Non existent hard drive files?

This may sound stupid but ever since i updated with 1.1.1 it says i have 4gb of 'other' on my iphone.
It also erased my itunes. I have 238mb of photos.
What does 'other' represent? Im referring to the little itunes bar at the bottom of the screen when syncing your iphone?
Please help.

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I have a Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4 GB DDR SDRAM running 10.5.6.
The Hard Drive is 250GBs.
I want to create a 110GB partition on it without erasing the data on the HARD DRIVE.
I'm only using 47GBs of the Hard Drive now.
Everytime I try using DISC UTILITY, it first tells me it can't it, that I have to use some type of
special journaling, but their is only one choice in the drop down for that field. I then try again
after I get the error message, and it appears to begin making the partition.
But then it hangs, forever. 24 hours or more and never stops.
Someone told me to try and boot up using a MAC OSX 10.5 boot up disc in safe mode, do
a HARD DRIVE permission repair and then try Disc Utility from there to make the partition.
But when I boot up in Safe Mode with the MAC OSX 10.5 Installation Disc 1, it says that 10.5 can't
be installed on the system.
I'm confused. Can I create a partition on an existing Hard Drive without erasing the existing data on a PowerPC, or is that functionality limited to the newer Intel machines?
Any input would be appreciated.
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brvideo wrote:
Everytime I try using DISC UTILITY, it first tells me it can't it, that I have to use some type of
special journaling, but their is only one choice in the drop down for that field. I then try again
after I get the error message, and it appears to begin making the partition.
But then it hangs, forever. 24 hours or more and never stops.
It sounds like there's something wrong with the file system on your disk.
First, *back up* your drive to an external disk. Use the Restore tab in Disk Utility, CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper!, or the like to make a "bootable clone" on a FireWire external drive.
Boot from the clone, then use Disk Utility on it to do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions) on your internal HD. If that finds errors it can't fix, keep running it until it fixes all of them or can't fix any more.
In that case, you might be able to fix it with a heavy-duty 3rd-party disk repair app, like DiskWarrior. It's about $100 and it (and other similar apps) are available via Google, VersionTracker.com, MacUpdate.com, etc.
Instead of the clone, you can boot from your Leopard Install disc, and select your language when prompted. Then on the next screen, select Utilities from the Menubar, then +Disk Utility.+ Use that copy of DU to do the +Repair Disk.+
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I'm confused. Can I create a partition on an existing Hard Drive without erasing the existing data on a PowerPC, or is that functionality limited to the newer Intel machines?
Yes, you should be able to partition it, as long as there's enough contiguous space, and the file system is ok.
See item 5 or 6 as appropriate of the Time Machine -- Frequently Asked Questions post for instructions.

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I dropped my 17" macbook pro and the screen is broken. Can I still use it with an external monitor? When I plugged it into a monitor I had used it with before, I'm not able to see anything on the macbook screen to control it. It came on but I just got the blue screen with nothing else after typing in my password. (Didn't see the password form just assumed it was there somewhere and it did go from space to blue screen but no desktop icons, files, dock strip at top or anything else, just blank blue screen) so I can't access the system preferences.
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DBMS_LOB.FILEOPEN(dir, fname) gives non-existent dir or file error

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I've been trying to load an image file into the oracle database using the DBMS_LOB loadfromfile procedure. In order to do this, I first have to open the appropriate file which I do using
temp_bfile := bfilename('temp_dir', in_filename);
where in_filename is a string having the appropriate filename. and 'temp_dir' is a directory object created as follows:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mona Marathe ([email protected]):
Hello!
I've been trying to load an image file into the oracle database using the DBMS_LOB loadfromfile procedure. In order to do this, I first have to open the appropriate file which I do using
temp_bfile := bfilename('temp_dir', in_filename);
where in_filename is a string having the appropriate filename. and 'temp_dir' is a directory object created as follows:
CREATE DIRECTORY temp_dir AS 'F:\';
Next when I do a
DBMS_LOB.FILEOPEN(temp_bfile, LOB_READONLY);
I get an exception ORA-22285:non-existent directory or file.
What am I doing wrong? Is the way I've created the directory object correct. I work on an NT machine.
Mona<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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ORA-22285 - non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation

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I want to insert the xmldata from a xmlfile to the a table, with this scirpt:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
for i in `find . -name "dspevent*.xml"| awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'`
do
echo $i
fname_old=$i
fname_neu=`ls $i | awk '{print "OK_"$0}'`
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INSERT INTO event_xml (name,
dtsysl,
hrsysl,
dtcptl,
nusesi,
dsp_step,
dsp_state,
bat_class,
bat_program,
bat_seqi,
bat_state)
SELECT *
FROM XMLTABLE (
'Operations/Event'
PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', '$fname_neu'),
NLS_CHARSET_ID ('CHAR_CS'))
COLUMNS name VARCHAR (40) PATH 'name',
dtsysl DATE PATH 'dtsysl',
hrsysl NUMBER PATH 'hrsysl',
dtcptl DATE PATH 'dtcptl',
nusesi NUMBER PATH 'nusesi',
dsp_step VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/step',
dsp_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/state',
bat_class VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/class',
bat_program VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/program',
bat_seqi NUMBER PATH 'BAT/seqi',
bat_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/state');
EOF
`
done
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roger

- the name of the directory is correct.
- how can I check, that the user can use the directory?
- in this logfile you can see that, the file name will replace correctly:
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OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ rm dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
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dtsysl,
hrsysl,
dtcptl,
nusesi,
dsp_step,
dsp_state,
bat_class,
bat_program,
bat_seqi,
bat_state)
SELECT *
FROM XMLTABLE (
'Operations/Event'
PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', 'OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml'),
NLS_CHARSET_ID ('CHAR_CS'))
COLUMNS name VARCHAR (40) PATH 'name',
dtsysl DATE PATH 'dtsysl',
hrsysl NUMBER PATH 'hrsysl',
dtcptl DATE PATH 'dtcptl',
nusesi NUMBER PATH 'nusesi',
dsp_step VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/step',
dsp_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/state',
bat_class VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/class',
bat_program VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/program',
bat_seqi NUMBER PATH 'BAT/seqi',
bat_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/state');
INSERT_XML= PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', 'OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml'),
ERROR at line 15:
ORA-22285: non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 296
ORA-06512: at line 1
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Thanks for looking.
Gbu.
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Hi Alvin777,
before I entered the Mac-world some 4 years ago I always had my HDs mounted horizontal.
With my first iMac (early 2006) that 'view' was slightly shattered.
It was even more shattered when I bought my Mac Pro in Late 2006 and discovered that while the HDs are mounted horizontal they were upside down !!
Nonetheless in all the 4 years of using either my iMacs (on my second one) or my Mac Pro I never had any troubles with the HDs.
And two of the four HDs in my Mac Pro date back from 2006 (320GB Seagates).
So while I would have completely concurred with you 4 years ago, right now I am completely at ease with any way of orientation for HDs.
Happy computing
Stefan
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If anyone can comment or give any advice on this topic I would really appreciate it.
Thank you very much!
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Prep external FW drive:
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