I think I did something stupid

Problem: System profile won’t acknowledge printer. No printers list under USB in print utility.
Equipment: IMAC OS 10.3.9. Epson Stylus C60 printer.
Stupid thing I did: When printer was giving me problems, I deleted printers from Print Utility list before downloading a driver.
Steps taken: Per the Epson people, I repaired permissions. Threw out Epson folder from library.
Results: No improvement. Is it time to restore my software? I should mention that some of my applications seem to be crashing more than usual and it’s running slow. Can anyone help with this?

Hello grouchyfoglady,
1. Try to download and install the latest printer driver from Epson.
2. Download and install MacJanitor from http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10491
Run the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly utilities.
(In fact, run them regularly).
3. If this doesn't help, download and run Printer Setup Repair from http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/psr4/index.php. Has a 7 day free trial period.
Hope this helps.
Bob

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I don't care if you think i did something stupid just help me.

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Please help! Did something stupid

Please help.
I did something stupid.
I restored a previous backup onto my iphone5, without doing a backup on current first. Previous backup was about 4 months ago, and now I found that I had lost 4 months worth of photos (and videos)
Is there anyway I can retrieve those lost photos? lots of precious memories of kids and family in there. Will do anything to have them back.
P.S: Read that somewhere photos won't be lost, but apparently it wasn't so.

I kind of guessed that ....
Excuse me while I do a silent scream ........ ...... ............ ........
curse the day I read that I can do a restore backup without doing a current backup .......
And all because some notes went missing ....
Thanks for all those who read my last rant ....

I did something stupid and afraid I invited virus or trojan HELP

Ok, I did something really stupid, and after a few hours of beating my head against the wall, I am reaching out here to see if anyone can calm my nerves.
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Unfortunately, after these scammers have had remote access, there is no way of being 100% sure that your computer is clean. AdwareMedic won't help with that, even if you were running a newer system. Neither will anti-virus software. Your system should be considered compromised at this point. You will need to erase the hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. For instructions, see:
How to reinstall Mac OS X from scratch
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com.)

Help!i think i did a stupid thing to my quick time

hi guys!!
well this is a stupid mistake that i did
i just uninstalled quicktime "Accidentally" because i was uninstalling another media player file.. then after 30 minutes of surfing and all that crap, i decided to empty my trash which i basically do everytime i can..
only after did i know of the stupid mistake that i did... now i surfed the wed and read that itunes need quicktime to work but my itunes was working perfectly, either way i decided to reinstall it but the one that i got was version 7.6.6?? im not entirelly sure cause rite now im on my desktop.. and clearly the 7.6.6 version is very different from the one i used to have.... the one before was like a screen with just a semi tranparent control keys while this new one is a greyish boxy program that looks like it came straight from 2005..
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thanks forreading this long *** post and please help me, thank you!!!
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If you've been using TIme Machine or some other utility to back up your system, you should be able to just restore QuickTime X Player from the backup. Otherwise, you'll either need to reinstall OS X or extract QuickTime X Player from the OS X installer or perhaps the Combo Updater (which you can download from Apple) using Pacifist from CharlesSoft (not a free program). Whether you actually will need QuickTime X Player is something you'll have to decide.
Regards.

I did something stupid, and lost all my photos in iPhoto

So, I thought I was in a specific Album with 5 photos in it I wanted to remove from iPhoto. I hit Apple-A to select all and hit delete. It wasn't until a moment later that I realized I must have actually been in my Library, and removed ALL my photos from iPhoto.
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EditThis:
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I think I did something weird with foundation/server patching

We've built many SP sites over the last 3 years. We're now moving in to 2013. most of our sites are 2010.
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We used SharePoint server with internet, mostly. When patching, we saw that there were two sets of patches, foundation and server.
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right behind that. It's worked fine. We've never received any errors about patching.
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My hope is that everything in SP foundation is part of SP server, so the patches I made, assuming the same level of patching, only duplicated patching effort, and there are no technical drawbacks to having patched foundation then server on the same environment.
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Hi,
There are some different patches for SharePoint, to better understanding the different patches, I think you can have a look at the following articles which contains the different patches in SharePoint.
Hey! Should I install this SharePoint patch?
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=433
For example, the “cumulative” part means if you install the August 2012 CU you don’t need install the June 2012 CU first.
CUs are also cumulative in the sense that the SharePoint Server patch includes the patches for SharePoint Foundation.
The Project Server CU includes the SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation patches as well. You only need to install the CU for the product you have.
This is a welcome change from SharePoint 2007 where we had to stack the patches.
Also, CUs contains the patches for all the supported languages which is why they’re so large.
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I did something stupid

First time for me so here goes. I have a PC. I downloaded a [Genius] system to improve the drivers (messing about with something I did not understand ... blame my age, 61). Silence from then onwards. I removed the system and hoped the sound would return but it did not. My Sound Blaster Audigy Advance AB has been brilliant for 5 years. If I go into Control Panel the audio icon is grey not black. If someone recognises my problem and can help me with this, I will be very grateful.

I don't know what operating system you have or had on your PC, but assuming it was some version of Windows, have you tried simply uninstalling and reinstalling your soundcard hardware and software?

I did something stupid (i386)

I was messing around in my command line, when the autocomplete feature showed me the command i386. I wanted to know what it did, so I ran it. I can't believe I did this, but I guess I expected it to display help to explain the command. Instead, it ran without output. Afterwards, I did "man i386" and it brought up the setarch man page. My question is, how do I reverse this change?

No, I ran it as a normal user.
I've read over the man page, it seems to suggest that it did nothing to my system. Is this true?
Edit: I just noticed something interesting, after running i386 in a terminal, running exit displays the output 'logout' instead of exiting. Then, running exit closes the terminal. What is the meaning of this? This seems to reinforce the idea that is made no change.
Last edited by patrickaupperle (2010-04-03 14:26:35)

Did something stupid, stuck in darwin

Hey everyone,
I have a young kid coming over and I set up a guest user account for him. In doing so I decided that I wanted to lock him out of my hard drive, so I logged back into my admin account did "get info" on my hard drive and set it up so that admins have read/write permissions and non-admins don't. I thought this was risky but would be reversable if I just logged back into my admin account, what I didn't realize was that OSX treats the user login screen as a user, and therefore I locked the computer out of the gui user login screen. Now when I turn on my computer it boots into Darwin/BSD and prompts me for a login/pass. I can type in my admin login/pass, but I'm not sure what to do next to fix the issue. I guess I have a few questions, and if I'm totally off let me know:
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2) Will this require a system dvd to reverse the settings on my hard drive access priviledges?
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You need to get into single user mode. The startup drive is named: / You need to change the permissions on it. I tried the command on another directory.
This is safe if you limit yourself to these commands.
You need to get into single use mode for the commands that are listed below.
This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
Basically, you hold down the command-s key then powering on your machine. The command key has a little apple symbol on the lower left. It is between the alt/option key and the space bar. On a PC keyboard, it will be the windows key, I think.
( Do you know Unix. You are in a Unix single user console. ) The setup commands you need should be listed on the screen. For Mac OS 10.4.11, the commands are:
# Type the follow two instructions to access the startup disk in read/write:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
root # cd /
root # pwd
root # ls -ld
drwxrwxr-t 48 root admin 1734 Dec 31 1969 ./
root # chmod 1775 /
Here is an overview of the terminal commands. Lets assume that your account has a short user name of mac.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
#How to list all of your disks.
# The ls command is for list
mac $ ls /Volumes/
Audio CD Macintosh-HD Spotless Tiger-ext
mac $
# Let's say your flash drive is named Spotless
# cd is change directory
mac $ cd /Volumes/Spotless
# pwd is print working directory
mac $ pwd
/Volumes/Spotless
mac $
# The ls command is for list
# l is long
# F is type of file where / is directory
mac $ ls -lF
total 134704
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drwxr-xr-x 83 mac staff 2822 Nov 7 14:52 Applescript files/
drwxrwxrwx 12 mac staff 408 Dec 13 2008 Christmas Cards/
drwxr-xr-x 9 mac staff 306 Dec 21 17:39 Christmas Cards 2009/
... trimmed ...
What does all this mean?
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = read
w = write
x = executeable program
drwxrwxrwx
| | |
| | all other users not in first two types
| |
| group
|
owner
# l is long
# a is all to show hidden files & folders
mac $ ls -lFa
total 134736
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drwxr-xr-x 83 mac staff 2822 Nov 7 14:52 Applescript files
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# mv is move or rename
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# You can just rename the file back to what it was with mv command.
mv -i old-name new-name
Here is what these commands mean:
cd is change directory
pwd is a print working directory
ls is list
sudo is Super user do
mv is move or rename
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man mv
# Type the letter q to quit.
I noticed that you had spaces in your filenames or directories. You need to escape them. See examples:
mac $ ls -l ~/"see it"
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 3171 Oct 26 23:38 /Users/mac/see it
mac $
mac $ cd /Users/mac/Desktop/ttt\ html\ copy/
Do you know about tabing? Type in a few letters of a name then press the tab key. The computer will type out the rest of the name if it is unique.
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history to see many previous commands.
mac $ history
2 man launchd.conf
3 history
Robert
Robert

I did something stupid - need help

I'm using iWeb for sharing photos, podcasts, etc. A week ago while editing, I accidently renamed my web-site, which is the name at the top of the site organizer. Consequently, this changes the address and the links I sent to people no longer work.
What is the default name which is used to publish to .Mac?
Help!

As long as you have only one site, it doesn't matter. The following will work (and your site name will automatically be added).
http://web.mac.com/yourdotmacname/iWeb
However, if you already gave out the long name to your friends and can't remember what it is, why not ask one of your friends? (I'd ask one that already owes me big time!)
One other thought. If you did NOT publish with the incorrect name, simpy open your browser and enter the short name and you'll see the old site name yourself.

I think I did something I shouldn't have :P

so if you read my previous discussion, I was having iPhoto problems. I found an RC build of lightroom, and so thinking I had around 6,000 pictues in iPhoto, and thinking I'll just drag them all on the desktop, after a while I thought it wasn't a good idea, so tried to delete them and do eent by event, no my computer freezes, like I turned it off and turning it back on again, after 30 seconds to a minute, it freezes but I can still do the mouse. I thought it would be a good idea, but it wasn't. I just should have ben goingeen by event likee I was, but I thought this would be better. Any help is really apreciated. I'm on a different computer and have mine shut down to let it cool off before trying again. Trying not to freak out again. Running Lion

Well, if you downloaded a release candidate of any software for free which has not been released publicly and would cost money if it was, then you pirated software. According to the ToU of these forums, we are not allowed to discuss such matters:
Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
I will say this much:
Sounds as though you will have to wipe your drive and reinstall. Good luck.

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When my Iphoto 5 became very slow, I thought I'd be really smart and delete some files, but now I can't view my photos in the edit window, just the thumbnail. I think I deleted the IPhoto library. Can someone help me restore the settings to the proper way. I tried to import my photos from a cd, they import ok, but I can't view them. Help Please. Obviously I'm no pro here, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Laura

Well, that's a very bad sign but let's not give up yet.
You indicated that you may have deleted the library. IF that's correct, you're screwed. Do your best to locate it. Although I've frequently told persons never to mess with the innards of the library, at this point you can't make things worse. If you can locate the library, take it apart and look for large files - 250K or larger. Those are your photos. Put them somewhere safe for the time being. (Small files are thumbnails or aliases.)
Again, post back with results.

I did something stupid, can I un-do it?

Okay, so when I first got Tink the Wonder Boxen, I was very happy to have my own computer that I could have root on. My ex is a fairly hardcore kernel hacker, and we'd been running Debian unstable on it, so it's probably a good thing that I didn't have root...anyway!
I figured out how to create accounts and I made three of them-one for school things, one for personal things, and one account for who knows what.
The problem is, I have things on all three accounts that I kind of need in one place, like bookmarks on Safari and Firefox, bits of an accounting project that really needs to be in one folder, etc, etc. It's ugly. It's fugly. It's bad.
Is there any way I can merge accounts? I only want one account, honest to goshness, and I want all my stuff in it. I'd like to be able to listen to all my Mp3's (only one user has the collection), use all my software (only one user has that info), and on and on.
I'm enthusiastic but I will be strait-up honest- I'm not that fantastic with computers yet. I can play just a little in the shell, know ls and grep (kind of), but I'm a lot better at creating problems for myself than fixing them at this point.
Is it even possible to merge accounts? If not, how can I delete the extra accounts and save my data(move it all to one account)?
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Bippy,
You're a mess, you are!
Yes, it is possible to "merge" accounts, but maybe not like you are thinking, or as easily. You have two things with which you will need to deal: First, there are individual files; these are easy enough to deal with. Second, there is infomation that will be contained within files; this is the tricky part.
To give you an example of how this can be tricky, let's consider the info for a single application, say Safari (and its bookmarks). Safari will collect all of your bookmarks and keep them in a single file, stored in your HOME folder. In another account, you might have different bookmarks, but all contained within the same file, only within this second account. As I mentioned, it is easy enough to move the "account 2" file into "account 1," but it can be used by Safari only by completely over-writing the existing file. Basically, you would replace your "account 1" bookmarks with your "account 2" bookmarks; not ideal.
The alternative, then, is to import the new bookmarks into Safari. You can export and import bookmarks in Safari from the "File" menu. Export from account 2, transfer the file to the account 1, then import in that one. Go slowly and methodically, exporting and importing the application info you want to "merge."
For plain old files, log into account 2 and do a thorough search for everything you might need in account 1. Once you have located everything, just drag it to a location that can be accessed from account 1 (the "Shared" folder in "Users" is a good place). Now, log into account 1 and move them to the correct place(s) in that account. Hint: It might be better to copy the files into the new account by Option-Dragging them; this will insure that your account 1 user has complete ownership of the files.
If you do ever have problems with ownership once files have been moved, you can use the following command in Terminal to correct any problems:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">sudo chown -R `id -u`:`id -g` /Users/`id -un`</pre>
I would recommend that you make a text clipping of this command and use it at the appropriate time by dragging it into Terminal.
Let's say that you have a bunch of Word documents in both accounts. Some of the Word documents are duplicated in both accounts, but there are files that are unique in both. These files can be "merged" by selecting all of the files from one account and dragging them to the folder containing all of the files in the second. You would then use the "Replace" dialogue that will pop up and choose not to replace any files, using the "Apply to All" option. This will effectively "merge" the two collections. Different versions of the same file must be dealt with on a file-by-file basis.
Keep at it, very patiently, until you find that one account is no longer necessary. When you find that you are never logging into this account to retrieve stuff (and you are quite sure), go ahead and delete the account.
Scott
p.s. Baltwo's suggestion to "archive" one account is a good one, but only after you have exported any data that must be handled in this fashion. Once the account has been archived, individual files can be moved to the other account by mountng the disk image as he has mentioned. Any files you move will then be copied, and ownership in the new account will be insured. -s

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