Confused over files

I'm relatively new to Mac after using MS for a number of years. I'm so impressed, though, I'm working telling Bill Gates goodbye forever.
As part of working toward that project, I tried transferring a group of folders/subfolders from PC to Mac by copying to a CD, then inserting into a new folder on the Mac. However, I cannot manipulate the files (all MS "doc"). I can open a file, but it opens as a "read only." And I am unable to create a new file and save it in the folder. When I try to do so, I get the error message newfile.doc does not exist. I am using NeoOffice 2.2 to write/read the files and trying to save them as MS Word 95.
What do i need to do to be able to use these files on the Mac as I did on the PC, which is running XP Home.
Many thanks

That happens at times, particularly from PC formatted CDs or DVDs. Even though the files are now on the hard drive, they maintain their read only status as if they were still on the CD or DVD.
Close all of the folders so all you can see are the top level folders of all the files you copied onto the hard drive. Highlight all of them and press CommandOptionI to call up the Multiple Item Get Info Box. Click on the check box for Lock to clear it. You may have to do it two or three times until it's off. Next, click the padlock at the lower right and enter your admin password. Click OK. Change the permissions for you to Read & Write. Close the Multiple Item Get Info Box by clicking the button at the top left (it's one of the few boxes you can't close with Command+W).
Everything should now be unlocked and belong to you.

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***** REQUEST MESSAGE *****
Exchange Protocol: Generic Version 1.0
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Trading Partner: GlobalChips
Message Signed: No
Payload encrypted: No
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It's not the videos that are taking up much space, but these menus.
Since I am building my job in Encore to a folder, I want to see what the actual size comes out to be after it's compressd. This will give me an idea of how big I can make my 2 and a half hour wedding. The Target and Max Bit rate.
I hope that sheds some light on why Encore is saying that the menus and QT files are taking up 7.1 GB already.
I wish there was another way that I can have my menus play for the length of any song without having to go into After Effects and stretch each menu to accomodate the length of a particular song. This takes up a lot of space, but it's the way I like to make my menus.
Thanks again

Confusion over ASM

Hi All,
i was going through ASM docs and so far my understanding " its is purely an instance which has got only the metadata of all the RDBMS instances using that ASM"
In ASM instance we dont have redo log file, datafiles etc then what is the functionality of DBWr and LGWr background processes in ASM instnace?
Regards,
ASM

Hans Forbrich wrote:
Aman,
Even I started with the misinterpretation that ASM handles I/O for the database. Not quite correct.
In the simplest explanation of ASM I've come up with is: Actual database I/O is 'raw', with the benefit that ASM manages the table of contents of the disk. The database server process asks ASM where to start reading; the DBWR asks ASM where to start writing - both server process and DBWR still operate.
"The Oracle ASM instance manages the metadata and provides space allocation for the Oracle ASM files. When a database instance creates or opens an Oracle ASM file, it communicates those requests to the Oracle ASM instance. In response, the Oracle ASM instance provides file extent map information to the database instance."
This is taken from the 11gR2 ASM manual in Chapter 1 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10500/toc.htm at Fig 1-1
Hans,
Thanks so much for the correction and for the link. I stand corrected, ASM does teh metadata writes only, the actual data IO operations are handled by the db's background processes only.
Just now, I opened [ASM Under the Hood book|http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Automatic-Storage-Management-Under/dp/0071496076] and was reading it to find the answer and page no 44 clearly mentioned the same what you have just said. Here is a note from the same page about DBWR ,
>
This processes manages the SGA buffer cache in the ASM instance. DBWR writes out dirty buffers ( changed metadata buffers ) from ASM buffer cache to disk. >
Which I believe is a very clear explanation that ASM processes just maintain metadata stuff. Thanks so much once again!
@Gurfan, Eduardo,
Apologies for any confusion that I unknowingly have created. Please read Hans's reply and mine over here.
regards
Aman....
Edited by: Aman.... on Oct 10, 2009 7:24 AM corrected page no, it was 44 :-( .

Some confusion about files on the hard drive and those in LR

i have been importing files directly into LR and at the same time creating a folder in My Pictures where the original files are stored. i then edit in LR.
in order to save and then backup up edited files i export them to another folder marked "fotos 2010 LR", the first folder being "fotos2010'.
my confusion is having both folders. i know that if i delete the original folder it will also delete those corresponding files in LR.
reading this over now i suppose i could export to "fotos2010" folder and write over original files but im afraid to do that. is that a good idea?
am i doing something wrong? i feel like i'm missing something about LR works.
thanks
harvey

The best way forwards rather depends on how far you have gone with your 'new' catalog.
On the one hand you have an 'old' catalog that contains your edits and your collections, but because you moved the original files and folders outwith LR the catalog, and it's record of the files it knows bout, is 'disconnected' from the source files.
On the other you have a 'new' catalog that knows where all the pictures are but doesn't have your changes and collections.
If you haven't done much work with the new catalog you might be better to open the original catalog and update it with the location of files it has lost sight of. In library mode right click a directory showing errors and select 'Update folder location'. Depending on the scale of your mix up this might be quite time consuming, proceed slow and sure and all will be OK in the end. What you won't have after this is any work you've done in the new catalog.
If you've done a lot of work in the new catalog then you are better off staying with it and trying to recover work from the old catalog. You'd have to do the updating of links discussed above first but having done so you can then write the changes made by LR out to the original pciture files. The 'picture' doesn't change but the file now has a list of changes applied by LR stored in a manner that can be interpreted by LR and other programs (technically not within the file itself but an associated side-car file). With the old catalog open select 'Save metadata to File', with the appropriate pictures selected. Once the data has been written out you can open the new catalog and 'Read Metadata from Files' to get the new catalog to be aware of the changes held within the picture file. That won't recover your collections however, I think you're stuck there. I don't know of a way to 'export' a collection and 'import' it into a new catalog. Given that a collection is essentially a list of picture files that LR knows about I can't really see how it would be possible given that the original problem is that the old and new catalogs have a different idea of where the original source photo files are.
My gut feel - Unless the help here has made you pretty confident I'd stick with the new catalog, take the hit and recreate the collections from scratch.
Cheers

Left Over Files after Uninstall

IBM PC running Win 8.1 in Desktop Mode
I uninstalled PSE 8 several years ago and installed PSE 9. I now want to uninstall PSE 9 and replace it with PSE12. In addition PSE 8 still appears as being installed and if I select Uninstall A message appears stating that "This action is only available for products currently installed. However when performing the uninstall using a "Powerful" uninstaller over a 100 files referring to PSE 8 still remain on my computer. It seems that these files are slowing up PSE 9 start-up and after installing 12 I don't want both the 8 & 9 files in addition to 12 to remain on my hard drive if they are not necessary. I think there were also some references to PSE 8 in the registry also. I would like to know if it would be okay to delete those remaining files manually?
Thanks
Rudy
[email protected]

If you navigate to C:/Program Files/ you can safely delete the folder called iTunes after uninstalling the software. iTunes intentionally leaves some library files behind so that if you update iTunes, or remove and reinstall it, you don't have to worry about having your library backed up or losing your files, or anything of that nature.
Microsoft offers an option called the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, which is good for ensuring an application is completely removed from the computer after uninstalling via Add/Remove Programs. It is available for download at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
Launch it by going to Start > All Programs > Windows Installer Clean Up
Select the application you wish to remove, and then click "Remove"
Hope this is helpful
CG

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