Help with importing multiple folders

Hi,
I've just bought a new computer which has come with PE9 pre-installed. It looks like it could be a great program but ...
Two big problems. Firstly, I tried importing all my pictures from "My Pictures". All my pictures are neatly arranged into their various folders so I clicked on "My Pictures" and it imported all 2000+ photos straight away which was great. However, the big problem is that it has copied every picture individually i.e. it hasn't imported the 20 odd individual folders I had those files arranged in. So firstly, and most importantly, how do I import multiple folders at the same time or can't I? Do I need to remove everything and just copy each individual folder across one by one? Because that sounds like an awful lot of work! I'm assuming it should import multiple folders at the same time but, as usual, there's nothing I can find on the forums or the FAQs to answer the question.
Your help and advice would be gratefully received.
Many thanks.

Elements will simply mirror your hard drive making links to each image.
When using File >> Get Photos & Videos >> From Files & Folders
You can navigate to your system folders and then check the box to include all sub folders.

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Hello.
I've come across a situation that is somewhat beyond my knowledge base. I could use a little help with figuring this out.
My situation:
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select jiraissue.id, pkey, reporter, summary
,changegroup.created change_dt
,dbms_lob.substr(changeitem.newstring,15,1) change_type
,row_number() OVER ( PARTITION BY jiraissue.id ORDER BY changegroup.created ASC ) AS order_row
from jiraissue
,changeitem, changegroup
,(select * from customfieldvalue where customfield = 10591 and stringvalue = 'Support') phaseinfo
where jiraissue.project = 10110
and jiraissue.issuetype = 51
and dbms_lob.substr(changeitem.newstring,15,1) in ('Blocked','Closed','Testing','Open')
and phaseinfo.issue = jiraissue.id
and changeitem.groupid = changegroup.id
and changegroup.issueid = jiraissue.id
order by jiraissue.id,change_dt
Results:
1     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2008-07-16 9:30:38 AM     Open     1
2     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2008-07-16 11:37:02 AM     Testing     2
3     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2010-06-08 9:14:52 AM     Closed     3
4     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2010-09-02 11:29:37 AM     Open     4
5     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2010-09-02 11:29:42 AM     Open     5
6     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2010-09-02 11:29:50 AM     Testing     6
7     21191     QCS-91     Error running the Earliest-deadlines flight interface request/response message     2010-09-02 11:29:53 AM     Closed     7
8     23234     QCS-208     System Baseline - OK button does not show up in the Defer Faults page for the System Engineer role      2008-10-03 10:26:21 AM     Open     1
9     23234     QCS-208     System Baseline - OK button does not show up in the Defer Faults page for the System Engineer role      2008-11-17 9:39:39 AM     Testing     2
10     23234     QCS-208     System Baseline - OK button does not show up in the Defer Faults page for the System Engineer role      2011-02-02 6:18:02 AM     Closed     3
11     23977     QCS-311     Tally Sheet - Reason Not Done fails to provide reason for unassigned tasks     2008-09-29 2:44:54 PM     Open     1
12     23977     QCS-311     Tally Sheet - Reason Not Done fails to provide reason for unassigned tasks     2010-05-29 4:47:37 PM     Blocked     2
13     23977     QCS-311     Tally Sheet - Reason Not Done fails to provide reason for unassigned tasks     2011-02-02 6:14:57 AM     Open     3
14     23977     QCS-311     Tally Sheet - Reason Not Done fails to provide reason for unassigned tasks     2011-02-02 6:15:32 AM     Testing     4
15     23977     QCS-311     Tally Sheet - Reason Not Done fails to provide reason for unassigned tasks     2011-02-02 6:15:47 AM     Closed     5

Hi,
Welcome to the forum!
StblJmpr wrote:
... I am attempting to do some reporting from a JIRA database. What is a JIRA database?
I am attaching code and a sample list of the results. If I am not quite clear, please ask for information and I will attempt to provide more. Whenever you have a question, please post a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements, relevant columns only) for all tables involved, and the results you want from that data.
Simplify the problem as much as possible. For example, if the part you don't know how to do only involves 2 tables, then jsut post a question involving those 2 tables. So you might just post this much data:
CREATE TABLE     changegroup
(      issueid          NUMBER
,      created          DATE
,      id          NUMBER
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2008-07-16 09:30:38 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2008-07-16 11:37:02 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 20);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2010-06-08 09:14:52 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 90);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2010-09-02 11:29:37 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2010-09-02 11:29:42 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2010-09-02 11:29:50 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 20);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (21191, TO_DATE ('2010-09-02 11:29:53 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 90);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23234, TO_DATE ('2008-10-03 10:26:21 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23234, TO_DATE ('2008-11-17 09:39:39 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 20);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23234, TO_DATE ('2011-02-02 06:18:02 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 90);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23977, TO_DATE ('2008-09-29 02:44:54 PM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23977, TO_DATE ('2010-05-29 04:47:37 PM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 30);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23977, TO_DATE ('2011-02-02 06:14:57 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 10);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23977, TO_DATE ('2011-02-02 06:15:32 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 20);
INSERT INTO changegroup (issueid, created, id) VALUES (23977, TO_DATE ('2011-02-02 06:15:47 AM', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS AM'), 90);
CREATE TABLE     changeitem
(      groupid          NUMBER
,      newstring     VARCHAR2 (10)
INSERT INTO changeitem (groupid, newstring) VALUES (10, 'Open');
INSERT INTO changeitem (groupid, newstring) VALUES (20, 'Testing');
INSERT INTO changeitem (groupid, newstring) VALUES (30, 'Blocked');
INSERT INTO changeitem (groupid, newstring) VALUES (90, 'Closed');Then post the results you want to get from that data, like this:
ISSUEID HISTORY
21191 Open (0) >> Testing (692) >> Closed
23234 Open (45) >> Testing (807) >> Closed
23977 Open (607) >> Blocked (249) >> Open (0) >> Testing (0) >> ClosedExplain how you get those results from that data. For example:
"The output contains one row per issueid. The HISTORY coloumn shows the different states that the issue went through, in order by created, starting with the earliest one and continuing up until the first 'Closed' state, if there is one. Take the first row, issueid=21191, for example. It started as 'Open' on July 16, 2008, then, on the same day (that is, 0 days later) changed to 'Testing', and then, on June 8, 2010, (692 days later), it became 'Closed'. That same issue opened again later, on September 2, 2010, but I don't want to see any activity after the first 'Closed'."
The database is 10.2.0.4That's very important. Always post your version, like you did.
Here's one way to get those results from that data:
WITH     got_order_row     AS
     SELECT     cg.issueid
     ,     LEAD (cg.created) OVER ( PARTITION BY cg.issueid
                                      ORDER BY      cg.created
              - cg.created            AS days_in_stage
     ,       ROW_NUMBER ()     OVER ( PARTITION BY cg.issueid
                                      ORDER BY      cg.created
                           )    AS order_row
     ,     ci.newstring                     AS change_type
     FROM    changegroup     cg
     JOIN     changeitem     ci ON   cg.id     = ci.groupid
     WHERE     ci.newstring     IN ( 'Blocked'
                       , 'Closed'
                       , 'Testing'
                       , 'Open'
--     AND     ...          -- any other filtering goes here
SELECT       issueid
,       SUBSTR ( SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH ( change_type || CASE
                                                         WHEN CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF = 0
                                       THEN ' ('
                                          || ROUND (days_in_stage)
                                          || ')'
                                                     END
                                , ' >> '
           , 5
           )     AS history
FROM       got_order_row
WHERE       CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF     = 1
START WITH     order_row          = 1
CONNECT BY     order_row          = PRIOR order_row + 1
     AND     issueid               = PRIOR issueid
     AND     PRIOR change_type     != 'Closed'
ORDER BY issueid
;Combining data from several rows into one big delimited VARCHAR2 column on one row is call String Aggregation .
I hope this answers your question, but I guessed at so many things, I won't be surprised if it doesn't. If that's the case, point out where this is wrong, post what the results should be in those places, and explain how you get those results. Post new data, if necessary.

Can you please help with importing CDs and audio books?

I tried to search for this topic, but had no luck.
Have been happy with IPOD until today. On trying to import a new audio book to iTunes and then updating IPOD to install on it, I can see the title in both the iTunes Library and menu of IPOD. However, instead of seeing a normal 57:32 (or similar stop time), I am seeing 789:57:13.152. When I try to play it through iTunes or IPOD, it skips it as if it wasn't there and plays something else. I checked out importing a music CD, and find the same problem.
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[I'm running RoboHelp 5.0.2 - Flash Help. We have purchased
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For running multiple
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{quote}
While what you are telling him is technically functional, it is not correct
I beg to differ, Paul. You are the one that is not correct.
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I stand very much corrected. CNAMEs are not officially deprecated. Interestingly, your post cites precisely what happens when CNAMES used carelessly. How many transactions are needed to resolve Apple's CNAME chain below? RFC1912 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1912.html) has some recommendations that suggests Apple's own network folks have, like me and perhaps even others here, some learning to do. Is that a 'best practice?'
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discussions.apple.com.edgesuite.net. 4427 IN CNAME a1399.b.akamai.net.
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We differ here -- and if we are dealing with a newbie, we don't need to enter into unnecessary complexity UNTIL it is a requirement for their solutions.
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You're somewhat reaching here, and it is well beyond the scope of the OP's post or needs (well, until they tell us more about their needs, I suppose). There is nothing difficult about 'finding' and updating the necessary records. The final example you gave is a good one and I'll say THAT is an appropriate use of a CNAME, 'though there are other workarounds for it.
Thanks for keeping me honest.

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I am attempting to import over a couple hundred GB of photos into Aperture. The current set-up is this, I have a terabyte RAID mirrored RAID (RAID 1) set up within my MacPro using disk utility. This is where I keep my images, neatly organized, in a directory structure that makes sense. I am wanting to use Aperture but I want to manage my own image library (masters) and utilize the referenced option in the software. I have attempted to import a sample test run of folders containing around 7K images in two different ways.
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Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
I would assume this would set up a referenced Aperture library that would not grow by leaps and bounds.
This isn't relevant to your question, but I just want to make sure you know that the adjective "referenced" applies to individual photos, not to your library. You can, of course, choose to make every photo referenced, which is your goal.
**It appears the files were added to the Aperture Library anyway, the library file in the Pictures directory grew to 10GB.
If my math is correct, your 7000 pictures made your library grow by a little over 1 megabyte per picture. It does not sound like the photos were copied to your library. 1M per picture is pretty small these days for a photo. How large are your photos to begin with?
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I have created a bunch of albums in iphoto and wish to transfer them to my ipod. However, when i go to the photos tab of itunes when my ipod is plugged in and i try to select Sync from Iphoto it says that i have 0 photos in iphoto. i have tried selecting individual folders of photos to import and that works just fine, but i want to be able to select the albums that i already created in iphoto.
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Apologies, you're right, it should be albumdata.xml.
Have a read of this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=778068&tstart=0
About 2/3'rds of the way down, DaveE has the following post:
- View your albumdata.xml file in some text editor, like TextEdit.
- Do a Find (cmd f) for "List of Keywords"
- The XML under that looks kind of like this:
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<string>Favorite</string>
<key>6</key>
<string>Birthday</string>
<key>3</key>
</dict>
You will probably have more keywords, this is just an example. But see the format - everything that has <something> ends with </something>.
When I had the problem, the example above looked like:
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<string>Favorite <key>6</key>
<string>Birthday</string>
<key>3</key>
</dict>
Notice the line return and </string> are missing for "Favorite". This happened to one of my keywords, and I don't know what caused it, but I deleted that keyword (and the one after it) from within iPhoto's preferences, and typed them in again.
The problem went away. Maybe some bogus character got into the keywords to make the XML go bad.
So try to use the method above to identify which keyword might have a problem, rather than go on a witch hunt and waste a lot of time. Of course, your problem could be different from mine entirely, but my iLife apps had the same problem you described.
Try it and see if it helps.
Regards
TD

Help with importing huge photo collection

Hello,
my brther switched to Mac and want to use iPhoto. His pohoto collection is about 40GB and many, many folders and subfolders. The structure of the folders and subfolders are like this example:
-X-mas     ->2009
               ->2010
               ->2011
Moto-trip ->Germany 2008 -> My photos
                                        -> Toms photos
                                        -> Mikes photos
               ->Switzerland 2009     -> My photos
                                                -> Brothers photos
etc...
Is there some possibility (maybe some script or 3rd app) of how to import all this pictures and for example automaticaly create Albums with subfolders in iPhoto?
Importing each subfolder would take days...
Any idea?
P.S.: He uses Mountain Lion and the latest iPhoto.

The structure you outline here is one for Files and not Photos. Using that structure in iPhoto is a bit pointless as it remains as limited in iPhoto as it is in the Finder.
iPhoto offers much more varied organisational opportunities, leveraging data that the file browser doesn't even know about - such as Exif and IPTC.
For Instance: anything date-based is done automatically based on the date and time of the Exif metadata in the Photos. So, Events are made this way, automatically. You can search by date using Smart Albums or the Calendar search in the search box: Therefore can easily find all the photos from any specific day, month, year, or in any time range using one of these tools.
If, in the example above, Tom and Mike have different cameras, then again you can sort these from each others with a simple Smart Album.
Next: Albums hold Photos. There is no such thing as a subfolder in Albums. You can have Folders. They can contain Albums nested Folders, which can also contain Albums.
As for importing folder tree: there's some stuff here that might help
http://www.macworld.com/article/1139658/iphotoimport.html
but I don't believe that there is any way to create a folder and move an Album into it.
Regards
TD

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