Counter Externally - MEASUREM_DOCUM_RFC_SINGLE_001

Hi Experts,
I'm creating a Measurement Document via MEASUREM_DOCUM_RFC_SINGLE_001. Does any know how to set the "total counter reading externally" ?
IMRG-TOTEX.
Thanks a lot!
Salem

Hi Sebastian,
description for exception VALUE_UNFIT is "Counter reading does not suit monotone development". This means for example that a counter value is greater than before, but the counter values are descending in general. Also the opposite might occur: a counter value is less than before, but the counter values are ascending in general.
Best regards,
Andreas

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termination procedure mentioned above.
Message Edited by John P on 10-13-2008 07:12 PM
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I'm still hanging on to a G5 that's serving me well, but I need to make the jump from CS2 to CS4. Al though I will obviously upgrade the machine sooner rather than later, are there any serious drawbacks to running CS4 on a PowerPC machine?

Nick,
CS4 runs very, very well even on my officially not-supported G4, even the OpenGL features.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB "mutant" flashed graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2. Photoshop 11.0.1, Tiger 10.4.11.

I really goofed and downloaded ACR 5.0 using CS3

I screwed up and didn't read where ACR 5.0 was only for CS4 and downloaded it. Now I don't have Camera Raw anymore. I can't remember what version I used to have. I know I got a new version when I got a Canon MKIII. I went ahead and downloaded 4.4.0 that I had saved in a folder, but it won't work at all. I deleted the 5.0 from my file format folder, but it still shows up in the "About Plug Ins" drop down along with the 4.4.0 version. How can I get rid of it in the drop down? Obviously CS3 thinks I don't have Camera Raw anymore.
Can someone please help? I seriously need ACR and I know I made a huge mistake here by not reading first. ugh
Thanks..
Lynda

>You can only have ONE copy of ACR installed.
That is meant to be understood as
"you can only have ONE copy of ACR installed
in a given version of Photoshop
I have Photoshop 7.0.1, 8, 9.0.2 and 10.0.1 installed on my Mac (where I can even launch two or more versions of Photoshop running simultaneously, just by launching the older version first and providing different scratch disk drives for each), each one of the last three with its corresponding version of ACR, namely
2.4, 3.7 and 4.6, installed. [ACR 1.x didn't support my cameras, so I never bought that optional plug-in.]
No problems of any kind whatsoever.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2.

My Mac locks up - can't understand why

Been having issues with my home Mac as of late (dual 2.3Ghz processor, pre-Intel age, running OS 10.4.11). I had been having some instances lately where it started "locking up," and the fan would slowly start to spin until it got really loud. The first time this occurred, I was watching YouTube in both Safari and Firefox simultaneously. So I had to hard restart my Mac over and over again, because every time it came back on, within 10 minutes it'd lock up again (loud fan too). This all happened around the same time that some of my firewire drives started having problems mounting. This prompted me to test the external drives on another Mac. Initial diagnosis: my firewire bus was busted (probably induced by a power surge), because the drives were mounting perfectly on other Macs. So I purchased a firewire card.
As the firewire card was in transit, the freezing continued... so I freaked out, and ran Norton Antivirus. But it came back clean. So then I figured... well, let me repair permissions on the system drive. This apparently cleared some "Shockwave player" conflicts that had popped up. And aha!!... the freezing went away for a few weeks... until two nights ago. I had purchased extra RAM alongside the firewire card, and felt confident running Safari alongside Skype, and iTunes... bad idea. Freezing came back, and brought his buddy Loud Fan along with him. Even when I'd run Quicktime, Compressor, etc. Nothing but freeze within 10-20 minutes.
So... here's what I did to troubleshoot the problem:
- Installed OS on the second internal drive, so I could rebuild the main system drive using Disk Warrior (v. 4.2)
- 33% of the system drives' directories were out of order, so I rebuilt the system drive.
- Rebooted to the main system drive and rebuilt the spare drive, same result (clean directory structure).
- Repaired permissions (using Disk Utility) on both drives.
- Even used Cocktail to repair permissions.
The freezing 'seemed' to go away, but last night I was transferring something large (over 1 GB) to a friend via YOUSENDIT.COM (in Safari). Woke up this morning to another loud fan and locked computer. Short of performing a clean reinstall of the OS (was thinking of maybe doing Leopard, since I'm still running Tiger), I feel like I've done all I can.
Any thoughts... ideas? This feels like a conflict is being created when I run certain programs. But maybe it's a hardware malfunction of some sort. I'm clueless at this point.
Please help. Thanks.

Hi BDAqua,
I just followed your instructions to run Applejack, because I have been having problems similar (virtually identical) to what the original poster is experiencing. I attempted to run 'applejack AUTO' three times, and each time the computer shuts down after completing Repair Permissions. It happens very fast at the end, but one time I could make out the last line that read (I believe) 'CPU Halted'.
The computer boots up normally. Most of the time, the total freeze comes at a time when Firefox 3.0.4 is running, but one freeze came when only Cocktail was running and the screen saver kicked in.
I'm very meticulous about my daily routine maintenance, including running Cocktail daily before shutting the machine down every day, I've run DiskWarrior recently (as late as yesterday).
The (flashed) video card has been running fine for a year; the freezing started recently, at about the same time as the last QuickTime update from Apple.
What would be your next suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Boot drive only 41% full. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. "Mutant" (flashed) nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2. Tiger 10.4.11

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