Getting Bored coming to the forum
Just want to express my mind about how I feel about the forum. I have noticed the following trends:
Daily request of the same features over and over
No hint as to when the next Muse release will happen
Christmas is just by the corner and no sign of browser-filled update on widget composition and rectangle height, table etc
Just not happy
Thats all.Any other person feeling the same way.
Oh I TOTALLY agree with morgan on this one. The entitlement of some people now a days is bordering crazy. Forums can be a great free place to find an anwser if you want to spend the time to look but it seems people think a forum is a class room and they expect detailed tutorials. Tutorials on their crazy one off design ideas for that matter or something as basic as adding an image. Since when did learning something on your own or with the tutorials provided and then building on what you have learned become taboo? Now it's ask, demand, complain, give up. How do you think any of the people that help you figured it out?
The worst thing is giving them help or a work around then they attack you because it was not as easy or what they were expecting. They see 'easy to use, no code' in the tagline and think it means 'will do everything for you just press a big red button'. I understand some things do break and bugs are found but that is the price you pay to have something do all of the hard work for you. If you knew the code you wouldn't have that problem. It is the most basic in common sense answers pretty much.
This sort of thing does not happen in other trades for example, you can buy all of the tools to build a car but the tools will not do it for you, so do you call the tool company and complain that you are having trouble building the car? Then get somone to talk you through it until it's all put together? Sounds crazy right.
PS. They don't give release dates because if something goes wrong and they delay it people loss their minds and then the forum becomes an even sadder place for rational people. I too am not worried about the release dates on builds.
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Please look at my questions and inform me as to what I need to do to get some feedback. ThanksHi,
Two options:
1. Face to face with HP support person
2. Chat with support person
Option #1 could be hard, may be option #2 more practical
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Can I Get Some Assistance From The Forum Genius Bar?
Hi everyone,
I don't usually post here unless I am at the point of being beyond frustration when it comes to solving my issues, because when they occur -- they are always the ones that don't have a simple fix it seems.
The issue: I only use Mail to access the numerous (and I mean many Gmail accounts I have). Last night it stopped working, as in Connection Doctor I kept seeing smtp red errors and no matter what I did to adjust the settings, I could not get any accounts to go online. After messing around for awhile, I got the bright idea to delete all accounts in Mail/Preferences thinking that somehow I could just restore all the settings from a Time Machine backup right before the problems started. It would go through the process but when I started to see that it was copying things where they thought they should go, I'd get permission errors. Today it hit me that this is probably because I used to have a 15" MBP that I used Migration Assistant to transfer setting over to the MBP I currently use and there is something causing confusion. If I recall it was a Lion to Lion migration and then I installed Mountain Lion when it came out.
So today I got the bright idea to restore each mailbox individually. It appeared to be successful, but I got tired of it when I had gotten down to the last few accounts to restore the Inbox in because I also had a lot of folders with messages "On My Mac" -- and the way I had Gmail configured, each account had their own "sent" outbox/things were mapped to Trash/Junk/Drafts -- and it was a little too ambitious for what I wanted to do. That's the main reason I thought somehow I could just go back in time and restore everything to the way it was. Then I saw some things online about Time Machine fiddling around with permissions and doing unusual things. I did notice whenever I looked at the Mail folder in Time Machine, that I couldn't change the admin permission -- even though I'm the only one who uses my computer and my username had both read/write permissions as it is an admin, but the "admin" on the list under my username couldn't write and I couldn't change it.
I googled around and saw some people saying that they had success of using "cp - R" and all sorts of other things where you could go into Terminal to strip the Time Machine permissions so that they have no ownership in order to be able to prevent permission "errors" in restoration attempts.
I am not afraid to use Terminal, but I am not a genius when it comes to knowing all of its intricacies, but I can follow directions well. I'm guessing I will have to log in as the root user and do some nifty things?
So, can someone here walk me through using cp - R or any other successful method even if that means using a combination of Time Machine, Terminal, and casting spells so that I can restore Mail back to the way it was last night before it went kaput? I despise logging into Gmail online, and really don't want to add all of my individual Gmail accounts on both the iPhone and iPad which both connect to Gmail without a hitch (currently).
Before my eyes started to cross from my online research, I saw that lots of people have problems with Mail in Mountain Lion (among other things). I'm running 10.8.2 and everything is updated. My first priority is to get all of the messages back in Mail -- in each mailbox, and all the ones I had stored on my mac. If I can get gmail cooperative again where it will send/receive without a hitch is the next thing I'd like to do.
I did noticed that sometimes it looked like Mail did go to sleep from time to time, but it would always seem to wake up and check for new mail. And on the rare occasions where some of the accounts took themselves offline, I could bring them back on with no problem. Last night everything just blew up.
I know it's fully my fault as I should have never deleted anything in Preferences but at that point, I was just so frustrated and grasping at straws to make things work again.
I know the answer is probably not as bad as I imagine, so I will be forever grateful if someone here can help. Kappy or Linc
Oh sorry, all the Gmail accounts were set up for IMAP.I currently am using Postbox during the trial period because the frustration of trying to solve this ridiculous problem I posted about above was too much. Unlike most people, I won't rant and rave about OS X's decline after Lion and Mountain Lion as I never had major issues after upgrading to either of them. It's just beyond belief that the magnitude of this last problem being able to break an app within something that is just supposed to "work" that is beyond me.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who uses Postbox might be able to offer a suggestion or two about how to import mailboxes from a Time Machine backup as I would still like to have access to those folders which were "On My Mac" with all of the archived messages which were contained within each of them? I know that you can import from Apple Mail, but that's only if it is currently set up they way you want it to be. And as I no longer have those settings because I can't restore to the point before I deleted all the accounts, etc. from Mail in my frustration -- I'm sure I can't just point Postbox to some plist file to have it mimic my old Mail setup.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/
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Are there two bugs in the forums?
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There is a missing column. Was four columns ( ??? ) now only three. They reduced the lettering size to get more information on the line. I guess you could say they are listening, but can get over that they are wrong about the layout.
With the real thing:
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Does show last poster. It's worded as by .... Bit misleading by it's ASC.
Discussion lists do not.
Here is my ASC work flow...
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Unless you do something every thirty minutes you get logged out. The forum software waits to tell you this as long as it can to keep you in suspense ;-) . Filling out a reply is the exception to the thirty minute window.
Start an auto reloader. Thanks to ChitlinsCC.
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You need to pick a page that will reload over time without stalling out. It's ASC. I've found my profile display the best to use. I get my Profile page after some logins. It's ASC. Change rccharles to your apple id.
https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles?view=discussions
Reply technique
Open a new browser window. Pick some discussion. Open a reply window. As long as this reply window is open, you will stay logged in. The 30 minute times is reset as needed by the ASC software.
3) I open another window to do my normal ASC browsing.
4) I have a FireFox bookmark to goto the discussions that I have participated in. I've modified it to add on the content stuff.
turingtest2 recommends. Change rccharles to your apple id:
https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles/content?filterID=participated~obj ecttype~objecttype%5Bthread%5D
5) Use turingtest2's generated links with the /content suffix as browser bookmark to the ASC discussions:
Site map of Communities and Categories
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463
6) Adjust the ASC web page layout.
For FireFox
I run with Hiroto's modification to user content. This is the only way these forums are readable for me. How to adjust the format and layout of ASC Web Pages:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7501
For Safari
"ASCPowerTools is a Safari Extension designed to give more control"
http://www.etresoft.com/ascpowertools
7) Read and answer my old posts. I kind of memorize the time I last posted. ( It's way bad that apple eliminated the last poster to a thread. )
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And another question... how does adobe not have a live support number to call and ask questions? I've been in the same "click-loop" now forever and I can't ever get to an actual useful forum.WesternJarhead wrote:
Where do my files have to be in order to use creative cloud and not have my indesign links break? I'll need to use Indesign on different computers and my images won't be traveling with me... will I need to relink every image every time?
Standard practice is to use File>Package and then save to drive/location that suits you. If you need it to travel with you bring the entire folder.
The InDesign file will link to the folder where the Links folder is situated.
WesternJarhead wrote:
Also,,, why do I need all these plugin's once I use an icloud version of indesign when I've saved the file on my external hard drive, and then open the exact same file from the exact same hard drive? The file never opens and is corrupt which means I have to rebuild the entire thing or physically travel back to that computer which has the indesign cloud.... It's baffling.
The file isn't corrupt. The Craeative Cloud version is a newer version than you have on your computer at home. That's why the plugins are missing, as older versions don't have the same plugins as the newer version of InDesign.
If you want to work on a version created with CC - then you need to use file Export/Save and choose IDML - then open that in earlier versions of InDesign.
However, you could install the Creative Cloud on your computer at home and use the same version of InDesign - this would solve your problem without any extra work.
WesternJarhead wrote:
And another question... how does adobe not have a live support number to call and ask questions? I've been in the same "click-loop" now forever and I can't ever get to an actual useful forum.
InDesign has never offered user support in using the software. It's telephone and helpline service is not for that purpose. InDeisgn is a professional graphic designer/typesetter/whateveryourjob is tool.
Like any tool you need to have specific training to it's end use, most people used to do an apprenticeship/trainee position going to college to learn the software and the fine principles of lithographic/screen/flexo/gravure printing and the use of images/text/graphics etc on the web.
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I have a macbook pro in which i use for church recordings. it has a built in mic so like one hole for headphones and mic. how do i get it to only pick up the sound from the external mic that is coming into the mixer to the laptop. it seems to pick up everything, like for example any little movement i make or even just asking the next person a question will get picked up by the internal mic. is there a way i can mute the internal mic so it can only pick the external mic and not every movement im making like chewing etc
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Thanks so much to anyone who can help with this intractable problem.Try updating the iPhone on another computer or in another user acconut.
Apple has an article for specific error codes here -> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
This device is not eligible for the requested build: Also sometimes displayed as an error 3194. If you receive this error, update to the latest version of iTunes. If you do have the latest version of iTunes, this can occur when you attempt to restore using an older .ipsw file. Try restoring in a new user to ensure that iTunes downloads a new IPSW. 3rd party security software or router security settings can also cause this issue, to resolve please follow Troubleshooting security software issues. Downgrading to a previous version of iOS is not supported.
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I keep getting the error 306 cannot connect to the iTunes Network when downloading songs on iTunes. I've tried all the troubleshooting steps from the forums and my technical issues are still unresolved. I have Windows 7. Please help!!
iTunes Store loads partially or returns "Error 306" or "Error 10054"
Proxies, parental control settings and software, security or filtering software, or a bad iTunes Store cache can cause this.
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You are not addressing Apple here. We are all just users like yourself
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Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
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