Finder icons change of their own volition
This is not a major problem, but is annoying, so I'm hoping someone can explain it.
I have made no changes to my system recently nor have I used Nisus Writer Pro in a while. Yet, this morning, all my Finder icons for doc files have switched from Word to NWP! Which means that NWP has become the default application for opening Word doc files *without my asking it*. (This is even more bizarre when you consider that I've generally been using Pages to open these files as it loads quicker...)
I have nothing against NWP (in fact, I quite like it), but I do object to system changes occurring for no apparent reason!
Do any of our experts have any ideas on what might be causing this? Is it potentially symptomatic of a deeper problem (hope not)?
Gavin
Hi Gavin,
I can't see how it would not be indicative of deeper problems!
What happens if you change them to open with Pages?
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This was happening all the time on my old 2006 iMac, and I thought that when I upgraded to a new computer it would go away. No such luck.
Sometimes the program works just fine, and other times I have this error. I haven't been able to pinpoint what is causing it.
Basically what happens is, I will try to type a number in the box to edit the size of the image (or sharpness, etc. something that requires you to enter a number), and as soon as my mouse hovers over the box, the numbers start changing on their own. As soon as I move the mouse away, the problem stops, but of course this means that I am unable to type in the number that I want.
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(I have a video clip of this problem, but I don't know how to share it here)Your task is hardly a case for Photoshop: replacing text accurately in a scanned, not even
straightened image.
My recommendations:
a) put a crossreference list on each page
or
b) straighten the scans and improve the contrast, both by Photoshop.
Then apply a program which converts images of text into machine coded text
by OCR - Optical Character Recognition , for instance Abbyy Finereader
http://finereader.abbyy.de/professional/?adw=google_eu&gclid=CMirrcCMx7MCFZHRzAodlisAJg
(I'm not related to the manufacturer of this software, I'm just a user).
In coded text it's easy to replace isolated character groups as required.
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Note...I found I was stuck for now with the color of ONE of my calendars. If you are like me, you want to keep that one and work around it....
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I clean installed 10.5.1 yesterday on my Mac Mini(1.42GHz G4, 1GB RAM)and after setting up my admin account, I immediately grabbed the 10.5.2 through Software Update. This is my first taste of Leopard and so far so good.
Now that everything is updated, I started to configure Mail. I set up two IMAP accounts in Mail and specified certain preferences under Mailbox Behaviors. I unchecked all the boxes that had to do with storing things on the servers. Since my IMAP account quotas are fairly small, ~150MB, I don't want Mail storing anything on my company's servers. Saved the changes and started logging in to my accounts. Tested it out by sending a few messages and noticed my sent messages and deleted messages were being saved on the server. Back in to Mail preferences I go and I noticed that some of the check boxes under Mailbox Behaviors had checkmarks back in them. What gives? I didn't leave those boxes checked. Why had several of the checkmarks reappeared?
Anyways, I've toyed with this thing for hours. It's seems to be a random problem and I don't have any clue why it happens. I've even deleted my own com.apple.mail.plst file and Mail folder multiple times to start over from scratch. I always uncheck the "store xxx on the server" boxes, but occasionally Mail turns them back on. It's happened multiple times now, so I'm getting a little paranoid about it. The last time it happened, I found the "Store draft messages on the server" re-checked under one of the IMAP accounts.
Seems like Mail.app has a mind of its own. Any idea how to put a stop to it?I've done some more testing and found out several things.
1. It doesn't matter which of my IMAP accounts I configure Mail to access. I can reset Mail (by deleting my ~/Library/Mail folder and com.apple.mail.plist file) and then reconfigure my preferences for each IMAP sever. The problem still persists.
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3. I then installed the 10.5.2 combo updater(dl'ed from Apple's support website) and ran Mail. With the previous accounts still configured, it didn't mess with my "Mailbox Behaviors" at all, but when I reset Mail (by dumping my Mail folder and prefs into the trash) and reconfigured it for my IMAP accounts, the problem came back.
4. With a fresh reset of my Mail preferences in 10.5.2, the very first email I send cannot be found in any folder until I quit out of Mail and then come back in. Checking my "Mailbox Behavior" prefs, I see that Mail has decided to put the check mark back in the "Store Sent Messages on the Server". That's not the way I set it up in the begining. This weird behviors repeats itself on the first draft message I save and the first email message I delete out of my Inbox. Mail always causes the first draft and deleted message to disappear until I quit and come back in. The "Mailbox Bevaior" prefs also get reset for storing drafts and deleted messages on the server.
So there we have it. Many hours spent on this thing. If others want to try it out in 10.5.2, just move your Mail folder and plst file out of your home folder temporarily and re-run Mail. Put your settings in, uncheck a few boxes under "Mailbox Behaviors" and see if Mail starts messing up.
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When these boxes are unchecked, your Library items either don't show at all on the page (Music) or are grayed out (Movies and Books).
And when you check them, as in my case to restore my preference setting, I get this rather scary warning
I definitely don't want to upset, change any content on my iPad. I do want to add a new album I added to my Library, but if I'm reading this correctly, it seems I have to remove everything and then re-sync?
On my Summary page, I have:
Which I've never understood the correlation between selecting #3, #6 and then clicking to sync manually or only checked items, whatever the wording is, on the individual tabbed pages like: Music, Movies, Books.
You can see that I used to have the tabbed Music page's "Selected…" radio button checked so I could only sync over the music I wanted. Why i have to click this pref on the tabbed page and also on the Summary page globally for all content, is the most confusing UI I can think of.
And I've asked AppleCare to explain this over the years and no one has ever made sense of it.
If anyone can help me out of this so I can restore my Sync Prefs without having to delete my iPad content and reSync it that would be great.
And then I someone could explain the correlation between the global sync checkboxes on the Summary page which sound redundant to each other, and then to the manual sync check box on the individual pages, that would be great to finally understand what Apple means?
Thanks,
StevenThis was likely pushed to you from the BIS system. The icons were supposed to be like that but they have not been working with the latest OS's. They must have finally fixed the problem. You can't change them.
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I'm working on a project in iMovie 08. At the start of my movie I have a series of still photos with each photo separated by a transition. I'd like the photos to show for 6 seconds with 2 second transition. After I set the duration for each transition and photo the timings automatically change back to much shorter values than I've set. This seems to happen after I've set up a few transitions and photos with the timings I want. Can someone explain why this is happening and how to keep the values I set.
AppleMan-
You helped me on a similar issue, and I'm having a different "timings changing" problem.
Whenever I change the duration of a transition, the times of one or both of the clips on either side change. This happens even with "Display Timecodes" checked, and when the transition is 1/2 or less the length of the clips.
Examples:
*clip 3:00 > trans 1:00 > clip 3:00*
change the transition to 1:15, and I end up with
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(*note that violates the transition-1/2-of-clips rule; if anything the clips should have gotten longer.)
OR:
*3:00 > 1:15 > 3:00*
changing the transition down to 0:05 ends up with
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(*Note that it did not even accept the change I wanted.)
Those are just two examples. This happens whenever I change either a photo or a transition. I have to keep making each "change" four or five times and eventually I get the durations I want.
It seems as if iMovie is trying to keep the length of the Project the same, or fitting it to some other criteria I can't determine. I have examined preferences, and searched the Help using various words, and cannot find an explanation. I understand 30 fps, and that part of each photo's duration will be used for the transition.
Changing transitions and durations is essential to pacing with various music clips. Is there any way to edit normally, without having to un-do all these automatic changes?
Please help if you can. Thanks.
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