Choose User Profile

Iv been using FF on my lappy for years, now suddenly, when I try to start FF it asks me to select a user profile between the following options: -
- default
- default-<number>
This has annoyed me to no end, its bad enough that FF does update checks and installs on startup, but now this????
Has it occurred to FF developers that when users pop open a browser we need it to snap open, we dont always have ridiculous amounts of time to wait for it to start. What if Im checking the bus timetable - Id miss the bus. Or the times Iv been in conference and needed a quick webpage - embarrassed! So many times Iv need FF and she couldnt be there for me in time. If I wanted a massive delay and/or additional tasks between clicking open and it opening then Id of course look for some ridiculous adobe product instead.
Anyways as much as I love and adore FF I have sadly closed her because of this, and will use Chrome instead. Ill check every now and then to see if the Choose User Profile error has gone away.
Thanks for breaking my heart.

My suggestions: Initially let's keep it simple instead of editing profiles.ini directly use the profile manager dialogue that is appearing.
* Please confirm Firefox actually works ok ?<br />(Other than offering you a choice, and a slow startup.) You are able to progress past the profile choice and use Firefox as a browser ?
* Have you identified differences between, and tried Firefox with both of the profiles ?
* You need to decide which profile you need to keep. Unless they are very close copies/clones they will differ in for instance the bookmarks & login details they provide. (Will include; potentially years of; History also)
* From the profile manager dialogue you should be able to choose which profile to use AND then choose not to ask in future.
That is the simplest and safest way of dealing with this problem. If that method does not work something is going wrong. As mentioned by ''cor-el'' possibly security related software is aggressively ''protecting'' against settings changes.

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ac4iu Medium Profile sync step BusinessConnection (stage BusinessDataCatalogFullSync) started execution.
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8xqz Medium Updating SPPersistedObject UserProfileImportJob Name=UserProfileServiceApplication_ProfileImportJob. Version: 2294209 Ensure: False, HashCode: 36728399, Id: 4f037df6-d339-4b5a-8892-ef3699c16b20, Stack:    at
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04/21/2015 12:37:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x337C)                   0x4CCC SharePoint Portal Server      User Profiles
ac4iq Medium Profile sync step BusinessConnection (stage BusinessDataCatalogFullSync) finished successfully. 8ecffe9c-6d0a-e0e8-ec25-eb7a5f1c1215
04/21/2015 12:37:01.70 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x337C)                   0x4CCC SharePoint Foundation         Topology
8xqz Medium Updating SPPersistedObject UserProfileImportJob Name=UserProfileServiceApplication_ProfileImportJob. Version: 2294211 Ensure: False, HashCode: 36728399, Id: 4f037df6-d339-4b5a-8892-ef3699c16b20, Stack:    at
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04/21/2015 12:37:04.94 w3wp.exe (0x4440)                       0x4070 SharePoint Portal Server      Runtime
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How to populate a sharepoint 2010 list from the active directory. How to populate a sharepoint 2010 list with all sharepoint user profiles

How to populate a sharepoint 2010 from the active directory.
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While
the contacts list is usually filled out for contacts that are outside the company, there are times when you would use a contacts list to store internal and external resources. Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to re-type your internal contacts’
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From the list, click the List tab on the ribbon, then click Customize form:
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Below the people picker, insert a button control from the same section of the ribbon as above. With the button still highlighted, click the Control Tools|Properties tab on the ribbon.
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Note - for the URL, it can be any SharePoint site URL, not just to the site where your list is.
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Click Next on the next two screens.
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For Field, click the button on the right to load the select a field dialog. Click the Show advanced view on the bottom. At the top, click the drop down and choose the GetUserProfileByName
(Secondary) option. Expand myFields and queryFields to the last option and highlightAccountName. Click ok.
For Value, click the formula icon. On the formula screen, click the Insert Field or Group button. Again click the show advanced view link, but this time leave the data
connection as Main. Expand dataFields, then mySharePointListItem_RW. At the bottom you should see a folder called group (the people picker control we just added to the form). Expand this, then pc:Person,
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Load the user profile service information for the chosen user
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In the blank field after “is equal to”, click in the box and choose Type text. Then type the text Title.
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We’re going to update common fields that are in the user’s profile, and likely from Active Directory. You can update fields like first and last name, company, mobile and work phone number, etc. For the other fields, the
steps are the same except the Field you choose to update from the form, and the very last step where you enter the text will change. Here’s what the rules look like when we’re done:
We’re all done, good work! You can preview the form and try it now. Click Ctrl+Shift+B to preview the form. Once you’re satisfied, you can publish the form back to the library. Click File –> Quick
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Hi EM Gurus,
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Quit iPhoto in both accounts
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In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
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Create a new Account on your Mac, call it Media. Create an iPhoto Library there. (BTW: This will work for iTunes too.)
Enable Sharing on the Library:(Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other accounts. In those accounts, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. The Library will appear in the other source pane.
This means that both users will be able to see the pics. If you want to use a pic then simply drag it from the shared Library to your own in the iPhoto Window. This means that each user can have their own edits.
If you want to add photos to the Library: Log into the Media account for that purpose.
To make it all seamless: Set your Mac to log into the Media Account automatically. Set iPhoto to launch on log-in. Then switch to your own account using Fast User Switching.
Net result: a Library that's permanently available to all users but also protected. Each user can have their own versions of the pics if they want.
No partitioning, no permissions issues. Uses no extra disk space. What's not to like?
Regards
TD

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Hello experts!
We are building a new server setup for the office and are unable to figure out why UPD will not work. We have VDI setup and a user for instance
connecting through the RDWeb workplace will dynamically get one of the available Windows 8 Machines delivered through Hyper-V and can successfully login on this machine via Active Directory. So far so good...
However, when we activate the User Profile Disks "UPD" feature the login takes forever and the VHDX will not mount on c:\users\...
as expected within the virtual Windows 8 machine.
The UPD config is quite simple, with just the path "\\vmhost\upd\" set. This share has (now during test) full access for everyone,
both on share level and on security level, but still the VHDX will not mount.
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gets created, but there it stops... The login process takes a couple of minutes by the "Windows förbereds" (roughly translated to English "Preparing Windows"), and then the user gets logged in with a temporary profile.
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I just installed Firefox and am stuck on the "Choose a profile" page because when I click "Create a profile" nothing happens.

I just installed Firefox and it is stuck on the "Choose a Profile" page and will not load...frozen. When I click on "Create a Profile", nothing happens. Anyone have any suggestions?

Try to delete the profiles.ini file to force Firefox to create a new profiles.ini file and a new default profile.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/profiles.ini_file
* C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
The "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K and the "AppData" folder in Windows Vista and Windows 7 and later versions are hidden folders.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
See also;
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Regional Settings - User Profile Time Zone

The user profile property time zone will only apply to the users My Site. How can you apply that time zone to the web application or site collection? So that a user from San Francisco will see calendar events on the main intranet in PST, rather than
CST.

Hi Peter,
Per my knowledge, if the time zone in the user profile is different from the time zone in the site, the time displayed in the site will be in the format based on the time zone setting in user profile.
After changing the time zone in user profile, it needs some time to save the changes back to SharePoint, so there will be some time delay of changing the time format in the site.
Please also make sure that the Always use my personal settings is selected in user profile.
Even though the time zone is not changed in the site, the time format will change based on the time zone setting in user profile if the user chooses a different time zone in his user profile.
Thanks,
Victoria
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Files missing from desktop after deleting a user profile that was created on there.

I downloaded and installed firefox and it asked me to create a user profile, but it could not save in the default location. I chose to create the profile on the desktop as a test and that worked. However, after deleting that user profile, all of the items on my desktop were removed and cannot be located. The files are not in my trashbin and when I do a search, it says the file cannot be located. I have Windows 7.

You shouldn't create a profile and choose an existing folder.<br />
You should always specify an empty folder and if you didn't do that then you should never remove the files when you remove such a profile because all files in it will be removed and not just the files created by Firefox.
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_created_on_startup

User Profile Application AD Error

Hi ,
I have created a user profile application and created a Ad connection and started profile synchronisation.I want to import the profile pictures in AD with profile pictures of Sharepoint Mysite.
In Order to do that i need to map the thumbnail attribute of AD with Mysite Picture property.
Firstly i am not able to edit the properties as shown below. There is not option to edit
Secondly i am getting folowing error in other user profile i created
Can anybody please let me know, why is it behaving this way and what can be done about it.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Rahul Poojary

Hi Rahul,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to import user photos from AD into SharePoint 2013.
Firstly, make sure the account is the farm account.
Then go to Manage User Properties in User profile service application, and find
Picture property and edit it. Scroll down to the Add New Mapping section. Choose your AD data connection, select the thumbnailPhoto attribute and click Add, then click OK to save the change.
Finally, run the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore PowerShell command.
More information, please refer to the link:
http://richardstk.com/2013/04/12/import-user-photos-from-active-directory-into-sharepoint-2013/
Best Regards,
Wendy
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