Merging P2 File Structures?

I received a hard drive of MXF files from a P2 card, so the file structure is all intact. For some reason, though, every shot was placed in its own file structure. Is there any way to merge all the clips into one "contents" folder?

I know Barry. Very anti-Mac. Well, he likes them fine...but he and I both complain about Panasonic support for the Mac. 90% of HVX owners use Mac, and the support for Mac is pathetic.
But that post...sheesh. I have NEVER had ANY issues like that. I always copy via the Finder. I lock the cards, true enough, until I need to format them, but I have been doing Finder drags for the last 4 months and no issues. But, I have a PCMCIA powerbook...so the card fits right into the computer. I wonder if issues are for those using the Duel Systems Adapter or other thing. Never had one issue. And I never use P2CMS...that is a very confusing applicaiton. Again, Panasonic and the PC mentatily of complex thinking. MAKE IT EASY.
Working on it.
Shane

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RoboHelp HTML Version 8 - Merging AIR files

We use Webhelp Pro to merge 19 separate projects into a single merged help file. Can I do that with AIR output, and if so, how? Can anyone point me to a tutorial?

Hi there!
I agree with what both Pater and Rick have said, but there may be another way to acheive your objective.
I have merged 4 additional help systems into our Knowledgebase as an AIR module.
How? By importing each project's topics into the Knnowledgebase and the making a top level TOC entry for each components.
I got this idea from a comment that Rick made noting that the TOC is simply a set of links to the topics. In a merged webhelp, the TOC entry for the child projects are simply placeholders to make the multiple projects appear as a unified whole.
So in the case I am describing, the "merged" Top level TOC entries actually point to the topics inside the AIR module.
While I was doing this, there were some issues with the search. While debugging this issue, I discovered that the .cpd file was getting rather large each time I added another system. (over 2.5meg) To fix this, i just kept deleting the .cpd after i mporting each help system and let RH rebuild it for me. Search problem solved!
(close merged project/delete project.cpd/reopenproject)
Now, whether or not this will work for you would seem in part to depend on:
The way your 19 subprojects folders are structured
Number of topics in total (we now have about 500 topics form all the merged modules, not sure what the limits for AIRHelp are)
How you are handling your RH Source Control process
The attached snag shows the merged Knowledgebase TOC with one of the Help systems topics opened for you to see. It's all there and it works. My team uses this tool every day and they love the fact that all the files they need are in one interface with commenting and autoupdating.
Hope thos helps or at least gives you something to consider
Ciao
Ed
Message was edited by: ermphd

Opening specific topics in merged Help file

I have a modular Help file problem that I'm hoping someone
can help with.
We are developing a window for our software product that will
allow users looking for help on a specific task, to enter a string
into a text box. As the user string is typed into the box, the
software returns a list of possibilities, from which the user is
then expected to choose a task. When the task is chosen, a string
associated with that task is passed back to the software. In
theory, the software opens the Help file and the topic associated
with the task is simultaneously displayed.
The complicating factor is that the target topic is in a
merged CHM file under the master CHM. Ideally, when we pass a
string to locate a specific topic in this merged file, we would
want to open the master CHM and have (1) the topic located in the
TOC pane to the left and (2) the topic display in the Topic pane to
the right. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to make it work
quite right. The correct topic is located in the TOC pane, but the
right-hand pane displays a "this program cannot display the
webpage" message. What's funny is that if I simply click on the
topic in the TOC pane, the right pane will display the correct
topic. In other words, we are finding the topic in the TOC, but we
just aren't displaying it.
Obviously, we are not passing the correct string to the
software but I don’t seem to be able to hit upon the right
syntax. So, to summarize what I want to do is to have the Master
file open to a specific topic in the Merged file called, for
instance, "My_Topic.htm." Thus, I have tried…
Master.CHM::/My_Topic.htm
Master.CHM::/Merged.CHM/My_Topic.htm
…but neither has worked.
I should mention that we have not renamed any CHM files using
Win Explorer, and we have not specified a binary TOC. Also, both
CHM files are local.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Mike,
Based on what I can work out (and I could be wrong) the
completed project, merged files and all, is in the !SSL!/HTML Help
output folder of the master project. When you compile the master
project takes the links, subsiduary merged files, etc, that it
knows about relative to the files in the Master Help files main
directory, (i.e. the baggage files that the project knows about
after you have imported the subsiduary files into the project) and
exports a compiled .chm master file into the !SSL!/HTML Help output
folder of the master project that contains details of the links and
subsiduary files.
What it doesn't do is export any subsiduary files from the
Master Help files subdirectory if there are any there in the first
place. This means you can get outdated subsiduary .chm files there.
This means RoboHelp puts in the correct links in your master
project (cos the right filres are in your baggage files) and writes
a master project .chm file to the output ditrectory. If however,
your subsiduary project .chm file is already in your output
directory then this will not be updated and your master .chm file
will contain links to topics that might not be in the version of
the subsiduary .chm file in the output directory - hence the
message saying 'can't display the web page'.
What I've (recently) learned to do is:
(1) Produce and generate master project and sub projects into
the default !SSL!/HTML Help sub directories for each project. When
I know each stand alone section of the project is working OK I:
(2) Import the subsiduary projects into the master so there
is a file of the correct name in the master. (In the bagge files
section).
[I re-import only if i've changed the structure of the
subsiduary projects such the master project references topics that
no longer exist or needs to reference newly created topics].
(3) Set up another single source layout in the subsiduary
projects that writes the latest version of the .chm file directly
into the required output directory of the the master project.
(Because Robohelp doesn't refresh the files in the output
drectory of the master project if they're already present this
means each time I recompile the subsiduary projects the lastest
version goes into the output directory of the master project - this
saves reimporting them into the master and deleting the contents of
the master's output directory).
(If I batch generate I can write an updated copy into the sub
project's default !SSL!/HTML Help at the same time - so if I want
to look at just the output of the sub project I can always do that
as well).
(4) Everytime I generate the master project it sends a
compiled master.chm file to the specified output directory, but
doesn't overwrite the subsiduary .chm files in that output
directory. However, as I've set up the subsiduary projects to write
their latest versions of their files to that directory every time I
compile it always has the latest versions of those files for when
you despatch the project.
This means everytime you recompile the master it knows the
right file names, links, etc, for the subsiduary projects and each
time you recompile the subsiduary projects the latest version goes
into the master projects output directory.
If you don't do this (or sometning like) your master and sub
projects will get out of sync and you'll end up with problems
referencing topics in the subsiduary projects.
(If you've already understood this, sorry for going over old
ground).

Merge tdms file

Hi,
is there an easy way to merge a set of tdms-files (with same structure) to one file?
For example:
Measurement1.tdms
Measurement2.tdms
Measurement3.tdms
to
Measurement.tdms

Hi Andre,
in what way do you want to "merge" the files?
I think you could read the files out in Measurement Studio with the TDM Streaming Lib or the Diadem Connectivity Lib and save the data into one file.
Let me know, if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Melanie

Lightroom 5 isn't seeing my file structure. Please help!

I just recently upgraded lightroom at the same time that I switched harddrives. Basically, I installed LR 5 on the new harddrive. Then I opened my LR4 catalogue on LR5 and had it do the "update" to the catalogue. Everything seemed to be working properly. However, this is the first time I have imported a memory card and it is really having problems.
I imported and had the files put into Pictures>Client Sessions>Weddings (and then wrote in the subfolder name). It shows in my finder that that is where the photos are. However, in Lightroom it is like creating a whole new section. For some reason it isn't "linking" to my current file structure. See the 2014 Mclennan-Reeser file. It is under "wedding" on my finder.
See how it is is like its own separate thing on my Lightroom (even though if you scroll down you will SEE the wedding folder. I have even tried to drag and drop it into "wedding" on LR... but it says it already exists OF COURSE IT DOES! I then tried to right click on 2014 McLennan and say "show parent folder", but it just creates a NEW "Wedding" folder in LR. Why is this happening??? Any fixes?
two images below.

OK, now that we know what the problem is the trick is to get Lightroom to forget about the "LindseyPortugal" path, and to merge everything in that path with the new 2014 folders' "lyndseyportugal" path. To do that we need to employ a bit of a roundabout route:
1. Backup your catalog, just in case something wrong.
2. Create a dummy (i.e. new but empty) folder at the root of your SSD drive (i.e. not in the users library), call it something like "Dummy Images".
3. In the Lightroom Folders Panel right/ctrl-click on "Pictures" and in the resulting context menu select "Update Folder Location". A file browser window will open, use this to navigate to and select the "Dummy Images" folder. Don't be alarmed when "Pictures" disappears from the panel to be replaced by "Dummy Images", and all the sub-folders will have the "?" mark to indicate they're missing. This step is needed to get Lightroom to forget all about the "LyndseyPortugal" path.
4. Next, right/ctrl-click on "Dummy Images" and again select "Update Folder Location".This time browse to and select the "Pictures" folder (so Lightroom should now register the path as being under "lyndseyportugal"), and if all goes to plan you should now see everything back as it should be, with that 2014 sub-folder showing with the other sub-folders under "lynsdeyportugal/Pictures". One thing to note, there MAY be a "Merge" warning message, i.e. along the lines of "This folder already exists in the catalog, do you want to merge", if so choose "Merge".
Report back with any issues.

Pacmerge -- merge .pacnew files

pacmerge is a simple (80-line) program to interactively merge .pacnew files with sdiff.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52485
Why another such program? For two main reasons:
1. Most others use the wronganother program to merge (e.g. vimdiff, kdiff (eww), &c.), which is difficult to change
2. Haskell is nicer than bash
Last edited by strake (2011-11-26 18:27:40)

karol wrote:
doublerebel wrote:I don't care for the obtuse UI of vimdiff
Use can use regular diff if you want.
Or e.g. meld.
I am aware of the other suggested options, I'm not as noob as my post count appears. Diff does not merge files. Copy and paste between files in a terminal while referencing the diff is not a simple task. Meld is GUI-only.
There is definitely a place for a simple CLI .pacnew interactive merge tool. Diffpac/pacdiffviewer is close, but without documentation and also uses vimdiff -- although at least Diffpac has almost no dependencies.
Most of the .pacnew configuration updates are trivial (thanks to Arch's clean structure and upgrade process), and therefore merging should be trivial as well. .pacnew merging is a bump in Arch's otherwise smooth rolling upgrades.

Using Adobe Bridge file structure with iPhoto (latest version)

I use Adobe Bridge and have all my pics in named folders in Pictures/PICS/Folder Names. Inside the PICS folder is the iPhoto Library (only a few pics in it). Is there any way I can use the file structure I have set up with Bridge and iPhoto (latest) simultaneously? I really dont want to import (copy) all my pics into IPhot because I am pretty sure I will end up with two versions of each. I havent been able to manage pics manually the way I like to in older versions of iPhoto.

Here's some info to help you setup Photoshop for use with iPhoto:
Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window
that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
Note 1: screenshots are from PSE 10
Note: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.
OT

How to join 5 different tables using SQL to make it to a flat file structur

I am trying to load five differnt tables into one flat file structure table without cartesian product.
I have five different tables Jobplan, Jobtask(JT), Joblabor(JL), Jobmaterial(JM) and Jpsequence(JS) and the target table as has all the five tables as one table.
The data i have here is something like this.
jobplan = 1record
jobtask = 5 records
joblabor = 2 records
jobmaterial = 1 record
jpsequence = 3 records
The output has to be like this.
JPNUM     DESCRIPTION     LOCATION     JT_JPNUM     JT_TASK     JL_JPNUM     JL_labor     JM_JPNUM     JM_MATERIAL     JS_JPNUM     JS_SEQUENCE
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     1001     10     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     1001     20     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     1001     30     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     1001     40     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     1001     50     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     1001     Sam     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     1001     Mike     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     1001     Hammer     NULL     NULL
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     1001     1
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     1001     2
1001     Test Jobplan     USA     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     NULL     1001     3
Please help me out with this issue.
Thanks,
Siva
Edited by: 931144 on Apr 30, 2012 11:35 AM

Hope below helps you
CREATE TABLE JOBPLAN
( JPNUM NUMBER,
DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(100)
INSERT INTO JOBPLAN VALUES(1001,'Test Jobplan');
CREATE TABLE JOBTASK
( LOCATION VARCHAR2(10),
JT_JPNUM NUMBER,
JT_TASK NUMBER
INSERT INTO JOBTASK VALUES('USA',1001,10);
INSERT INTO JOBTASK VALUES('USA',1001,20);
INSERT INTO JOBTASK VALUES('USA',1001,30);
INSERT INTO JOBTASK VALUES('USA',1001,40);
INSERT INTO JOBTASK VALUES('USA',1001,50);
CREATE TABLE JOBLABOR
( JL_JPNUM NUMBER,
JL_LABOR VARCHAR2(10)
INSERT INTO JOBLABOR VALUES(1001,'Sam');
INSERT INTO JOBLABOR VALUES(1001,'Mike');
CREATE TABLE JOBMATERIAL
( JM_JPNUM    NUMBER,
JM_MATERIAL VARCHAR2(10)
INSERT INTO JOBMATERIAL VALUES(1001,'Hammer');
CREATE TABLE JOBSEQUENCE
( JS_JPNUM    NUMBER,
JS_SEQUENCE NUMBER
INSERT INTO JOBSEQUENCE VALUES(1001,1);
INSERT INTO JOBSEQUENCE VALUES(1001,2);
INSERT INTO JOBSEQUENCE VALUES(1001,3);
SELECT   JP.JPNUM        AS JPNUM       ,
         JP.DESCRIPTION AS DESCRIPTION ,
         NULL            AS LOCATION    ,
         NULL            AS JT_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JT_TASK     ,
         NULL            AS JL_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JL_labor    ,
         NULL            AS JM_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JM_MATERIAL ,
         NULL            AS JS_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JS_SEQUENCE
FROM JOBPLAN JP
UNION ALL
SELECT   JP.JPNUM        AS JPNUM       ,
         JP.DESCRIPTION AS DESCRIPTION ,
         JT.LOCATION     AS LOCATION    ,
         JT.JT_JPNUM     AS JT_JPNUM    ,
         JT.JT_TASK      AS JT_TASK     ,
         NULL            AS JL_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JL_labor    ,
         NULL            AS JM_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JM_MATERIAL ,
         NULL            AS JS_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JS_SEQUENCE
FROM JOBPLAN JP, JOBTASK JT
UNION ALL
SELECT   JP.JPNUM        AS JPNUM       ,
         JP.DESCRIPTION AS DESCRIPTION ,
         NULL            AS LOCATION    ,
         NULL            AS JT_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JT_TASK     ,
         JL.JL_JPNUM     AS JL_JPNUM    ,
         JL.JL_labor     AS JL_labor    ,
         NULL            AS JM_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JM_MATERIAL ,
         NULL            AS JS_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JS_SEQUENCE
FROM JOBPLAN JP, JOBLABOR JL
UNION ALL
SELECT   JP.JPNUM        AS JPNUM       ,
         JP.DESCRIPTION AS DESCRIPTION ,
         NULL            AS LOCATION    ,
         NULL            AS JT_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JT_TASK     ,
         NULL            AS JL_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JL_labor    ,
         JM.JM_JPNUM     AS JM_JPNUM    ,
         JM.JM_MATERIAL AS JM_MATERIAL ,
         NULL            AS JS_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JS_SEQUENCE
FROM JOBPLAN JP, JOBMATERIAL JM
UNION ALL
SELECT   JP.JPNUM        AS JPNUM       ,
         JP.DESCRIPTION AS DESCRIPTION ,
         NULL            AS LOCATION    ,
         NULL            AS JT_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JT_TASK     ,
         NULL            AS JL_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JL_labor    ,
         NULL            AS JM_JPNUM    ,
         NULL            AS JM_MATERIAL ,
         JS.JS_JPNUM     AS JS_JPNUM    ,
         JS.JS_SEQUENCE AS JS_SEQUENCE
FROM JOBPLAN JP, JOBSEQUENCE JS;
     JPNUM DESCRIPTION     LOCATION      JT_JPNUM    JT_TASK   JL_JPNUM JL_LABOR     JM_JPNUM JM_MATERIA   JS_JPNUM JS_SEQUENCE
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    USA        1001        10         NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    USA        1001        20         NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    USA        1001        30         NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    USA        1001        40         NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    USA        1001        50         NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       1001       Sam        NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       1001       Mike       NULL       NULL    NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       NULL       NULL       1001       Hammer NULL          NULL
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    1001          1
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    1001          2
      1001 Test Jobplan    NULL       NULL        NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL       NULL    1001          3
{code}

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I'm trying to move a folder from the default iTunes folder to a folder on another drive where I am managing the file structure. This allows me to file music as I would like to on the disk an makes things much easier to find when I need to.
Recently I've noticed that when I do this I lose some of the song meta data such as the image and rating which is kind of annoying. Is there any way to do this and not lose meta data?

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Imported par file to NWDS, jar file missing. Where find par file structure?

Hi All,
We want to implement idle session timeout on the portal. We found a wiki here on the subject. In order to implement the solution we need to make adjuestments to com.sap.portal.navigation.masthead.par.bak. When we import this par file to Netweaver Developer Studio, the libraries and jar files are missing. So obviously it errors then in portal as files are missing.
So I could add them manually but I don't know what the file structure is on this par file so don't where to add what. Does anyone know?
Also when I export the file after manually adding the missing files, will it export all the files or will it behave the same way as the import and leave out the additional files?
If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it,
Kind regards,
Liz.

Hi Bala,
I thought of that just before you responded and it worked!! Thanks for the response..
Regards,
Liz.

Need help understanding Time Capsule file structure and how to get it back

I have the original Time Capsule on which I backup both my Mac Pro and my wife’s Macbook. When Snow Leopard came out, I successfully used the ‘Restore from Time Machine’ feature on my Mac Pro so I know it has worked. However, my wife’s MacBook harddrive died the other day and I was trying to do the ‘Restore from Time Machine’ and all it would find was a backup from April (when I put her in a new larger drive). Time Machine would not find any backup files newer that April. She stated that she had seen the the Time Machine backup notices regularly and as recent as the day the haddrive died (Nov. 23) so I figured that I should have no problem. Here is what I have found in my trouble shooting and what leads to my questions below.
This is the file structure I found: (note that our ID’s are ‘Denise’ and ‘John’)
*Time Capsule* (the drive as listed in my Finder window sidebar under ‘shared’)
>Folder called ‘Time Capsule’ (when logged in as either ‘Denise’ or ‘John’)
>>Denise Sparsebundle
>>>Backup of Denise’s iBook (mounted image)
>>>>Folder called ‘Backups.backupdb’
>>>>>Folder called ‘Denise’s iBook
>>>>>>Single folder with old April backup (not the right files)
>>John Sparsebundle
>>>Backup of John’s Mac Pro (mounted image)
>>>>Folder called ‘Backups.backupdb’
>>>>>Folder called ‘John’s Mac Pro’
>>>>>>Folders containing all my backup files
>Folder Called ‘Denise’ (if logged as ‘Denise’)
>>Denise’s Sparsebundle (a disk image)
>>>Backup of Denise iBook (the mounted image. Name from old machine)
>>>>Backups.Backupdb
>>>>>Denise’s iBook (Contains the backup I need)
>Folder Called ‘John’ (if logged in as ‘John’)
>> (empty)
For some reason, my wife’s backup files are stored within a folder located at the top level of the Time Capsule drive called ‘Denise’, however, mine are within a folder called ‘Time Capsule’ which is at the same level as the ‘Denise’ folder.
For some reason, when trying to use Time Machine to recover, it bypasses the top level ‘Denise’ folder which contains the correct files and goes into the ‘Time Capsule’ folder and finds the outdated backup files.
I would assume that both my backup files and my wife’s should be at the same level of the Time Capsule.
I was eventually able to use Migration Assistant to recover the files after installing a fresh OS and mounting the correct Sparsebundle image.
So, my question, how do I get this fixed so that if I have to recover a drive with Time Capsule, it will find the correct files.
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for any help.

John Ormsby wrote:
What I was trying to determine is why different backups for one particular machine are located at different file structure levels on my Time Capsule and why the most resent one for that machine is at a different level that for my other machine. Also, what is the correct level that both machines backups should be at.
well John, first can you clarify if you are on 10.4.8 as your profile suggests ? if so, i'm wondering how you can use TM at all because TM was introduced with Leo. if you're not on 10.4.8, please update your profile. if you could, please also indicate details of your machine such as available RAM, processor, etc.
second, what OS is your wife's machine running ?
third, i frankly don't know too much about TM's file structure or if there indeed is such a thing as the correct one. however, i do know that it is best to leave TM to do its thing (as long as it's working). FWIW, though off-topic, you may want to have a look at this read for further information.
last but not least, i see TM backups to my TC only as a part of my backup strategy. the backbone of my strategy is to create bootable clone of my startup disk(s) using e.g. Carbon Copy Cloner on a regular basis. while TM is capable of doing a full system restore, i don't trust it as much as a working clone. i use TM to retrieve a file i accidentally trashed a week ago but you cannot boot from a TM backup if your startup disk goes belly up.
If I have missed this information in either the FAQs or the Troubleshooting article, I would greatly appreciate being pointed to it .
i expect you didn't miss anything and i'm sorry you didn't find any help there. perhaps if Pondini (author of the FAQ and troubleshooting user tips) reads this thread, you will get the necessary advice on the file structure and more besides.
good luck to you !

AVCHD File Structure From MAC to PC

Hello,
I know this is sort of off topic but I need the expertise of this forum....
I am the videographer (mac user) for a speaking group and have to film speeches 5-7 minutes in length each week. The problem is how to get the videos to each person without processing on my Mac and uploading to youtube so they can see them.
I am Using a Canon HF10 and wonder if I could pop out the memory card from the camera put it in a card reader attached to a person's PC and transfer the files that way. I know that I would copy the entire file structure to their computer. I assume the PC person would have to have something that could work with the AVCHD files but I don't know what is on a PC computer these days. The other dilemma is that the speakers HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO COMPUTER skills.
Anyone have any ideas how to get the video to a viewable state without going through FCE.
thanks,
Al

I agree with Martin and might add that I was in a similar project late last year with several folks who certainly weren't as computer savvy as myself, and YouTube turned out to be the solution. That way I didn't have to deal with the perennial "I couldn't open it" comments you WILL receive. Everyone was able to view YouTube.
You might try uploading to Vimeo - I think you can actually upload .MTS files directly to their site, if you want to just post your raw footage. You could just get the files in the Finder directly from the file structure on the HF10, copy them to your Mac and upload from there. (I haven't tried this, but Vimeo's site says they accept .MTS files, which is what the HF10 videos will be, in the "STREAM" subfolder)
The downside is that their free account maxes out at 500MB of uploads per week. That may be enough for you but I don't know. If you pay, the limit is quite a bit higher.

File Structure with iTunes on an External Drive

This is an image of the file structure on my external drive that holds all of my iTunes music:
Is this correct, or should I have set it up differently? I am asking since it is differnet the the iTunes file structure on my MacBook Pro and some files will get uploaded to my external drive and others will go onto my MBP,s iTunes Music folder. All of my iPhone/iPad apps, Album Artwork, Mobile Applications. I have Book folders on both drives and the both have books on them.
I should say that I had a major problem a few years ago, which has nothing to do with the above problem, with one of the iTunes updates which disconnected most of my songs from their respective files. I tried a solution a friend sugested, which really messed up the files and now many of the files have different info inside the song files, i.e., Otis Redding as the Artist on a Radiohead track. Or another groups cover for a Beatles album. I have a large library and have gone through slowly and fixed many things, but it is still quite messy and a huge bummer.. As a proud new owner of a Late 2011 MacBook Pro, I would love to be able to have a solution for this as well.
TIA

Well I just went through the same thing. I had a Lacie Porsche mobile drive at 80GB and changed to a Lacie Rugged 250. I keep all my music on external never local. Not a fan of loading my laptop. Anyways.... I was getting those same errors. I had copied all the itunes library contents from the Porsche drive to the Rugged drive. It took quite some time to transfer so you knew it was working. Then changed in the preferences of iTunes to save in the Rugged drive. If you trashed or deleted any files from the new drive and just put them in the trash without emptying you get that 501 trashes path. I found I had multiple duplicates of songs with the name of the song followed by a 1.mp4a. I think the library.xml file is the key to a clean transfer of music. I think this file is stored locally in your user folder and then it's used to direct to the alternate drive but from what I've read it's the file with all the playlist information and stuff on it. If you find it and move it over to the mobile drive then hold option and boot up itunes then tell it to look for that file on the new mobile I think you'll have no worries. I'm actually gonna try this myself.
You don't want to know how it got it working. I physically opened every music file on the rugged drive to make sure the were all where they were supposed to be. All 70'gb's of music. Never doing that again.

Can't install windows it says the boot camp partition is not formatted as a NTFS file structure

Using boot camp assistant it gets to the point of installing windows 7 and it won't because the boot camp partition is not a NTFS file structure. It also seems strange to me that there are 5 partitions would have expect ether 2 or 3. Please help this is very frustrating.
Thanks in advance

Open, if not so already, the Windows formatter. Identify the BC Windows partition. It will be the one listed with the proper size you created and/or will be labeled as a C: drive. Be careful you select the right one or you may be corrupting the entire drive.
Format the partition as NTFS.

Hyper-v VM - merged .avhd files - now cant start as missing .vsv file

Hi All,
Yesterday i shut down one of our VMs to allow the snapshots to merge and then tried to start the VM but got the following error:
'VM' could not initialize.
An attempt to initialize VM save state failed.
'VM' could not initialize. (Virtual Machine ID ........)
'VM' could not create or access saved state file E:\....... .vsv
When i looked for one i realised that a .vsv file doesnt exist for the VM. I thought the .vsv file was a temporary file and that the VM should happily start without it?
Any help is much appreciated!

Hi jrussellcj,
"I thought the .vsv file was a temporary file and that the VM should happily start without it?"
Yes , if all of the snapshots are merged properly , there will be no .bin and .VSV remained for that VM .
Please check the snapshots' folders to ensure that there is no files .
And I agree with Philip's suggestion .
If the merged VHD file can works well in a new VM then you may no longer need the old VM .
Best Regards
Elton Ji
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