this forum -- so happy with the help I've gotten here. I've got several irons in the credit repair fire and one of them is a series of late payments on two closed Chase CC accounts. I was in a repayment plan, had set up automatic payments and had no idea that I was 60-90 days late all along. The agents I worked with to set up the automatic payments never told me I was late. The result is two accounts with 60-90 days late going back nearly 2 years! Bad! I sent a GW letter to the executive office and they replied that they investigated and discovered that they were reporting accurately, except that there was one month they forgot to report, so they fixed that. Thanks a lot, guys. Now the accounts are completely paid and I'm sending another letter. Does anyone have suggestions on what approach I should take? My first letter was VERY nice and full of gratitude to Chase for helping me learn good credit habits . . . yadda yadda yadda. That didn't get me anywhere. Should I push the fact that they didn't notify me? Throw myself at their feet and beg? Does Chase have a reputation for being hard-nosed about this stuff?

Could you update us on how it goes with Macy's?? I currently have a 30 day late payment from 2013 that they refuse to removed, stating that if it wasn't their fault they won't remove it. I have called and sent emails out like crazy....getting kind of frustrated

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Updated to iTunes 11.1 and many of my podcasts were, as far as I can tell, deleted from my account. 'This American Life' in particular, cannot be redownloaded for free and I want the unlistened podcasts I accrued to come back! Any tips or suggestions?

Updated to iTunes 11.1 and many of my podcasts were, as far as I can tell, deleted from my account. 'This American Life' in particular, cannot be redownloaded for free and I want the unlistened podcasts I accrued to come back! I'm also afraid that if I sync my iPod now, the podcasts that I have on there but have been removed from the computer, will also be removed from the iPod.
Any tips or suggestions?

What really cheeses me off here is that Apple isn't allowing users enough customization. With each update of iTunes (and the OS and iOS) we're forced to give up something that worked well for the way we want to use the app and make do with fewer (and lamer) options. If Apple keeps this up, they're going to start losing customers fast. I mean if this isn't fixed soon, I'm pretty sure I'm going to give up on iTunes, and then I'll probably go ahead and get a Galaxy when I need to replace my iPhone.
What I don't understand about how they won't let users delete the list of available podcasts now is why? How is this making it a better program? I can understand that not all users are capable enough to right-click on a feed and select "Show all available episodes", so I can see why they want the complete list to be the default (and, surprise, it already was). But to not give users the option to delete that list? It's inconsiderate because it makes navigating feeds with a large back catalogue really frustrating. I'm flabbergasted that no one at Apple considered all the podcast feeds that keep hundreds of episodes available when they removed this feature. It smacks of rank incompetence.
What improvement were they trying to make here anyway? There was nothing wrong to my mind about how podcasts were managed in previous versions. Whatever improvement they were trying to make here, they should have realized that many users would at least want the option to keep things the way they were.
And reverting to a previous version is no solution. I can't sync my iPhone with the new iOS without this update, and (while I do have some issues--specifically how you can't play podcasts in the Music app anymore) I do like the new iOS.

Can't get my audio clip to work in Keynote except in edit mode. I've followed Help instructions to the letter. Any suggestions?

Can't get my audio clip to work in Keynote except in edit mode. I've followed Help instructions to the letter. Any suggestions?

Hi Gary - thanks so much for your help. I'd already done that, but finally stumbled across the answer for my situation. I'm new to iMac and this is the first time I used Keynote, so maybe this info will help someone else along the way - I still haven't found this in any of the Keynote documentation or forums I've read.
My slides were all set up with at least one text box in which the text was animated. The sound was the last thing I added to each slide, exactly following the info in Keynote Help re: adding audio. The audio would work when I tested it in Inspector mode, and also if I switched to soundtrack instead. But not if sound was added to each individual slide. Hmmm. After I submitted the question above, I was running through the (auto) slide show one final time to check text, animation, etc. when I noticed that on just one single slide the sound effect came through, but at the very tail end of the slide. Hmm again. Why?
Through trial & error, the answer was in the animation section - not very intuitive re: audio. The steps to correct the issue were: 1) click on the sound icon embedded in each slide, 2) click on the animation tab in Inspector. 3) There's a drop-down menu there that allows you to reposition the audio clip to the #1 spot (if it was added after other "animation"). This allows the sound to begin before the text animation begins on each slide. Before doing this, I guess the sound was in there but the slides were transitioning before it had a chance to play.
Since this is the first time I've used Keynote and it's the most recent version, I'm not sure if this is a new feature to allow users to choose where within a slide to play a sound effect, but I'm guessing that might be why was unable to find any info on how to solve it. Hopefully this will help others who get stumped.
Thanks again for jumping in to help! I really appreciate it.

LOTS of photos -- tips or suggestions?

I am soon going to have over 20,000 pics in iphoto 5, does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to handle that many photos? I just had to add them all back since iphoto dumped them all from its library (not sure why).
Thanks.

The main tip I will give you is to not keep that many photos in one library.
Break it up into Years and it will be easy to do the suggestion I gave you in your other post.
You can create a new library by launching iPhoto with the Option key and following the prompts. You also use the Option key at launch to switch between the libraries.
Using the add to library command, navigate to the Year folder to import all images from that year.
Launch iPhoto with the Option key to create a new library and then add the next year folder.
You can break up the library any way you want but doing it by Years will be sure to keep having duplicates in the libraries.
Oh, and don't forget, you can manage your libraries with either of these two programs (there may be others)
iPhoto Library Manager
iPhoto Library Manager documentation
this page will show you everything you can do with iPhoto Library Manager.
You can also try iPhoto Buddy

IPhone 5c getting restarted itself. any tips or suggestions?, iPhone 5c getting restarted itself. any tips or suggestions?

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I have got 5c. THis thing gets restarted itself randomly. does anyone else faces this problem? any tips or suggestions?

It sounds as if the display is failing. This is supported by your saying the screenshot looks normal. The screenshot is created by using the actual video feed for the display, so if it is looking normal and the screen is not, I suspect the screen.
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Well it doesn't appear the easy guess is going to help in your case, sorry.
So here are the heavy guns on performance that Dr. Smoke has written up
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
I hope something in this web site is able to help you.
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Chase Marriott letter* Update

Ii apped for a Chase Marriott card a few weeks ago and got the 7-10 day message and assumed I was denied. I received a letter today from the Chase fraud department asking me to call and verify some information. I called and they wanted to verify my SSN and Chase checking account balance. I was put on hold and then was advised they will need more info from me and I will get another letter on how to proceed in 5-7 days. They said I might have to send in a copy of my DL or a utility bill. I verified that the letter was from Chase but it just sounds odd to me. Has anyone had this happen on this CC? My score aren't that fantastic since I am rebuilding- 680.s across the board but I bank with Chase and have 2000.00 in checking and 6000.00 in savings. I also have a Chase Freedom for 1200.00 and Slate for 1200.00 plus a few other bank cards not with Chase. My utilization is at 5% and I pay in full on all cards each month but one. I make 80000 per year and run all my expenses through my Chase cards. Does this sound like I will be approved?. I am glad I wasn't denied outright and I'm hoping that the need to verify info is a good thing and not a big let down. UPDATE. I called Chase back today asking what they needed me to fax in rather than wait for the letter. They wanted a copy of my DL which I faxed right away. How long shoul I wait to call back?. The rep said 14 days but I'm no sure that is accurate.

Lilas wrote:
Ii apped for a Chase Marriott card a few weeks ago and got the 7-10 day message and assumed I was denied. I received a letter today from the Chase fraud department asking me to call and verify some information. I called and they wanted to verify my SSN and Chase checking account balance. I was put on hold and then was advised they will need more info from me and I will get another letter on how to proceed in 5-7 days. They said I might have to send in a copy of my DL or a utility bill. I verified that the letter was from Chase but it just sounds odd to me. Has anyone had this happen on this CC? My score aren't that fantastic since I am rebuilding- 680.s across the board but I bank with Chase and have 2000.00 in checking and 6000.00 in savings. I also have a Chase Freedom for 1200.00 and Slate for 1200.00 plus a few other bank cards not with Chase. My utilization is at 5% and I pay in full on all cards each month but one. I make 80000 per year and run all my expenses through my Chase cards. Does this sound like I will be approved?. I am glad I wasn't denied outright and I'm hoping that the need to verify info is a good thing and not a big let down. Definitely approved. The exact same thing happened with me when I applied for the Marriott card. I faxed a copy of my DL, called back in a week or so. Unfortunately the first fax of my DL I didn't convert to B&W first and they said they couldn't read anything on my license. I scanned my DL again, converted it to B&W, and faxed it off again. Waited another week called, spoke with someone from verification who double checked all my info, put me on hold for what seemed liked an eternity and then told me I was approved for $5000. My scores were WAY lower than yours, I'm thinking in the 620 range. I was approved for a Freedom for $3000 a month or two earlier. If I had to guess your limit should be pretty decent with scores in the 680s. Congrats in advance (that's what everyone told me when I posted my thread, so I figure it's appropriate) Oz

IPhoto Usage Tips, Tricks, suggestions??

I was hoping someone could help me by answering a couple basic iPhoto usage questions I have...
First, is there a way in which I can automatically create an iPhoto "Album" from each of my iPhoto "Events, without having at manually drag each one over? Perhaps a script or Automator Workflow that someone could refer me to??
Second, what is the best way to find duplicate (and/or similar) images in iPhoto (duplicate no meaning references to the same file as it exists in the Finder, rather two copies of exactly the same image)? The tricky part is the I know many of the identical duplicate will often have completely different names from each other, so the tool I need would have to be able to identify duplicates by more than just the file name.
Also, I wanted to know what some of you think about the advantages/disadvantages of enabling iPhoto's preference setting to "copy items to the iPhoto Library" (which when unchecked, I assume would reference the images in its existing locations as opposed to copying them)...I like the idea of referencing the images in their existing location for a variety of reasons (such as not having to copy the 200GB of images that I want in iPhoto; also keeping the images in their current 'non-packaged' folder structure format so that I can access them images using other image organization tools such as Adobe Lightroom; etc...). Are there any drawbacks to references as opposed to copying? Will I still be able to use iTunes pointed at my iPhoto Library (containing referenced images only) to sync albums/galleries to my iPhone/Apple TV? What about Tivo Desktop...will this still work via this method?
Finally, what about storing the iPhoto Library on in a different folder/drive than the default ~/Pictures folder? Can I store the iPhoto Library on one of the three available (non-OS) internal hard drives in my MacPro and still expect iPhoto to find this library and iTunes/Apple TV/TiVo to sync from this library as well?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...These are the key issues that I have right now with iPhoto, and if someone could help me find the answers to these questions, I would be sincerely grateful!
Thanks!

Well there's some meaty questions there.
First, is there a way in which I can automatically create an iPhoto "Album" from each of my iPhoto "Events, without having at manually drag each one over? Perhaps a script or Automator Workflow that someone could refer me to?
Why duplicate an Event as an Album? How about a Smart Album based on Date? File -> new Smart Album
Second, what is the best way to find duplicate (and/or similar) images in iPhoto (duplicate no meaning references to the same file as it exists in the Finder, rather two copies of exactly the same image)? The tricky part is the I know many of the identical duplicate will often have completely different names from each other, so the tool I need would have to be able to identify duplicates by more than just the file name.
Check out Duplicate Annihilator
As to using Referenced versus a Managed Library:
The pitfalls of a Referenced Library:
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
Why would you use two photo organisers, such as iPhoto and Lightroom? iPhoto is a consumer application, Lightroom (and Aperture) are Pro apps. If you do use both, remember they both have to reference the files.
Other than that, yes, a referenced library will work the same way as a Managed one. The issues will all occur when you migrate to another machine or hard disk.
Finally, what about storing the iPhoto Library on in a different folder/drive than the default ~/Pictures folder? Can I store the iPhoto Library on one of the three available (non-OS) internal hard drives in my MacPro and still expect iPhoto to find this library and iTunes/Apple TV/TiVo to sync from this library as well?
Yes, and it will work the same way:
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.
My final 2 cents: Make a choice of Photo Organiser. Do you shoot RAW? Then consider Aperture or Lightroom. If you're shooting jpeg, then you'll likely be happy with iPhoto. One advantage with Aperture is that it, at least, knows iPhoto exists.
Regards
TD

Tried to download photoshop CS5 extended but it will not let me, any suggestions?

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My Ipad of only 21 months has stopped working. It's dead as confirmed by my local apple store. It has not been dropped nor abused. Apple don't seem interested and have yet to respond to a letter. Any suggestions welcome!

For Christmas 2012 my son bought me my first iPad when up in Scotland on business. So from 25th December until last Tuesday evening, September 3rd, this had worked fine and was my pride and joy. It's an amazing piece of technology.
Imagine my horror and annoyance when I went to use it on the Tuesday evening only to find that it would not start up. All the usual buttons were pressed and I plugged it in to a power source then into iTunes and saw no no change.
On Wednesday morning I went into the Apple shop in Harrogate, where JCL (salesman) tried all of the same things as I had and declared that he had never seen this happen to an iPad! My only course of action was to send it back to Apple who would tell me it's dead and advise me to buy a new one. [This, as it is welded together and they have no means of repairing them!!] So what can I do? I had to buy a new one, which cost me £399.
Is this good value for money under the Sale of Goods Act? An iPad should surely last more than 20 months? The device has never been dropped and is in very good condition other than it does not work.
I would appreciate any views on this.
I have written to Apple and they have yet to respond (15 days ago)

There is No overriding EU law on this however there is a directive 1999/44/EC and sets out a general framework on harmonizing complaints and settlement of defects and resulting breaches in contract.
Under UK law these are the relevant regulations
Sale of Goods Act 1979
Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Act 1973
Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982
The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002
These are considered to be in compliance with the directive in most respects and in some respects exceed the minimum directive definitions.
The Directive itself adds very little and in some ways actually reduces the consumer (buyers) rights compared to UK laws and regulations.
The directive sets a maximum period of just two years for which the seller may be held responsible for repairing/replacing pre-existing faults and a period of just two months from identifying the fault and reporting it to the seller.
As stated above UK law allows a period of 5 years in Scotland and 6 years in the UK and doesn’t have a defined period of identification or reporting of that pre-existing fault
The UK law also incorporates a minimum period of 6 months of unlimited warranty (Extended to 12 month by most sellers including Apple).
There is NO provision for unlimited warranty within the EU directive, and all faults are assumed to be pre-existing.
Pre-existing is very important in all these claims as in UK law it fixes the timeline of the fault using the three definitions in the previous post as being present at the start of the contract (Time of purchase)
Hence the need for an expert report !

Asking for tips or suggestions re: DVD backups and compression

Hey there all. I'm hoping to get some nice DVD backups from dual layered DVD9 discs so that they can potentially fit on DVD5. I would really love to keep the DVD menus that are on the discs (special features, subtitles, and so fourth.)
I've seen the following threads which have proven somewhat helpful, but they are rather out dated:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 60#p525660
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53344
I've looked at k9copy but am afraid of all the dependencies it pulls up with it. It does the job though, maybe with telecine errors in some cases from what I've seen testing it.
vobcopy seems very promising, especially when using the following com
vobcopy -m /mounted/dvd/
It backs up the entire DVD successfully from what I've seen, but not compressed at all. (but it does retain the menus and the all wanted special features and various subtitle selections).
So, "vamps" may bring what I need to the table - I hope.
vamps -e 1.50 -a 1 < ./large.vob > ./small.vob
That above, would supposedly turn a 7.5 gb .vob into a ~5gb .vob . I've tested it on a smaller on a smaller scale (1gb .vob to ~645mb)
I am not quite sure how to do this with the whole tree I am left with, though, which looks similar to the following.
$ ls ./NAME_OF_DVD/VIDEO_TS/
VIDEO_TS.BUP VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_3.VOB VTS_02_0.BUP VTS_03_0.BUP VTS_04_0.IFO
VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.VOB VTS_01_4.VOB VTS_02_0.IFO VTS_03_0.IFO VTS_04_0.VOB
VIDEO_TS.VOB VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_5.VOB VTS_02_1.VOB VTS_03_1.VOB VTS_04_1.VOB
VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_6.VOB VTS_02_2.VOB VTS_04_0.BUP
EDIT:
Stumbled across 'backlite' which is a qt based copy of k9copy. Very promising from my first few impressions though I'm yet to thouroughly try this guy out. Any thoughts from other's how may know about it?
It would also be nice to learn how to effectively do this task from the comfort of a terminal.
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OWC has nice options for both optical and hard drives.
http://www.macsales.com/
They are a Mac-oriented vendor, so the products they sell work with Macs. On the hard drive side, they sell most of their enclosures as a "0 GB" kit, so you can find a good deal on the drive mechanism elsewhere, and get the exact make and model you want.
As for USB versus FireWire, FireWire 800 will obviously be faster. However, if the drive is going to be used for something like Time Machine, where speed is not crucial, a less expensive USB 2.0 drive will be fine. My Time Machine drive is connected by USB 2.0.
You can get a FireWire hub, but daisy-chaining should work fine. The few available FireWire 800 hubs are expensive at the moment.

Switching to Mac - Helpful Tips & Suggestions Requested

Well, after my experience with the iPhone, I became interested in a Mac. After doing some research, I decided to make the switch. My new 15" MBP with iWork and MobileMe should be arriving Monday or Tuesday (I was really hoping it would arrive by this Friday to give me the weekend to play with my new toy, but no such luck).
Anyway, I was looking for tips and suggestions for a Mac newbie (and laptop newbie) as well.
The machine is purely for personal use: some light gaming (though I may just keep my XP box for this), email/internet, personal finance, iTunes, research/writing for informal presentations to small groups, and Bible study (Logos developing a Mac version of their software was the final deciding factor).
Any suggestions/tips/recommendations on helpful books, websites, software and accessories would be much appreciated. Specifically, I would appreciate some feedback on personal finance software, research/note-taking software, and docking stations/KVM switches. Also, anything I need to be aware of as I transfer my iTunes library to the laptop and setting it up as my primary iTunes machine.

Hi
Glad the link was useful, and I can completely understand with the books.
No I have not used anything else of this type, I stumbled on notebook first of all and did not feel the need to look for anything else.
Notebook is really good for keeping all the notes for a project in one place. You can keep various types of media (written notes, web page clippings, recordings, pictures etc...) in one notebook, and organise them in several different ways. You can have various different notebooks open at the same time.
The feature I like best is the ability to make an audio recording of say a lecture, interview, meeting, even TV programme and keep notes at the same time which are then linked to the point in the recording when they where made.
Then later you can look at your notes and jump into the recording to hear the relevant part of the recording to those particular notes.
So you can have an accurate record of what went on as well as a written record of your thoughts at the time and both are link chronologically.
You can also add in additional notes when you play back the recording later which is handy in case you miss something first time round.
Notebook uses the internal mic and does all this from inside the app, so you don't need anything else.
I find it is just a really handy app to have around.
Thanks for the star by the way.
Paul
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Both After Effects & Adobe Media Encode CC giving are not letting me export.

Dear All,
Both After Effects & Adobe Media Encode CC giving are not letting me export movies.
Some times they will, but after one file both programs give me the following error messages.
After effects:
“[file path and name].mov. An output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464)"
AME:
"Can't read from source."
I've went through the forum and found threads & pages discussing the problem.
E.g.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/08/solutions-for-problems-with-quicktime-files-in -after-effects-cc-12-0-because-of-conflict-with-dvcprohdvideoout-quicktime-component.html
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1252092
After following all the tips and suggestions (from deinstalling quicktime components & audio components to completely reinstalling CC) I'm still experiencing the problems.
Which leaves me in a bit of a squeeze. I need to export over 144 movies in the coming 2 days and the only way to do this is to quit and open media encoder (or AE) after each single export.
Not really an option.
Both problems have the process Adobe QT sever in common, I took this from the console:
9/26/13 1:02:44.517 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[171]: ([0x0-0x42042].com.adobe.Adobe QT32 Server.application[331]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
9/26/13 1:02:44.672 PM ReportCrash[354]: Saved crash report for Adobe QT32 Server[331] version 7.0.1 (7.0.1.0) to /Users/martijn/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Adobe QT32 Server_2013-09-26-130244_martijns-MacBook-Pro-2.crash
System information:
Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) (16gb ram)
Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F37)
Running Adobe CC (for teams), all apps are up-to-date.
I don't no why Adobe puts out such a buggy piece of software (I know it has to with Apple's poor 32bit quicktime implimentation, but hey, this was known information no?).
Upgrading to CC has given our office nothing but problems.
Hope someone can help to find a work around until Adobe realeases a proper update and solves this problem once and for all.
All help is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Martijn

Hello Tim,
Thanks for the really quick response!
Regarding the crash log: it doesn't reference com.apple.audio.CoreAudio (though it did before, so I followed all the steps in your blog post before I posted to this forum).
I've uploaded the crashlog to:
http://martijnlambada.com/TMP/AdobeQT32servercrash.zip
If you want to inspect it. It mentions the DXV codec (which I also uninstalled), but the crash keeps occuring. Also I need to export to DXV since it's the only codec the d3 media
server accepts (http://d3technologies.com).
I followed all the steps in the troubleshooting steps.
Codecs used: I've tried everything from animation to Apple ProRes (including: h264/motion jpeg/uncompressed). With all codecs the Adobe QT32 server keeps crashing (though I can't always reproduce).
Export destination: Internal SSD (same as where the OS is installed on) + External raid (via firewire & thunderbolt) + external HD via usb 3.0 (tried everything).
When does the problem start: Really hard to specify, sometimes a day without crashes, sometimes every export for days on end. Sometime after restarting (tried logging out, restarting, switching off and on the computer). With other programs running and with out. Now checking every process active when exporting, and comparing log files.
Can you export to other formats: See question 1, sometimes I can, sometimes not.
When you launch AE and/or AME, is QT32 Server running? At what point does it stop running? Still runing when I open the program. It crashes when exporting (ofter after finishing the first export).
What component files are in your Library/QuickTime folder?: Currently the folowing:
AppleAVCIntraCodec
AppleHDVCodec.component
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
AppleProResCodec.component
DesktopVideoOut.component
DVCPROHDCodec.component
DVCPROHDMuxer.component
DVCPROHDVideoDigitizer.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutput.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutputClock.component
FCP Uncompressed 422.component
iChatTheaterPreview.component
IMXCodec.component
LiveType.component
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Martijn

Tips on Backing up data

Hi,
Please forgive me if my question doesnt' quite fit here ... I have a general question about how I should backup data. I'm mostly concerned about photos, music and some financial data that's in our iMac G5. Should I buy an external drive and set up a regular backing up scheme (and how would I do that?) or partition my hard drive in the iMac? Any tips or suggestions would greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
M

Hello Matthew,
Here is how I do it:
I have an external hard drive that is partitioned in two.
The first partition is the same size as my primary hard drive's capacity. I use that partition to store a complete backup / clone of my primary drive.
The second partition is used to store misc. documents, downloaded program files, etc.
I then use the free Carbon Copy Cloner to make an exact duplicate copy of my primary internal drive. This exact clone is bootable, so if something happens to my original installation, I can just boot from the clone and resume working (or boot from the clone, and clone it back to the original / internal hard drive).
To boot from an external hard drive, you hold down the "Option" key at startup, and select the volume / drive you wish to boot from.
Note that you can only boot from FireWire hard drives on PowerPC Macs. The Intel Macs can boot from either USB or FireWire. But, since you have a PowerPC Mac, you should get a FireWire drive.
You can get Carbon Copy Cloner here:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Another popular program is SuperDuper (it's basically the same thing):
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Carbon Copy Cloner does have a scheduler. So, once you have everything set-up to work as you like, then you can schedule it to run when you want.
Now, until you are confident that you have everything set-up to clone properly, you should go ahead and test your backup to make sure it boots. So, after the backup is complete, you can restart your computer and hold down the "Option" key. Select the backup volume to boot. Then, check it out and make sure it boots properly and that everything is there and behaving as it should.
It's good to test your backups to make sure that they are good. Otherwise, if something went wrong, and the backup was not a good backup, then you'd be in trouble.
I hope this helps.
Let us know if you have other questions.
P.S., if you'd like, go ahead and click the "Helpful" or "Solved" buttons on any of the posts / replies above if you feel they were helpful or adequately answered your question.

LV EXE tips and config on Windows Server

Client to use LV exe on their network running virtual severs on Windows Server. We issue single exe which they want their users to have acccess to multiple instances.
I have many questions and am not sure this will work. Does LV run on Windows Server? Will the LV RTE facilitate this?
Does the LV exe need to be set to Allow Multiple Instances?
Any tips or suggestions or clear facts you could let me know about running multiple instances of LV apps on a network?
Thanks all.

Hey battler,
LabVIEW and the corresponding run-time engine will run on Windows Server. You can see what versions of LabVIEW work with which OS here: http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/.
Depending on how you launch the multiple instances of the VI, there are a couple of ways to allow this to occur. You can read about the options at this KnowledgeBase article: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/49334E1013800E4886257A6800782495?OpenDocument
As for doing this all on a network the only additional consideration versus running it on a desktop would be firewall and network setting. This document should cover some concepts you may need: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/12402/en/
Hope this helps.
Best,

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