Cloning snowleopard

I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly but in this way:
We have 11 copies of Snowleopard that were purchased through an Apple reseller.
We're in the process of upgrading 11 computers but rather than doing one at a time, we want to just clone out an image.
Can we assign the correct Snowleopard license to each computer? We want to make sure we're following licensing agreements.
Here are the specs for the MACs we have:
Model: Mac Mini 1.1
MAC OS X 10.6.3
Processor: 1.8 Ghz Intel Core Duo
Memory: 2 GB
Thank you.

There's no per-disk license, practically speaking. There's nothing wrong with installing the same copy on all 11 computers and leaving the other ten copies in a drawer somewhere. What's important is that you actually own one copy per computer, which you do.
As for cloning, you can use [Carbon Copy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com> for that.

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HELP!! Can no longer log in to my Cloned HD.

I can't log in on my external cloned HD. When booting up, it asks for user and password - but doesn't accept any of the ones I know - not even a root password I managed to recall from five years ago.
I think my accounts are still there - at any rate, I can see various of my folders in their complete hierarchies within the "Users" folder on the drive.
I tried resetting the original administrator account password (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274?viewlocale=en_US , bottom of page). The Password Reset utility on my Tiger Install CD reveals the drive, but the "select a user of this volume" drop down menu is grayed out and reads "No Users."
How can I get back my accounts and log in?
Here's some background which might help explain how I got into this mess.
For a couple of years, I cloned my 160G hard drive to a 1T external using SuperDuper's "Copy Newer" facility. This effectively gave me a backup of all my files to a drive from which I could also boot in an emergency. I tested once or twice. It worked a treat, starting up and logging in as if it were my internal drive (but larger, and containing all those past files I'd deleted to conserve space).
Last summer, I was lured by Apple to upgrade to their new Snow Leopard system at a very reasonable price.
Almost instantly, my computer slowed down (especially Safari browsing) and I lost a number of dated applications (particularly Adobe apps from pre 2004 such as Photoshop).
I thought: never mind - I still have a cloned boot drive should I want to use my older applications. So I stopped the SuperDuper backups in order to preserve my Tiger system with its setup and log-ins - effectively, a bootable replica of my pre-September hard drive.
Snow Leopard gave me Time Machine, anyway. It requires a separate drive for backups - and there was still plenty of room on this 1T external…. So for the last six months or so, Time Machine has been squirrelling away copies of all my files into its own folder on that same Tiger hard drive.
I'm now upgrading my internal HD to a new SATA drive with triple the space.
In preparation, I've used SuperDuper to clone my HD.
Since I still didn't want to overwrite my Tiger system, I copied everything to a disk image (called "Eric's backup.sparsebundle") on that same large external drive.
I was going to install the empty new drive, boot from my Tiger drive and restore the Leopard clone (from the disk image "Eric's backup"), to the new internal drive.
So there it is.
I now suppose my problem may be that, effectively, this unpartitioned external drive actually contains three systems (albeit two of them backed up in a self-contained way). But I assumed that only the September clone (of my Tiger system) would be visible when it came to boot up.
It looks as though I assumed wrong. It seems my computer can longer see my log-in files.
I don't understand the Unix operating system - but, from reading these topics, it seems to me hopeful that I might be able to use terminal commands to restore passwords and user settings to some file within some hidden folder so that I might again reboot from my Tiger clone and log in.
Grateful for all advice anyone can give me.
(Incidentally, I have already tried deleting the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file as per http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/ . Frustratingly, the setup process got as far as "Select keyboard: UK; USA" and, on continuing, hung with a spinning colour wheel each time. After forty minutes of nada, I restarted in terminal and put back the SetUpDone file)

Thanks BD, I'll look into that.
Whilst in terminal I followed someone's instructions to "fsck -fy".
I don't know what the words mean, but it appeared to run a full check on the disk. No problems found. Is that as good as running Disk Utility?
As I say, it seems to me possible (complete guesswork here as I know nothing about Apple's internal workings) that - whilst Time Machine was storing my files in a dedicated folder on my drive* - it was also making its own SnowLeopard changes to files within the invisible "var" folder on that drive (or some such other system folder); and that those changes have prevented Tiger from recognising my users and passwords. If were the case, then perhaps there is something straightforward I can do to point Tiger back towards my users - with or without passwords.
I've also just spotted this: http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2003/06/16.1.shtml
Anyone know if I'm likely to do more harm than good with it?
I won't have time to do either today - but very grateful for any further suggestions.

Snowleopard broke my intern Superdrive on MacBook Pro (Original)

Hello,
As by Thomas A Reed sugested (in my first thread, maybe someone can delete the one), i start a new thread, to keep it oversight and clear. Right now, i'm convinced, my case belongs to the 10.6 thread. The main threads about this problems seems to be in the Hardware MacBook Section:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1918925&start=405&tstart=0
But, because they are mixed up with other superdrive problems there. The problem itself seems to need more diversification as you'll see here.
INVENTORY:
• WHATS THE PROBLEM
• CONFIGURATION
• WHAT I'VE CHECKED
• WHY AM I SURE THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY SNOWLEOPARD?
• WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW (What to do, how to react)
WHATS THE PROBLEM:
Last sunday (the 10/4/2009), i installed 10.6 (and right after that the imediately followed software actualisation to 10.6.1). It's the first new system i installed after 10.4.11. (i was and am still happy with 10.4.11, because it is stable). Apple does not say, SL would not work to use it on a system, where another system (like my 10.4.11) is installed. Instead, they say in their manual: "If you'll install it over (what i didn't) an 10.4.10 to 10.5.x, you'll have to read the Firmwareupdate Article" that i read. It was belonging ONLY to MacBook Air's !! and thats why this specific Firmware-Update did not wanted to proceed!!. last week i've found an Apple Store in my country, where i thought i may buy and try the SL. U never know, when u'll need it one day, so i wanted to become some experience with it. So I choosed the third partition, because it was free.
Right after the installation and the software-actualisation, my superdrive began to eject all DVD's and CD's (comercials, as own burned ones) right after inserting and clicking twice. In other words, it does not accept any optical media anymore. I never had any problem with this superdrive under 10.4. But after the SL-Installation, also 10.4.11 does "NOT ACCEPT" any CD's and DVD's anymore!
CONFIGURATION:
It's a Mac Book Pro 17" Intel (Original), 2.16 Ghz Dual Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 10.4.11 on the first partition & 10.6.1 on a third partition, Localisation: Swiss/German.
I did My intern SAMSUNG HD format as a GUID (as the OS X Installer said it has to be, if I would like to use OS X on a INTEL-Mac) and the partitions were HFS+ journaled.
1. Partition (OS X.4.11): 49,68 GB / 11.11 GB FREE
2. Partiton (Data): 149.68 GB / 7.69 GB FREE
3. Partition (OS X.6.1): 32.97 GB / 27.46 GB FREE
The third partition was free. I used it as a spare place, for temporarly backups or cases, i need more space. Thats why i choosed it to try out 10.6.
In the System Profiler the drive is still availabe. So it's present. It says under: "Hardware/Medium brennen":
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846:
Firmware-Version: FQ3T
Verbindungstyp: ATAPI
Brennen möglich: Ja (Laufwerk von Apple geliefert)
Cache: 2048 KB
DVD lesen: Ja
Beschreibbare CD: -R, -RW
Beschreibbare DVD: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Schreibstrategien: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Medien: Um die verfügbaren Brenngeschwindigkeiten anzuzeigen, legen Sie ein Medium ein und wählen dann „Darstellung“ > „Aktualisieren“.
and under ATA:
ATA-Bus:
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-846:
Modell: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-846
Version: FQ3T
Seriennummer:
Absteckbares Laufwerk: Nein
Protokoll: ATAPI
Einheiten-Nummer: 0
Socket-Typ: Intern
Low-Power-Polling: Ja
Ausschalten: Ja
WHAT I'VE CHECKED:
• i repaired the rights both on 10.4.11 and 10.6.1
• i started fsck (both, in 10.4.11 and 10.6.1)
• i resetted the PR-RAM
• i resetted the OF
• i resetted the System-Management (5-button, as apple suggested)
• i checked the RAM. Result: "BANK 0/DIMM0 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz OK
BANK 1/DIMM1 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz OK"
• i created new users (in both, 10.4.11 and 10.6.1), it still did not work.
• i checked for a hanging Firmwareupdate in the Account/Startup on both systems. (there was nothing)
• i tried an old CD-Cleaning set, but it did not help too.
• i do wether use Bootcamp, nor VM-Ware (as some minors with that problem did)
• i searched for other related Firmwareupdates, but they all only would work on a 10.5.x!
WHY AM I SURE THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY SNOWLEOPARD?
• First you can say its a bad coincidence. But I've seen a lot of coincidences in between. More likely i would have won a Jackpot in Lotto, than that something like that would not happen exactly right after (seconds/minutes) a major Software Update that includes a hidden Firmware-Update or new Hardware-Limits-Specifications for a specific hardware! (as we had it in the past several times). Do U agree?
• This drive worked allways well and was heavely used (reading, burning, watching DVD's, listening to Audio-CD's, everything). There was absolutely no other harm to this Drive and i handled it carefully and it's the same old as the MacBook Pro Intel itself (in other words: new enough, but old enough, that the guarantee ran out). Last I could install SL from the Retail-DVD from the new Apple Shop.
• The drive is still listed in System Profiler, it tries to read, but does not seem to "know" the inserted discs anymore (makes twice a try to read)
• There are hints (from Apple itself on their support-webpages), that 10.6 tried to update a superdrive firmware what caused some problems for others. In my case the FW-Update seems to have proceed successfully, but now the drive don't recognices any CD's and DVD's.
• last but not least under Google you'll find a lot of articles related to that (or a similar problem) right now. Type in "Superdrive Snow Leopard Problem" and you'll see what I mean. And I've found out, that apple is investigating the SUPERDRIVE-Problem with the Snow Leopard at least since the 14.September 2009 now, after the 10.6 came out.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW (What to do, how to react):
1. Waiting for a new FU-Update that corrects the error with the Superdrive?
2. bring my MacBook Pro to a certified Repair place and demand for a new Superdrive for free?
3. bring my MacBook Pro to the AppleStore where I bought 10.6 on sunday and demand a new Superdrive for free (but it's a long way to there)?
4. send my MacBook Pro to Apple Ireland or somewhere in Europe is no option, i need it exactly heavily this week
5. try to install an older Superdrive (from an old, damaged PowerBook G4) on my own?
Until then i "temporarly solved" the problem by buying an extern USB-DVD/CD burner. But I don't want to carry that thing everywhere with my Laptop.
Cheers,
Tazmandevil

I do repairs on a weekly basis, but I do not do warranty work for Apple. I do have an opinion about your drive failure.
As far as I can tell, all of your logic is self-serving and wrong. If a drive quits working after you install Snow Leopard, and won't work with Tiger or Leopard, the drive has failed. Snow Leopard does not change the firmware on the drive, or motherboards. The fact that the drive shows up under Profiler does not mean that the laser optics in the drive itself are still aligned properly or that the motor is spinning the disk at the right speeds. You can try to use a cleaning disk. I've had some luck on occasion.
Booting from a known good disk will prove the issue. Booting happens before an OS has time to run software drivers, and the drive is under control of the motherboard's firmware.
4 Options:
1 - Warranty Replacement - you will need to ship or deliver the laptop for repairs.
2 - Pay for Replacement
3 - Replace the drive yourself, with the proper drive.
4 - Use a cheap external drive until you can take the machine off-line long enough to get the repairs done.
I've seen these drives fail by accidental abuse (machine was dropped and bent the aluminum frame around the slot and warped the drive), over-use (a client decided to make hundreds of copies of disks for friends at a school - too much heat), dirt build-up (cleaning disk can work here), and other unknown failures (some drives quit working and a replacement fixes the problem). Replacement drives are available for around $150 US, and there are YouTube videos that demonstrate how to change the drive.
I had a MBP have an optical drive fail after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard. I used an external drive for a year or so. Fortunately, I purchased the 3 year warranty, and after I got a new iMac I was able to take the Laptop in for repairs by a certified Apple repair station (less than a week turnaround). The new drive boots a Tiger DVD, Leopard DVD, and of course, Snow Leopard.
Hardware like this, that quits working with earlier versions of an OS that the machine is designed to run, are never fixed by a System Update because it's a physical problem with the drive.

Can any one tell me how can I move to a different folder pictures, that I've cloned, without them staying aggregated? They all come together to the other folder and I don't want that- thanks

Can any one tell me how can I move to a different folder pictures, that I've cloned, without them staying aggregated? They all come together to the other folder and I don't want that… thanks

There's more to it than that.
Folders in Aperture do not hold Images. They hold Projects and Albums. You cannot put an Image in a Folder without putting it in a Project or an Album inside that Folder.
The relationship between Projects and Images is special: every Image must in a Project, and can be in only one Project.
Images can be in as many Albums you want. Putting an Image in an Album does not move it from the Project that holds it.
You can make as many Versions from a Master as you want.
What you want to do may appear simple to you, but it still much adhere to how Aperture works. I still can't tell exactly what you are trying to do (specifically: Images don't live in Folders; moving an Image from a Folder is non-sensical).
It can be very confusing (and frustrating) to get going with Aperture -- but it does work, and can be enormously helpful. If you haven't, take a look at the video tutorials on Apple's Aperture support site.
I feel as though I haven't helped you much -- but we need to be using the same names for interface items in order to get anything done -- and my sense is that you still haven't learned the names of the parts.

Will the late 2013 Mac Pro boot from an external drive (4Tb, USB 3) with a cloned Win7 x64 partition on it?

Hello all,
I ordered a CTO Mac Pro for heavy rendering and animating work, and I am planning on using bootcamp to install a windows partition (for 3DsMax). As I am now using a HP Elitebook 8770W that has several valuable files and projects on it, I have bought a Seagate 4Tb external Desktop Drive that uses USB 3.0 to use as a backup drive. Now, as I saw that Bootcamp Assistant only supports installing a x64 version of Windows 8, my question is:
Will a late 2013 Mac Pro using bootcamp assistant boot from an external USB drive with a cloned partition running x64 win7? Or do I really have to buy Windows 8 and install that to my internal SSD, and then use the migration assistant to copy over my projects?
Thanks!

Posted? or found in new builds?
BCA should really just pull whatever the latest drivers are when run.
If it is with how it partitions and sets up nMP and its partition for Windows that is another matter and makes sense.
Some people want UEFI native booting in Windows, and my experieince with that on PCs has been that it boots faster and runs well, but has different partitions that it wants. For one thing, there is now a backup "system reserved" partition, just as Apple GUID has some volume information blocks and backup and areas that were once optional (and if format erase was not able to, it would not create one) are now mandatory.
Windows 8.1 is req'd, reason a backup should be a big must - is it might overwrite and use another OS's partition table entries. Especially when doing UEFI install.
There was something about which linux OS was safe and how they would each add entries in the table, but one would not place nice. That one had to be done first or not at all.

Can not request reports after cloning process

hello All,
I am new in oracle please guide me.
I have tried to make the process of cloning from dev machine to test machine, but after that the applications in dev machine was not able to request another report.
With Status: No Manager and phase: Inactive
we use:
RDBMS : 10.2.0.2.0
Oracle Application: 12.0.2(HRMS)
os: AIX 5.3 (64 bit)
I previously tried the ways of my search results on the forums and internet
1. Truncate FND_CONCURRENT_PROCESSES...
truncate table FND_CONCURRENT_PROCESSES;
2. Update FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS as follows:
update fnd_concurrent_requests
set status_code='X', phase_code='C'
where status_code='T'
3. Update FND_CONCURRENT_QUEUES.RUNNING_PROCESSES to zero
update fnd_concurrent_queues
set running_processes = 0;
4. restart conccurent managers,and has not succeeded.
and then I tried another way of information that I got
1. Stop the Internal Concurrent Manager.
2. Connect to the database via SQL*Plus as the APPS user.
3. Execute the following to alter the FNDSM trigger on FND_NODES:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER fndsm
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON FND_NODES <---- ( "OR UPDATE" I do additional)
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
if ( :new.NODE_NAME <> 'AUTHENTICATION' ) then
if ( (:new.SUPPORT_CP='Y')
or (:new.SUPPORT_FORMS='Y')
or (:new.SUPPORT_WEB='Y') ) then
fnd_cp_fndsm.register_fndsm_fcq(:new.NODE_NAME);
end if;
if (:new.SUPPORT_CP = 'Y') then
fnd_cp_fndsm.register_fndim_fcq(:new.NODE_NAME);
end if;
end if;
END;
4. Cleanup the FND_NODES table by executing the following:
SQL> exec FND_CONC_CLONE.SETUP_CLEAN;
5. Run AutoConfig on each node.
6. Restart the Concurrent Managers. and still does not work.
if something is missing or wrong from the way I do or there are other ways more appropriate for me to do?
Thanks,
Batara

earlier thanks for your concern and support for you all ,
I've run as shown in MOS Doc 134007.1 , but it still does not work, and the clone,
actually the clone that we do is still in trial and we have not too much concentration to the test instance as the target system, but the problem is that dev instance as the source system should not in fact the configuration changes become problematic,as not requesting another report.
and this is my next piece of the internal display manager log:
========================================================================
Starting DEV_1111@DEV Internal Concurrent Manager -- shell process ID 725148
logfile=/u01/oracle/DEV/inst/apps/DEV_hrmdev/logs/appl/conc/log/DEV_1111.mgr
PRINTER=noprint
mailto=devmgr
restart=N
diag=N
sleep=30 (default)
pmon=4 (default)
quesiz=1 (default)
Reviver is ENABLED
Application Object Library: Concurrent Processing version 11.5
Copyright (c) 1979, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Internal Concurrent Manager started : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:06
Process monitor session started : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:06
Starting PODAMGR Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:07
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager PODAMGR with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/po/12.0.0/bin/POXCON.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contact y : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:07
Starting INVTMRPM Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:07
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager INVTMRPM with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/inv/12.0.0/bin/INCTM.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contact : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:07
Starting RCVOLTM Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:07
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager RCVOLTM with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/po/12.0.0/bin/RCVOLTM.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contact : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:08
Starting FFTM Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:08
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager FFTM with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/ff/12.0.0/bin/FFTM.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contact your s : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:08
Could not find service instance context for service instance number 804345408
Could not find service instance context for service instance number 804345408
Could not find service instance context for service instance number 804345408
Could not find service instance context for service instance number 804345408
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contac : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:11
Starting STANDARD Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:11
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager STANDARD with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/FNDLIBR.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contac : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:11
Starting STANDARD Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 11:43:11
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager STANDARD with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/FNDLIBR.
Starting OAMCOLMGR Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 15:13:32
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager OAMCOLMGR with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/FNDLIBR.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Conta : 11-NOV-2009 15:13:33
Starting INVMGR Concurrent Manager : 11-NOV-2009 15:13:33
Could not initialize the Service Manager FNDSM_HRMDEV_DEV. Verify that HRMDEV has been registered for concurrent processing.
Routine AFPEIM encountered an error while starting concurrent manager INVMGR with library /u01/oracle/DEV/apps/apps_st/appl/inv/12.0.0/bin/INVLIBR.
Check that your system has enough resources to start a concurrent manager process. Contact : 11-NOV-2009 15:13:33
Process monitor session ended : 11-NOV-2009 15:13:33
please help and guidance
Regards
Batara

Can I use both newly cloned MBPR retina and old-MBP with same Time Machine

When my new-MBPR retina cloned from the old-MBP back up in Time Machine via migration assistance, will this newly-cloned MBPR continue thereon backing up with the same old-MBP back up in Time Machine? I.e. continuing same timeline?
And what happen to my old-MBP back up, if I continuing to use my old-MBP with the same Time Machine on? Will TM recognised 2 different MBP and thus creating 2 back ups? I seem to have problem to keep 2 MBP running with same TM. Programs not responding even force quitting them!
And what should I do to use both? Appreciate your help. Thank you.

OK, but in general I can use this one device as both file storage and Time Machine.
I thought that (for some reason) once I set up the Time Capsule to act just as Time Machine storage I would be unable to access it as a plain file storage.
I have just tested it now, and it seems it can work as both - file storage and Time Machine. I can see the Time Machine backup file on it and folders where I can dump regular files.
The only thing I would need to occasionally do is delete some old backups to keep Time Machine segment below 1 TB just so I have plenty of space for regular files.
This thing is awesome. :)

Photoshop cc 2014 suddenly trouble with cloning and healing tool

I just updated photoshop cc 2014. I use a wacom tablet. Suddenly, when I use the healing brush or cloning brush. The brush control panel pops up and the tool simply doesn't work. After repeated attempts, I do succeed in getting this to work. Sure slows me down though.

Sorry for the lack of the report it was my first time reporting an error for software... Never had an issue before.
I haven't experienced the crash via text tool since I posted the question, but the Photoshop is still constantly crashing at startup, but every time I try to enter the report I get the error: Please try again later.m5

Cloned HD running Snow Leopard won't boot in new MBP running Lion., cloned HD running Snow Leopard won't boot in new MBP running Lion.

Hi, I've seen a lot of discussion on this topic but nothing specific to my situation. I have two macs, a personal mac (macbook running Snow Leopard vers. 10.6) and a newer work macbook pro (late 2011 running Lion vers. 10.7.5). I want to use some of the applications at work (that is on the Macbook Pro) that are on my home macbook with Snow Leopard. I cloned the entire HD of my Macbook onto an external drive. The clone seems to have worked as I can use it as a boot disk for the macbook (from which it was cloned). However, if I try to boot the MacBook Pro running Lion, with this same clone on the external drive it won't work. I get a bit of text in the background and an overlay in dark grey saying (in several languages) restart the Mac by holding down the start key etc. I don't know if this has to do with the kernel panic problem or the Lion restore disk business. I don't see the point in trying to do an internal partition of the MacBook Pro hard drive and then add the cloned Snow Leopard, if I can't get the thing to boot externally as it is.
Does anyone have any fixes for what really should be a simple proceedure but is not?

Make sure the mac you are cloning from has the combo 10.6.8 update applied to it. The late 2011 models need at least 10.6.7 and better with 10.6.8. So if your older mac is running anything lower than 10.6.7 it will not boot on the 2011 model.

Hard drive keeps cloning itself in finder

This is the second time I saw this on a Mac, and never happened to me before (being working in a AASP for the last 9 years)
The disc fails, and won't boot, but you can see all the data starting up in Target or mounting the HD as an external device in a known good computer and system.
But, after a few minutes the disc mounts again as a new FW external drive, and kees doing it as long as its conected.
I was able (apparenty) to extract all the info, conning it with third party software, but, the surprise is that none of the cloned files worked.
Disk utilities repairs the volume, and restores permissions... but the disc fails again.
I've tryed disc warrior (wich is unable to fix the drive as it keeps mounting itself every few minutes) techtools, data rescue... all with the same result, the drive seems to be repaired but as it keeps clonning or mounting, eventually fails again, and no data can be copyed if the copy time tooks more time than the time the drive takes to cole itsef agai.
So, any idea what this could be?
any possible solutions or work arounds to extract the info?
Even GSX didn't know what that was, at least a few months ago...
I will appreciate any ideas.
(Mac OsX 10.7 installed on bad HDD, OsX 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9 tryed to solve this matter)
* One common error when trying to copy items is: The finder can't complete the operation because some data in ".DS_Store" can't be read or written. (Error code -36)
Picture shows three FW external units identical to each other.. (as it turns to be the same one replicating itself)

Assume for second your drive has failed totally, and get another backup drive to backup your source.
Once backed up you can determine how bad the failure is with Disk Utility Repair Disk, or if not revealing Alsoft Disk Warrior. Always have at two known working copies of your data at all times.

Problem using HDTV as cloned monitor

Hey Mac Community... here's a tough one.
I have a 2.66 quad core Xeon Mac Pro tower with an upgraded ATI Radeon HD 3870 Graphics Card (it has 2 DVI outputs). I bought an HDTV specifically so I could clone one of my 2 monitors and watch videos that are on my computer from my bed. It doesn't have a native DVI in port (beggars can't be choosers), but I have a DVI to HDMI cable and I can tell the tv which audio channel to use, so in theory that part should work.
Here's where the problem starts: I bought a DVI splitter from eBay (nothing fancy... dvi female out to 2 dvi female) and plugged it in to the primary monitor slot on my graphics card. When I plugged in the monitor then the HDTV, or plugged them in both at the same time and detected displays, only my 2ndary monitor was recognized. Only when i reversed the order, and plugged in the HDTV THEN the primary display did it work... sort of. The display thinks it is a clone of the tv and not vice versa, so my display's resolution is all wonky. I tried playing around with it, and I just can't get it right. I don't mind if the tv was a bit off, but since I need my computer to function as a computer, I need both displays to work properly.
My friends (who are much more tech/mac savvy than I am) told me that this happened because monitors have a special ID encoded in them, telling the computer "hey, I'm a monitor," which is why most monitors don't need drivers. My tv, they explained, doesn't have this special ID, and so when it gets plugged in to be a slave of my primary monitor, it doesn't understand what it's supposed to do. When I plug it in first however, the computer is smart enough to say "ahh... you're a tv being used as a monitor."
My question is this: is there any way I can make my TV a slave of the display and not the other way around? Further, once I change channels/inputs on the TV, it forgets that it's a monitor on HDMI 2, and when I go back, I have to fiddle with the cables again. Is there any way to have it permanently remember that it is a cloned display on HDMI 2? My tech-savvy roommate suggested buying a cheap graphics card and dedicating its own line rather than using the splitter. This would help, but it would cost a lot of money. Is there a way to get the desired effect with what I have? I don't need it to be a third display. Cloning/mirroring/slaving is just fine.... As long as it works @_@
Thanks!
~Bryan

DVI splitters work properly only with displays of identical resolution. It is unlikely your TV and computer monitor have matching resolutions. As you have seen, the splitter has one port that sends display information to the computer. The computer uses that information to determine the resolution(s) supported by that display, and video of that resolution will be sent go both displays. The display on the second port my not work properly with that signal.
If you don't need all three displays on at once, you could use a DVI switch. If you need all three at once, you will need a second graphics card. If you click the "?" near the bottom-rigth of the "Arrangement" tab of "Displays" system preference, it will tell you how to mirror just some of the displays.

URGEND: After cloned backup neither usb nor bluetooth mouse recognized

ahhhhhh, help needed....
after bootcamp kills my complete system disc during installing xp i've cloned my backup copy onto my ereased system disc. every things fine (besides some errors) but now my macpro don't recognize neither the usb nor the bluetooth mouse.
the keyboard works fine and i've tried every usb slot and a powered hub without no luck.
the bt mouse getting recognized by the bt assistant, connect and ready, BUT it's not working. the "tray" symbol shows it's connected.....
i've tried the following: pr reset, board reset, permission repaired, new directory by diskwarrior = nothing
behind the error window of chronosync is another one from parallels which says that the "connectusb.kext" extension wasn't correctly installed.
i've tried to copy the extensions from my macbook parallels but the error still occurs.
i'm not sure but i think there can't be any connection between the parallels extension error and my overall mouse dis function, or can it be???
plz help, cause i've got no possibility to archive and install the system cause i'm on an non authorized tiger 10.4.11 system on an early macpro
thx sooooooo much/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png
cheers and sorry for double posting

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I might try updating to 10.6.2, or 10.6.4, but not until I'm forced into it (when something is really not working on unstable). I do mostly music and video work. The only reason I updated was because something new I want to run (Wavelab 7) only works with 10.6. I usually never update my OS unless I'm forced into it, I'm way not an OS early adopter, I have work to do! I was truly expecting 10.6.5 to be OK, they've had plenty of time to get the kinks worked out. I wasn't expecting Apple to introduce new ones. Sounds like I'm not bothering with 10.6.6 now. 10.6.7 anyone? Do I hear .8?
Way to go Apple.

EBS 12.1.3 RAC to RAC Cloning

BismillahirRehmanirRahim
Dear All,
I need to Clone our Production EBS Environment from RAC to RAC with Shared APPL_TOP and Multi Tier Appl Tiers.
We have EBS 12.1.3 Environment with 2 Appl Tier Nodes with Shared Appl_Top & EBS DB is on 11gR2 RAC 11..2.0.4.
I am following Doc IDs 406982.1 & 559518.1.
But its not clear which directories need to be copy and restore for Shared Appl top on each Node.
Also what Steps will need to be executed on Each Nodes and
What Steps need to be executed only on one Node.
Appreciate your feedback.
P.S.
Kindly share if anyone have Step by Step Doc for RAC to RAC EBS Cloning.

Jay
Edit /u01/startapps.sh and stopapps.sh
Add VIS to the environment lines " . /u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/appl/APPS*.env"
Change to => ". /u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSVIS*.env"
I had the same problem found the solution here...refer to the Fix Environment File section of the following
http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/r12-installation/create-apps-vm/
A little late, I hope it helps someone in the future..
Ben

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BismillahirRehmanirRahim
Dear All,
I need to Clone our Production EBS Environment from RAC to RAC with Shared APPL_TOP and Multi Tier Appl Tiers.
We have EBS 12.1.3 Environment with 2 Appl Tier Nodes with Shared Appl_Top & EBS DB is on 11gR2 RAC 11..2.0.4.
I am following Doc IDs 406982.1 & 559518.1.
But its not clear which directories need to be copy and restore for Shared Appl top on each Node.
Also what Steps will need to be executed on Each Nodes and
What Steps need to be executed only on one Node.
Appreciate your feedback.
P.S.
Kindly share if anyone have Step by Step Doc for RAC to RAC EBS Cloning.

Hi Hussein,
thanks for the reply.
+The path is different (first path is db while the second one is apps), so copy the file from the source instance to $COMMON_TOP/clone/context/apps directory on the target instance and try then -- Troubleshooting RapidClone issues with Oracle Applications R12 [ID 603104.1]+
What I meant to say that CTXORIG.xml already exists in the correct directory in the target system:
$COMMON_TOP/clone/context/apps
Anyways, I recopied the file from source to the target system $COMMON_TOP/clone/context/apps, but still the same problem. I'll continue reading "Troubleshooting RapidClone issues with Oracle Applications R12 [ID 603104.1]".
I noticed below when running "perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier" with perl debug mode:
Cwd::_backtick_pwd(<10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME>/perl/lib/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi/Cwd.pm:204):
204: local @ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};
DB<1> s
Cwd::_backtick_pwd(<10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME>/perl/lib/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi/Cwd.pm:205):
205: my $cwd = `$pwd_cmd`;
DB<1> s
pwd: No such file or directory
Cwd::_backtick_pwd(<10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME>/perl/lib/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi/Cwd.pm:207):
207: local $/ = "\n";
DB<1> s
BR,
TH

Need guidance in cloning my newly installed EBS 12.1.3 to a physical machine

Hello Guys,
We have just migrated EBS 11i to 12.1.3 with rdbms 11.2.3 on the same server. Our Test instance is on a physical machine and DEV is on a Virtual Machine. We need to refresh or Clone the Test and Dev systems with or from Prod. Which is the best approach for me to follow in cloning Prod? I am looking at Doc ID 406982.1 but it's not very clear to me. Has someone get a step by step documentation for such cloning?
Thanks
Mathias

Mathias,
The document you have is all what you need.
You may also refer to (Troubleshooting RapidClone issues with Oracle Applications R12 (Doc ID 603104.1)).
And, if you Google "Rapid Clone" R12 you will find many hits.
Thanks,
Hussein

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