Dot Mac file copy

Is there a trick to copying files to my .Mac folders? I can't seem to drag and drop or copy more than one file at a time.

Put all the files in a folder.
Go to the folder that contains the folder you want to copy.
Select that folder.
Select menu EDIT/COPY "your-folder" (Command C)
Go to iDisk
Go to folder in iDisk where you want to place the copied folder
Select menu EDIT/PASTE "your-folder"
Easy as pie.

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Photoshop on mac - file copied to ntfs corrupt ?

Hi!
We encounter this problem on a school campus :
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Some files get corrupted when they open it up the class after, filters get black or weird stuff happening.
Ever see this happen ?
thank you

Sorry.
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Copy to Mac file Created Date uses iPhoto Modified not Original Date

When a photo is edited in iPhoto the 'Extended Photo Info' 'Modified' date field is changed to the now() date and time but the 'Original' date iPhoto remains the same.
Then when a copy is made of a photo in iPhoto and then 'Paste Item(s)' is made to the Mac desktop all the files dates default to the iPhoto 'Modified' date not the iPhoto 'Original Date'. Then if a sort by the 'Original Date' on the Mac is desired it will not happen unless the Created date file settings is changed for each photo copied to the Mac Desktop.
How can photos in iPhoto be copied to the Mac Desktop with the 'Original Date' used in the Mac file 'Created' date field?

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Teachers sharing one dot mac with iWeb need help- sites are being lost

Sorry to be lengthy- Here's the question and issue first and then the background.
Question/Issue: Anyone know a way we can have multiple people (eventually 20 or so) with their own computers creating sites in iWeb and publishing them to a common dot mac account without wiping each other out?
Background:I am a teacher and at our school we have a single dot mac account. A few of us have been using iWeb (2 on iWeb 08 and 1 on iWeb 06) and posting our sites to dot mac with no problems. The iWeb 06 sites went to a folder under Web> Sites>iWeb in our dot-mac's iDisk; the iWeb 08 sites were directly under the Web>Sites folder. When sites were uploaded from different computers there was no problem (they all had unique names) and it worked great until this week.Even the 2 users both on iWeb 08 could send their sites to the iDisk and nothing would be deleted, just more site folders were added.
We are now all on iWeb 08 and so nothing goes into the folder on the dot-mac's iDisk under iWeb, they all go as unique sites- no problem I thought.
Our problem is now that when any one of us update our sites, it wipes out everyone else's site (since their site isn't on our computer). It didn't used to be that way 2 weeks ago !!! Could this be something new with the migration to mobile me (if it is, this really ***** for us)
I know a solution is to publish the sites to folders and then drag to the dot mac in sub-folders under Web>Sites instead of publish and each of us can have our own folder, but its a pain and not all of the teachers will be able to do this.
I think there is a feature in iWeb06 called personal domains, but I think we can only have 2, so not sure if this will help.
Does anyone know a way to set the defaults in the domain.sites2 file or in iWeb so it will use a sub-folder when loading up to dot mac? This way each of us can have our settings different and it will load for us automatically on the iDisk.
Does anyone know why this used to work and now it doesn't?
Any other ideas- Help Please

From my own experience.
When you publish to dotMac the index.html file in the root redirects to the top Site in the list of the iWeb domain file.
I use ca. 40 Sites in some 30 domain files. And most are customized after publishing. Plus a lot more irregular stuff.
iWeb remembers what Site in which domain was published last.
When I choose a different domain file, iWeb will create a new index.html file to redirect to the "new" Site.
As far as I could determine, none of the either published Sites are deleted. If iWeb did delete previous published Sites I would not change domain files.
In your case the following will happen. Every student publishes his/her Site(s). The last one published will be the default Site.
As long as no-one changes his/her Sitename or add a new Site at the top of the list, the default Site last published will be that.
Make sure everybody's Sitename is unique.
I use a custom index.html file in the root. So I have to pay attention that when I publish a new site, the custom index.html page is overwritten. I keep a copy of that index.html file in the root. I can replace the index.html file in case of emergency.
Does anyone know a way to set the defaults in the domain.sites2 file or in iWeb so it will use a sub-folder when loading up to dot mac? This way each of us can have our settings different and it will load for us automatically on the iDisk.
Don't look for hidden settings. If it was possible, it would be visible in the preferences. Accept the way iWeb/dotMac does its job. It wasn't designed to be used by multiple users with multiple computers and only one account. That should give you a hint.
All other problems are purely organizational. Personally I wouldn't trust multiple persons on one account. Give them their own account. If they mess up things they are responsible. Or find another solution.

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10.4.6 - dot mac pref pane doesn't remember password

With the recent update on my G4 alBook to 10.4.6 from 10.4.5 (using combo updater and due precautions, including doing a sync before updating as Apple recommends) The dot mac/sync pane of System Preferences is acting weird: it doesn't remember my dot mac password. Every time I write it in, it connects and checks and says it is verified and I have so many days left in my dot mac subscription. If I then go to the sync tab and try to sync- it hangs with the Beachball of Death. If I just write in the password in the dot mac pane and quit System Preferences after it has been verified, next time I open the pref pane I am back where I started - an invitation to join dot mac, my user name filled in but not the password. So obviously I can't sync my stuff with dot mac on the Powerbook, though I can on the G4 Dual MDD running OSX 10.4.5.
Anybody else seeing this behavior? I'd be grateful for suggestions. I have repaired permissions and checked the disk which is OK and I reset the PRAM at startup with the 4 finger exercise. I could trash some preferences...but which?
thanx,
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Nina,
Are you familiar with the concept and the troubleshooting procedures which are associated with the removal/replacement of plist files? .plist files, contain instructions for recording and executing tasks associated with the the application or function that owns them. They can and do become corrupted. If you look in the ~Library/Preferences Folder you can usually guess what application or function the .plist serves by analyzing the file name.
Proper identification of the appropriate .plist is not always so obvious, but for example com.apple.Safari.plist is the preference file for Safari. When an application malfunctions, removing the associated .plist file from the preferences folder to the Desktop is often the best first troubleshooting step. If you have a problem with an application, Quit the application, find the associated plist file in the Preferences Folder, and move it to the Desktop as a first step in your troubleshooting procedure. Then log out/in or restart and re-evaluate the performance of the application.
A new default .plist file is automatically created in your Preferences Folder after you remove the recalcitrant .plist and initiate the log out/in restart sequence. You can expect default application behavior and you will have to reset some preferences. If the application or function returns to normal after removing the .plist file, it will prove that the original file was corrupt, and you can now safely trash the .plist file which you placed on the Desktop. If the application or function is unsatisfactory, the original copy of the plist file which was placed on the Desktop can be safely returned to the preferences folder.
If you are having problems with any aspect of OS X, experiment with deleting the appropriate .plist file. Plist corruption is common and .plist file deletion often cures many problems. Too many users try intricate solutions first and end up complicating their problem.If you are familiar with the concept and understand the consequences, I would recommend that you explore removal/replacement of the com.apple.DotMacSync.plist.
Another troubleshooting procedure you may want to explore is Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption, by Dr. Smoke.
;~)

Migration Assistant ruined my life, now my dot mac mail is gone :(

I added a second user name on my brand new intel mac yesterday, it had only been in my house two days.
I transfered information from a firewire backup, it was an exact match for a used name for my broken power imac running tiger.
It transfered all the mail setting and programs, I though everything was fine. Then I went to my original user name and did get mail. After taking the dog out, I came back to find four or more copies of every email that was in my in box, somehow the synch had made multiple copies.
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HI,
If you can, from the Mac Mail Menu Bar click Mailbox/Rebuild. This can take several minutes. See if that helps.
Also, you may need to trash the Mac Mail preference file.
Go to the Mac Mail Menu Bar, click Mail/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Mac Mail.
Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.mail.plist to the Desktop. Relaunch Mac Mail. If Mail behaves, move that .plist file to the Trash.
The tilde "~" character represents your home folder.
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Backup with cloning software your HD to have an exact copy of it as it is.
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MacBook Pro (2.5GHz, intel Core i5)
OS X Yosemite, 10.10.2
I was running low on storage space on my Mac Pro. I copied all items on Desktop to my external hard drive. After all files were copied from MacBook Pro to the external hard drive, "get info" suggested that the amount of space taken entirely was the same between when all items were on the Desktop and when they were on the external hard drive. The number of items copied over were also identical. I should have been more careful, but I then deleted all items from the Desktop. It was until a few days later (today) that I noticed majority of the files copied over onto the external disk can NOT be opened now. The error message was "The alias “<filename>” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.".
I really don't want to lose these files, but where are they? They got their file sizes correct but just can not be opened. I tried copying these files back to Desktop on my MacBook Pro, that's not helpful. I tried accessing the files on a PC, still can't open the files. I tried repairing disk of the external hard drive (under Disk Utility), still can't open the files. I tried repairing disk permissions of my MacBook Pro hard drive, still can't open the files.
One last thing I tried in terminal (I am not terminal savvy at all, just googled the "The alias..." error message and copied the instruction): /usr/bin/SetFile -a a /Volumes/MAC This did not solve the problem, either.
Thank you for your help in advance!

Hi, eddie from pataskala ohio.
We love pro-active thinking here at the Apple Discussions and you're off to a great start.
Even though upgrading iTunes shouldn't affect your Library, one of the funny things about computers is that sometime, somehow, somewhere when you least expect it , they can do some not so funny things, like losing data that they're not supposed to. Which is why it's a good idea to have a back up copy of any data (such as your music) that you value in reserve ... just in case.
The most straightforward way, is to go to the iTunes Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced tab > General sub-tab and make sure your iTunes Music folder is assigned to its default location: C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\My Music\iTunes .
Next make sure all your music is stored in that folder by using the iTunes Advanced menu > Consolidate Library option.
Now you can copy the entire iTunes folder - the iTunes Music folder and the iTunes library files in particular - to your external drive.
If anything does go wrong with the upgrade, you'll be all set to recreate your Library.

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*What I've tried and the issues...*
At first I considered using Windows 2003 (Win2k3) but Services for Macintosh (SFM) is an older version of AFP and thus only supports 31 character filenames. With all our Macs supporting SMB/Samba/CIFS and Apple touting that "Macs and PCs can co-exist harmoniously on the same network" I figured I would give that a try.
SMB doesn't work.
Sure I can create a connection, but transferring files is a completely different story. I'm trying to backup application and system data, but companies such as Adobe and Apple have named some of their files with special characters that can't be transferred over SMB. I know NTFS doesn't support these characters, but I though a Linux box using SMB would work fine. It doesn't. It's the protocol which keeps me from transferring the data. I end up with the lovely error message of "You cannot copy some of these items to the destination because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination..." (what's sad is, if you google for " because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination" you only get 6 results.)
So I thought I would give NFS a try. Apple says "Viewed from Mac OS X, [connecting via NFS] is just like connecting to an Apple or Windows server." No. It's not. NFS shares don't even show up in the Finder's Network listing. There are also a pile of other hurdles which are only tackled by savvy, command-line using users.
So that leaves me with AFP. Win2k3 doesn't support filenames longer than 31 characters, and Win2k8 is dropping SFM altogether. Off to choose a *nix flavor, but that requires Netatalk. It hasn't been updated in years, it has many bad performance reviews... and most distros have removed it. I can download and install it. Oh, but that requires I get the kernel source files. Then I have to create an RPM an that's not working... now I'm several levels deep in trying to figure out how to get Netatalk working and I'm not even sure it will work.
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FreeNAS seems promising, but it's in alpha/beta and they have all sorts of warnings regarding potential data loss. Sure there's ExtremeZ-IP, but I really don't want to spend $675 do something Apple claims OS X can already do. I can put just about any non-Mac OS on this thing... what's the best way to set it up so it works?
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Rick may be right because although i didnt think of it before i tend to have notoriuosly long classnames for my php classes and i have used samba on occasion (when rsync is out of the question for one reason or another) and never had a problem. I use kubuntu (feisty at the moment )with an ext3 filesystem. if i have a chance this evening ill give it a try and see what happens.
You could also possibly use FUSE to use an ssh filesystem for the shares... i don tknow how that would figure in your back up though.
Also if worse comes to worse you could tar or dmg the the necessary files... just some thoughts.
Ill be interested to know what you end up implementing....
OH one last thought... Compile Darwin from source and use that as your server

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Has anyone had any trouble with file copying to external disks?
I have used a third party programme called "Synchronize! Pro X" (SyncPX) for many years with OS X up to 10.5.8 and it has never given any trouble at all. In July I bought a new MacBook Pro 15", upgraded to 10.8.1 and bought the latest update for SyncPX (6.5.1). This worked perfectly as far as I know until I downloaded the 10.8.2 Mountain Lion upgrade about a week ago.
The symptoms are:
1) When files are copied in backup mode (running as a single user, updating only files that have changed) to an external disk using Firewire, a high percentage of them do not have their file information copied correctly. The "Last modified" date is often set to the time that the copy was made rather than being replaced with the "Last modified" date from the source file. Also, "further information" is sometimes not copied.
2) When files are copied in "Full bootable backup" mode (SyncPX runs "as root", copies files from ALL users and tries to set owner and group to be same as source file), the same symptoms as in (1) occur, but also SyncPX hangs right at the end of copying. Sometimes it says "Updating dyld cache…", sometimes "Updating aliases…". When this happens it is impossible to halt SyncPX except by forcing a quit, and then the external disc is not released so that it cannot be ejected except by forcing a shutdown. In that case the external disk usually needs repairing. The errors are always "incorrect number of extended attributes".
I have tried lots of things.
a) Restart
b) Reformatting the external disk and starting over.
c) Reinstalling the system (after checking and repairing the main system disc), followed by (b)
d) Turning off indexing for the external disc
e) Repeating the test with a different external disk (to make sure it's not down to a faulty external disk)
f) I have looked at Console logs but they do not indicate anything odd going on.
None of this makes any difference. By contrast, a straight drag and drop copy from Finder works with no errors.
At this point you probably think the errors are SyncPX's fault. But:
i) The same version of SyncPX worked until 10.8.2 was released
ii) If the destination disk for a SyncPX backup is a network disk, everything works OK.
I started by taking the fault up with SyncPX's developer, Qdea. One other user had noted a fault similar to (2). Qdea maintain that there's nothing wrong with their code, and blame Apple's disc drivers.
On balance I think Qdea could be right, or at least Apple have changed some specifications but not told the developer world.
I haven't yet tried to take this up directly with Apple (through AppleCare) as I think they will probably wash their hands of it and blame the developer. The point of this post is to see if anyone else has had a similar problem, perhaps with different software, and if there is anyone with sufficient experience to give advice on how to take this forward. Is the case for an OS bug convincing or do others feel it's a fault with SyncPX alone? If so how does one explain its perfect behaviour until 10.8.2?
What steps can I take to pin this down further? All advice and comments will be gratefully received..

RobertDHarding wrote:
At this point you probably think the errors are SyncPX's fault.
And you would be right.
I started by taking the fault up with SyncPX's developer, Qdea. One other user had noted a fault similar to (2). Qdea maintain that there's nothing wrong with their code, and blame Apple's disc drivers.
What steps can I take to pin this down further? All advice and comments will be gratefully received..
Dump Qdea for someone who knows how to write Mac software.
1. Qdea displays the following logo: . This is a pre-MacOS X logo.
2. Qdea displays the following review:
MacFixit had a good reputation, if you are old enough to remember when it used to exist.
3. Qdea provides download links to SynchronizeX and version in French, German, and Japanese. Apparently they don't know that Mac software can be localized into a single executable.
I'm sure there are any number of similar utilities available, all of them cheaper than SynchronizeX's $99.99 price.

Backed-up Mac Files turn into EXE

Help please!
I am have such a bad time of it here. So many archived files created on my Mac once copied onto my HD (or even showing up in their storage, i.e., old ZIP, or even new LaCie drives) have changed to EXE icons. Can't open them, can't go into the orig. programs to open. Wierdness.
I know an EXE file is Windows and will not work on my Mac if or unless I have Windows loaded. However, just want the files I created but don't know why the Mac OS is converting them to EXE icons!
Any assistance is appreciated as I need to retrieve and use these (some are old PageMaker, FreeHand and PhotoShop files, except for PM which I now have InDesign) all should convert or at least be recognized.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Diane

The actual icon doesn't really matter. Somehow your files are getting associated with the wrong type of program.
Get the information for one of the files. Select an appropriate program for opening the file ("open with"). Try opening it. If that works then go back and get the information for the file and this time also select "use this application to open all files of this type).

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