Is the new forum harder to navigate?

I haven't been here in a few months. For years in was my regular stop 4-5 times a day. Is it me or is the new forum very confusing and a real hassle to navigate? I mean it was a real pain just to post this!

gjmnz wrote:
Does any know what the difference is between the Discussions Tab and the All Content Tab? Apart from one shows which threads you have viewed and which ones have been updated. Is it a double up for nothing?
There's a forum for discussing the forum... kinda meta:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities
I started a thread asking that very question: "What is the difference between 'All Content' and 'Discussions'"
The answer is just as you said, double up for nothing:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3000868

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The new forum software

Folks,
Lets take a vote. Do you just love (10) or utterly despise (-10) the new forum software?
-8
Against
1. It's kitchy.
2. It's buggy.
3. Source code is HARDER to read than ever.
4. They should have adopted wiki markup.
For
Ummm. RTF is kinda cute, I suppose.

i like the look and feel, but i have to agree that the speed is not wonderful.
of course i have a lot more tolerance for slow these days, since i became
a full time DBA and some of our runs literally take days.

I like the new forum

i havent been able do any programing for over a week
i came back and see the new forum
my question is how would i convert this to a applet
class Art {
Art() {
System.out.println("Art ");
class Drawing extends Art {
Drawing() {
System.out.println("Drawin");
public class Cartoon extends Drawing {
Cartoon () {
System.out.println("Cartoon");
public static void main(String[] args) {
Cartoon x = new Cartoon();

Hello xlightwavex,
To convert your application into an applet you need to create a class that extends the java.applet.Applet class. Below is the complete applet version of your application Cartoon.
class Art {
Art() {
System.out.println("Art ");
class Drawing extends Art {
Drawing() {
System.out.println("Drawin");
class Cartoon extends Drawing {
Cartoon() {
System.out.println("Cartoon");
public class CartoonApplet extends Applet {
public void init() {
Cartoon x = new Cartoon();
However, like your application, this applet sends all output to the system console (the DOS window in Microsoft's Windows for example). If you want the output on the applets panel itself you will need to update each class and replace the System.out.println methods. The applet below shows how you might do this, this is just one out of the many ways you might do it:
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
class Art {
public String toString() {
return( "Art.");
class Drawing extends Art {
public String toString(){
return( "Drawin, " + super.toString());
class Cartoon extends Drawing {
public String toString() {
return( "Cartoon, " + super.toString());
public class CartoonApplet extends Applet {
Cartoon x;
public void init() {
x = new Cartoon();
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawString( x.toString(), 25, 25);
The output of this program verifies that a Cartoon object, Drawing object and Art object have been constructed. The output is show below, which appears on the Applets Panel:
Cartoon, Drawin, Art.
Is this output just helping in debugging, or is it vital to the applet? If it is for debugging purposes, the System.out.println method is a good way of doing it. If not, do you need the output to appear antwhere in the applet? If so, it is hard to create output from the object of which other object can inherit - it is not the usual way of doing it. Otherwise, the above CartoonApplet is a good way of getting information about an inheritance model.
I hope this helps.
Best reguards
-Marek.

Welcome to the new forums

Welcome to the new forums for GroupWise 2014. You can find more information about GroupWise 2014 at http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
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I use an external hard drive as a Time Machine back up, but I want to use another external hard drive to save movies, photos on it, but it won't give me the option to save anything on the new external hard drive. Nothing is wrong with the external hard.

I use an external hard drive as a Time Machine back up, but I want to use another external hard drive to save movies, photos on it, but it won't give me the option to save anything on the new external hard drive. Nothing is wrong with the external hard.

Hi Clarkett99,
To use an external hard drive for your iTunes library, see the steps in this article -
iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
iPhoto can be used in a similar way, follow the steps in this previous discussion -
how do I save photos and their albums...: Apple Support Communities
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3744259
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Can't paste onto the new forum...

For some reason I can't paste anything into the new forum, which is rather annoying since typing out log files is a bit tedious. Anyone know how to fix this?

Don't know, do you get any errors? Perhaps you can't paste because you didn't copy something first? How old is your keyboard?
I do know that your question probably will end up here:
https://forums.oracle.com/community/developer/english/technology_network_community/community_feedback_and_suggestions_(do_not_post_product-related_questions_here)

Love the new forums... but

love the new forums... but hate the performance. Keep in mind my internet connection is 20MB/S download speed, there are times the pages wont even finish loading and you have to stop and reload again and/or very slow loading times. Of course, there are times the performance is as expected, but rarely. I hope Adobe plans to support the forums with better hosting.

jon@cmiwebstudio wrote:
love the new forums... but hate the performance. Keep in mind my internet connection is 20MB/S download speed, there are times the pages wont even finish loading and you have to stop and reload again and/or very slow loading times. Of course, there are times the performance is as expected, but rarely. I hope Adobe plans to support the forums with better hosting.
As an od adage says: "Don't feel like the Lone Ranger".
which means everyone and his , brother, sister, Aunts, Uncles, mothers's and Father, and cousins on the Acrobat forums are complaing about the Speed.
There is really we as Users of the Forums can do about it other than complain and hope adobe will do something about it when they get finished with their easter holiday. Maybe that will be before their 4th of July vacation.

The new LaCie Hard Disk,by Neil Poulton Fried my firewire on macbook

Does anyone has any suggestion for more reputable brand name fire wire external drives?
The new LaCie Hard Disk,by Neil Poulton Fried the fire wire port on the Logic Board on My Macbook the other day.
Just so you know I received the drive brand new. I already had an older Lacie external hard drive mounted on the Macbook, when I attached the ne *Lacie Hard Disk,by Neil Poulton*; It mounted for a brief second and caused the old Lacie external hard drive to unmount from the system.The *Lacie Hard Disk,by Neil Poulton* damaged my old Lacie drive too In the process.
It did not take long before the new drive got unmounted too. No matter what I do I could not get any of the external drive to work on the Macbook.
I called Lacie support. They claimed It was not anything major just zapp the ram, repair permission, and turn off computer unplug the power take out the battery start the computer over.
I had already done of that with no success. Lacies support still insist It was not their drive rather than the system.
My mac Is 1 1/2 year old. I don' t have the Applecare coverage. I took the Macbook to the store. They tested and they decided that the firewire was fried on the Logic Board and had to be replaced for $350 and normally should have charged me $800 for a Logic Board replacement.
Now I have to spend $350 extra for repair after buying a $150 dollar *Hard Disk,by Neil Poulton*.
Lacie told me that even after my ordeal they were not liable for any damages.
My loyalty to Lacie Is shattered. I lost confidence In Lacie and would never buy another Lacie external drive again.
From now on I will only buy from Western Digital, Seagate, and G-tecnology, Inc.
By being prudent It caused me more damage by buying another backup drive.
I believe that Lacie released this try without enough testing In the lab and used me as their guinea pig to test their product. As a paying customer It Is unfair for Lacie to use such practice.

This thread is not being very fair.
I just bought a 1TB LaCie drive for my MacBook, and it works great. They are a reputable and experienced vendor overall. I am sorry if your Mac got damaged, but posting such major allegations against LaCie when you don't really have any proof it is their fault could potentially have some consequences for you. Frying a Firewire port just by plugging in a compatible peripheral is almost unheard of.

What About Moderators in the New Forum?

Read the spam thread for awhile and you will see that moderation works well in these webx forums
You will also see messages concerning the LACK of moderation over in the cfusion side of things
Will the new forum software/structure allow for "this" moderation to continue, or will it fall away to "that" style of non-moderation?

Actually, on that note: how does one double-check that they've managed to link their user here with an Adobe ID?
The first umpteen dozen times I tried to do this the login to the Adobe ID would time out -- something I frankly get quite a lot when I try to login anytime with my Adobe ID. I'm not sure what's going on there.
I just tried to link my users here a few minutes ago and got the same time out. So I opened another window and tried logging in manually somewhere else. On my fourth or fifth try (after double-checking the password with the 'forgot your password?' function) it went through. Satisfied I had the right user/pass combo, I went back to the timed out page and hit fresh. It came up with some window asking to confirm I wanted to login with my (correct) Adobe ID and I said 'confirm'. So I *think* I'm linked, but I don't see any visual cue. At least, it doesn't ask me when I login anymore.
At any rate, is there way to verify it at our end? It'd be nice to have that peace of mind. Also, it'd be nice if I could find out why I timeout 90% of the time I try to login with my Adobe ID -- is it just that overloaded with users logging in?

Difference between the TABs "All Content" and "Discussions" on the new forum?

Hi,
Does anyone know the difference between the TABs "All Content" and "Discussions" on the new forum? They seem to be the same. I'm confused.
Petey

Petey,
Though I was part of the forum update beta, there was some that we could not effectively test, plus some aspects (like "Like"), that some liked, but others did not. That sort of thing happens.
Also, now that we have the full version, and all servers are synced, there will probably be things that the beta testers did not get to experience. We will all be learning, in the process too. Also remember, much of the new forum software was provided by Jive, and though many of us commented (pros and cons), only so much could be addressed. It was not quite like doing a beta on Adobe software, as there was a complete, separate layer in between.
So far, what I see looks close to what we saw a few weeks (months?) ago. Now, I need to really put the real software through its paces, to see what got changed from then, until now.
Good luck,
Hunt

MOVED: Thanks for the new Forum!

This topic has been moved to Forum Info & News corner.
Thanks for the new Forum!

I too have benefited from good advice on my MSI K8n Neo2 mb questions. The members here are knowledgable and polite. Questions asked nicely are answered by good suggestions. Thanks to MSI for sponsoring such a useful owner's forum.

Hey regulars, same names in the new forum?

hey, is everyone keeping the same names come monday with the new forums?
if you've got something new, share it here so we know who we're dealing with.
i'm the same, dave milbut.
if the lights go dark and don't come back on, well, it's been great getting to know you all and learning from you! you're the best bunch of pros a guy could wish to learn from!
cheers, dave (aikodude at yahoo dot com)

dec9 wrote:
My name changed from David E Crawford to dec9 Everything seems to be running real smooth and quick on my computer.The color choice is nice and even a spell check too boot and it works!!
ah! i was trying to figure out who dec9 was! the spell checker works, but i notice that the edit box for the forum does something that DISABLES the built in speeel [sic] checker for firefox... the one that gives the little red line under misspelt words... that's kinda annoying...
dave

The new forum format seems like a step backward

After using it for a few days, the new layout of this forum seems less user-friendly than the previous version.
1) Most users go to a forum for one of two reasons. They want to find the answer to a question or they want to browse by topic.
The standard layout for every other forum I have used has a home screen that clearly lists topics and has a box to start a new discussion or ask a question.
2) The default "Overview" opening screen for this forum lists recent posts but no topics. You need to click "refine this list" to get to the topics page. It has a box labeled "Ask Your Question" and another choice on a different part of the screen labeled "Start a Discussion". Are questions and discussions different from each other? Are they stored on different pages?
3) Two of the upper tabs are labeled "All Content" and "Discussions". What's the difference? Clicking either one seems to produce the same results.
4) It took me a while to figure out that the numbers in the yellow box at the top could be used to access different FAQs rather than pages of the single FAQ shown. Why not label it clearly? ("click number for other FAQs").
I get the impression that "different" took precedence over "useful" when this forum was redesigned.

I think many of us feel your pain and agree with you. I liked the old format because it was clean, easy to use and I knew where everything was that I wanted to access. I'm getting the hang of the new format but it is coming slowly.
The new format seems so "un-Apple-Like" because it seems to not be very user friendly. My assessment is that is geared to a younger, hipper crowd (that certainly does not include an old guy like me) which is every other company's target customer base. Apple always seemed to "think different" but not so much on this one - IMHO.
We will ultimately get used to the format or we will not come back. I don't see the latter happening! I have personalized my homepage but still find it necessary to have at least 4 open tabs in every session so I can navigate the way I want.
I said in an earlier thread that there are too many bells and whistles for my needs and taste but it is what it is. If they could get the problems ironed out for use in the iOS on the iPad I would be a much happier camper. Until then I will trudge along making mistake after mistake ....

What's wrong with the new forum design.

Thought I'd kick off the list here.
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
2. Status stays hidden unless checked, making it hard on both newbies and those trying to help them
3. No advanced search (that I can find) I've given up even trying to look, and users aren't even aware of it
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
5. Can't see very far back in the threads
6. Huge waste of space on useless quote bubbles
7. Trying to edit your own settings takes you round in circles
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
9. Absurd to ask users to search without a suggested list to work from, the Pages iPad users are constantly landing in the wrong forum
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
…many more but I'd like to let others add to the list
BTW I give 2 thumbs up to the improved post formatting options, but that was a long overdue catch up to other forums.

Don't have time to answer all of this, but here's a start...
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
Useful when they've come up with the correct answer themselves. (OPs can't award themselves points, though.)
3. No advanced search (that I can find)
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa (or click the blue Search button in the top right of any page without entering any text in the search field)
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
The equivalent of My Posts is here:
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/index.html
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html
Good luck!

Getting my backed-up photos into iPhoto on the new external hard drive

I managed to use Time Machine to restore the back-up of my external hard drive (that died) to a new external hard drive, however, while I can see the .jpeg images that were in my original (ext. hard drive) iPhoto library on the new Passport Drive, they are no longer set up in an iPhoto library. I might have confused the system because I had thought I needed a shell structure iPhoto library on the new hard drive, so I basically moved the new "budding" iPhoto library established on my iMac's internal hard drive to the Passport drive before restoring the Time Machine backup. What I see now is 1. a 4GB iPhoto library existing on the internal drive. 2. an identical 4GB iPhoto library existing on the external Passport drive and 3. a folder named Simpletech with the entire contents of the failed hard drive including all the photos from my original 54GB iPhoto library that resided on the old external hard drive, which are accessible as independent .jpeg files, but no longer organized as an iPhoto library.
Would love to know the steps to having just one iPhoto library on the Passport external hard drive that contains all my images without accidentally losing/deleting any images and messing up pointers. I would not mind eliminating the iPhoto library on the internal hard drive either, provided I could get all the images into the main one.
Angie in Charlotte

while I can see the .jpeg images that were in my original (ext. hard drive) iPhoto library on the new Passport Drive
When you enter Time Machine and go to the Pictures folder do you not see the iPhoto Library in it at different dates?
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If you used Time Machine to backup your hard drive then the iPhoto Library package should be in it. If you did something different please explain in detail what you did.
OT

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