Endless Frustration

Hello-
I've updated to Compressor 3.0.3 and every time I try to select anything, I get the spinning beach ball of death. I've repaired permissions and done all I know how to do system wide, but Compressor just won't work. Sorry to be so general, but I don't know where to begin in describing what's going on. It just slows and won't function.
Any ideas would of course be helpful.
Thank you.

Try uninstalling QMaster and Compressor, then reinstall them.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302845
http://www.kashum.com/blog/1152611689

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Place first order for phone and internet. BT.com reference: <removed for forum post>.
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27th Mar 2012
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7th June, 2012:
Over the internet I place a new order with BT for phone line and internet:
Your order number is: <removed for forum post>. Phone number: <removed for forum post>
6th July:
BT infinity engineer appointment. 8am to 1pm. He is late. After 1pm. He arrives, looks at job and says he can't do anything. He says the phone line does not work.
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No phone & no internet.
Fault is raised:
Date closed: 6 July 2012
Fault/VOL number: VOL012-<removed for forum post>
Open Product affected: Phone fault
Telephone number: <removed for forum post>
Lots of calls to BT. But getting nowhere at all. They tell me there is no fault on the line but will send an engineer that I might have to pay for.
8th July:
Phone line engineer arrives 8am to 1pm. He is on time. He informs me all the existing work is incorrect. They have connected all the equipment to the wrong exchange. It should be the Putney exchange but they have attempted to hook me into the Wandsworth exchange - which won't ever work. Still no phone & no internet. He raises a fault number: LS6 W80 <removed for forum post>
10th July:
9am call from Open Reach engineer. This is not a scheduled appointment. I've had no contact from BT. I am at work. He does not know the problem or the fault number. I give him the fault number and call him back 90 min later. He confirms that I have been connected to the incorrect exchange and cabinet? He can't do anything to fix the problem.
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I use website to email in a letter with the entire listing of existing fault details/number, order numbers etc.
Thank you for your enquiry. We will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible. Please make a note of your enquiry reference number and use it in further correspondence.
Your enquiry reference number: 120710-<removed for forum post>"
One of the issues I am finding is that BT does not link previous faults with new ones, or previous Orders with new ones, or previous Customer Numbers with new ones. Every time I speak to somebody they cannot find any details of the history of these problems so far. BT keep on cancelling my Orders and placing new ones; raising new faults etc. But nothing is linked and when I speak to people for help they can’t see any of the history of the line, faults, address, etc.
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Order cancelled. Your order number is: BTCAA6<removed for forum post>
Dear Mr HUNTER, We confirm your broadband order's now cancelled.
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Check out your account and more about your service
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Good news Your order number is: VOL012-<removed for forum post>
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Monday 6th Aug, 2012:
Voice mail from BT priority care team: Informed "Problems with Engineering and Exchange. They will call back on the 08th of Aug."
14th Aug 201:
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She tells me “It can actually take up to 12 months to get a phone connected in London”.
She tells me “that it can be very complex to get a phone connected”.
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She tells me there is nothing she can do.
28th Aug
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29th Aug
BT priority Care called me.
Told me that it is connected to the incorrect exchange now. Wandsworth… The same thing I was told last March.
I got ‘annoyed’ and tried, again, to explain the entire story to the lady on the phone.
She told me she cannot see any records of my orders back to January.
She told me that she didn’t understand what the problem is, and that the records they have shown the line was working in Aug...
I asked her to get her manager to call me.
No manager called me; instead I get a call back from the same lady later in the day. She is trying to help but we are still getting nowhere. BT Priority Care are just trying to do the same things again, that have failed multiple times in the past. They have no solution because they do not know what the problem is?
30th Aug 2012
BT priority Care called me; lady might have been called Sharon? Another lady anyway.
She tells me a new order is going to be placed to get the line connected back to Putney.
I ask to speak to her manager. She says she will call me back.
She calls me back and tells me that her manager Kelly W<removed for forum post> a BT Priority Care Manager Sunderland(maybe?) is going to call me before 6pm. This is the 3rd time I’ve asked to speak to a manager at BT Priority Care. Nobody calls me back.
All I get from BT since March are people trying the same failed thing, again and again.
Now they want to check with the address team. Again.
Now 6 months later after getting it connected to the Putney exchange, they want to put it back to the Wandsworth exchange, where it was originally – and never worked? I question this decision? I ask why this is going to fix the problem if it is the opposite advice to what every line engineer (5 of them) has ever said. I get told that nobody can answer that question.
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Phone number is: <removed for forum post>
VOL012-<removed for forum post>
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All the BT priority care line numbers with the PIN numbers I was given have stopped working.
I can’t make a call to get through to the BT Priority Care Team anymore.
So I phone the normal BT help number…
An automated system tells my phone number is on exchange that is having a high level of faults for the last 2 hours and then it automatically disconnects my help call.
I phone back again and I have to NOT give my phone number for about 4 levels of automated systems to get to speak to a person. This time get through to a person. In India.
I ask for help trying to get put through to the Priority Help Care Centre in the UK. I am informed by somebody in India that all BT Priority Help Centres in the UK have been closed for good – since last Friday. I have to explain, again, the now nine months of trying to get a line connected – to the Indian help desk. I told to wait while she speaks to her supervisor.
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I speak to a man. He says he will email the Sunderland Help Centre and Kelly W<removed for forum post> and get somebody to phone me.
I ask him for advice on what I should do to try to get a phone line connected – after 9 months of trying. He says he will try and escalate it but he does not want to step on other peoples toes?
I ask him to CC in the CEO of BT to the email he is going to send to Kelly W<removed for forum post>. He thinks I am joking….
It is Wednesday night of the 04th of September 2012
Still no call back from Kelly or anybody from the Help care team. This is the 4th time I’ve requested a call back.
And now my PIN numbers for the priority call number have been disabled so I can’t call them.
Of course; why would you expect anything less?
LETTERS OF LATE PAYMENT:
In the last 6 months I’ve got multiple letters from BT telling me I am late in paying for my line service. I get ‘account overdue’ letters even though I prepaid the 12 months line service in advance for a line that has never worked.
SADLY:
There are phone lines in the flats below me, either side of me, and all down this entire street.
There are phone lines all over London. There are phone lines all over the UK.
But sadly not one that works in my flat. I’ve been without a phone or an internet connection since I moved in. 9 months ago.
MARS:
The Americans have flown a Mars Rover, which weighs a ton, from the Earth to Mars, landed it, and driven it around a bit – all on another planet - in the same time BT has failed to install a working phone line into a flat in central London? I wish it was this funny..
GIVEN UP:
So now I give up. My endless frustration at BT’s total lack of anything even close to coordinated fault tracking or anything like co-ordinated customer care service isn’t worth the time or stress any longer. 9 months of stress, lost wages while I’ve waited at home for engineers, and countless hours and hours of my time wasted on hold or speaking to people that can’t help.
YOU SUCK:
BT you are the total pits.
I don’t think you could suck more.
Some of my account numbers have been GB 1084 <removed for forum post>, GB 1099 <removed for forum post>, GB 1038 <removed for forum post>, GB 1105 <removed for forum post>
Dozens of other reference numbers: <removed for forum post>

Further onwards (actually downwards or backwards):
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Two days ago I did receive another letter from BT. Dated after I was told that I would never get another letter from BT asking for payment for something that was never done. "You will never get another bill". I get another bill.
So more, painful, calls to BT in India. Have to explain the entire 9 month situation again. More wasted timed.
Asked to wait while supervisor is contacted.
Told she can't help but I should call this number: 0800 169 4109.
Which I did. But of course that number requires a number and a pin. And they don't give you a pin number. So they have effectively just cut me off.
So I have to start the entire 'call for help about this bill' processes again.
(Don't forget I've been talking to BT now since January 2012. 9 months, coming up to 10 months and I still can't get a working phone line and I still can't stop getting bills for something that has never worked).
Additioanlly on top of getting sent another late payment letter I’ve see no letter regarding the ‘Deadlock’ process between BT and I – as ‘promised’ by BT. I was told, verbally, the letter would go out last Monday. It is still not here. I want to know if the process has began. So I try to get help with that on BT Help Chat.
My goal in the chat below was to:
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3. Find out why I am still getting late payment changes for a line that has never worked - in the 9 months since the initial line order was created.
I was not given a number to call for help. Claire, the Help Chat lady, would not give me the number.
I was told I was going to be 'called back,' which I was not happy with as I know from 9 months of past experiences with BT that I will not be called back.
Sadly I was getting very frustrated by the end of the ‘Help Chat’. 9.5 months of tryign to get a phone line working in Central London has left me a little stressed...
Please note that today is the day after the chat transcript below. While Claire was trying to be helpful:
I was not called back. I received no help regarding getting details on what stage the Ombudsman process is at and what I have to do next.
9.5 months now. No phone line. No solution. Lots and lost of endless frustration.
Days and days and days of stress and my own time and hence money wasted.

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Last night, I started to get that same error message when trying to view my inbox messages - EEK... so I came here, and followed the great advice about having an overstuffed mailbox. I deleted lots and lots of huge attachments from my inbox messages, and I haven't gotten that error since.
I did a "rebuild" on my sent mail to see if it would help, and it just emptied the whole list of messages (table of contents????) in my sent box, leading me to believe they were gone forever. Yet, even with an apparently absolutely empty sent mailbox, I was still not able to view a test message I sent to myself!!!! (Same error)
So I discovered a thread in this forum that was very helpful, and followed the instructions. I moved my sent mail .mbox (from my POP folder) to my desktop, restarted mail, and then I could view a test message I sent, in my new sent messages folder!!!! I was pretty excited about that, and was very hopeful as I tried to get back my 1.5GB sent mail .mbox. After backing up my whole .mbox file, I went to the file on my desktop, deleted the "content_index" and "tableofcontents" files after viewing the package contents, and copied the mbox file back into my POP folder. When I started mail again, it took forever for it to load, and I saw all my messages listed (EXCITED), but then tried to read one, and I got the same "download from server" message. (@#$%).
Is there any hope of getting these messages back???? I will happily strip them of all their attachments, if I can just get them back.
Also - the problems with overstuffing into one big, main box - I get it that I have to make my own mailboxes so no one file gets too big. But how can you do that with sent mail???? When I first got this computer 2.5 years ago, I spent hours trying to figure out if it was possible to do that, and was endlessly frustrated. I really wanted to be able to categorize my sent mail, and now that I know that it can get overstuffed, I'm ticked that it doesn't let you make sub-mailboxes within sent mail!!!!
Please help me get my sent messages back... it's 1.5GB, and I hope I didn't ruin all my chances by waiting too long. Thank you in advance if you can help me!!!!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) mail: 1.3.11 (v622/624)
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) mail: 1.3.11 (v622/624)

Hi Catherine.
You let the Sent Messages.mbox to grow too much and now it’s too big for Mail to be able handle it.
As you’ve already found, although in Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier *.mbox packages appear to be files, they are actually a special kind of folder containing several files that can be revealed by ctrl-clicking on the *.mbox package and choosing Show Package Contents from the contextual menu.
Of these files, mbox (not to be confused with the *.mbox package that contains it) is the most important and is where your messages are stored, but it’s not the only file that may contain messages. An Incoming_Mail file may also be present, in which case it might contain messages that Mail couldn’t transfer to mbox. Incoming_Mail is also a standard mbox file like mbox proper, just named differently.
Instead of tinkering with the contents of ~/Library/Mail/, IMO it’s preferable to try to import the mbox files back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Other / Standard mbox as the data format.
If the mbox files are too big, however, importing them directly into Mail won’t work either. You’ll have to break them into smaller pieces. You can do that with an MBOX Breaker Script available at Allan Sampson’s website, or with Emailchemy. The former will ignore the Incoming_Mail file that I mentioned previously, but you may try importing that file directly if it’s not too big or just ignore it if all your messages are in mbox.
As to organizing your mail in custom mailboxes, what you say doesn’t make sense to me. You cannot create sub-mailboxes of any of the standard Inbox, Sent, etc. mailboxes. Those are managed automatically by Mail. You must create your own custom “On My Mac” mailboxes. Also, sent messages can be organized just like received messages. Actually, you can store sent and received messages together in the same mailbox. You should read the relevant articles in Mail Help to learn how this works.
BTW, the web page you’re looking at now is full of links to do things and look for information in these forums. Just pay attention to them. In particular, if you look at the right of this web page, you’ll see several ways to get access to any questions you’ve asked previously or discussions in which you’ve participated.

IDVD stability is not good, *many* crashes, should I stay or should I go?

OK, I seem to be just the latest to rant on this topic, but I've got a brand new MacBook Pro, with 10.6.2, and if iDVD stays running for more than 10 minutes without crashing I'm doing well. Unlike other posters, I've not yet had a crash while burning. The trouble for me is getting to the point where I'm ready to burn. Just the most basic manipulation of buttons, sometimes just setting text, or placing the button on the page will often result in a crash. I'm now to the point where I save after just about every gesture. Not good!
Apple, was this thing tested?
BTW, my experience with iMovie has been a little better, but not much. Many crashes, but fortunately not quite as often.
Apple community at large, should I give up on these apps? Am I going to just be endlessly frustrated? Are there new versions in the works? Or at least some serious updates?
Thanks for reading to the end!

The problems I've seen here relate to people updating to Snow Leopard from Leopard or earlier. SL is pretty much a complete rewrite, so I'm not surprised that some folks have problems. Another problem I've seen relates to people who install there own hard drive because there seem to be some EFI firmware issues.
Really, I think it's just buggy software.
I've seen nothing to support that supposition. Like I said, everything works great for MANY of us.
I worked for a long time on Windows with Adobe Premiere and never once had a crash
Now, THAT I find hard to believe
Did you install QuickTime 7 from the install DVD? (It goes in your Utilities folder). I'm not a big fan of QuickTime X when working with some video formats.
I don't have that much video in my current projects (few hundred Gig)
Actually, a few HUNDRED GIGS sounds like a lot to me. Where is it stored? If its all on your internal hard drive you may be having problems with scratch space.
Did you go for the 7200 rpm hard disk drive option (like I did)?

300 pixels vs 72 pixels

We built a home page in Photoshop at 300 pixels per inch. Now
we are ready to load into Dreamweaver and it seems as though many
pages are built at 72-80 PPI. Do we have to start over? Does it
matter? Please tell me I dont have to start all over again? This
has taken me hours to get to this point...
THanks
VED

>>we are ready to load into Dreamweaver
Ignoring the resolution (non)issue, when you say "load into
Dreamweaver" do
you mean just the images from PS or did you generate HTML in
PS also?
Because if you are planning to use PS generated HTML you are
in for a big
disappointment and endless frustration. Never use HTML from
an image app, it
is convoluted and will create a rigid but fragile structure
that will break
easily and often. Create your HTML only in DW, you'll be glad
you did.
Walt
"vederenzo" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g9t4kj$4d9$[email protected]..
> We built a home page in Photoshop at 300 pixels per
inch. Now we are
> ready to
> load into Dreamweaver and it seems as though many pages
are built at 72-80
> pixels. Do we have to start over? Does it matter? Please
tell me I dont
> have
> to start all over again? This has taken me hours to get
to this point...
>
> THanks
> VED
>

[SOLVED] How to create a wlan0 interface?

Hello:
I'm getting a lot of problem with my wireless card, as you can see in this post (unsolved).
I installed the supposedly driver for my wireless card without result. Installed "WICD" -installed networkmanager, but never achieved to initialize the GUI- and just see my wired connections, not the wireless, mine or from others.
I'm just wondering if the problem is that I do not have a "wlan0" interface in my "/etc/rc.conf". If that is true, could I create one by myself? In the wiki there are many pages (wireless setup, beginners guide, etc) that makes some dispersion in the information and it is difficult to me to follow -and evaluate- That's why I'm asking for your support.
My actual rc.conf -selected parts- is -notice that because WICD there are some "!", as the wiki suggested -:
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(!eth0)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus !network wicd netfs crond alsa hal sensors privoxy tor)
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:33:FE:CA:04
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fefe:ca04/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:849947 (830.0 Kb) TX bytes:132884 (129.7 Kb)
Interrupt:44 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:700 (700.0 b) TX bytes:700 (700.0 b)
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Should I create a wlan0 interface? How?
Thank you very much.
PD: I also create a WPA profile in netcfg, following the wiki, but it is not working. I get:
> Profile "mynetwork" does not exist (but I created it!!!)
Last edited by gromlok (2010-10-16 03:13:59)

[offTopic]
I know this is not what you expect as a reply but anyway... I recently bought a very nice machine which is a Thinkpad x201i (the cheap version of the x201), great build quality, affordable price, perfect size and enough processing power. The problem is that it came with a realtek 8192se wireless card. It's everywhere on the internet: the driver sucks and it's only supplied by the vendor (so not in kernel tree, not even in staging). it costed me few bucks and 20 minutes of my time to replace it with an intel centrino advanced 6200N, I guess the Intel Centrino-N 1000 is even cheaper (saw it at less than USD15 on amazon). You'll get in-tree kernel drivers, injection support and all that fun stuff... I was happy to pay the extra money just thinking about the endless frustration I would have gotten with the realtek card. Not that compiling a driver makes me scared, but using a crappy driver is a pain.
[/offTopic]
Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2010-10-16 02:55:39)

Why still a 1.5Mbps max for iPods?

Apple raised the maximum bitrate for H.264 content on iPods to 2.5Mbps a while ago. So why does the iPod setting in Compressor still max out at 1.5Mbps for 640x480 content? I would like to use Compressor due to frame controls, which are second to none as a deinterlacing algorithm. However, the actual compression quality of Apple's H.264 is sadly inferior to free alternatives. These free alternatives have middling deinterlacing options, though. I'd like to raise the bitrate to 2Mbps when formatting video for iPods to offset the quality difference, but I can't do that because Apple, even though they advertise the higher bitrates in their iPod/iPhone specs, will not allow it at all. it's endlessly frustrating for professional software like Compressor to be so dang static on options. I also have very, very limited control over the AAC bitrate and other functions. Attempting to format as a Quicktime H.264 or AppleTV H.264 results in a file that apparently does not conform to Apple's specifications. They will not play on iPods. If I could find some software with deinterlacing quality reasonably close to Compressor's, I would jump ship in a heartbeat.

Well, I stand corrected. I tried transcoding to DV to preserve quality and used the better deinterlacing in frame controls. It looked great...until high motion scenes. Then you literally get blocks of space that show visible interlacing. Literally random squares in an otherwise good looking scene.
There is utterly no excuse for this garbage, Apple. I thought I had found a middle ground by transcoding to DV with frame controls for minimal quality loss, then going to another program for the H.264 compression. You disappoint yet again. This is supposed to be professional grade software that costs a bundle. How in the BLAZES do bugs like this not only get through, but fail to be remedied after several patches??

"Please contact your administrator" - I AM the Administrator! (Adobe AIR)

I'm having endless frustrations with trying to install Adobe AIR on my Macbook. I'm running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
After launching the Adobe AIR installer file, it takes a while before a window appears citing an error (see attached screenshot).
The problem is that there is only ONE account on my Macbook and it IS set as the admin account. I have double checked and triple checked that the account has admin priviliges.
Since the last few days have fallen over the holidays and it's the weekend now, I've been unable to reach Adobe technical support by phone. Please help in solving this.

I just spent days going through this. I had tried everything, even logging is at the root (Systems Administrator). I ran the uninstaller I don't know how many times, I ran the command line prompts. I was getting pretty frustrated and a bit angry about the whole thing. Then I saw the suggestion to look at my log files:
/private/var/log/system.log
When I took a peek at the log file from the install I found something very interesting:
Jul 9 20:27:24 /Volumes/Adobe AIR 1/Adobe AIR Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Installer[1088]: error during install: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception Error: Could not create directory /Applications/Adobe/Flash Player/AddIns/airappinstaller" errorID=3010]
So I went to the directory Applications and found there was an old text file called "Adobe". I renamed that text file, than ran the Adobe AIR installer and it WORKED!!!
So make sure you take a peek at the log files at:
/private/var/log/system.log
Thanks!
Leslie

Aug 31 DPS performance-reliability announcement - no change

Despite yesterday's update, I am still having no luck with downloading updates to existing folios to the Adobe Content Viewer on the iPad. This is week 2 of endless frustration. I've tried all the suggested "workarounds" from other forums I've been following. I have multiple folios in my library that were once successfully downloaded, in spite of some stopping and starting over several times. A couple of these folios I've made small edits to and updated through the Folio Panel. Trying to download the updates to the iPad is next to impossible. If I sign out of the Viewer App, sign back in, and try to download the update, it starts completely over as though downloading the entire folio again, instead of just the small bit that was edited. Everytime I try this I get the same old "Cannot connect to server at this time" that I've been seeing since early last week.
When downloading updates, the View option is greyed out, so viewing in stack view, the so-called "workaround" is not really a workaround. The only real option I can see when downloading updates is to select Archive and start the download all over again, which allows me to at least get into the stack view. But even then, the downloading will often pause.
I have very real deadlines for publishing and I have editors and ad salespeople needing to proof the folio on their own iPads via the Adobe Content Viewer, not the final viewer app. Some of these folios are not ready to publish, even as Private. I just want to be able to share the folio in the Adobe Content Viewer, just like I've been doing since way back last fall with the early beta builds. Just like it's SUPPOSED to work.
Yesterday's announcement suggests not embedding more than one video in an article, or keeping the articles under 80MB. We went from 100MB limit to 2GB limit, now we're back down to 80MB limit at this time? Really?
I'm so tired of seeing these screens in my Content Viewer eveytime I want to view something new or updated.

I had to rebuild it using a test account because of a bug that would cause a "Private" published version to go live.
What we need to do is proof this issue on an iPad before publishing it to iTunes.
The normal route would be to just sign-in to Content Viewer with the publication's ID and download the new issue, but after several hours of getting the same behavior we got two weeks ago because of the server problems, we gave up and I went to plan B.
Plan B was Privately publishing using a test account. This was a workaround that Matt Laun helped me with for a previous issue a couple weeks ago.
That time it worked...this time it didn't. Just wasted a day and missed a deadline.
Was not able to download the privately published version.
It did the same thing that has been frustrating people for weeks.
It starts to download, gets hung up and pauses, then gives the infamous "Cannot connect to server" message.
One time it got almost to the end of downloading then gave the other infamous message "cannot install...restart app etc."

Endless Frustration

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