FCP 7 BUG REPORT: "close gap" screws up marker locations

First off, it's wonderful to finally have automatically moving markers. Thanks.
the bug:
If you "close gap" between two clips (ctrl-G), the markers past that point will ONLY update their locations correctly if the play head is positioned at the start of the gap. If the play head is in the middle of the gap, it does something wrong and unexpected. I edit with ctrl-G a lot, so this is a problem for me.
Also, while I greatly appreciate the new marker list export tool (which makes the self-moving markers useful), giving a longer-than-short name to a marker screws up the column spacing of the export. I propose having an option in the export box to automatically truncate long names to preserve column spacing. Or you could just space all columns based on the longest name.
Thanks

I posted it as a bug report as well.
I'm starting to see that these automatically moving sequence markers are of no use the way they behave now. For example, select half the clips in the timeline, type "+100" to move everything 100 frames, and watch how the markers don't keep up with the movement. Or just click and drag to move the clips. If you were using the markers to know where your VFX shots and commercial breaks are, you have now lost them. These sequence markers are only of use if they ALWAYS remain where they are in relation to the media below them.
Also, there needs to be an option for a specific marker to NOT ripple it -- not just a global toggle. For example, on a TV show you often have a specific length you need to hit in 23.98 to end up with the right length in 29.97 DF and it's nice to put a marker at that point in the sequence. But that doesn't work with ripple mode on.
In short, I like the new feature but it needs to be implemented more intelligently to be useful.

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Bug report iMovie '11 Title, Picture, Transitions Location Duration bug

In iMovie '11 version 9.0.1 (1095) there is a very annoying bug if you use Norwegian or Dutch. I presume in other languages as well, but in English I can't repeat the bug.
Set System Preferences > Language & Text to Nederlands or something else (not English).
In iMovie, add a Title, try to change Duration in the inspector to something between 10 and 59 seconds. The clip will change to 9:58 seconds.
I don't know how to do bug reports, so there you go. My parents and parents in law (south of 70) would love to see this fixed. I am very proud they even use this stuff, I don't see them relearn their patiently acquired skills in English.

In iMovie, if you click iMovie/Provide Feedback, you can send your comments and bug report to Apple.
This is a user to user forum, so they may or may not see it here. I would not count on it.
I think it is great that your parents are making movies.

Rant: project developers should pay more attention to bug reports

I believe that software reliability is one of the key parts of software quality: having a lot of features is useless if they don't work reliably. It is for this reason that most open source project have a bug tracker of some sort. However, having a bugtracker is not very useful if you let bugs sit there until you can mark them as "obsolete" several years later. I try to report most of the bugs I find because I believe it's one of the best contributions I can make to open source, however in my experience (I've reported dozens of bugs), more often than not bug reports are ignored, even if they are detailed and the reporter agrees to give more details when needed.
So if you develop an open source project and you're reading this, please pay attention to your bug reporters. These people take time to help you improve your software, don't ignore them. At the very least, close your bug tracker if you're going to ignore bug reports anyways. That way I won't lose valuable time creating reports that you will never read.

lardon wrote:
I believe that software reliability is one of the key parts of software quality: having a lot of features is useless if they don't work reliably. It is for this reason that most open source project have a bug tracker of some sort. However, having a bugtracker is not very useful if you let bugs sit there until you can mark them as "obsolete" several years later. I try to report most of the bugs I find because I believe it's one of the best contributions I can make to open source, however in my experience (I've reported dozens of bugs), more often than not bug reports are ignored, even if they are detailed and the reporter agrees to give more details when needed.
So if you develop an open source project and you're reading this, please pay attention to your bug reporters. These people take time to help you improve your software, don't ignore them. At the very least, close your bug tracker if you're going to ignore bug reports anyways. That way I won't lose valuable time creating reports that you will never read.
This is probably true, many bugs are ignored. But open-source developers normally only have their free time to work on their projects, and the motivation is not the same for all issues.
Also I think it's not common that all issues get ignored. Usually it's the ones who are not important, or very hard to fix, or a combination of both.
In any cases, don't lose motivation, reporting bugs is indeed a good contribution, and even if only a minority gets fixed, it's still better than nothing

Close Gap Tool Giving Me Trouble

I'm using FCP 7.0.2 and I'm having a problem, with the close gap tool, that I've not had with the previous versions of FCP I've used.
In the past I could right click on the gap and chose close gap, and it was done. But now when I do this, it always closes the first gap in the timeline, instead of the gap I'm on. I know this is something small, but it's driving me crazy, because I use this shortcut all the time.
I looked in the manual for advice and it doesn't say anything about a setting or something like that. So I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for me.
Much Thanks

hi. I'm user for FCP 7 and I just make the last update for it (7.0.2) and the shorcut for close gap (ctr+G) don't work any more... and making a review at the forums, I found that trouble is frequently consulted in many sites.
The cuestion is, how can report this to apple for get us a solution?... yes is posible to use select the gap and then delet it but I and many other users prefer to use the shortcut and we want continue using it !!!

Bug Report: The keyboard focus doesn't automatical...

Bug Report: When a conversation window opens, the focus doesn't automatically land in the chat entry text field.
Since the new interface for Skype was introduced officially in Skype 7.0, there is a bug with the system/keyboard focus for a new conversation window. When Skype is in "Split Window View" and each new conversation automatically pops up in a separate window, the system/keyboard focus doesn't land in the chat entry edit field. Instead, the user has to press Shift+TAB a couple of times, to move it there and reply to the chat message received. This especially problematic for screen reader users, who rely on keyboard navigation. This mainly occurs when a new conversation is started with an incoming message, but it sometimes occurs when moving the focus out of that conversation window and later back in it again (while it is still opened).
Steps to reproduce it:
1. From "View" menu, activate the "Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
2. From Tools -> Options -> IM & SMS -> IM settings, enable "Open a new window when I receive a new message in Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
3. From Tools -> Options -> Advanced, activate "Enable accessible mode", if it is not already enabled.
4. Activate the "Save" button, to save the changes.
5. Close all windows, related to Skype. You may keep only the main window opened.
6. Tell someone to send you a chat message. When the message arrives, Move the system focus to the conversation window in question, preferably with Alt+TAB. The system/keyboard will not land in the chat entry edit field as it did in Skype 6.21 and earlier and as it should by default, but in some unknown place in the window.
7. Move the system/keyboard focus in the chat entry edit field and keep it there.
8. Switch to another window, preferably from another application.
9. With Alt+TAB, switch back to the window of the opened Skype conversation. There is a chance that the system/keyboard focus will not land in the chat entry edit field as it did in Skype 6.21 and earlier and as it should do by default, but again in some unknown place in the conversation window. But that is harder to reproduce.
Test environment:
- Operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro N, 64-bit, in Bulgarian with all locale settings set to "Bulgarian".
- Skype version: 7.0.0.102 for Desktop.

This is a known problem, but Skype have not given us an estimated time for a fix.
Traditionally, Skype updates have been roughly monthly, so we are due a new version sometime soon. Many of us here are hoping that is has a bunch of fixes for the UI, the focus problem being one of them.
Sean Ellis - uses Skype chat for serious work
Click here to read my blog post on Skype 7 and basic principles of GUI design

Bug report: 3.2; DAC; GridControl; Navigation - Invalid reaction to mouse drag

Hi,
This is a bug report, I think.
I have a one-column GridControl with mandatory column. Normally, DAC framework prohibits from navigation out of empty field and emits one of those DAC-1002 or DAC-603 errors. The only exception I noticed was a double-click on another row. In this case navigation allowed but an error is still produced.
Today I was playing with this GridControl and discovered that I can drag the yellow frame across rows. And here comes a bug - GridControl doesn't change the current row on InfoBus according to current selection marked by yellow frame.
In my case it brings the following problem: if the cursor is placed on the new empty row, user drags the cursor to another row and then tries to use any other navigation means except dragging, he gets a navigation error. DAC framework still thinks that the current row is the empty one and produces an error telling that the attribute cannot be empty.
Dev Team, any comments?
Regards,
Vladimir

Hmm... Nobody answers. I'll try another variation of the same question.
DAC framework implicitly validates attributes on the base of Mandatory constraint in the Entity Object definition. Is it possible to set the level of this validation? For example, I want to conduct validation only when user navigates out of the row or the whole rowset, but not when he just leaves a field.
Regards,
Vladimir

Bug report: A keyboard layout is incorrect on the remote with Hungarian and other "exotic" keyboard layouts

This is a bug report for Microst Remote Desktop
===================================================
## Summary
A keyboard layout is incorrect on the remote with Hungarian keyboard
## Version Information, I tested
* Client
   * Case 1
       * MacBook Pro with HU101 Keyboard
* Locale: Hungarian
       * Mac OS X Maverics 10.9.2
       * Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.6
* Remote
   * Case 1
       * Windows Server 2003 R2 (English)
   * Case 2
       * Windows Server 2008 R2 (English)
   * Case 3
       * Windows 8.1 (Hungarian)
## Detail of bug
When I connect to the listed remotes the client sets the keyboard layout to Latvian which is a completely different layout than Hungarian (not even close...).
- On Windows 8 if I set the language on the login screen it stays on that language after the login.
- On Windows Server 2003R2 and 2008R2 even if I set the language at login it will switch back to LV after the login.
## Attachments
Unfortunately cannot include my shots because I'm not allowed to do this...
## End of report
Please allow the users to set the correct "target" language on connection basis because the automatic method the app use to determine that is unreliable.

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback.
I will forward this to the product team.
Thanks.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

Bug report, Beta 2.12 Standard Edition

Bug report: redundant, confusing, and apparently erroneous calls to
jdoPreClear
and jdoPostLoad. Note in output the null name in the third iteration.
Hi,
A lot of information being sent. Sorry, but I think you'll find it
helpful. I expected the exact same sequence of calls to jdoPreClear
and jdoPostLoad on the 2nd and third iteration. In fact, since,
retain values is true, and no changes are being made, I expected that
jdoPreClear and jdoPostLoad would not be called at all on the 2nd and
3rd iteration.
David Ezzio
Using 2.12 Beta, standard edition
Business method uses one PM. Configured to datastore transaction,
retainValues == true, non-TR == false, and non-TW == false.
The business methods open a transaction and leave it open.
The client calls commitTransaction() to close the open
transaction.
Two persistent objects, Widget and Box. Each implement
InstanceCallbacks and put out a message in jdoPreClear ("will be
made hollow") and in jdoPostLoad ("has been made persistent-clean").
The Widget has a reference to its Box. The number in parenthesis
is the sequence number obtained from the object ID.
Business methods implementation:
public ArrayList getWidgetsByName(String name)
Transaction trans = pm.currentTransaction();
if (!trans.isActive())
trans.begin();
Collection c = (Collection) widgetsByOneName.execute(name);
ArrayList aList = new ArrayList(c);
widgetsByOneName.close(c);
return aList;
public void commitTransaction()
Transaction trans = pm.currentTransaction();
if (trans.isActive())
trans.commit();
Output: from three loops that:
call findWidgetsByName("Maxi-Widget")
list the widgets returned
call commitTransaction()
finding Maxi-Widgets ...
Widget Maxi-Widget (650) has been made persistent-clean
Box Large (652) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (650): Box Large (652) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (709) has been made persistent-clean
Box Large (710) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (709): Box Large (710) at location Middle Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (708) has been made persistent-clean
Box Large (713) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (708): Box Large (713) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (700) has been made persistent-clean
Box Large (717) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (700): Box Large (717) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (707) has been made persistent-clean
Box Large (716) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (707): Box Large (716) at location Top Shelf
Finding them again
finding Maxi-Widgets ...
Widget Maxi-Widget (650) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (650): Box Large (652) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (709) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (709): Box Large (710) at location Middle Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (708) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (708): Box Large (713) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (700) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (700): Box Large (717) at location Top Shelf
Widget Maxi-Widget (707) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (707): Box Large (716) at location Top Shelf
Finding them yet again
finding Maxi-Widgets ...
Widget null (650) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (650) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (650): Box Large (652) at location Top Shelf
Widget null (709) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (709) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (709): Box Large (710) at location Middle Shelf
Widget null (708) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (708) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (708): Box Large (713) at location Top Shelf
Widget null (700) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (700) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (700): Box Large (717) at location Top Shelf
Widget null (707) will be made hollow
Widget Maxi-Widget (707) has been made persistent-clean
Widget Maxi-Widget (707): Box Large (716) at location Top Shelf
-- All done!

Due to better understanding on my part, and the fixes in Beta 2.2, the
issues raised in this thread are put to rest.
Abe White wrote:
>
We'll investigate further. Stay tuned...
"David Ezzio" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
Abe,
Actually, it doesn't make sense. The first iteration shows
jdoPostLoad is called just prior to using the fields of Widget and Box.
After the commit, the instances are not cleared. So far, so good.
In the second iteration, we see that jdoPreClear is called, but
jdoPostLoad is not called. Yet the values are there for use during the
call to Widget.toString() and Box.toString() within the iteration. How
did that happen?
On the third iteration, now the value of name is null, but last we
looked it was available in the second iteration. Other than that, I
agree that the third iteration looks ok, since it is being cleared and
loaded prior to use. But in the jdoPreClear, the values should be there
since the values were used in the previous iteration and are not cleared
at transaction commit due to retainValues == true.
David
Abe White wrote:
David --
I believe the behavior you are seeing to be correct. Section 5.6.1 of
the
JDO spec outlines the behavior of persistent-nontransactional instancesused
with data store transactions. As you can see, persistentnon-transactional
instances are cleared when they enter a transaction; thus the calls to
jdoPreClear. When the default fetch group is loaded again (like whenyou
access the name of the widget) a call to jdoPostLoad is made.
You are seeing the name of one instance as 'null' in the third iterationof
your loop because the instance has been cleared in the second iteration,and
the jdoPreClear method is not modified by the enhancer (see section10.3).
Make sense?

Bug Report: New conversation window stills the sys...

Bug Report: Skype Desktop: New conversation window stills the system/keyboard focus.
When the UI is in multi-window mode and a conversation window pops up (due for example to a newly received chat message), that window steals the system/keyboard focus, even though it appears in a minimized state in the Windows taskbar. And this should not happen by default, because it is impractical (especially for screen reader users). And it didn't happen in Skype 6.21 and earlier. But since the new UI was introduced officially in Skype 7.0, it started happening constantly.
Steps to reproduce it:
1. From "View" menu, activate the "Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
2. From Tools -> Options -> IM & SMS -> IM settings, enable "Open a new window when I receive a new message in Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
3. From Tools -> Options -> Advanced, activate "Enable accessible mode", if it is not already enabled.
4. Activate the "Save" button, to save the changes.
5. Close all windows, related to Skype. You may keep only the main window opened.
6. Move the system focus to another application.
7. Tell someone to send you a chat message. When the message arrives and the conversation window pops up minimized in the Windows Taskbar, everything seams to be as it should. A few seconds after that however, the system/keyboard focus gets moved to that new conversation window, even though it is neither restored/maximized (it is minimized), nor it is visible on the screen (except as a button in the taskbar).
Actual results:
When a new conversation window pops up in the Windows taskbar, it stills the system/keyboard focus to itself from the currently focused application.
Expected results:
Skype's popping up new conversation windows should not still the system/keyboard focus to themselfs from the currently focused application.
Test environment:
- Operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro N, 64-bit, in Bulgarian with all locale settings set to "Bulgarian".
- Skype version: 7.0.0.102 for Desktop.

This is a known problem, but Skype have not given us an estimated time for a fix.
Traditionally, Skype updates have been roughly monthly, so we are due a new version sometime soon. Many of us here are hoping that is has a bunch of fixes for the UI, the focus problem being one of them.
Sean Ellis - uses Skype chat for serious work
Click here to read my blog post on Skype 7 and basic principles of GUI design

Sending a bug report on the OS and a sleep mode problem.

I find the bug button in Safari really convenient for sending Apple bug reports. And when other applications crash, you usually get an error dialog with a button to send a bug report. But sometimes problems arise that require reporting, but which don't fall in either of these categories. It would be very handy to have a bug "button" for the OS, or perhaps just a menu selection in the Finder menu bar that invokes a bug report dialog box. I know you can dig around and find the URL for Apple's bug report web page, but I am always forgetting it -- I suppose I could just bookmark it, but then I'd just have to dig around in all the bookmarks to find it. Better would be a utility built-in to the OS for sending bug reports (like Safari's). It could also automatically transfer necessary info about the OS rev and such.
The problem I had was this. I have a script that puts my iMac to sleep. I put the script alias on the task bar and a single click puts the computer to sleep (easier than using the menu). Unfortunately, I sometimes click it by mistake when I am trying to click an adjacent icon in the task bar, and the Mac starts going through its cycle to enter sleep mode and is impervious to anything I do to try and cancel it. I tried pressing the space bar continuously to prevent it from going to sleep, but that did not work. Worse, when it went to sleep and I woke it up again, the task bar would not appear, clicking on app windows did not activate them, Finder menus could not be selected, etc. The cursor would move, but I could not do anything else. (I wish now I had noted if the clock in the menu bar was still advancing, but I didn't think to do that.) I powered down the iMac from the power key and rebooted. Things are working fine now.
I wanted to send a bug report on this, but realized that unlike Safari, there was no button or menu selection for doing that. So here I am.
Any suggestions are welcome.
TIA,
Drake

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The new Synaptics UltraNav: a few workarounds and minor bug report.

I only wanted to file bug report, but then decided to also share what I did with my touchpad configuration to make it more convenient for me. I have Thinkpad T540p so this might work differently or not work at all for other notebooks.
#1 Regedit
Configure as much as you can using UltraNav tab in mouse settings dialog. (It is mostly self-explanatory.)
If you didn't find some option, start regedit (using Win+R) and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTP\something
This something is TouchPadSMB2c on T540p but you can find one you need by changing something in settings dialog and looking for changed values in regedit.
All the touchpad configuration registry keys are there. You need to relogin to apply changes made there.
But it might take a lot of trial and error to find out how these registry keys work.
#2 3-finger tap
As for me, I prefer tapping over clicking. While 3-finger press option is in settings dialog, 3-finger tap is not. But you can change it.
Set whatever option you want for 3-finger press. Then go to regedit and copy value from 3FingerPressButtonAction key to 3FingerTapAction.
#3 Button sizes and locations
You can change button bounds with keys like LeftButtonZoneX where X is L for left, R for right, T for top and B for bottom bounds. 0xFFFFFFFF ultimately means "unlimited in that direction". For finding other values defaults might be helpful. Trackpoint buttons keys are SlaveSomeButtonZoneX.
What for?
First, trackpoint buttons can cover the whole trackpad only when trackpad itself is disabled. By changing button sizes manually you can overcome this restriction. It is useful because trackpad does not respond well to pressing corners and when buttons cover it all you can press it somewhere in the middle.
Second, the same corner pressing problem exists for normal trackpad buttons so it is more convenient to use multi-finger taps or clicks. You can still hold trackpad pressed with one finger and use yet another finger to move mouse pointer.
At the same time when you tap or press with multiple fingers and one of them touches one of the buttons you get that button pressed instead of whatever you intended. It frustrated me a lot when I got context menu popups while trying to close chrome tabs with middle mouse button click. The solution is to set top bounds for left and right buttons to zero.
BUG (With the latest UltraNav drivers from support page)
When the middle trackpoint button (used for scrolling) is enabled, it is always enabled, no matter if you are using trackpont or touchpad. Left and right trackpoint buttons are properly disabled when you don't need them.
Even if you disable trackpoint completely without disabling that middle button first, it will remain enabled and will do nothing. (Blocking single- and multi-finger presses that touch it.)
I could not find a way to fix that problem with regedit.

Any problem can get official response and follow-up through a SR on Metalink/MOS (if you have a DB support contract), else you can post here and hope someone from development picks it up.
Regards,
K.

How do i use the bug reporter in ios 8

im trying to use the bug reporter for the beta ios 8 but i dont get to input anything. Maybe i dont understand how this works,so can someone please explain.either way i figure i should say somthing now.
-the infinity blade 2 app does not load
-my settings button doesnt load all the time,
-most of the apps dont load the first time i open them,if i switch to another menu then back it will load.
-just now i shut off my phone, plugged it into the charger. My phone then turned itself back on and had me reactivate it.
-the "sample" button in the ibooks app doesnt seem to do anything either
-most of the time scrolling down on anything rather large(e.g.songs,articles,facebook) there is alot of skipping or lagging effect
-when on safari i turn my phone sidways and it totally messes up where things should go and it wont return i have to exit and close to fix
anyways id just thought id put that out there

You need to ask this question in the Developer's forum, which as a registered developer you have access to. If you're not a registered developer, then you have no business messing with iOS Beta software, & discussing such, even bug reporting, is PROHIBITED in this public forum.
But, as a registered developer, you already knew that, correct?

Bug Report - Some items in your iTunes Library ... because the file could not be found.

10.6 and this is still this is a problem?!?!?!?!
Not like this is an obscure issue only affecting a few noobs. Google returns 11,200 results on this issue!t'
Can we PLEASE at least allow the list of broken files to be dumped as a text file so I can find them manually! guess not,
I'll just have to get out a pencil and write down 100 songs to spend my saturday looking up and fixing. Or I could let my wife purchase 100 songs she already has whenever this comes up...
What's really infurating is that non-technical wife thinks this means she must go to the iTunes store and buy them again. Is it just coincidence that this only happens to songs that we ripped from the CD with iTunes? Hmmmm?....
what follows is for the programmers, please make sure this get's to the development group.
iTunes is the only music library manager, Media player was not even activated.
iTunes is configured to "Keep folder organized", "Copy files to folder when adding"
this has been a recurring issue since iTunes 9.x for us
The issue is persisted accross system and library rebuilds.
some of the same songs recurr but most of the time the list differs.
Library survived transfer to new computer and back for a system rebuild (new hdd) w/o this issue.
I'm guessing 100 songs is an arbitrary limit for error reporting.
Songs seem to get lost for the following reasons.
Track number added to filename
Spelling of some tags like Album, Artist, Title differ in iTunes library and the file path !!!!
Only seems to happen to mp3 files.
My suspicion is that iTunes is downloading meta data from the store and updating the mp3 tags and iTunes Music Library.xml then predicting the new file location without actually moving the file to that new location. I've enabled insert/update auditing on the NTFS folder to see if that provided any new info. I'm also capturing iTunes Music Library.xml so I can compare it to the new one WHEN this happens again and see if there is a pattern there.
Would love a bug number and feedback chanel on this.

The missing file thing happens when files are no longer where iTunes expects to find them. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the files, or that the drive they live on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files in a relatively sensible structure, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
Although you say you haven't used Media Player it can be raised as a background process by visiting enabled web sites. Possibly worth you reviewing this post: Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely
jerunamuck wrote:
...My suspicion is that iTunes is downloading meta data from the store and updating the mp3 tags and iTunes Music Library.xml then predicting the new file location without actually moving the file to that new location. I've enabled insert/update auditing on the NTFS folder to see if that provided any new info. I'm also capturing iTunes Music Library.xml so I can compare it to the new one WHEN this happens again and see if there is a pattern there.
Unlike Windows Media player iTunes doesn't have a feature to automatically update tag data, although it will sometimes spot when a 3rd party program has (say during playback) and then update its own copy of the data. The iTunes (Music) Library xml file is provided for querying by third party software and is rewritten every time there is a change to the library, but is otherwise of no relevance to iTunes. The library is maintained in the iTunes Library.itl file. I suppose what could be happening is that iTunes issues a command to the file system to move a file based upon its tag, updates its knowledge of where the file is supposed to be, but the OS fails to move the file for some reason. Alternatively everything could go as planned, but iTunes could fail to get the updated copy of the library written out to disk so next time you start you get the previously stored locations.
I have ideas of my own about the best way to organise my media, but I'm quite familiar with the way iTunes does it. It might be interesting to see the details of one of the broken tracks, the path iTunes thinks it is at, and the actual path, in case there is anything that can be deduced.
Apple don't run an open bug tracking system so you won't be able to follow reports/progress based on a bug number. You can drop a line to iTunes Feedback or get a free Apple Developer account and submit a bug report report there.
tt2

Blur Problems (bug report submitted)

I've submitted a bug report and will submit this again since its a better version of when I sent them before. The problem is this:
- Adobe Acrobat Professional shows blur in certain situations. In another situation, the same file opens correctly. The file below is self-explanatory, i.e.:
1. This is what you see when you do a fresh start, with no pre-existing Adobe processes running. Sometimes though the blur will show up even if its a fresh start.
2. Thats what you see when the file has been closed but Acrobat Professional is still running and open.
If anyone needs the original PDF, it can be downloaded at:
http://www.2shared.com/document/P927Y4Vm/scanned-doc-2.html
In area 1, you can see the glaring difference in visual quality. The blur makes it very hard and irritating to read the PDF. Notice how the blur alternates. Some areas are sharp while others are soft. Area 2 is how it should always look like (crisp).
If you cant see this image properly, it is uploaded at:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4113/adobeacrobatproblurbug.jpg
Adobe Acrobat Professional version, latest: 9.3.4
System: Windows XP
BUG: Adobe Acrobat Professional shows blurry PDFs in certain situations.
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STEPS TO RECREATE THE BUG:
Use Windows XP. I'm not sure if this shows up in Vista too. I'm sure it does.
1. Download the PDF from:
http://www.2shared.com/document/P927Y4Vm/scanned-doc-2.html
2. In the Windows Task Manager, make sure there are no pre-existing Adobe processes running such as:
AcrobatInfo.exe, Acrobat.exe, Acrotray.exe
3. Open the PDF file you got in #1. Set zoom to 100%.
4. Notice the visual quality. You will probably see blurry areas in the PDF. This matches Area 1 in this screen shot:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4113/adobeacrobatproblurbug.jpg
5. Close the file by doing: File---> Close
Do not exit the program. Go to Task Manager and verify that Acrobat.exe is already running.
6. Open the file you got in #1, again. Zoom to 100% again.
7. Notice now that the PDF does not have any blurry areas. What you see should match Area 2 in the same screenshot:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4113/adobeacrobatproblurbug.jpg
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