Genius only works on some songs? WHy - there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. Decemberists yes, Lana del Rey no. Ideas?

Is there a batch process that runs in the evening? Perhaps that ends up cleaning out the data from the buffer cache, turning logical I/O's into physical I/O's early in the morning.
Can you check the statistics on the table before the process starts and after you re-gather statistics? Perhaps there is a nightly process that is altering the statistics at an unfortunate time or in an unfortunate way.
The previous poster's comment about getting a trace file is excellent as well-- whatever your session is waiting on will be apparent in the trace.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer only some documents and data? For example, I was to transfer my music, but not my word documents. There doesn't seem to be any options to customise what you are transferring - its all or nothing

LBraidwood wrote:
Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer only some documents and data? For example, I was to transfer my music, but not my word documents. There doesn't seem to be any options to customise what you are transferring - its all or nothing
Yes, that's why I recommend one have more than TimeMachine as a backup because if certain files or folders are corrupted on the TM drive, your not logging into your migrated user account or not be able to transfer it what so ever.
Then it's a REAL PAIN and costs $99 to bit read the TM drive to get the files out, then it's mess to go through and sort all the empty placeholders from the real files as TM doesn't save duplicates in each state, just uses the previous state's copy if there are no changes.
If you create the same named user account on the new machine, and simply transfer files via a USB thumb drive and place say music contents into the Music folder, then it will work too.
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Genius not working with some songs

why does genius not work with some of my songs?

For songs which the genius can't come up with a play list it seems the artist is either too small, too new, or the metadata doesn't match. For example, I had "Cardigans - Love fool" selected and I noticed iTunes had it in my "Songs your missing". I changed it to "The Cardigans - Lovefool", and then selected "Update Genius". After this iTunes removed it from the "Songs your missing", and was able to create a playlist.
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In order to get some of my indy music to play with the genius playlist, I create a smart playlist which includes a genius playlist, and then a list of artists which it can also choose from.
While it's great that the genius can figure out information from the cloud, it could spend more time looking at patterns within your own library. If I create a playlist of New Jersey rock bands, it should be able to figure out that my indy artists are related to the mainstream artists in the same playlist.
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Use CTRL+B to put the top menu bar back on screen. Add File to Library and Add Folder to Library are both under File.

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When i tried to make a genius playlist for one of my imported CD's i noticed that the genius feature would not work. It seems to be like this for all of my music that didn't come from itunes. I got a message telling me to update my genius, i did so and it still didn't work. I tried some the the songs i got from itunes and it worked fine.... What's happening?
-Jesse-

Hi, if Apple told us how Genius worked, they'd have to kill us. I guess. Yeah, that was a lame joke.
Anyway - I can get it to make Genius playlist for stuff that is NOT in the iTS.
And sometimes even the free download of the week from iTS will NOT make a Genius playlist, but a few weeks later, it will.
Go figure.
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Thanks!

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1
delete all the iWork applications if you have them, not just Keynote, using Appcleaner from Mac Update, its a freeware application
2
empty the trash: Finder > Empty Trash
3
Shut down your Mac, wait 30 seconds, then power on the Mac, immediately after the start chime, hold down the Shift key
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4
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5
when fully booted, go to Applications > Utilities > Disc Utility; click on the boot drive then First Aid tab and click repair disc permissions
6
when complete, restart the Mac normally, Apple menu > Restart
7
install Keynote from the Mac App Store
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HT1386 i bought a compilation album but it will only sync half the songs whys that

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Hello Funkylildiva,
Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.
The following article addresses downloading past purchases.
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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