De-authorization and loss of files

will deauthorizing one or all of my computers from using the audible account remove the music files i have purchased from the store?

Deauthorising doesn't remove anything from iTunes it just makes the tracks unplayable until you authorise them to play again.
However if you are worried about losing your purchases for any reason you should always make a back up of them to restore from. You might want to check out these pages for future reference:
How to back up your media in iTunes
Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

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Thanks Neil

I had similar problems with browsing Windows shares... Initially I performed an Upgrade installation of Leopard. A temporary work-around was to use the IP address of the Windows computer.
For example (in the Connect To Server dialog) use:
smb://<IP address>/sharename
Obviously, you'll have to determine the local network IP for your Windows computer and know the name of the share. You can do this by opening up a CMD window and issuing the following command at the prompt:
ipconfig/all
Hope that wasn't too "technical".
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In a fit of inspiration I decided to clean up my daughter's iBook and while trying to get to disk utility ended up with an upgrade of OSX 10.2 getting put on the iBook.
I attempted to exactly duplicate her userID and password after the install but am not seeing any of the old files or apps. Have I committed an unrecoverable error?
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Ali, There are two users - the first is Katherine Sullivan, the second is Katie Sullivan - both are admins. The first was set up after the upgrade/install. The second to mirror the user that existed prior to the install/upgrade.
In the first user accessed via Macintosh HD - users; there are four files. The first is DELETED USERS - KATIESULLIVAN - SHARED and KATHERINESULLIVAN with the house. In KATHERINESULLIVAN are DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES - MUSIC - PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. In DELETED USERS is a file katherinesullivan.dmg. In the file katiesullivan are the files: DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES -MUSIC -PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. All with the exception of DESKTOP - PUBLIC and SITES are locked with insufficient privileges to open. When I change the privileges to open they are empty.
In the second user accessed via Macintosh HD - users; there are four files. The first is DELETED USERS - KATHERINESULLIVAN - SHARED and KATIESULLIVAN with the house. In the KATIESULLIVAN are DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES - MUSIC - PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. All are unlocked, however when you click on DESKTOP you recieve a failed due to privileges message. When I change the privilege it opens but there are no files. The LIBRARY folder contains files, but there is nothing in them. (ASSISTANTS - AUDIO - CACHES - COLORPICKERS ... SCREEN SAVERS - SOUNDS; 15 FILES TOTAL) The PUBLIC file contains DROP BOX and the SITES file contains a folder IMAGES and the file INDEX.HTML
I believe this everything. Thanks for your continued efforts to resolve this.
Regards

What is the best way I should restore or start over after a complete meltdown and loss of files?

In May I moved all of my itunes content (movies, music, podcasts, app, books) to a networked attached storage device. Long story short, recently I had problems with some content missing/being deleted. Lacie, the hard drive mfg, told me the public share had become corrupted and I needed to delete it and start over. Last night I appeared to have had a complete meltdown with the loss of most of my files, over 500gb of stuff.
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Hi folks,
Hoping somebody on here can help me. I'm a student editing my final project for my Master's degree and I've come up against a pretty large problem that I can't understand.
I've been editing for about 2 months, perfectly happily, no major issues other than a problem transcoding HD footage to SD. Had to use two file formats in the end as no transcoder seemed to want to process half of the footage. Anyway, as a result my project is made up of about half .avi files and half .mp4 files and here begins the problem...
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The troublesome .mp4 files are still listed in the project window on the left of the screen, so I thought it'd simply be a case of right-clicking and re-linking them to the source files. However, the instant the file is right-clicked a dialog box flashes up saying there is a serious error and Premiere needs to close.
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Hi Robodog,
Downloaded GSpot. Not sure it has been much help though. Codec status result was "undetermined". Here's the screen shot.
Will happily upload an MP4 for somebody to look at. Think Vimeo should allow you to download the source file once I've uploaded it. Putting one of the shortest ones up. It is viewable here.
Have tried putting faulty MP4s in a new project this morning. No luck. MP4s imported but were not recognised correctly. No visual, just an endless black screen. No audio at all, not even the option to drag the audio to the timeline when in the edit window, which was puzzling. The files shouldn't have changed but obviously have somehow. Or at Least Pr thinks they have. They still work 100% ok in all video players I have and when uploaded to video hosting sites.
Here's a screen shot of the new project attempt.
Message was edited by: StephenMilnes

Export QuickTime file with new audio and maintain the file size and quality as the original.

I shot some footage for a client yesterday and ran into an issue. To make a long story short I have QuickTime mov files shot with my Panasonic GH4 that have a buzzing sound in the audio track. I have clean audio from a recorder that can be sync'd. Is there a way for me to do this for the client and deliver them as the same QuickTime file but with the clean audio and keep the file size close to the original and not have quality loss in the image?
If so I will probably put all of the spanned clips together from each interview and sync the audio before delivery. I am just not sure which codec will give the client the same quality footage compared to the originals and not have a massive difference in the overall file size. They did request that they be Quicktime MOV files though so that is a must.
I don't see this as an option in the codecs in the export settings in PP, but is there a way to export as ProRes or another MAC native codec that will save them from having to convert it on their end? I am on a PC with Adobe CS5.5 so I am not too familiar with MACs, but from what I understand they would need to convert the files if I sent them straight out of the camera.
I found some related search results for this but they pertained to "Best quality" for export. I am not sure how the varying options work but I don't want to create files that are considerably larger, just not less quality.
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I hope this jars any replies as to why the file when uploaded to my iWeb gallery drops the second audio track.
Hmm,
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7. Re: What is the location for the swatches file in the illustrator product part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium for windows (date and lenght)? File that manges its funcionallity. Thanks

Original posting: https://forums.adobe.com/message/6529108#6529108
As per support suggestion: The discussion is posting again to obtain answer from adobe staff
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Illustrator is not working as it should...
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I saw your post today.
Moving the hosts file to the desktop will make it part of a roaming profile? That's means that activation will occur from any computer that are part and available of my microsoft local network. How can I make sure that the program I access is the one located on my local C drive and not in a roaming profile in maybe a cloud environment or from an unknown equipment with access to my network without authorization. I have only 1 laptop where I install locally the CS3 suit
My host file has not entries on it and even when trying to copy to the desktop the activation can not be completed, same problem. Days ago I used the trial option instead of the activation, after trying to activate the whole product as you mentioned in your reply, the trial period remaining got back to the original 30 days.
I have recently noticed that I have a roaming profile with a workspace file different to the one I have on my local disk (3 files basic, panel and type). On the roaming profile I see a directory for adobe illustrator CS3 settings \ workspaces \ AIWSPrefs file which has different entries than the one I have at the local drive. Normally I do not customize a lot the workspace or safe the setting used, I load the brushes, swatches, etc manually from the location they are on my local drive so the swatches and brushes directories on the roaming profile are empty instead. Adobe Eureka and Kuler palettes exists on the basic local file not in the roaming one.
The directories on my roaming profile are:
Acrobat
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Adobe PDF
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Color
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Fonts
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Linguistics
Logs
LogTransport2
Save For Web AI
Updater5
Workflow
XMP
Inside illustrator roaming directory, the following files :
AI Color Settings
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Composite Fonts
Graphic Styles
IllustratorFnt.lst
Kinsoku
MojiKumi
New Document Profiles
Plug-in Cache.ARTX
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Print Presets
Save for Web Settings
Swatches
Symbols
Transparency Flattener Presets
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In the above scenario, which workspace and other functions files will take precedence? How can I avoid the roaming profile?
Not being able to copy files from the roaming profile to my local disk, I wondering how this roaming profile was created and why the files are in there. Those files have a date from last month, the local files were more recently installed.
Your comments will be appreciated at your earliest.
Thanks in advance

My mac os 10.4.11 desktop requires authorization to copy a file to it.

my mac os 10.4.11 desktop requires authorization to copy a file to it.
I was trying to install some software on my moms computer and she forgot her login password so I changed the passwords on her login and the root user login to the same password. Ever since I have done that her desktop asks for authorization every time I try to move a file to it which after suppling the password it will copy it instead of move it. I tried changing the root to a different password thinking it may have somthing to do with that but it does the same thing. Any ideas?
Thanks
John

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I use my computer (macbook air) and iTunes for work (I am an itinerant elem. music teacher). The computer does not have a disc drive, so I import music from CDs and use iTunes match to transfer tracks to my laptop or iPod.
I'm having a few issues with iTunes (11.0.5) that have been occuring recently.
1) I play a song from a playlist with no issues, then play the same song later (sometimes just minutes later) and receive a prompt saying I am not authorized on this computer to play that song and that song only. Entering my ID and password gets rid of the prompt, but causes iTunes to freeze (I usually force quit and restart the program, which sometimes fixes the problem and sometimes doesn't). I use iTunes match on this computer, but it still allows me to play other songs from the cloud while one song has authorization issues.
2) When searching for a song using the iTunes search bar I used to be able to double click on the matching items without pressing enter (as I type in the search query it brings up options, which I can then double-click to play without completing the search). Lately, when double-clicking on those songs they either don't play at all, or an entirely different piece of music will play. If I click again it will cycle to another (also wrong) piece of music. Despite what I type in the search, the songs that play when I click are songs with trumpet in the title somewhere, with the exception of one song, which is a trumpet sonata but does not say trumpet in the title or description. When I drag the song from the search menu to a playlist and click on it the correct song will play.
3) Some songs will refuse to play (iTunes claims that it is unable to find these songs). I usually re-import from a CD when this occurs, which usually fixes the problem, but sometimes not.
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5) Itunes will sometimes be unable to access tracks stored in the cloud, despite the computer having a strong internet connection. I can download songs from the cloud using iTunes match, but this becomes problematic as I use more songs than I have room for on this (school-issued) computer. I really don't want to spend time downloading and subsequently deleting files every week.

my home computer, where my library is stored, is running XP and it is not compatible with iMatch!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/:
iTunes 10.5 system requirements, Windows
Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit editions of Windows Vista, or 32-bit editions of Windows 7
I'm not sure how you're testing this with iMatch since Apple's site says it is not available yet, and there's no mention of any different system requirements (or any system requirements for that matter).
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Sure-glad to help you. You will not lose any data by changing synching to MacBook Pro from imac. You have set up Time Machine, right? that's how you'd do your backup, so I was told, and how I do my backup on my mac. You should be able to set a password for it. Save it. Your stuff should be saved there. So if you want to make your MacBook Pro your primary computer, I suppose, back up your stuff with Time machine, turn off Time machine on the iMac, turn it on on the new MacBook Pro, select the hard drive in your Time Capsule, enter your password, and do a backup from there. It might work, and it might take a while, but it should go. As for clogging the hard drive, I can't say. Depends how much stuff you have, and the hard drive's capacity. As for moving syncing from your iMac to your macbook pro, should be the same. Your phone uses iTunes to sync and so that data should be in the cloud. You can move your iTunes Library to your new Macbook pro
you should be able to sync your phone on your new MacBook Pro. Don't know if you can move the older backups yet-maybe try someone else, anyways,
This handy article from Apple explains how
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support''
don't forget to de-authorize your iMac if you don't want to play purchased stuff there
and re-authorize your new macBook Pro
time machine is an application, and should be found in the Applications folder. it is built in to OS X, so there is nothing else to buy. double click on it, get it going, choose the Hard drive in your Time capsule/Airport as your backup Time Machine and go for it. You should see a circle with an arrow on the top right hand of your screen (the Desktop), next to the bluetooth icon, and just after the wifi and eject key (looks sorta like a clock face). This will do automatic backups of your stuff.

I purchased a book and downloaded the book on my pc, but I am unable to authorize and transfer this to my other devices

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pppls help..

Hi,
Could you please look into the authorizations that restrict data selection for the user, say if he control one or two costcenters and you have access to all costcenters. Also you need to have that object in the Aggregation level that allow the user selection. You need to include that info object restriction based on authorization value in the aggregation level and in the upload file.
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I have to access a text file from windows server like windows NT/2003 in to SAP server through report program.
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HT1329 My hard drive died. Can I plug my ipod into the new computer and transfer my files or will they be wiped out?

My computer hard drive fried on Friday. They are not able to retrieve the data. Have i lost everything that was not a download?
Can i plug in my iPod into the new computer (once I install iTunes and authorize the computer) and move my files to the new system from the iPod, or will my iPod be wiped out?
I believe I need to set up manual update, rather than automatic to prevent this, but other than that, I am a bit lost.
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