Missing Project Folders

Help! I have almost completed my project. I was in the
process of view the results of my compile to WebHelp. Since my
project was open, I was doing some minor corrections using the
WYSIWYG editor. I noticed some of folders that should be under the
Project tab are missing and under the Topics tab. I can see my
topics in the TOC view. What can I do?

Hi xbet
First off, don't panic. I'd simply proceed with generating
WebHelp and see if things seem fine. If so, close RoboHelp and
begin picking things apart. The issue could be as simple as Windows
memory being fragged out and causing things to misbehave. So I'd
restart the PC, then begin seeing if things normalize.
Give that a shot and report back with what you are seeing.
Cheers... Rick

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Searched for an answer, but nothing seems to be exactly my experience.
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You are correct about root ... no other folders above the FCP X folders is the way it's supposed to be. I noticed that FCP X can get confused if you first opened up or created a project with the Final Cut Pro folders on your system drive then you try to make a copy of them on an external drive. That is what I did at first also. I would recommend moving your system drive Final Cut Pro X folders to a safe backup drive such as usb, etc then ejecting that drive. Make sure they no longer exist on the system drive. Then go to your external drive where you first copied them to and go into the Final Cut Projects folder. Then go into a folder that has the name of your project, or if you created "Folders" in FCP X to put your projects in then go into the folder that has the name of the folder you created within FCP X. Within one of those will be a folder named after your project name you had assigned it in FCP X. Inside that will be a file called CurrentVersion.fcpproject. Double click on that file, and Final Cut Project X will open with that project. In your Project Library window on the lower half of the display, over against the left you will see Macintosh HD, or whatever your system drive is called. Under that will be the name of your external drive. Indented to the right slightly under your external drive will be the name of the project you have just loaded. Just keep working in that one from now on without moving the old FCP X folders backing onto the system drive. If you get some clips that are red meaning that FCP X can no longer find them, copy them from your original system drive or the Final Cut Events folder to the event name you had placed them in when you imported them into your project. You can also simply find them and re-import them into FCP X and be done with it. It has been my observation that you do not want to have two Final Cut Project or Events (or any of the other) FCP X folders on two drives that are active at the same time. Best practice is to leave them off your system drive and put them on an external Firewire drive. If you need to make a backup of them periodically, put a usb drive or another Firewire drive on your system WITHOUT GOING INTO FINAL CUT PRO X, and use Finder to simply copy the folders to the other drives as a backup ... then eject the backups. You can then continue working in FCP X. Sounds detailed, but the bottom line is FCP X does not seem to like two FCP X file systems on two attached drives at the same time. At least that's the way it has seemed in my experience. Hope this helps.
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See question. I'm assuming that I or them are missing something with the handshake once the basic appl is launched. The Changepoint appl does launch in the browser...it just doesn't function when you get into it, e.g. clicking on a hyperlink on the screen doesn't launch a sub-appl/module to show project folders. It doesn't crash the browser or window, it just doesn't do anything.

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For future reference, backup the entire iPhoto Library folder. You need all the data files in there for it to work correctly.
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Lost the Project Folders

Recently I did a reformat of my hard drive and reinstall of XP SP2.
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If you do try either the recovery, or unformat route, do NOT add anything, except the necessary SW to the drive. If it were my situation, I'd pick up a new drive, set it up with the OS, and the recovery SW only, wire your old drive as D:\ (whatever), boot from your new C:\ and run the utilities. You may get lucky, but probably not. Anyway, one can always use extra HDD space with NLEs, so it will not be a total waste, to get the new HDD.
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HT200183 If I wanted to include apple loops in the assets of Logic project folders that are part of a tutorial available for download on a paid educational website would that be ok?

If I wanted to include apple loops in the assets of Logic project folders that are part of a song that follows a tutorial available for download on a paid educational website would that be ok? No one would be paying for the file itself that's part of the membership. I don't want to get into any copyright problems. I understand that they are royalty free and you can include them in your music no problem but the individual loops would be in the audio folder if I saved all the assets to the project file.
Also, would it be ok to include screen shots I take myself of apple programs in my downloadable content?
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Hi
trainedmind wrote:
No one would be paying for the file itself that's part of the membership. I don't want to get into any copyright problems.
My gut reaction is that you may well run into © issues if you re-distribute the original AppleLoops.If your customers are paying for the training, they are also paying for the content you provide, so I feel that you would be re-selling the loops.
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Hi Tony, thanks for the welcome.
I've searched and I still have only the one library. The library is about 120GB so it would be hard to create without noticing.
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Please Help.
I'm using RH X5 with SVN as my source control software. I
cannot delete top level project folders after I have created them.
How can I delete them?
Thank you.

Thanks for your help. In another thread, Peter G. also
suggested checking your local directory (outside of RH) to make
sure there are no files in the folder you are trying to delete. To
add, I found images that were still in the folder. I forgot to move
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I have a growing library of images in Aperture. I am also a stock photographer by living. My library in Aperture is somewhat haphazard and I'm trying to organize it so that I can have it make sense. I do not sell my photos as stock myself (I submit to several agencies) so I'm not sure that I need to file my images so that I can get to them if a client needs a shot. That's what the agencies are for.
My work flow is something like this:
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4 - next....
I do find myself taking pix of many of the same subjects, so I do want to organize them in Aperture.
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Also, I find myself shooting a lot of NYC landmarks. Should each landmark be in its own project, or have it be an album in a project called NYC, or should it be a project in a folder called NYC?
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gustavus:
n attempting to relocate a folder it did not end up where intended and I cannot find it.
I hope you are referring to doing the relocation from within iPhoto and not in the Finder and the library package. Any moving, renaming of files and/or folder inside the iPhoto Library Package while in the Finder is tantamount to the cardinal sin of iPhoto, Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder. That will mess up your library to where you may have to start over with a new library.
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Do you Twango?
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I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Mail in Lion: missing sub-folders in file cabinet

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Evans Brasfield wrote:
Anyone recovered from a similar issue?
Yes, I have inadvertently discovered I have the same problem with TIFFs I created by scanning in some very old photographs as TIFFs three years ago. I did extensive work on the old photos to restore their quality. Three years ago, everything seemed to work fine including printing the TIFFs. I just discovered Aperture 2.1.4 and Aperture 3 can't find the managed masters even though I verified they are in the libraries!
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Is it possible to hide or even encrypt projects / folders?

Hi,
for projects / folders containing sensitive stuff that I don't want to accidentally show people when browsing through my projects structure, I'd like to be able to hide/lock some projects or folders. Even better would be if I could password-protect them with encryption added.
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No way to do it from within Aperture. Lock your computer when you're not there and it will be protected as long as nobody breaks in
Outside of that, there's an easier way to protect an entire library.
You can create an encrypted disk image (using Disk Utility). Make it a sparse image and specify the max size... it will be able to grow to that size (it will only take as much space as is used). Open that (do NOT check "save password"), and create an Aperture Library there that stores your s3cr3t images and projects. Then close it and double-click your "normal" library when you're done. It would be pretty easy to do. I actually use encrypted images in this manner when I want to send stuff to people via my iDisk... even if you get the file off my public iDisk, you can't get the contents of the file without the password.

A fatal error has occurred and the application is being terminated. Adobe Captivate has tried to save all your work in the respective project folders as ".cpbackup" files. Please restart Adobe Captivate.

I was trying to capture a simulation when a pop-up window came with this error:
"A fatal error has occurred and the application is being terminated. Adobe Captivate has tried to save all your work in the respective project folders as ".cpbackup" files.Please restart Adobe Captivate."
I tried every possible solution but i am getting the same error. Even now, i am not able to open a blank project. I cleared Preferences and Cache, Restarted the system, uninstalled and re-installed captivate but the error occurs.
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Having admin rights is not the same as 'Run Captivate as administrator'. For the last, right-click on the start icon for Captivate and check 'Run as administrator'. Or click on Advanced, where you can check the option to always run as administrator.
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