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I have a few issues going on, My biggest issue, is I recently purchased Iwork 08 and and Ilife 08, alone with a New Macbook Pro 2.4 with 4 GB of memory, Before selling my old Pro Mac I formated my drive and was up late working and failed to realize my external backup drive was plugged in, Even geeks sometime stump themselves. Either way I recovered all my data using a old version of Norton Winternals, acquired while in the military. I retrieved 95% of everything, But all my CS2 Photoshop PST's were flattened. I could scream. But when I imported all pictures into iphoto They seem to come up when I bring up my library, but when I click on them a huge Screen Filled black X comes up, When i use these photos in pages they show up, but when I drag them over I get a error "The Media file "DSC00004.jpg Can't be used because you don't have access privileges, or because it has o content or is corrupt." Question is what do i need to do, Like I said, they come up as viewable photos from my library, but I cant view in full screen mode or use them in documents... ect. Can someone please advise.
Second question is not on photo, While playing call of duty 2, 3 out of 5 times I get froze up, during the game. And can not escape or do anything. I have to ilegally shut down my machine.
I have 4 GB of memory. the 256 card not 128. IS there something I am doing wrong?
Last question... I switched platforms from a Mac Pro 2.66 with 8GB of memory to a Macbook Pro 2.4 with 4 gb of memory. I am so unhappy running CS2 on this Macbook Pro, Its not funny. IS this because I am not running 64 bit CS3 or is it just because I am not pushing dual zeon's anymore?
Thanks. The first person who helps me solve all three issues, and they work I will send a 1 GB of 667 Macbook Pro OEM memory. (US ONLY)
If there is any advise on how to recover my pst's on my external without having the images flattened this would be great too.
V/R
Mark
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Dani:
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Hi Terence,
Thanks for the clarification. I thought Aperture works like a plug-in for providing more editing flexibility.
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From: "Barbara B." <[email protected]>
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:05:25 -0600
To: Warren Newman <[email protected]>
Subject: Iphoto Editing with Photoshop Elements 9
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