Not loading correct startup prefs (safe mode?)

Trying to rebuild my system after a hard drive failure (backup on external drive was somehow corrupted as well). Luckilly, my ipod contained all my music (although I did lose all movies and TV shows) and was up to date.
I have my new system configured with my Home directory on it's own volume so that my data is separate from OS. I have Time Machine backing up my home directory and a clone of startup volume---both on separate physical disk (so that if primary disk fails, I'm instantly back-in-business)!
So I executed the Terminal script necessary to access hidden files, and was able to copy all the music back to my system using seruti (or whatever it is), and was in the process of copying all the playlists I had sync'd ... but I couldn't copy them because iTunes kept automatically launching when I connected the iPod, and therefore preventing Seruti from maintaining "control" of connected ipod (which is the only way it can "see" what's on the iPod). So I went into System Prefs to disable iTunes Helper from default startup items... but when I logged back in, both Microsoft Daemon and iTunes Helper were gone from the list, and then when when I rebooted, ALL my preferences were gone. Wallpaper, apps in the dock -- it didn't even prompt me to login.. it just went straight into an account with no previous history (asked me to agree to iTunes EULA).
Thank god I have a clone of the startup volume... I booted from that, and everything was okay. Interesting thing is, Advanced Settings for my account are same on both volumes -- reading from my Home directory on that separate volume. Or... at least, one would think since the path is the same on both volumes. But logging into each produces different results.
Can anyone shed light as to what happened, and how I might go about fixing it?
It just ocurred to me to mention that I - per an instruction I read regarding the process - to hold down Command + Option when connecting my iPod which would prevent iTunes from automatically syncing. However, I was still prompted, but saw a message that iTunes was launching in Safe Mode. Does that mean that the OS on my primary startup volume is launching in Safe Mode, but the one on my clone is launching normally? It would certainly explain why it loads fine from one but not the other given that account settings are same on both.
If that IS the case, how do I disable Safe Mode?
Many MANY thanks in advance!!
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I called AppleCare... the first guy I spoke to left me on hold for quite a while after he finally understood what was happening. But when he came back on, we got disconnected, and he never called me back (even though he asked for my number when we first started talking).
I called back, and explained everything to the second guy... who, brought more to the table from a troubleshooting perspective, but was ultimately unable to figure it out, and said that I'd have to call back tomorrow and start over because his "product specialists" were gone for the day, and he wasn't able to create a ticket for such a unique problem.
Wow.
I haven't felt this beaten down in quite a while. Isn't there anyone out there who can shed some light? I don't really have time to spend another 3 hours on the phone.
What's interesting now is that, even though I'm trying to copy my Home folder over to the primary startup volume, and I've set permissions "read/write" for everyone.. it still won't let me copy -- says I don't have permission.
This is soooo frustrating. Everything was fine until I started dorking around with it in an attempt to recover music from my iPod because Apple hasn't figured out a way to cover their ***** from a Digital Rights Management perspective while still allowing users a way to recover their music in such a scenario.
Now I don't know what to do. Do I rebuild from scratch and just bit the bullet on having OS and data on same volume? Maybe this is how I have to do it:
_*Physical Disk A*_ (500GB)
- Partition 1: System - 220GB
- Partition 2: TimeMachineClone - 220GB
- Partition 3: Downloads - 40GB
_*Physical Disk B*_ (500GB)
- Partition 1: SystemClone (Bootable) - 220GB
- Partition 2: TimeMachine - 220GB
- Partition 3: Scratch - 40GB
_*External Disk*_ (250GB)
- Partition 1: TimeMachineClone

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed the maximum file size (1 MB).
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
You can also try to reset the preferences.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Resetting+preferences

Sites do not load correctly

I'm having a problem where internet sites are not loading correctly. They will sometimes not show background images, or the formatting of the pages do not load right. They load all links at the left side of the page, and pictures too. I only have problems with this on my work computer, and not my home one. If I load a site, the first or second try it may not load right. I close the browser, delete the cookies and cache, and SOMETIMES it will load the website correctly. This happens for Yahoo.com, Ebay, Wal-Mart and other sites as well.
I have also deleted Mozilla Firefox from my computer, and deleted all memorized info on my computer for it. That has also not helped.
== URL of affected sites ==
http://yahoo.com; ebay.com; walmart.com;

"Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove the Cookies" from sites causing problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clearing_the_cache and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
You can also try "Reset all user preferences to Firefox defaults" on the [[Safe mode]] start window - See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences
You can create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems
See [[Basic Troubleshooting|#Make_a_new_profile|Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile]]
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins"
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

VS2010 with Oracle 11g Release 2 giving Package did not load correctly

Hey ,
I had a Oracle 11g Release 1 11.1.0 installed on my machine. I had a client and over that a installation for Visual Studio tools for VS2008 installed. So in the directory of 11.1.0 I had two folders of Client 1 and Client2 . I was able to use the tools in VS very well and everything was perfect.
Recently my company has decided to shift to VS2010. Now when I installed Oracle Release 2 11.2 client, it worked perfect ( tested using toad ). But when I install the tools ODTwithODAC112012, it has an issue that when I fire up VS2010 and try to add connection, it gives an error popup saying : " The 'Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET' package did not load correctly. It asks me load VS in log mode and see the Activity log. The Activity Log gives the following entry :
<errorinfo>Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.VsDevTools, Version=4.112.1.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</errorinfo>
</entry>
The assembly Oracle.VsDevTools is loaded in GAC which I've checked . So, questions in my mind :
a. Can we have both 11.1 and 11.2 in the same machine, is that the issue?
b. Any solution to solve this issue. Both the setup's go smoothly without any errors. Also I am able to connect to oracle very easily using toad.
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Sumit

You'll probably have better luck posting this over in the ODT forum, but be sure to check the Package Load Failure sticky at the top first..
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio
Having multple versions of ODP installed at once generally isnt a problem but I haven't tried a situation where I've tried to have multiple ODT's at once.
Greg

I don't believe firefox is the issue but for some reason pictures and certain websites will not load correctly. Why?

''Duplicate post, continue here - [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/810160]''
This just started happening a few days ago. When I go to facebook the pictures are distorted and nearly impossible to discern who is in them. I also go to many different websites that do not load correctly. Not sure if it's java, adobe, or something else but it makes browsing the internet not fun. HELP!

I have the same problem. It seems to be due to FireFox 4.0 being unable to load certain embedded content, which Firefox 3 was able to load properly.
I've been having problems loading any website that includes embedded content from worldnow.com, for example.

My MacBook Core 2 Duo will not boot up. In safe mode I see keychain problems and Mach 1102.

My MacBook Core 2 Duo will not boot up. In safe mode I see keychain problems and Mach 1102 and it keeps circling through the same error. Also the screen is so faint (pressing the F1 and F2 keys don't do anything). I got this from a friend and he didn't have any of the original discs. Any suggestions? From what I've read it's a problem with a recent update. I've never had a Mac so I'm trying to learn and fix it.

I just had an issue like this. I was able to boot up with an external firewire drive, although it was a lot of trouble. I think doing an option boot finally worked; holding down the option key, I eventually got to see the firewire drive was bootable, and booted from it.
I put the thing in verbose boot mode (command - v , I think; but please look it up. I have no Mac books at work to check). In verbose mode, you could see that the hard drive could not mount; the OS tried to do fsck, but it failed around 2/3 of the way, and the CPU was halted.
I was occasionally able to boot normally, but never in safe or single user modes; these do a disk test first, which invariably failed.
I could see from the system and console logs when I managed to get the firewire boot going that there were repeated errors trying to access drive s03, the internal SATA drive. The logs on the SATA drive showed huges numbers of errors. At a wild guess, for some reason a lot of sectors went bad all at once. There had been a some erratic behavior before, but I'd put that down to the single processor G5 problems. (these were non video related, just freezes).
Applecare wanted me to carry the huge thing into the local Apple store, but I persuaded them to just send me a replacment hard drive, which they did. The new one works perfectly.
PowerMac G5 1.8 SP (late 2004), 1.42 mhz 14 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.3) both with 1.5 GB Ram

Epson printers keep giving "media not loaded correctly" error message

When sending print jobs that consist of multiple copies to Epson printers from my dual 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Mac with OS 10.5.8, the printer will frequently (more than half the time) grab a sheet of paper and spit it out with nothing on it, and then return the error message "Media out or not loaded correctly". I've had the exact same issue with their 1280, 2400 and 2880 printers. I've been struggling with and troubleshooting this issue for a couple of months now, and I believe I've narrowed it down to the operating system. It happens when printing from both Photoshop CS3 and CS4. It doesn't happen when I print from another computer running OS 10.4.11.

Dave Lesko wrote:
...the printer will frequently (more than half the time) grab a sheet of paper and spit it out with nothing on it, and then return the error message "Media out or not loaded correctly". I've had the exact same issue with their 1280, 2400 and 2880 printers...It doesn't happen when I print from another computer running OS 10.4.11.
Interesting observation of the OSs. Have you tried Epson's suggestions for the 1280 printer and 2880 printer?
BTW: This was a constant issue with my Epson 3000. It happened mostly with paper larger than tabloid size, which is the reason for having a large format printer. There was no difference between versions of the OS. This was with the paper tray, so it may not be relevant to your printers. However, when I first got the printer it came with some "cleaning sheets" to run thru the printer when changing different types of paper to clean the rollers. It seemed to help... What worked best was to pre-load the first sheet of a multiple page document.
HTH

Router's Web-based page not loaded correctly.. Need Help!!

I'm using WRT54G v2.2 router and recently i noticed tat i've flashed a wrong firmware which is WRT54GL version, so wat i did was i flash the original v2.2 firmware which i noticed it had not been updated since 2007... after i flashed the router and i log into the 192.168.1.1 webpage.. all the tabs and many options are missing as though the page was not loaded correctly or fully loaded and i cant even get into the management page and so on..
I really need help on this..

Hold the reset button down for 30seconds and then release it. Unplug the power cable for 10 seconds. try accessing the set up page once again and see if it makes a difference.

Objects Not Loaded Correctly Error

When I open up Data Modeler I get this error.
"Some objects are not loaded correctly. See the log file for details"
After I click OK my model opens up but I noticed that I can not change the precision on a column in one of my tables. This model is under Source Control and one of the other developers is missing the SubView where my table is that I am trying to modify so I think the problem is related.
Here is the contents of the log file.
2012-07-25 10:59:39,419 [main] INFO ApplicationView - Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 3.1.0.691
2012-07-25 10:59:55,779 [Thread-9] ERROR XMLToObjectTransformer - Can not parse file for Relational_1 in file C:\Users\jeffc\Documents\Workspace\DataModeler\Complete_System\rel\48C27E54-21776117FB40\subviews\F8908889-4FF2-CABB-7C17-047D14CCA77F.xml
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Expected name instead of <.
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:323)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanNameChars(XMLReader.java:1186)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanQName(XMLReader.java:2015)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1319)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:376)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:322)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:226)
     at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilder.parse(JXDocumentBuilder.java:155)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.transformFromXMLToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.transformFromXMLToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.openDesignPart(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.design.Design.openDesign(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.swingui.ControllerApplication$Recent$1.run(Unknown Source)
2012-07-25 10:59:55,823 [Thread-9] ERROR XMLToObjectTransformer - Can not parse file for ALL_TABLES in file C:\Users\jeffc\Documents\Workspace\DataModeler\Complete_System\rel\48C27E54-21776117FB40\subviews\57CD6B74-1F49-265D-4FD1-D82A2BA32293.xml
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Expected name instead of <.
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:323)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanNameChars(XMLReader.java:1186)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanQName(XMLReader.java:2015)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1319)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:376)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:322)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:226)
     at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilder.parse(JXDocumentBuilder.java:155)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLToObjectTransformer.transformToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.transformFromXMLToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.transformFromXMLToObject(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.metadata.XMLTransformationManager.openDesignPart(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.model.design.Design.openDesign(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.dbtools.crest.swingui.ControllerApplication$Recent$1.run(Unknown Source)

Hi,
I noticed that I can not change the precision on a column in one of my tablesProbably that's a FK column.
For the other problem - probably it's caused by merge conflict and you have in the file symbols <<<<<< >>>>>> and non valid XML elements. You can try to replace the content of the file manually using version from repository. There will be better processing of suche cases in next release.
Philip

Epson r1800 - 'Media not loaded correctly'

Hello All,
I'm having a lot of trouble with my Epson r1800 - I've searched around the internet a bit for solutions but so far haven't come up with anything. To start, I have updated the epson drivers and also tried Gutenprint drivers.
Basically, no matter what I try (including the standard nozzle checks etc...) I always get the message 'Media not loaded correctly'. Occasionally pages will feed through the printer, but they are blank and regardless I get the media not loaded correctly message. Does anybody have a workaround or solutions for this?
Thanks!
Gavin

Try using the following directions from a message from Epson. This corrected my problems with an Epson R1800 and Leopard.
Thank you for taking the time to contact Epson. It is my pleasure to
respond to your inquiry.
If your output is faint or if the driver settings and/or features are
missing, your system may have automatically added the printer using the
Gutenprint driver. Many Epson drivers are provided with Leopard but the
driver for your printer needs to be downloaded from the Epson website.
Determine Which Driver is Currently Being Used
1. Click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the Finder and open
System Preferences.
2. In the System Preferences window, click on Print & Fax.
3. In the list of printers on the left side of the Print & Fax window,
click once on your Epson printer to select it.
4. Check the name of the driver being used; it is displayed in the center
of the Print & Fax window next to “Kind”.
5. If the driver name displayed next to “Kind” is Gutenprint, the incorrect
driver is being used. Follow the steps in the next section to select the
correct driver.
Selecting the Correct Driver
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Delete the print queue and remove the printer from Print & Fax by
clicking on the minus button under the list of printers. Click OK to
confirm the removal.
3. Go to the Epson support website (www.epson.com/support).
4. Select your product model and download the driver for OS X 10.5 Leopard
operating system.
5. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions
to install the printer driver.
6. Click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the Finder and open
System Preferences.

Is anyone having problems with Firefox today? My websites are not loading correctly

Firefox just isn't working right today. My home page (yahoo.com) will not load correctly, nor does a university site for a course that I am teaching online. I can do both of these if I use Internet Explorer.

Hi ritawickham,
We've actually put together a troubleshooting section for [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/web-pages-dont-load website loading issues]. Have you had a chance to browse the documents there? If not, you should take a look. There is a lot of useful information.
Hopefully this helps!

Pages not loading correctly

I am having trouble with certain webpages not loading correctly - even on this site. It appears incomplete. The problem is especially prevalent on Amazon. The page simply won't download fully- all the formatting if off to one side and the site is unresponsive. It is the same whether I use Safari, Firefox or Chrome. I have emptied my cache, reset cookies, but still the same. Any suggestions? I can't live without Amazon!

Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
Sometimes reversing the order of the DNS numbers can be beneficial in cases where there is a long delay before web pages start to load, and then suddenly load at normal speed:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
If your computer is part of a network: please refer to this page: http://www.opendns.com/start/bestpractices/#yournetwork and follow the advice given.
You could also try these codes as well: 4.2.2.1 & 4.2.2.2
If you use a Router, make sure it has the latest firmware installed.
One reason for a slowness in page loading may be the 'DNS Pre-fetching' feature of Safari 5.x
This is described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US

My adobe acrobat forms do not load correctly. I have uptodate version of that software.

I am an immigration attorney and have an online immigration program I use daily. Since the last upgrade of Firefox, the immigration forms (adobe acrobat) for my clients do not load correctly. I get a message that the forms may not display correctly with an option to open with a different viewer. The form opens correctly if I choose this option, but the form does not allow me to add and save information to the client's file so it is of no use to me. if this cannot be corrected I will stop using Firefox.

hello, firefox 19 has introduced its own integrated pdf viewer - if you want to switch back to the plugin you've used before to view pdfs just go to firefox options > applications & define the default action for the ''portable document format (pdf)''.
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