Ok I am about to throw my mac out of the window. Again.

I am trying to open iPhoto and I get the following message.
Unable to write to the library "iPhoto Library"
Check that you have permission to write to the library directory.
Any suggestions before my mac is sat next to its maker Steve Jobbs?

So I had to deliberately set the permissions incorrectly to no access and then allow the system to 'repair' the m
permissions for it to work.
Come on apple I am seriously losing faith and considering switching back to Microsoft. Surely the reason why we spend over the odds money is for our lives to be made simpler and for Apple products to work with a minimum of fuss. Mr Jobbs would be turning.........

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SOMEONE PLEASE HELP BEFORE I THROW MY MAC OUT OF THE WINDOW!

Is my setup useless?
Logic crashes every time I open more than 1 external synth (e.g. predator, massive, ABL2). This occurs with no other instruments in the project.
It cant seem to take the CPU.
Here is what I have….
Apple iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz 512MB (2x256MB) 160GB (upgraded with 2gig of ram – as much as it can take!)
Logic 7
OSX 10.4.11
M Audio Oxygen V8 midi keyboard
Memory 2GB667 MHz DDR SD RAM
1.47gb memory free
92.82gb space free on hard drive
Can anyone offer some advice? Surely for what I have paid for the system, I should be able to get more out of it than this?…. is there anything else I can do to boost processing power?
Any help is massively appreciated!

Hi David,
Before sleeping out of your window waiting your Imac, maybe I would suggest couple things:
- Getting LOGIC 7.2.3
- Getting last M-AUDIO drivers (if lot compliant one)
- Repair permissions with let's say ONYX software.
- Are you using external firewire hardrive? (issue for some of Imac sometimes)
if this still causes you troubles, then you 'll see my face outside your house with my arms ready.
Cheers.

Please help before i throw my laptop out of the window!!!!!!!! :-)

OK, so I have been surfing the net for help/solutions but to no avail...
When I try and burn a disk from itunes on to a blank disk i get the 2131 error which judging by the ammount i have seen written about it, is VERY common.
I am about to throw my laptop out of the window as I cant fix it and am have just spend my Christmas itunes vouchers on downloads!argggggggghhhhhhhh
My cd driver is SN-S082H ATA ???? please does anyone have any ideas what i can do??????
Many thanks, in advance! Jen.

Since the issue really is not related to the focus of this forum...compatibility issues between Mac OS and Windows, you should 1. Try a different brand of discs. 2. Post your question on the iTunes forums: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150 3. Post your question on a Windows forum such as those at http://www.windowsforums.org

A/V not working...am ready to throw this modem out of the window

got a Zoom 5560 Ethernet modem/router for my new iMac Intel core duo with built in iSight as the modem i ran on my old imac is not supported (USB OneTouch 330).
I have done all i can as found in this forum:
Mac OS X Firewall is off
Quicktime streaming to 1.5 mbps
iChat video to none (and also tried various settings)
Ports open in NAT in Zoom modem/router (4099, 5190, 5193, 5297, 5298)
Why can't i video chat via iChat, the old USB modem worked out of the box, but obvioulsy i can't use this unsupported device any more and my old iMac is no longer with me in this world.
Please need help!!

Great allows only 24 entries.
I wanna try the DMZ feature but can't seem to find the right place to do it in the Zoom X3. As usual the help stuff is mainly in the installer and that being windows means its not accessible. Ifound this on the Zoom website:
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< Open the Zoom Web Console (<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://10.0.0.2), click Advanced Setup, and click the Misc Configuration button.
If you are using PPPoA encapsulation, from the PPP Half Bridge drop-down menu, select Enable.
Click the Save Changes button and then the Write Settings to Flash and Reboot button.
Now you must change encapsulation setting from the default the PPPoE LLCSNAP to PPPoA VCMUX. To do this, click Basic Setup. Then from the Encapsulation drop-down menu, select PPPoA VCMUX.
Click the Save Changes button and then the Write Settings to Flash and Reboot button.
Verify that your TCP/IP properties are set for DHCP. You may need to release and renew the IP address. Refer to the instructions in the Zoom ADSL Modem User's Manual (click on Documentation in the main installation menu of the Zoom ADSL CD). Note: The IP address should be the same as the WAN status IP Address, which is located on the System Status page of the Zoom Web Console>
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Okay, my biggest problem is that I'm in Austria with my iMac G5 and my mum is in England with her new iMac G5 intel duo core, so i'm trying to set her Zoom X3 up via telephone with my mum who is 65, yeah so thats the deal!
So any help would be greatly appreciated.

About to throw this Envy17 out in the trash

While typing, the focus jumps from the active screen to who the hell knows where... I lose entire documents, sometimes it opens odd windows and like on this post, it took me three runs to type this much...
I have turned off the touch pad (no help) and this GD thing is starting to really piss me off....
Anyone else see this?

If you still feel like throwing it in the trash just send me a PM and I will send you a prepaid shipping box addressed to me, made up to look like a wastebasket.

I'm about to chunk this thing out of the window.

I have never in my life owned a peice of apple products. I decided 2 months ago to purchase a 30gb Ipod for somewhere around $300 in order to provide me with music for my office. Well this has been the biggest waste of money in my life and I cannot get over the fact that this f**kin thing wont work. I have two computers (one at work, and one at home). My computer at home is my main linked computer, I have all my music on that machine and that is where I update my Ipod. Everything works fine there and has since the day I got it.
The machine at work I just want to listen to the music on my ipod and this f**kin crap wont work. I called Apple 2 months ago when I first got it and all of their suggestions were failures. (do they even know what they are doing?) This is what has/is happening in the order in which it happened.
1. I reformatted my computer.
2. I installed itunes,quicktime, and ipod updater from the disc that came with my ipod (followed every instruction)
3. restarted the machine per the request of the install.
4. plugged in my ipod and ran the updater.
5. itunes launched and there was no ipod recognized, but it was in my disc management list.
6. i had to change the drive letter... i choose I:\
7. Itunes now recognized my ipod and displayed the songs on the ipod, only in grey and i couldnt play them...????
8. I ejected the ipod and restarted my machine.
9. plugged in ipod, itunes launched and showed the same thing as before - all of my music was in grey and inactive.
10. I went to my computer, now the ipod was not there.
11. went to disk management, and the ipod was not there.
This is the craziest f**kin thing ive ever seen and no one can give us an answer for it. It makes no sense that my machine at home it works fine (so no problem with the ipod software), yet the comp at work is not working...
ive tested, reset and diagnosed all of the usb drives on my machine, they are all fine. this computer is a workhorse and has the same exact OS with the same updates as the one at home....
WHAT IS THE DEAL APPLE??????
I was actually thinking about purchasing a G5 to replace my home pc for my webwork.... well with mass problems like these and absolutely no help from the manufacturer.... i think ill just stick with my PC this is absolutely rediculous.... and if i call you, you want to charge me something like $30 an hour to help me when i already spent $300 on the f**kin paperweight in front of me..
A sincerely unhappy customer
30gb IPOD VIDEO Windows XP THIS IS CRAP

It does pay to be nice sometimes. Apple employees do occasionally post on the boards, but I doubt that they monitor every last thread. And yes, they do charge for tech support, but it is not $30 an hour. It's $49 for one problem, or $59 for the Applecare plan. Which, to tell the truth, really isn't the worst thing to purchase for the iPod.
Now, from reading your post, it looks as though you want to listen to the music that's on your iPod through a computer with an iTunes program on it that your iPod is not linked to.
Do this:
Connect your iPod.
Click Edit > Preferenes
Click the iPod tab
Select "manually manage songs and playlists"
Click OK
Your iTunes will say "updating iPod Do Not Disconnect" at the top
Wait for it to say iPod Update is complete
Click on your Library in the source list
Click on your iPod in the source list
Are the songs lit up now?
CG

Help before I throw this printer out of the window!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just purchased a Deskjet 2540 all in one printer - I will only ever need to print boarding passes etc. -
this looked so good on Amazon ideal for my iPad and said how easy to set up!!! In my dreams - I have now spent 10 hours
Trying to set this up and last night was close to cracking:-
I am setting this by wirless. I have the password and the printer showing on my iPad.
Each time I try and load the softwear I am told an unexpected error has occurred please try again later - I
Have tried and tried to no avail. Apple staff have said I do not need this softwear????????
The network test results say:-
1 check the printer network name ssid matches your wireless router network name ssid exactly!!!!!
2 if they do not match exactly, run the wireless setup from the printer software to configure your hp printer!!!!!
But no where can I find how to do this and sorry I really do not understand what this means.
Reading Amazon some people have set up in 15 min!!!!
The cost of bringing in an expert to set this up is worth more than the printer cost!!!!!!
Thanks for reading feel better letting of steam will defiantly be a 0 from me for the feed back to Amazon

Hello SueJon,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I hope this reply finds you with the printer not thrown out of the Window. Regarding the Deskjet 2540 setup to work with the iPad, I would like to help.
There are two ways that you can print from the iPad to the 2540. The first, Wireless Direct. Wireless Direct is a network that the printer broadcasts and the iPad would connect to it. This method will leave the iPad with no other network access while connected.
Second, and more functional, is having the printer connected to the same network that the iPad is connected too.
In order to setup this connection, follow the steps outlined below;
Turn Wireless Direct on from the front panel button on the printer. (number 4).
Connect the iPad to the printer network, Settings> Network> HP-Print-2540.
Open Safari and type this I.P address into the address bar, 192.168.223.1 and hit Enter.
Go to Network or Wireless and then Wireless Setup Wizard.
Select your network and enter the needed information.
Once connected, the Wireless light should be solid, connect the iPad back to your network. To print, open a document, hit the Share button (), and if an option to print is available you will be able to select the print option.
I hope you find this information helpful.
JERENDS
I work on behalf of HP
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How to convert the CS6 MAC version to the Windows version?

I followed the advice to go to go/getserial, but the productcode i entered was "invalid", but the figures i entered are correct. What now ?

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I am trying to help a friend who`s imac is giving her trouble. when the user logon is typed the machine begins to load, then in about a minute, kicks back out into the logon screen. ANY insight to her problem will be greatly appreicated?

I am trying to help a friend who`s imac is giving her trouble. when the user logon is typed the machine begins to load, then in about a minute, kicks back out into the logon screen. ANY insight to her problem will be greatly appreicated?

Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212?viewlocale=en_US
Repair Disk
Steps 2 through 8
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417

Hi I'm new to Mac & I have bootcamp on it but am stuck, how do I get from Mac side to the Window side?

Hi I'm new to Mac & I have bootcamp on it but am stuck, how do I get from Mac side to the Window side?

Hold the "option" key on boot. Choose the system to boot.
Then "System Preferences > Startup Disk" to select Max OSX as your default system.
There is another "system preferences" in the Windows menu that is added by bootcamp to make it the default, but I do not know the details of that.

My calendar is blocked. The server has a problem. I am trying everything, but since days I have no access to my agenda anymore. I am about to throw my MacBook Air out of the window :-( How can I solve this problem? My calendar does not react to anything!!

My calendar is blocked since a few days, while I tried to upload a message in an event. In this weekend, i have not been able to get ANYbody at all online, to help me. I am desperate and feel absolutely idiot. Is anybody out there who can help me?.
In the website it said:
1. Open iCal - select "preferences" (I cannot select anything!)
2. Select "accounts" (I have no clue what to do there)
3. Re-enter " username and password (Where?)
4. Exit iCal and start again (I did this, but don't get anywhere near a solution).
5. Done (cry, cry, nothing changed for days now and I am about to throw everything out of my window :-))
Thanks for some very useful and easy tips!
Sjannie Hulsman

Thanks mate ...
yes I have an upgraded Iphoto 11 from 9.4.3 ........ unfortunately .... no it didn't solve the problem. Of course my illiteracy is no help ..... but I did as you suggested and nothing changed at all. When I highlight a photo I am unable to minimize it and despite changing folders (ie:photos to events) all that happens is that the events folder opens behind the opened photo. The only solution is to go to "force quit" even though there is no sign to say "iphoto is not responding". and start again ..... very frustrating. Appreciate any suggestion you have ...
Nev

Frustrated and about to throw my mp3 out the win

I just got a creative zen v (not plus), and am using a laptop with windows vista. i downloaded the software with no problems and when i check in my computer, it recognizes that the player is hooked up. however, when i try to use the software to add media or anything really, it asks me to connect but i AM connected. the problem is not the player as it works on my boyfriends desktop computer. im really frustrated. it seems that theres a lot of technical solutions that i dont understand, dont know how to do and seem pretty overwhelming. why is there not something i can just simply download to correct this? seems like a bit of an oversight on creative labs part, not to have this problem easily resolvable for vista users. im about ready to throw the thing out the window.
could someone please explain to me in english what is wrong with this thing and how i, a nontech savvy person can fix it, preferably in laymens terms? its useless to me at this point...
thanks, please please get back to me
--ashley

Your problem is two key words: "Windows Vista"
Enough said.

How do I fix my mac so that the window I am looking at has the focus?

I am a new mac user and at present beyond comprehension of how people cope with mac if they are not primarily mouse oriented.
Current problem.
I close an app using apple key W
It closes
I am looking at a window of another app. I want to close that too. Apple key W. Nothing. This window does not have the focus. No keyboard actions will make it do anything. And the bar at the top of the screen is still the bar for the app I have just closed, but that does not respond to the keyboard either. At this point, no keyboard action will affect either app.
As a one time developer I have to say that in any context I am familiar with this would be considered a major show stopping bug, and the programmer would get into a lot of trouble if the software went out in this condition.
Certainly, for a user who lives by the keyboard coming from linux / windows, both of which do what I consider sane and sensible things in all places and at all times, this is a major *** situation!
Please can someone tell me how to get my mac to behave more 'sensibly'.
I want the window I am looking at, the only window visible on the screen, to have the focus. Always. No matter what! Which I think is entirely reasonable.

Thank you for all your points.
It can't automatically be the one you want without some instruction from you - the cmputer is not a mind reader, can not seenwhat holds your attention.
Darn!
In Windows and Linux it is automatically the last one in use before you closed the window(s) that have been closed. This is the window naturally lying topmost in the stack of windows on the screen. It is this window which is exposed in the circumstance I am describing. And it is this window which I expect to have the focus in this circumstance.
More to the point, and has been mentioned several times - unlike Windows, when you close the last window of a Mac app, the program is not quit (usually - there are exceptions). The program is still running, as is indicated by the 'running light' on the Dock (the small bluish oval underneath the app's icon in the Dock), even though it has no windows open.
It is not running with an invisible window being the focus - it has no windows at this point, not even an invisible one.
Yes, understood - naturally enough after a few hours exposure to the mac interface. And I would assume that none of the quitted windows in that app will have the focus, which would be nonsensical.
The overall 'focus' is still on that program, because it is still running (you closed its windows, but did not quit the program) and will remain so until you instruct the Mac to switch to a different program in the stack (or queue, or rotation, however you choose to consider it).
Yes. WHY?
Whether program closes when you close the last window is an interesting point. Mac do it different to the others. OK. But this program should not have the focus, unless there is something useful you can do with it. I would have thought obviously.
Why have a program quit when you close its last window? Doesn't make sense to me - can't tell you how many times that behavior with a PC has irked me. Consider this scenario - you're writing a memo to someone in TextEdit. You print the memo off. You're done with that doc, but then want to write a letter to someone. So you close the window for that file, which happens to be the last window open for TextEdit. If TextEdit should quit at that point, you'd need to restart it again before you can write the letter. But - it doesn't quit; it's still running. So instead of restarting it, all you need do after closing the memo's window is press Command-N for a new, blank doc in which you can write the letter.
I agree. This is very useful - once you are used to it. Certainly, this is an excellent option, though it seems crazy that it is not a readily settable option. Equally though, if I was going from mac to windows or linux, I would be totally peeved if this behaviour was not a settable option.
Regardless, this is the way it is in the Mac world, and has always been as far back as I can remember it (and I go back to OS 1 on a MacPlus). As far as 'industry standards' go, there are many who feel that Macs set the GUI standards a long time ago, and that those wo have imitated it have not done a good job of their implementations.
I totally take your point. And I am ready and willing to learn a new interface, naturally, though I had no idea the journey would be so extensive. [] "More ruddy stairs" says the elderly ghost of the recently deceased David Emery grumpy old git character, who hobbles along with a cane, confronted with a loooong flight of stairs up to heaven []
- elsewise I'm going to cause myself an inordinate amount of frustration when my impossible-to-meet expectations aren't met.
Of course I have impossible-to-meet expectations, I got a mac, the doyen of computers. I thought a faint mysterious hint of a sound might be present in the faint whirr of the fans at start up, like far off angelic choirs, and that everything would be easy and wonderful, as well as beautifully easy on the eye.
But I still think that the focus shoud go somewhere useful. And if it stays with the app running with no windows, then at the very least it should be one keyboard shortcut to open a window for that app, or reopen the last window of that app. Or, gasp, it should go to the last window in use before the windows of the app that just got closed, the one on top of the stack, the one straight in front of you, currently impervious to any and all keyboard strokes. And, given the price and sophisication of macs, and the significant gap between the GUI standards of the major players, however long they have respectively been in business, I think it is the kind of thing which should be settable. Indeed, confident that this was settable or 'fixable', I embarked on this thread in the first place.
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How do I reboot into mac mode from the windows 7 startup on mac

Firstly please don't judge me coz I know I've screwed up and learned my lesson but I downloaded a windows 7 torrent file, burned that to disk, set a disc partition on my mac thought the bootcamp and then installed windows but now whenever I turn my mac on I get blank screen, then a white screen then a black screen and the I am faced with the windows error recovery page - when I now run in any mode, the same thing happens when windows attempts tomrun then goes black and then I unplug my mac and start the whole process again! Please help me!!!!!!

So I think you know what ou need to do: remove the Boot Camp partition with BCA and read the instructions in the program.
An ISO has to be burned at slowest reduced speed too.
You can download Windows 8 RP ISO from MSDN and use that also to format the partition you have now.
You realize how much mischief a torrent could do? maybe wipe out OS X or the partition table? try to mess with boot blocks or infect the motherboard. And, your IP address is on torrent servers so expect to see more rlogin and DDoS attacks against your router and ifrewall.

Is there a Mac equivalent of the Windows Live Mail client?

(If anyone reading isn't familiar with Windows Live Mail, please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowsLiveMail to see what I mean. Please don't suggest clients like Microsoft Entourage etc as they're not what I'm looking for!)
I used to have a Windows laptop and used the Windows Live Mail client to manage my Hotmail accounts. It was brilliant as it synchronised exactly with webmail (all folders present and correct, if I deleted an email on the webmail it would delete from the programme and vice versa, etc) and did this with as many email accounts as I liked - so I could access all three from the same screen. Perfect!
When I got a Macbook I discovered that Windows Live Mail wasn't available for Mac. I spent a couple of weeks looking for a suitable alternative but never found one.
I'm aware of how to use Hotmail in a regular mail client but I've not found one exactly the same as Windows Live Mail. There's always a problem with synchronisation between the client and webmail, I can only get the inboxes imported and no other folders synchronise which is a pain as I don't always use my laptop to read my email - if I read it elsewhere using webmail and move an email from the inbox to another folder, I'd have to do a second time when I next use my laptop. Hence I don't bother and just use webmail instead - but I hate logging in and out of three accounts!
As it's been ages since I last looked, I thought I'd look again - but I still can't find anything that works the way I want.
Is there a Mac equivalent of Windows Live Mail (http://download.live.com/wlmail)? Something that works in exactly the same way? I wish Windows weren't so childish and would just release a version of this for Mac... it's pretty much the only thing I miss from my old laptop!
(Please don't suggest changing email accounts - I've asked this elsewhere and that was the only response I got!)

In few words, "No." There is no such client for the Mac. The closest you may find would be to try the Mac MSN client, aMSN - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - but it's essentially just a messenger clone. I doubt it includes a Live Mail client.
(Please don't suggest changing email accounts - I've asked this question elsewhere and that was the only response I got!)
Because there is no other response.

Ok I am about to throw my mac out of the window. Again.

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