New to the cloud... Need help!!!

Cloud questions
How do I download into the cloud?
Can I delete items in the cloud once they are added?
Can I return items from the cloud back to my phone should my phone crash and I need info back?
How long will data stay in the cloud?

I can address and resolve all of your Cloud questions, MeMee. Go to the PlayStore, search and download Verizon Cloud. Items can be deleted from the Cloud once they are downloaded. If anything happened to your phone, you would be able to restore any data stored in the Cloud back to your phone. Lastly, your data will be saved in the Cloud as long as you have a Verizon account. Here's some other details...http://goo.gl/HWyykD
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Hi. First off, I apologize that this is going to be very long. I really hope someone will take the time to read it all and give me some help.
I posted about a week ago about problems with my WRT54GS. All of a sudden with no changes, the wireless stopped working. I tried for a few days to fix it with no luck. I decided to order the WRT300N (I figured if I was going to buy a new one, I'd upgrade and this is the one that Linksys recommended).
I should mention that after ordering the new router, the wireless on the old one started working again but it wasn't working normal. The signal quality had always pretty much been excellent and now it started going up & down but at least it was staying connected.
The new router came today. I disconnected the old one and connected the new one and everything went smoothly. Both my wired & wireless computers worked great. Less than an hour later, the wireless disconnected. I went to view available networks and my network (I use our last name) was gone. I shut off the laptop and it still didn't see the network. So I started looking at the router settings just to be sure that nothing had changed. About 15 minutes later, the laptop found the network and connected again. The signal quality dropped to good and has stayed there ever since.
Just for information, when the laptop is on the desk (which it is 90% of the time), it's only about 5 feet away from the router. I have not tried to take the laptop out of the room yet. Also more information if it helps. I have a large "U" shaped desk. My monitor for my desktop sits in the middle. On either side are the speakers. To my left (in front of me) is a UPS (plugged into this UPS is the tower, monitor, speakers, cradle for my mouse, modem & router), then the tower (I can't put it on the floor because I have physical issues that would prevent me from accessing it there). Now if I turn my chair to the left, the desk has an upper level. This is where my DSL modem & the router are. They are on the end near where the computer is on the lower level. This is the same setup we were using before. Old router worked great for almost 2 years with signal strength at excellant on the laptop. It just started acting up all of a sudden. If I go back to facing center and then turn to the right, that's where my husband's laptop sits. The only other equipment there is a calculator and a lamp and on the floor is another UPS which has his laptop (which has an Intel wireless G card in it), a laser printer, and the above mentioned calculator & lamp plugged in.
Prior to today, I had the Logitech MX3100 keyboard & mouse set. I had purchased a new mouse (Logitech MX Revolution). So I was using the keyboard from the MX3100 with the new mouse and everything was fine running that way for weeks before the problem kicked in. So I don't think it's got anything to do with the mouse. Today's setup is a little different. I am no longer using the MX3100 keyboard. I am using Logitech DiNovo Edge, which uses a bluetooth dongle. I also don't think it's any interference from this keyboard since this is a pre-existing problem.
I do have a cordless phone in the room (it's on the left hand side of the desk from where I sit at the opposite end from the modem & router...also it's one of those that doesn't need a phone line)but it's a 5.8 ghz.
The old router had the option to change the channel, etc. This one has auto for standard channel & wide channel & there's no way to change it that I can see. Radio band is also set to auto but does have 2 choices under it (standard & wide). As I said before, I use our last name for our SSID. It's the same one I've been using for years. There is no one else around here with that SSID. Network mode is mixed.
Concerning the firmware....the information for mine is WRT300N V1.1 firmware v1.51.2. I tried to look for an update but the only one in the list is the WRT300N V1.0. I did click on that but the firmware version is lower and I don't want to screw anything up. Is there a firmware update for me or not? If so, please point me in the right direction as I can't find it.
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What else can I try. I thought about moving the router furthur to the left but it would require moving a few other items and I'm not sure if the cords are long enough. Would it help if the router & modem were not plugged into the same UPS? I do have a regular surge protecter near where my phone is. I would really rather leave them plugged into the UPS though for obvious reasons.
Also if it helps, I have the router on it's side with the 2 antennas on the end pointing straight up and the flat one in the middle I have angled this way.
I hope I have given enough information for some suggestions.
Thanks,
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Thanks for the response. I was wondering if anyone would take the time to read such a long post. I wanted to be sure to try to give as much information as possible.
My desktop (Dell XPS400) tower is made out of metal...but the router is actually not sitting on it. There is a shelf to the left of my tower (when I'm facing it, otherwise it's to the right of it). That's where the modem & router sit. The shelf sits about 3" over from the edge of the computer and it's about 7" above it.
As far as the wireless card for my husband's laptop...I'm still thinking about it. I'm wondering if there would be any improvement in speed or the quality of the connection with the N card.
Now I just went into the router's settings and tried to make the changes you suggested. I was able to change the radio band from auto to wide BUT once I do that, I loose the ability to leave the wide channel & standard channels on auto. The options for the wide channel are 3-9 and the standard are 1 & 5. I don't know which ones are best to pick so for now I'm not changing anything. I didn't change the advanced settings either as I wasn't sure if I could do that without changing the other settings first.
My husband has noted that he does see the quality of the connection occasionally jump to excellant. For the most part it's staying on good in here. We haven't brought it out into the living room yet to see what it does out there. He hasn't needed to. He has had it disconnect on him a couple of times as well.
I did forgot to mention in that book I wrote that we do live in an apartment building. We are on the 1st floor in the back of the building. Our office is between our living room & another bedroom. There is an apartment above us. There is another apartment on the other side of the other bedroom. Our bathroom is across the hall from this room, other side of that is the kitchen and then there is an apartment in the front of the building. Our front door is off the living room, a hallway seperates our apartment from another one. There are 4 apartments on each floor. Laundry (directly under us) & storage in basement.
I give all these details to try to get the best help. I don't know if all this extra info is helpful or not. We have been using Linksys routers for quite a few years now. This is our 3rd one and our 2nd wireless one. We have been in this apartment for a year now and had no trouble until a few weeks ago. Previously lived in another apartment of the same floor plan in the same complex but on the 3rd floor (boy did we hate walking up those stairs!) with no trouble.
Looking forward to hearing back from you so I can try to make the changes you suggested.
Thanks,
Lisa

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New to the Cloud, Having Numerous Unanswered Errors

Hi there, I'm a new user to the cloud, and so far the experience has been much less than stellar. Using Adobe's Application Manager (the most recent version, mind you), I downloaded all of the programs I needed and they ran fine. My first error occurred when I tried to update Photoshop and Illustrator, when I was told the update simply failed.
An even bigger issue however, is that whenever I turn my computer off for the night or it unexpectedly resets on me, all of my Adobe programs lose their paths and simply break. Going into the Adobe folders in my Local Disk drive and starting the programs there results in this error, but for every program, not just Dreamweaver.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS6\Dreamweaver.exe
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Naturally, I contacted Tech Support for some information, and was faced with the worst support I have ever received. Usually, I am straight up told by bad support that there's nothing they can do, but this time I was led along hoping that they could do something. I was even asked to share my screen using some indirect link, which I was just not comfortable doing. In the end, I was basically pushed away and asked to re-contact them on Monday, since a new department would be talking to me by then. I would have appreciated being told that they were clueless on the situation so I could at least move on and try somewhere else, but this following conversation went on for about half an hour, excluding the long wait I experienced.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
All representatives are actively assisting other customers. Your estimated wait time is 3 minute(s) and 14 second(s) or longer. Thank you for your patience.
You are now chatting with 'Seetharam'
Seetharam: Hello. Welcome to Adobe Technical Support.
Seetharam: In order to help you better, can you please provide me with your full name, phone number and the mailing address?
Thomas: Hi there:
Thomas: Full name is Thomas Yoon, number is -----------, and the mailing address is -----------------
Seetharam: Thank you for the information.
Seetharam: I understand that you are unable to install the software. Is that correct?
Thomas: To a point, yes. Many programs do download, but it's inconsistent when they choose not to update/download.
Thomas: On top of that, all of my programs lose their paths when I reset, and I have to force uninstall all of them then reinstall each time.
Seetharam: Thank you for the information
Seetharam: Just to confirm you are getting the error while installing the update?
Thomas: Yes, that's one of the errors. I've also seen corrupted download errors.
Seetharam: Thank you for the information.
Seetharam: Sorry to inform you that for the update installation you need to Product Support Specialist.
Seetharam: So please contact us back on Monday.
Thomas: Okay, just contact this same page again?
Seetharam: Yes, we will direct you to Product Support Specialist.
Thomas: Okay, thank you. Anything I can do about the programs becoming useless once I reset? Reinstalling on every reset has been very tedious.
Seetharam: Are you trying to reinstall the software now?
Thomas: I will have to, yes.
Seetharam: You can try uninstall and reinstall the software, if you face any issue please contact us back.
Seetharam: \
Thomas: No, my current issue isn't being unable to reinstall. I'm forced to reinstall them at all every time my computer resets, and that shouldn't be the case.
Seetharam: Thank you for the information.
Seetharam: Would you like to share your computer screen so I can have view access to what you are seeing?
Thomas: Um, I've never had to share screens with tech support before, I'm not sure I'm comfortable doing so with an unknown IP.
Thomas: I can type out the error message I get when the programs are unavailable, if that helps?
Seetharam: I will provide the link to share your screen.
Seetharam: Is that okay?
Thomas: Like I said, I'm not comfortable sharing my screen with an unknown IP. Tech support has never asked me to do this with errors.
Seetharam: Okay.
Seetharam: Could you copy paste the exact error message.
Thomas: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS6\Dreamweaver.exe Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Thomas: This happens with all of the Adobe programs I downloaded after each reset.
Seetharam: Sorry this is update error so you need to contact the Product Support Specialist.
Thomas: Sorry, but how is that an update error?
Thomas: It happens on every reset where my programs just disappear.
Seetharam: You this error while installing the update.
Seetharam: So please contact us back on Monday we will direct you to Product Support Specialist.
Thomas: I don't think you understand. I'm not trying to install updates. I'm just trying to have my basic programs run and stay on my computer.
Thomas: But I will contact back on Monday, since this isn't really helping.
Seetharam: Okay.
Seetharam: Do you have any further question for me?
Thomas: I do not.
Seetharam: You may choose to print or email a copy of this chat transcript by using the options at the top right corner of this chat window.
Seetharam: Thank you for contacting Adobe. Good Bye.
Thank you for chatting with us. Please click the "Close" button on the top right of the chat window to tell us how we did today.
As you might be able to tell, I started getting upset near the end. In no way did that assist me, and it only ended up wasting my time, leaving me with this big problem still. It might have been one bad contact, but now I have this bitter feeling that my support request on Monday will only be the same thing. Is anyone here able to assist me with the errors? Being forced to reinstall the Application Manager followed by all of my programs (having to unistall the dead files too) upon every reboot is insanely tedious and annoying, especially if my computer accidentally reboots against my knowledge for updates or something else. I'd very much appreciate some help, thank you!

Thank you, I'll give it a try. I'm really only running Microsoft Security Essentials and it never popped up stating it was affecting my Adobe files, so I didn't consider it. I added the Adobe folders to exceptions and will shut off real-time protection only during the installs.
Will report back how it goes, but thanks again for the reply.

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The last year(2013-2014) of school used CS5.5( I won and is on home computer) at home along with the cloud. School was using CS 6.I learned to save all files at home and at school in CS 4 or better. Saved files in each format so I could work on each project at home or at school. In Oct. had to cancel cloud. Now when I try to open the last years files It tells me to ck membership or open in arobate(PDF). Have spent hours on the phone and all they can tell me is to contact the forums. Hours and hours of work I have no access to.
Anything new I wish to start is ok but anything I had worked on in InDesign for my portfolio is accessible
I am considering removing my CS5.5 and trying to re load it. Any one know if that will help and what could I be loosing if I do that?
I have spent hours on the phone with no help from Adobe.
I just want to know how I can open my files to I can re save them in the CS 5.5 format . All of my portfolio, resume and other InDesign things are not available.

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I am new to Linux and some of this stuff..
Yet,I have gotten the JDK116_v5 installed and working on my box.
I have cut a cd for Oracle8i and need help..
I have also recopiled my kernal as well...
Does any one know where I can get help...
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Al Pivonka (guest) wrote:
: I am new to Linux and some of this stuff..
: Yet,I have gotten the JDK116_v5 installed and working on
: my box.
: I have cut a cd for Oracle8i and need help..
: I have also recopiled my kernal as well...
: Does any one know where I can get help...
Try http://www.akadia.com/html/dod-frame.html for Redhat.
http://www.suse.de/~mha/oracle/ for SuSE
Also peruse these
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http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/
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I'm setting up an HD edit bay for a friend, and I have a number of questions. Any help would be a godsend.
Basically, he's got a G5 with Final Cut Studio installed, a Motu audio interface, a Mackie Mixer, a Decklink Pro HD dual link, M-audio LX4 5.1 speakers, and a DVD/VHS recorder. He has one 250G internal capture drive, and one external 1TB firewire G-Raid. He's running a 23" and 20" Cinema Displays, and a Panasonic 32" HD LCD Flatscreen.
He wants to rent decks per project for capture and output.
My questions is this, how do we output to SD VHS/DVD or other formats for clients? Do we need a Switcher? Is it possible to do format conversion in Final Cut and output via Firewire instead of decklink to SD devices?
Also, is SDI (serial digital interface) cross-platform from SD to HD? Kramer Electonics has an interesting format converter that supports SDI, but will that change HD to SD? Here is a model number and link. FC-7402
http://www.kramerelectronics.com/indexes/item.asp?pic=71
Kramer also has a firewire format converter that looks interesting. FC-20
http://www.kramerelectronics.com/indexes/item.asp?pic=430
One of the Mac Vendors suggested the Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme, which sounds perfect, but costs $2000 - 3000.
I'm looking for a low cost alternative, if possible.
I really need help from someone experienced with this. I'm a freelance editor who cuts offline mostly on Avid for episodic TV, but my friend master HD out of his Mac edit suite. This is new territory for me.
Thanks in advance.

You should setup your local DNS to resolve only for the 'film.lab.' domain. Any requests that your local DNS will not be authoritative for should be forwarded to your district's DNS server. You should also set your local DNS to allow recursion only for clients on the 10.x.x.x subnet. The failure of clients configured to use your DNS for name resolution could be due to rules that have bee setup on your district's edge router to block outbound and inbound port 53 requests for all internal clients.
If you set your server and clients to use your district's DNS server as the secondary for your zone, you must make certain that any hostnames within your local zone are defined on your district's DNS to resolve to the private, 10.x.x.x, subnet that you will be running your systems on. If you don't -and your DNS goes down and there is no secondary defined on the clients that contains the zone info for your subnet- your clients won't be able to find any hosts. If you wish to run services that will be accessible from the Internet on your local server, this may require your network admins to make changes to routing to allow those request to be pass from the public network to the private one.
Also, if your district runs a central DHCP server you will need your district network admins to setup their DHCP server to return the correct client settings for your DNS and search domains for the clients within your subnet. If they do run a central DHCP server, do not attempt to set up a local one for your subnet. If you do, the probability that you will receive a very angry phone call from a not so happy fellow at your district is very high.

My D420 is not working on my new Mac Mini I need help

I have a new Canon Printer D420 . I love the machine works great
the price was great. It worked good on my old Imac for a few weeks then
I bought a new Mac Mini and now I can't get it to work. I reloaded my
solfware taht came with it..... need help
thanks
Ray Land

Hi Ray Land,
We can help narrow down the cause. What operating system are you using on your new Mac Mini?
If you are running the Mountain Lion OS, you can download the latest driver here. An important note is that the current print queue must be deleted before installing the new driver. This will ensure proper communication.
If this doesn't work or you need further assistance, please contact us here.
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IMac won't keep system settings. Mac OS X version 10.6.5. New to this and need help. Thanks

Just got my first iMac and am new to the Mac operating system. I figured out how to set it so I could connect to the internet and also set my wallpaper and screensaver to my liking. After I shut it down and turned it on later, all of my setting were gone. It reset itself back to the original settings it had when I got it. I bought it at an auction and it was previously owned by a local community college. I did not get any disks with it. I have searched the internet on how to fix it and am more confused than ever. I don't know if I have Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, etc.
The computer seems to work just fine. It boots up quickly is loaded with programs I have yet to learn. I do know that it sat unused for a year or more. Could it be that the internal battery could be dead? I have looked but cannot find any kind of diagnostic test or information regarding the internal battery on the internet. Not exactly sure what kind of info someone would need to help me fix this issue. The hardware overview I found in system profiler looks like this:
Model Name:                       iMac
Model Identifier:                   iMac4,1
Processor Name:                Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed:               2 GHz
Number of Processors:       1
Total Number of Cores:       2
L2 Cache:                             2 MB
Memory:                                2 GB
Bus Speed:                          667 MHz
Boot Rom Version:              IM41.0055.B08
SMC Version (system)       1.1f5
Serial Number (system)     QP********U2S
Hardware UUID                   00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB8BC90C
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!
<Edited by Host>

The retail version of Snow Leopard is 10.6.3, so the only way this model would be running 10.6.5 is if someone installed a version of Snow Leopard that came with a new iMac model with 10.6.5 pre-installed. In effect this computer has the wrong version of Snow Leopard installed which could be the reason for your problem.
I suggest you do this:
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
     Snow Leopard General Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
       2. 1GB of memory
       3. 5GB of available disk space
       4. DVD drive for installation
       5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
           fees may apply.
       6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
           terms apply.
After you receive your Snow Leopard DVD do the following:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
      logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
     used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
     requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
     drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Although you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
1. Cool Drives
2. OWC
3. WiebeTech
4. Firewire Direct
5. California Drives
6. NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.

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