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Hi First time Posting. I can't find Preferences. It is not listed in Finder. Please make it simple, thanks, Carol

Hi, My first time posting. Have been going in circles and need some help. Started with not being able to find my memory stick, didn't show up on desktop. Think I found a way in but the main problem right now is I cannot find Preferences. All posts I have checked say to go to Finder and click on Preferences, but it is not there. Can anyone help. Thanks

You have to click on the word "Finder" in the menu bar. (If you do not see the word click anywhere on the desktop.) When you do that you will see a list of options. In the list, click on Preferences. Another pane will open.
Now click General (on the top row), then select everything by clicking on all the boxes in the section "Show these items on the desktop:"
Close this pane.

First time posting, about the last time I try to fix iTunes before I give up

I'm probably not going to make friends amongst the Apple-o-philes. PC user. deal with it; iPhones were sold to us as platform independent; iTunes is offered as a product that works with Windows. OK. I bought into it; my third iPhone, got one for my girlfriend, got 4,000 songs in iTunes. And I find rather than my Apple product making my life better, faster, quicker, stronger, more efficient, I'm spending hours every month doing things I've done or had to do now a dozen times. Every time there is an update, now I have three computers to update and it totally scrambles my music library with now four copies of every file.
Eventhe Apple boards I see online say "Oh, it will take you a few hours, but it's worth it"
That's not the point - why is it neccessary? Arent computers the kind of thing you'd use to sort through a list of 10,000 anythings and let the processor find the 2,500 you want so a human doesn't have to waste "a few hours"????
That there is now an aftermarket program offered for sale at $20 or more to fix the problems with iTunes libraries should embarass someone imprtant at Apple. It surely makes a good argument why we don't see the "I'm a Mac"/"I'm a PC" ads, because my Mac products (iPhones/iTunes) have cost me a lot of money, and taken a lot of my time.' at this point as much if not more than my 3 PC's. My frustration has brought me to tears, and unfortunately in the wake of the death of Steve Jobs, I'm going to say something that may sound "too soon" or at least sacreligious:
If I have "Manage music manually" checked, why can't I just click-and-drag a song straight from Windows into iTunes.? Onto my iPhone?
I mean it was Macintosh that brought the world the computer mouse, at least how most of us learned to use one is because Mac had it first. Click and drag is something that came first to Mac OS, second to Windows.
Why can I not drag a song, a podcast, a movie, from it's Windows location to iTunes, drop it on my iPhone and find it on the phone? Why do I have to go through this "sync" madness to risk wiping my phone clean in the process (as it did once already)? Why does "manually manage music" do no good, because if I drag a song anywhere onto the iTunes window, i Can't drop it anywhere.
I magange to get a Bachelor's degree from a Big Ten university, in of all things Computer Graphics Design. My experience with iTunes and my iPhone at times make me feel like someone must have dressed me in the morning and fed me liquid food through a straw because surely someone this hapless is too hopeless to chew and swallow on his own.
Next, Apple wants me to pay for the cloud, pay for support by the call, pay $40 for a new cord every time the dog chews one or when it comes apart on it's own (which any cable that costs $40 ought not to do under normal use) -
I feel used by Apple. I used to love my original iPod, right now I feel like a stooge and I'm having confidence issues about life in general because iTunes has broken my spirit, and the money-sink reality of this thing is making me glad the cassette deck in my car still works and my mix tapes just don't disappear like my playlists.
Should I just kill myself? This is almost a serious question - because I go up an ddown these forums and I see hundreds, thousands of questions - spent two hours looking for an answer before I posted this one - I can't find an answer.

I'm probably not going to make friends amongst the Apple-o-philes. PC user. deal with it; iPhones were sold to us as platform independent; iTunes is offered as a product that works with Windows. OK. I bought into it; my third iPhone, got one for my girlfriend, got 4,000 songs in iTunes. And I find rather than my Apple product making my life better, faster, quicker, stronger, more efficient, I'm spending hours every month doing things I've done or had to do now a dozen times. Every time there is an update, now I have three computers to update and it totally scrambles my music library with now four copies of every file.
Eventhe Apple boards I see online say "Oh, it will take you a few hours, but it's worth it"
That's not the point - why is it neccessary? Arent computers the kind of thing you'd use to sort through a list of 10,000 anythings and let the processor find the 2,500 you want so a human doesn't have to waste "a few hours"????
That there is now an aftermarket program offered for sale at $20 or more to fix the problems with iTunes libraries should embarass someone imprtant at Apple. It surely makes a good argument why we don't see the "I'm a Mac"/"I'm a PC" ads, because my Mac products (iPhones/iTunes) have cost me a lot of money, and taken a lot of my time.' at this point as much if not more than my 3 PC's. My frustration has brought me to tears, and unfortunately in the wake of the death of Steve Jobs, I'm going to say something that may sound "too soon" or at least sacreligious:
If I have "Manage music manually" checked, why can't I just click-and-drag a song straight from Windows into iTunes.? Onto my iPhone?
I mean it was Macintosh that brought the world the computer mouse, at least how most of us learned to use one is because Mac had it first. Click and drag is something that came first to Mac OS, second to Windows.
Why can I not drag a song, a podcast, a movie, from it's Windows location to iTunes, drop it on my iPhone and find it on the phone? Why do I have to go through this "sync" madness to risk wiping my phone clean in the process (as it did once already)? Why does "manually manage music" do no good, because if I drag a song anywhere onto the iTunes window, i Can't drop it anywhere.
I magange to get a Bachelor's degree from a Big Ten university, in of all things Computer Graphics Design. My experience with iTunes and my iPhone at times make me feel like someone must have dressed me in the morning and fed me liquid food through a straw because surely someone this hapless is too hopeless to chew and swallow on his own.
Next, Apple wants me to pay for the cloud, pay for support by the call, pay $40 for a new cord every time the dog chews one or when it comes apart on it's own (which any cable that costs $40 ought not to do under normal use) -
I feel used by Apple. I used to love my original iPod, right now I feel like a stooge and I'm having confidence issues about life in general because iTunes has broken my spirit, and the money-sink reality of this thing is making me glad the cassette deck in my car still works and my mix tapes just don't disappear like my playlists.
Should I just kill myself? This is almost a serious question - because I go up an ddown these forums and I see hundreds, thousands of questions - spent two hours looking for an answer before I posted this one - I can't find an answer.

Trouble with the image quality when viewing under 100%. First time posting on the forum.

Hello everyone. I am sorry we have the get acquainted this way but I am having some issues and this is one of my last options of getting help.   Allow me to explain the problem.    When viewing a file under 100% zoom, everything looks jagged like the anti aliasing is missing. Once I zoom in to 100%, everything looks the way it should. The saved file ( jpeg format for instance) is okay. I can zoom out and it still looks true to the image. The problem is related to photoshop. I installed my latest GPU drivers twice just to be sure and it was not from that.   This problem started last night and I don`t quite know how to solve it. If I work on small resolution images, it isn`t such a bad problem because I will be working on 100% zoom, but I am working on high resolution images/ paintings. Somewhere around 8000x5000 pixels thus, working at 100% is not that doable. I attached an image that shows this issue. The one on the right is the zoomed out version and the one on the left is the zoomed in version. Yes, the noise is affected by this, badly, but this started last night. up until then everything looked good even with noise or an out of this world sharpness. I can`t imagine what I could have done to trigger this.
   This being said, I am at the mercy of the more knowledgeable folks from around here. I do hope I posted this question in the right section. This is my first post here so sorry if I messed something up.   Looking forward to your replies.

Here is a simplistic view that I feel may help you understand reality.
The only time you're looking at your image pixels in Photoshop is when you're zoomed in to 100%,   There your look at the actual image pixels Photoshop has for your image at your displays resolution.
At any other zoom level you are looking a scaled image that has more or less pixels than your actual image these too are displayed at your display resolution.
The scaling done by Photoshop is done for displaying your image is done for good performance not for the best image quality a quick interpolation.   Therefore at some zoom levels image quality looks poorer than at other zoom levels.
High resolution Display have now add a new wrinkle.   User interfaces were designed for displays with resolutions around 100 PPI elements like text, icon, and other things like checkboxes, buttons etc. were created so there size would be useable are this more or less fixed 100 PPI resolution.   While Photoshop was designed to scale your images so you can work well on it is was not designed with a scalable UI. Photoshop can not scale its user interface independently from its image display display window for you displays high resolution. Photoshop's Image display area has the same resolution as the rest of Photoshop User Interface. Just like there is only one resolution in all layers in a document. CC 2014 2xUI changes that. PS UI is scaled to 1/2 resolution the image Area is at the displays actual resolution.
Photoshop CC 2014 2x UI scales all of Photoshop User Interface including the image display to 200% which is 1/2 your display resolution effectively cutting you display pixel count to 1/4 its actual pixel count.   Your once again running on a low resolution display.     If your display has a native resolution 200 PPI you're running it at 100 ppi if your display has a 300 PPI resolution you're running it at 150ppi.    Which defeats the reason of having high resolution. Which is you would like to be able to edit your images at print resolution. Adobe cc2x UI scales the UI but not the image window soa inage is 216ppi on the Surface Pro 3 the UI is large and dpoes not fit. screen
To be able to edit your images at print resolution you need a display the has a print resolution and you need and application the can scale its image display and its UI independently.
Current there is no OS interface for having multiple resolutions areas on a display and applications like Photoshop can not scale UI and Image independently. OS and Photoshop can scale what is displayed. Adobe Photoshop executable is coded in a way that it tell Microsoft Windows OS that it will handle display scaling so it can using your displays native resolution. Currently Only Photoshop CC 2014 Provides you with the option of running you display at half resolution.
Windows can scale you display to many resolution and as several presets. like 100%, 125%, 150% and like Adobe 200% half resolution.    You can make a Windows Registry and add an External Photoshop Manifest file the tell's Microsoft Windows to handle display scaling. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 m windows machine. Its LCD has a 216PPI resolution. Windows 8.1 had 4 preset for scaling its LCD.
Surface Pro 3 LCD Display 12" IPS display 3:2 aspect ratio 9.984603532054124" Wide, 6.656402354702749" High 216.3330765278394 PPI
Microsoft Preset Display scaling
100% 2160x1440   216 PPI
125% 1728x1152   173 PPI
150% 1440x960    144 PPI SP3 Default setting
200% 1080x720    108 PPI
Most user these days has 1024x768 or better displays and Web pages are often authored for 800x600 pixels pages. So the give you a better handle on Resolution and scaling I have edit a 800x600 document with 25x25 px grid one my Surface pro 3
using Windows 4 scaling presets and captured the 2160x1140 scaled screens Only at the 100% preset does the image window have a 216ppi Also note @ 2x UI Photoshop UI doe not fit on screen
Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 2xUI Scales the UI to a display 1/2 resolution but does not scale the Image area uses actual screen resolution. Photoshop Help system info show the screen i 1/2 resilution 1080x720 but scalet the imase to the real resolution 2160x1440. however the image window is the 216ppi the ui 108ppi via scaling

First time post problems on older Multivision PC

Hope you can help!
Found all the posts here really useful stuff, never paid much attention to Powersupply probs before. Trying to keep the old box running, but have ordered new Carrera self spec tower, arriving in about 2 weeks. Asus mobo 3200 Barton 1 gig matched DDR etc.
General probs on system the one described in signature:
* 1700 wont run at 133 FSB, only 100FSB locks up during Windows startup about the time keyboard and mouse draw power.
locks up during large file copying or installation. Problems reinstalling XP CD stops about 80%. Won't complete SP1 installation.
CPU temps
Idle 39=40 Load 44-45 Case temp 37 (taken from BIOS and Fuzzy Logic).
Your stuff on PSU's doesn't mention much about USB devices. really the only additional stuff I have added over time to the original build. About 5 devices including FF Joypad, CF card reader, Wacom graphics tablet, Mouse, webcam.
Would this tip the PSU over the edge??
After initial large crash, tried to repair XP it deleted files but wouldn't install so bought new hardrive for clean install hence system now has 40 and 60 gig. Needed old hdrive for backup of work files (rescue poor backups) installed new CDrom writer incase prob with reading XP disks.
Bios is up to date (Live update confirms)
Via 4 in 1 drivers updated
Ffresh download of S/B live drivers installed
Fresh update of Leadtek graphic drivers.
I don't see much change from original spec, unless PSU on the limit in the first place. Only addition is now extra Hdrive and Lan card. Really want to get this running stable back at 133 FSB so before I investigae the CPU cooling and add extra case fans replace Powersupply etc. Can any one think of anything else to consider?
Thanks for reading hope you can help.

Update and thanks
New carrera arrived singing Barton 3200+ 1gig paired 3200 SATA HD Etc
Old system finally bit the dust, changed everthing to get it going finally picked up a ASUS A7N8X -X for £30 on Ebayn added Barton 2500+ and 512mb 3200 and all is well again.
So the MSI KT266 must have been causing the probs. But thanks to you guys I now understand a little more about power supplies (Antec Truepower installed) and CPU cooling (Vantec Aero 2) keeping the Barton 2500+ at 35 idle and 43 load.
Bought the 3200 stick for some comfort when I begin to investigate the potetial of the Barton 2500+. Currently running at stock only finished building yesterday!!
The ASUS forums aint a patch on the expertise here.
Happy endings
Thanks for the input.

Please help me solve this CS5 issue - I am a first time poster, but long time user

While in the middle of producing a rather large website, I get this error every time I open a file in Dreamweaver CS5 and I cannot preview file using the "Preview/Debug in browser" button.
Error:
---- While executing onLoad in_onOpen.htm, the following JavaScript error(s) occurred. In file "_onOpen": onOpen is not defined ------
In addition, Dreamweaver will not let me use/choose/open the file. Browser preferences keep resetting.
I went on the other forums and the solution points to removal of
<user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/MacFileCache-XXXXXXX.dat
file is suggested, but I have not such file on my Mac OS X Version 10.7.3. I get as far as Library/Application Support/Adobe.
In fact I don't even see Dreamweaver on the list. (see attached.)
Thanks for any guidance - Lauren

Well there is a library folder in your user account but by default it's hidden in 10.7. It's a very common folder so you should either unhide it or know how to access it, for instance by doing a Go To Folder in the finder and opening "~/Library". http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/909/cpsid_90947.html

Help with export speed - First time poster - please be gentle!!

Hi all,
Currently an i5 win 7 with 4gig ram (work PC!!!)
Using Ppro 8.1.0 (81)
As a company we have upgraded from CS6 to CC in the last month
I have played around an everything is looks fine, but I have a 40 second video containing 4 After Effect comps fully rendered sitting on my Ppro timeline. I go to export and choose h2.264 720p 25 as I would have done in CS6 and the estimated file size is 48meg, So I'm thinking that will be a quick render.
At the moment the estimated time reads 2 hours and 7 mins and is climbing!!
What am I doing wrong? I usually export to this setting and a 4 min video on the same machine using CS6 used to take about 45 mins
Thanks in advance, I have looked through the forums, but don't know much about the ins and outs of hardware acceleration or even know where to find it!!
Andy

Hi all,
Currently an i5 win 7 with 4gig ram (work PC!!!)
Using Ppro 8.1.0 (81)
As a company we have upgraded from CS6 to CC in the last month
I have played around an everything is looks fine, but I have a 40 second video containing 4 After Effect comps fully rendered sitting on my Ppro timeline. I go to export and choose h2.264 720p 25 as I would have done in CS6 and the estimated file size is 48meg, So I'm thinking that will be a quick render.
At the moment the estimated time reads 2 hours and 7 mins and is climbing!!
What am I doing wrong? I usually export to this setting and a 4 min video on the same machine using CS6 used to take about 45 mins
Thanks in advance, I have looked through the forums, but don't know much about the ins and outs of hardware acceleration or even know where to find it!!
Andy

Photo shop compatibility vs my semi old computer (first time with photo shop and first time poster)

My computer is unable to run photo shop CC and so on because my computer isn't compatible for being old. I was very sad to find out after purchasing. I did not check the compatibility because again, my computer isn't that old. I'm stessing out until i get a new computer because I really need photoshop for my photography. I think that the CS6 version or even lower would be compatible for my computer until I am able to afford a new one. I run a dell windows 7 I believe. where can i download the older versions of photo shop so i can stop stressing?? thanks

You can get CS6 at the link below. Be sure to follow the VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS or it won't work.
CS6 Suite's Tech Specs
http://prodesigntools.com/products/adobe-cs6-system-requirements.html
CS6 Direct Downloads
http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs6-direct-download-links.html
Nancy O.

First time poster with a Stringy problem (new line "\n" not working...)

Hello,
I am having a bit of troble with making a string appear in multiple lines.
I have the following code:
String scores = ("1st Place "+ highInit1 + " " + highScore1 + " points\n");
scores = scores +"2nd Place "+ highInit2 + " " + highScore2 + " points\n";
With this string I am using swing and the following code:
g.drawString(xxx,xxx,blah.getScores());
When I have been doing this it always displays on a single line. I have tried positioning the "\n" in different places with no luck aswell. Any ideas what is going on here?
Thanks

I would suppose that drawString doesn't honor newline characters to do that. There's nothing magical about a \n character. It's just a character. It is up to the thing rendering it how it is going to treat that character. I would also suppose that's what the xxx, yyy parameters are for - to tell it where to place the text. Looks like you need two separate drawString calls.

Need help. first time posting

i was updating my iphone and it came unplugged,so then i had to restore it. After the restore all my numbers were gone. is there anyway i can get them back? ANY help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks for any help.

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i was updating my iphone and it came unplugged,so then i had to restore it. After the restore all my numbers were gone. is there anyway i can get them back? ANY help will be greatly appreciated.
See if you can find them in your PC, likely somewhere in 'MyDocuments'. If they are there (e.g., a prior backup version) you can probably put them somewhere that can be found by iTunes. Otherwise ...
Phil

First time here..

Hello Everyone
First time posting on this forum, have been looking through everything and man are you guys helpful!
Anyway, I am looking to finally back everything up. Currently I put all video and photos on an external lacie firewire drive, and all my itunes music is on an external ''My Book" usb drive.
I just purchased a 500gig My Book external to back up all my stuff, but after reading these forums, see that I would be better off with a firewire external HD. I also hear a lot about the SuperDuper app, but it looks like you have to have firewire to use that as well. I could only swing this 129.00 dollars for this ''My Book" but if that is useless than I will return and see what I can afford firewire - wise.
I also am hearing about ''time machine'' that is coming with Leopard.
So, I guess my questions are: Should I dump the new ''my book'' and get a Lacie Firewire? Should I purchase ''super duper'' or wait for ''time machine''? and also, what is the best way to backup in general and incremental updates?
btw...i have a lot of video, music, and photos on my mac and external hds. By lot, I mean thousands!
thanks so much for any and all advice and help.
Jim

Hi jctez;
I think you will be ahead of the game if you can exchange the USB disk for a Firewire one. Firewire on Mac is just so much better.
If you clone the drive with SuperDuper, the next time it does an incremental and only write what has changed so it is very quickly.
As far as Time Machine goes my plan is to continue with a clone using SD for disaster recovery because I know that a clone can get me back up and running with only a reboot. I am not so sure of exactly what Time Machine will do for you if your system disk decides to melt down. Until I know that I'll use both methods. Multiple backups are a good thing like a belt and suspenders.
Allan

First time owner - Win7 64 drivers

Hi all,
First time poster here. I will be receiving my X-Fi Xtremegamer in the mail tomorrow.
I will be using it on Win7 64bit, on a EVGA X58 motherboard paired with 2x EVGA GTX 285s in SLI. What drivers are recommended? Noticed there are a lot here in addition to the official ones on the main page. Primary use would be for gaming (usually CS:S and COD4 MW) with a pair of Audio Technica 700 headphones.
Also, which programs are recommended (Alchemy, etc) if all I'm trying to do is game?
Thanks much and sorry for the newb question

This is not a bad question at all.
First, when you install the card in the machine and boot into windows it will the card as High definition multimedia device. It will play sound, but wont let you access any of its special features. Second, you wont have the applications to manage the card. So try windows udpate first, which will give you a proper driver for the card from Creative. Then you can run the autoupdate feature of the card which will be in your program group in the start menu. If the auto update fails you can go to your
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Creative\Shared Files\Software Update\AutoUpdateA.exe"
and right click that and choose properties, and compatibility and choose run as administrator. Then when you run that program it will update drivers and applications officially from Creative.
I recommend though that you just install this package here:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-Series-Support-Pack-2-0-05-5-2009/td-p/527485"]http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-Series-Support-Pack-2-0-05-5-2009/td-p/527485[/url]
which is one stop shopping for all of the most compatibile applications and driver for the card. Install the package and you should be set.
Alchemy is for restoring EAX to really old games. It works sometimes, but again, it is for really old games.
After installing the x-fi support pack you will be able to install official Creative Labs updates on top of that, and it works quite well.

Its my first time buying apple product from online, I'm from Sarawak, Malaysia, i would like to know what type of post/delivery service will be used to deliver the product i ordered to my house address.

HI, its my first time buying apple product from online, I'm from Sarawak, Malaysia, i would like to know what type of post/delivery service will be used to deliver the product i ordered to my house address.

iPhones, iPads, iPods are dispatched from China. Apple accessories are dispatched from Singapore. The carrier is FedEx.
Online purchases could be delivered to office addresses or home addresses. Track your item through the email sent by Apple. If necessary, you could change the delivery address to your office one.

Portlet will not post back after first time

I have a portlet that is using WC 2.2 in version 5.0.4 of the portal. The portlet renders fine and posts back fine the first time. Subsequent clicks on any button requiring a postback go nowhere (just the cursor displaying as an hourglass). No request is made to the web server so it must be hung up in the postback javascript somewhere. Has anyone experienced this issue before. Thanks in advance.

Then I don't know. In these situations I use Visual Studio to attach to IE and do client-side debugging. It's a bit tricky, but doable. Then you can trace where it goes after the second click (if anywhere). Unless someone had the same problem and knows the answer...
Although, we did have a very similar problem where second post back did not work (it would freeze with a hourglass). In our case it was because PTWC 2.2 can't handle large viewstates generated by a data grid. When we disabled the view state, it worked.
Ruslan.

Installed Firefox 3.6.8 for the first time and it keeps crashing

I just installed Firefox for the first time and when it is finished installing I tell it to start. It tries and as soon as it does I get a crash report. Every time I click Restrt Firefox it comes up with the same crash error, which is the following:
Add-ons: {C1CA7765-44E4-452e-9D00-A04F3D434281}:1.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.8
BuildID: 20100722155716
CrashTime: 1283492259
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1283492203
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 2
StartupTime: 1283492258
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: http://my.yahoo.com/
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.8
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
I am running this on a Duo Core processor, Intel, Laptop, Windows 7 with 4-gigs of ram. I have never had a problem with other programs crashing like this before.
Any ideas? I have never used Firefox and after 20 years have decided to try something new.
Thanks for any help.

You mean out of this whole community no one knows how to fix this ... I wanted to give Firefox a try, but honestly, I am starting to see why I have not switched from IE, it is stable and I get answers when I post to the Microsoft boards as well as the answer to everything I have ever had an issue with is out there ... what is worse is that I am not the only one with this problem and no one can still help because I am sure us five are not the only ones that have run into this.

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