OMG!!!!!!!!! I THAUGHT MACS WERE RELIABLE!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!

I worked on an movie edited using ilife 06 and i was basiclly done after almost 24 hours worth of editing. I had tons of transitions, effects AND narrations all done and my project was almost complete. I was putting the finishing touches on my movie when my imac (which i thaught was CRASHPROOF!) froze!!!!! I lleft it for a while and since it was still frozen i maunally restarted it. I didn't really care since it was JUST saved. When I turned it back on my finder, dock, ect. settings were reverted to original and when i opened my imove it said "this move was edited using an older version of imove" and i clicked ok and then my project was empty and EVERYTHING was in the trash!!!!!!!!! i rescued the files but everything i worked on was GONE and now i just have a jumbe of mismatched files in a folder on my desktop!!!!!!! ARHHHHHHHH!!!!! I HAVE LOST TRUST IN MACS!!!! Is there ANY way i can rescue my project (please) and why did this happen!!!
iMac 17" Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Whenever I use iMovie and I'm exporting a video it seems like it always freezes. I just keep my cool and let it go on its own for a while. I also usually just do things like that overnight, so if it takes a while it will be done in about 8 hours (yeah it's a pretty long time!).
Mine always seems to freeze around encoding the audio but I just leave it be and when I come back safely in a few hours it's all done successfully.
If your movie had ALOT of details and length, it could have contributed to a freeze I suppose too. In the future, I'd suggest limiting each iMovie project to about 30 minutes to an hour AT MAX and then when you have the files saved off as videos, just put them into iDVD to make the final product. Hope I've helped!

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Recover software as you have described is pretty much your only option - keep in mind that if wait, some of the currently recoverable data may well be over-written and lost.

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Dear MAC-Friends.
PLEASE HELP ME.
I am extremely afraid to do something wrong - what will be a failure so I loose all the photos I had in my iphoto library before installing the Mountain Lion.
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Ok. Let me first ask you, do you have any backups of your files - for example, do you use Time Machine or any other backup system?
Next, quit iPhoto. In the Finder, go to your Pictures folder. Is there a file there called iPhoto.Library? How large is it? (If it doesn't show the size, click once on it, click cmd-I to see the information). If it's a healthy size (ie, several GB), then that should be your library, and you can double-click it to launch iPhoto. (The application will remember where your library is next time, you can just launch iPhoto normally).
If that's not the right file, check your Trash. Is there anything in there?
Matt

Internal Drive won't load Mac OS X, please help!

I am trying to reinstall OS X 10.4 on my macbook, however I get this message: "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot start from this volume."
I am having to reinstall on a 160GB 3rd party HD which I bought to replace the stock 60GB. I used super duper some time back to copy the old onto the new, and then stuck it into my Macbook. Everything had been running fine except for two things, one of which was a problem.
First, when I would start up my computer, just a fraction of a second, before the gray apple would show up, it would show a file folder with a question mark on it, but this never bothered me too much.
Second, and more importantly, Boot Camp would never even initialize, saying it could not partition the drive. I ran Disk Utility to no avail.
So now, I have backed up my important files, ran a disk erase, and even tried an external, but nothing is working, please help!!!
I would really like to have my computer up and running again, and even more so to have Boot Camp operational.
Here is a link to a pic I took of the problem with my phone:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37647594@N00/?saved=1
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thank you so so much for your help. I knew you knew what you were talking about, but I was confused because I was unaware that there was a difference in selecting the volume and the disk, and so I wasn't seeing a partition tab, but I figured it out. Thank you again, this is wonderful. I love the mac discussion forums, its great to see fellow users helping each other out.

Mac Acting Erratically: Please help Safari iTunes Messing Up

Okay I have an Apple PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.3.9 Panther (purchased late Nov 2003 was originally running 10.2.8 Jaguar) and up till a few days ago everything was running smoothly. That is until after I upgraded to QuickTime 7.1.2 and installed iTunes 6.0.5 when the problem started. Somehow my login.keychain for Safari got corrupted and I tried deleting original and making a new one.
Here's what has happened since then:
Any free media I have downloaded like videos or music off free sites (without Digital Rights Management) already still work. However, if I try downloading new stuff the new files don't work.
Since day before yesterday 4 times when I open iTunes it tells me my Library has been damaged. All my music files are still on my hard drive and are still playable but my iTunes Library file is corrupted -- how and why I don't know.
No music appears in my Library nor do any of my videos in .m4v format (iPod format) show up in my Library since then. I trash damaged file and re-import or select add to library and re-add all the media to my Library seems to work fine. I play them and most of them are playable. Even when Library works a few that played earlier have a skipping problem.
In Safari all my bookmarks got deleted -- I had to back, find the websites and re-add them -- fortunately when I closed Safari and re-launched the browser they remained saved the next time I closed and re-started the browser. However, third time (normally when something doesn't work twice they say third time's the charm) well the third time I opened Safari everything got deleted again.
My iTunes Library is acting erratically -- files I download don't work although files I already have are still playable usually except when my programs run across errors that didn't exist earlier.
I have Microsoft Office X 10.1.6 with the PowerPoint X and Excel X Security Updates, the Apple Security Updates 2006-002, 2006-003 and QuickTime 7.1.2 and iTunes 6.0.5.
When I originally downloaded and installed Security Update 2006-001 my Safari completely broke and would stop running and my Dock Menu dissappeared until restart but even then Safari stopped working. Could find no other solution than reinstalling OS X to return my Mac to pre Security Update 2006-001 levels. Not even Disk Utility solved the problem.
iTunes 6.0.2 also caused problems for me (I heard it caused problems on Windows also) the problem on my Mac was Disk Utility stopped working altogether. Fortunately, by deleting the game Chess from my Mac it fixed the problem. Today, I have Chess back on my computer because since my last OS reinstall I just updated my iTunes to 6.0.3 (I think) I now have iTunes 6.0.5 and have had no problems with Chess and iTunes or iTunes and another application like Chess preventing Disk Utility from working -- but now this problem I am describing where my Library erases itself regularly -- sometimes I restart iTunes and the new user wizard shows up and asks if I want iTunes to find my media and automatically add it to my Library when it does I say yes and it re-adds everything but somehow I have 2 files for every song on my computer and it re-imports (or imports) all my music, videos and podcasts back into my Library once and then re-imporitng it again
This time Safari is working but bookmarks are being erased and re-erased, iTunes is acting all screwy, files I download don't work when they should, I tried deleting and re-downloading a video I had saved on my hard drive (that I downloaded earlier) and the exact same file (no changes had been made to the file when it was re-uploaded) had errors playing when the download completed.
Fortunately, I had burned the video to a CD so I can re-copy it to my Mac and when I play it off the CD on my Mac or copy directly to Mac and play it works just fine.
Since downloading these updates cannot download anything anymore without errors when playing them.
If I downloaded same files earlier though they would have worked.
Only as a last resort would I do a clean reinstall of OS X -- thing is it would take a lot of work just to reinstall OS X, copy all my files I have backed up back to my hard drive, re-importing my music and artwork, re-installing Microsoft Office X and its updates, reinstalling some (but not all the latest ones if neccessary) of Apple's Security Updates, reupdating to Mac OS 10.3.9 to reinstall QuickTime 7.
I had like 283 files in my iTunes Library, including all my music, videos, podcasts etc.
Imagine how long it would take to get them all back in there; and I re-did it last night until it got erased again. Don't want to re-do it unless next time it stays permanently.
Just a note I also have Virex 7 on my Mac -- and it used to be a startup item but somehow it got disabled from starting up.
Also, I do have VLC Media Player but even that has been having problems with playing newly downloaded media files since I updated my QuickTime.
So the problem now is with my iTunes Library erasing itself continuously and even when its working sometimes refusing to play an entire track (it starts playing a song and then skips to the next one) I've checked my preferences and cross shading or whatever its called is unselected but sound checker is on.
Also the problem involves my Safari erasing bookmarks on its own as described above. Please help anyway you can!
As a last resort will do a clean reinstall, re-copy all my files back to my hard drive, reinstall my programs, re-update my Mac carefully etc.

Thanks for the help. I will take your advice and try running Disk Utility again. I have noticed sometimes when running Safari after quitting the application my defaults get changed -- that is my preferences go away. I have popup blocking and tabbed browing normally enabled by default it used to be if I enabled them as long as I didn't manually disable them that they would stay the same even after I quit and relaunch the browser, but now they get disabled when I quit and have to manually re-enable them again.
Also as noted bookmarks get deleted. Since the time I posted this thread I had at one time done a clean reinstall of OS X -- did it about 1-2 weeks ago. Not sure if videos I download on my Mac still have same problem but noticed if I download same videos on a PC that I used to download and play directly on my Mac that I could burn them to a CD or put them on a flash drive and transfer the file to Mac without any problems but downloading directly on Mac and then playing causes difficulty.
However, the same issue with Safari and iTunes has still been lingering for a while. I already have Mac OS 10.3.9 Combined Update installed should I try re-installing again? That would require me to reinstall OS X again and then update to 10.3.9. Or simply re-download and re-install 10.3.9 if possible over existing configuration so installing 10.3.9 over 10.3.9?
3 times out of 5 iTunes Music Library becomes damaged -- a few times I have tried since then deleting files in iTunes cache -- shouldn't become too big anyways -- otherwise it could become slow or something (good reason for cleaning Safari cache sometimes also) of course I wouldn't clean out the entire cache unless I had to or I thought that would fix the problem etc -- unless maybe it would even do a lot of good for resolving the problem.
I even tried trashing the damaged iTunes Library and the iTunes Music Library.xml file when the Library wasn't working.
If the problem re-occurs should I trash the iTunes preferences file(s) like iTunes.plist etc would help?

Kernel panic on 2010 Mac Book Pro - please help

Hey Guys
Bit unsure about what to do ……
In december my computer randomly went to a grey screen and told me it needed restarting, never ever had this happen before …..
I restarted and got a report as to why it was happening .
Never thought anything else about it until it happened a day or 2 later, since then this happens every couple of days and sometimes more regularly, at first it was only happening while I was using safari….. so assumed a bug and kept emailing reports to apple …. However more recently it has happened whilst trying to play a DVD, and whilst trying to access a folder….
My computer is less than a yr old but I don't have apple tech support anymore so to phone them will cost , I don't even know how much they charge. ???
I use my laptop a lot to edit video for clients and do NOT what this happening in the middle of an edit … =( Also if I have to send my computer away this is going to disrupt me a lot.
Ive read a couple of other posts about kernel panics ... and have done a RAM test and a apple hardware test, all which come back ok, I also did a disk verify, which came back at first with errors, but they were fixed and now all seems ok ....
Ive also done all software updates and yet still it happens ...
Tbh Ive found this laptop to be very slow on certain things since I have had it, esp when launching finder …. or the dashboard, it take forever to fill in the information and finder takes ages to fill in the mb in each folder etc or to load the app icons .... and often crashes particulary in the app folder, had assumed it a osx bug ... but now not so sure ... Also often get the rainbow beach ball coming up on simple tasks such as clicking save in a application etc for a few seconds ....
can anyone suggest anything ? ? or what i should do, i dont want this happening in the middle of working on a video project etc .
Can anyone read or understand the panic reports ? ?
15" MBP 2010 2.66 I7 (4GB)
Ive posted the first and most recent reports below … However Ido not understand them
First crash DEC 2010>:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 81 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 3D722A86-0C24-47E7-9077-7F3C860F713B
Wed Dec 1 20:21:10 2010
Panic(CPU 0): Unresponsive processor
EAX: 0x1b7706c0, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x0000000c, EDX: 0x09c47980
CR2: 0x76c7e000, EBP: 0x9b2cbc18, ESI: 0x09c47980, EDI: 0x463c9000
EFL: 0x00000006, EIP: 0x9ae05006, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x10bf58 : 0x2b1681 (0x9b2cbb40 0x9b2cbb40 0x10bf88 0x578d03)
0x10bf88 : 0x2aa0d6 (0x2 0x9b2cbb40 0x84d02 0x1)
0x10bfd8 : 0x2a0b5e (0x9b2cbb40 0x7dfd6000 0x0 0x10d0e4)
0x9b2cbc18 : 0x1269657 (0x463c9000 0x9c47980 0x0 0x0)
0x9b2cbc48 : 0x1273d0c (0x463c9000 0xccbf2dc 0x9c47980 0x127389c)
0x9b2cbc78 : 0x1273e73 (0xccbf000 0x463c9000 0xccbf320 0x8)
0x9b2cbca8 : 0x124d46a (0xccbf000 0x463c9000 0x9b2cbcd8 0x213ebb)
0x9b2cbcd8 : 0x53717b (0x463c9000 0x1793edac 0x1793edac 0x1)
0x9b2cbd28 : 0x5671d4 (0x463c9000 0x1793edac 0x1793edac 0x1)
0x9b2cbd88 : 0x286234 (0x463c9000 0x1793edac 0x1 0x0)
0x9b2cbdf8 : 0x21d8ba (0x93e7668 0x8917284 0x93e7670 0x93e76a4)
0x9b2cbe38 : 0x210a3a (0x93e7600 0x9b2cbe7c 0x8c58854 0x9b2cbe70)
0x9b2cbe98 : 0x216c9d (0x93e7600 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x9b2cbf18 : 0x294e13 (0x9b2cbf44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x9b2cbfc8 : 0x2a1018 (0xa628f80 0x0 0x10 0x8cf6180)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics(6.2.4)@0x1249000->0x12f7fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x951000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x984000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x962000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Safari
Mac OS version:
10H574
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 180206063418842
unloaded kexts:
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.0.35 (addr 0x9b93b000, size 0x172032) - last unloaded 180150565826343
loaded kexts:
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.0.35 - last loaded 180179788017476
com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext 1.0
com.serato.usb.kext 1.8.4
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.6.5
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 9.7
com.apple.nke.asp_tcp 5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.19
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.17
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.13
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics 6.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB 6.2.4
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.0d4
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU 1.5.0d3
com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.6
com.apple.driver.ACPISMCPlatformPlugin 4.5.0d5
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.12
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 2.8.68
com.apple.GeForce 6.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 200.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 2.5.8
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 303.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 200.3.2
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.5
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.1
com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 2.3.9b6
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 426.36.1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 105.13.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 105.13.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireAVC 4.0.6
com.apple.nke.ppp 1.5
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.8d0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.3.8f7
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.9fc4
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.9.9f12
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.9.9f12
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d3
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.5.0d5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.8d0
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.2.4
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.8f7
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.8f7
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.3.8f7
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 2.6.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 206.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 1.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.1.5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 312
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.9
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 289
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6.2
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.5
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x28f16b): "pmapflushtlbs() timeout: " "cpu(s) failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0x84b7a0 cpustorespond=0x1"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.9.17/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:3561
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x9ad6a738 : 0x21b50c (0x5d42fc 0x9ad6a76c 0x223974 0x0)
0x9ad6a788 : 0x28f16b (0x5923b0 0x84b7a0 0x1 0x9c8c100)
0x9ad6a7f8 : 0x29226a (0x84b7a0 0x468ee000 0x0 0x0)
0x9ad6a8a8 : 0x26b9a7 (0x68a4e 0x0 0x80df50 0x84b7e4)
0x9ad6a948 : 0x260b60 (0xfbeac24 0x0 0x0 0x3000)
0x9ad6aa78 : 0x261130 (0x468f1000 0x0 0x1 0x0)
0x9ad6aab8 : 0x259ecb (0x2eb6d74 0x468ee000 0x0 0x468f1000)
0x9ad6aaf8 : 0x220342 (0x2eb6d74 0x468ee000 0x20b4 0xc814ac)
0x9ad6ab18 : 0x52e90c (0x468ee000 0x20b4 0x800 0x0)
0x9ad6ab38 : 0xc8c1e7 (0x468ee000 0x20b4 0x400 0x1)
0x9ad6ab78 : 0xc8e419 (0x46548000 0x9ad6ae3c 0x9ad6ae40 0x9ad6ae44)
0x9ad6abf8 : 0x565148 (0x46548000 0xbce476c 0x9ad6ae3c 0x28)
0x9ad6ac38 : 0x56628a (0xd18da8 0x46548000 0xbce476c 0x28)
0x9ad6ac88 : 0x566b0b (0x46548000 0xb 0x9ad6acd0 0x0)
0x9ad6ada8 : 0x285bce (0x46548000 0xb 0xbce4768 0x0)
0x9ad6be58 : 0x21d8ba (0xbce4740 0xaadf5a0 0x1ecdd8 0x5e43)
0x9ad6be98 : 0x210a3a (0xbce4700 0x0 0x949ddc0 0x9cfc8f0)
0x9ad6bef8 : 0x216c9d (0xbce4700 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x9ad6bf78 : 0x295156 (0x8cd1248 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x9ad6bfc8 : 0x2a148d (0x8cd1244 0x0 0x10 0x8cd0040)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(6.2.4)@0xc7f000->0xd34fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.2.4)@0x991000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x984000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x951000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x962000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Model: MacBookPro6,2, BootROM MBP61.0057.B0C, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.58f15
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, PCIe, 512 MB
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, Built-In, 288 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST9500420ASG, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8507, 0xfd110000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0xfd120000
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8218, 0xfa113000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0xfa120000
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0xfa130000
Most recent crash >:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 3500 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 10
Anonymous UUID: 3D722A86-0C24-47E7-9077-7F3C860F713B
Tue Mar 1 00:54:24 2011
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0xb60f61e4, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0xb60f61e4, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x095f1e00, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x0000000c, EDX: 0x095f1680
CR2: 0xb60f61e4, EBP: 0x94e33c18, ESI: 0x095f1680, EDI: 0x46461000
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0xb60f61e4, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000010
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x94e339f8 : 0x21b50c (0x5d4438 0x94e33a2c 0x223974 0x0)
0x94e33a48 : 0x2aab55 (0x59623c 0xb60f61e4 0xe 0x596406)
0x94e33b28 : 0x2a09a8 (0x94e33b40 0x105800c 0x94e33c18 0xb60f61e4)
0x94e33b38 : 0xb60f61e4 (0xe 0xe3ff0048 0x46460010 0x93b0010)
0x94e33c18 : 0x1269657 (0x46461000 0x95f1680 0x0 0x0)
0x94e33c48 : 0x1273d0c (0x46461000 0xeeda2dc 0x95f1680 0x127389c)
0x94e33c78 : 0x1273e73 (0xeeda000 0x46461000 0xeeda320 0x8)
0x94e33ca8 : 0x124d46a (0xeeda000 0x46461000 0x8f10e98 0x213ebb)
0x94e33cd8 : 0x53724b (0x46461000 0x972d1f4 0x972d1f4 0x1)
0x94e33d28 : 0x5672a4 (0x46461000 0x972d1f4 0x972d1f4 0x1)
0x94e33d88 : 0x286234 (0x46461000 0x972d1f4 0x1 0x0)
0x94e33df8 : 0x21d8ba (0x14c83168 0x14c7f684 0x14c83170 0x14c831a4)
0x94e33e38 : 0x210a3a (0x14c83100 0x94e33e7c 0x8f10e18 0x94e33e70)
0x94e33e98 : 0x216c9d (0x14c83100 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x94e33f18 : 0x294e13 (0x94e33f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x94e33fc8 : 0x2a1018 (0x9463120 0x0 0x10 0x9463120)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics(6.2.6)@0x1249000->0x12f7fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x951000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x984000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x962000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Safari
Mac OS version:
10J567
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0: Wed Nov 10 18:13:17 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.26~3/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 13293913567066
unloaded kexts:
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.0.35 (addr 0x9403e000, size 0x172032) - last unloaded 12255103776876
loaded kexts:
com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext 1.0
com.serato.usb.kext 1.8.4
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 9.7 - last loaded 12192524825133
com.apple.nke.asp_tcp 5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.19
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.17
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.13
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics 6.2.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB 6.2.6
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.0d4
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU 1.5.0d3
com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.6
com.apple.driver.ACPISMCPlatformPlugin 4.5.0d5
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.12
com.apple.GeForce 6.2.6
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 2.8.68
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 200.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 200.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 303.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 2.5.8
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 426.36.1
com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 2.3.9b6
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 105.13.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 105.13.0
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.9.9f12
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.8d0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.3.8f7
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.0fc1
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.9.9f12
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.9.9f12
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d3
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.5.0d5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.8d0
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.2.6
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.8f7
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.8f7
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.3.8f7
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 206.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.1.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 2.6.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 1.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.1.5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 312
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.9
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 289
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6.2
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.5
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
Model: MacBookPro6,2, BootROM MBP61.0057.B0C, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.58f15
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, PCIe, 512 MB
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, Built-In, 288 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST9500420ASG, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8507, 0xfd110000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0xfd120000
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0xfa120000
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8218, 0xfa113000
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0xfa130000
Any help or advice appreciated ..

Here is some information that will answer your Kernel Panic questions for every level of interest.
(1) Start here for help understanding and resolving kernel panics: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Don't be concerned that OS X 10.6 is not specifically mentioned. This info also applies to SL Macs.
Another KP help site:http://www.index-site.com/kernelpanic.html
Apple's KP knowledge base article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1392
Apple's 10.6 help article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8965.html
In-depth KP info: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html
(2) Panics are often (but not always) hardware related, so disconnect unnecessary peripherals, check any RAM or hardware you have added, and try the suggestions in the links above one-by-one until you find the one that fixes your problem. If your trouble persist, or if your time is critical, you might want to ask your Apple Service Technician to work the problem for you.
EZ Jim
Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.6); MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.6)
LED Cinema Display; G4 PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11); iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9); External iSight; iPod4touch4.2.1

Trying to activate a creative suite (mac)... please help

Have had a rough day with Adobe... have been "helped" by the chat people at least 10 times today with no resolution. Some component of my computer (Mac) got fried, and the Apple geniuses advised me to retrieve the data and applications by getting an external enclosure and hooking the hard drive up to another Mac. I did that, but the adobe applications said that I needed to put in a new serial number. After several attempts at using the chat feature, one of the Adobe employees said that I needed to uninstall and try again (and they would do something on their end to make it work). I have this latest transcript (see below), BUT IT STILL DOES NOT WORK after re-installing. Please help...
info: You are now chatting with Sparks.
Sparks: Hello! Welcome to Adobe Customer Service.
Sparks: Hi Jay.
Jay Hilscher: Hi Sparks!
info: Your chat transcript will be sent to {email] at the end of your chat.
Sparks: I have received your query.
Sparks: I will check and help you with this.
Sparks: May I please have your email address registered with Adobe?
Jay Hilscher: I'll let you know that I have been disconnected 5 times... this issue is not on my end.
Sparks: And also the serial number of the product?
Jay Hilscher: [email protected]
Jay Hilscher: [removed by moderator - never share publicly]
Sparks: Thank you for the serial number.
Jay Hilscher: you're welcome!
Sparks: Thank you for your patience.
Sparks: May I please know if you have a installed the software again?
Jay Hilscher: Yes I have
Jay Hilscher: But I can't activate it with this serial number
Sparks: If the deactivate button is grayed-out the product is already activated.
Jay Hilscher: Yes... I need to deactivate it.
Sparks: In that case, please go ahead an uninstall the product.
Jay Hilscher: I need it deactivated on the old hard drive so that I can activate it on the computer that I's like to use it on.
Jay Hilscher: I've read on the forum that I don't want to uninstall without first deactivating...
Sparks: No, problem.
Jay Hilscher: What is a problem?
Sparks: Please go ahead and uninstall the product, and install it on the new computer.
Sparks: I will make certain changes for you to activate it on a new computer.
Jay Hilscher: Ok... thanks...
Sparks: You are welcome.
Sparks: Is there anything else I can help you with?
Jay Hilscher: Not right now, I guess... I hope this works!
Sparks: You may contact us back if you face an issues.
Sparks: Is there anything else I can help you with?
Sparks: Are we still connected?

Ned, thanks for the reply. However, that doesn't seem to solve (or actually get me any closer to solving) the problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled the creative suite, but I still get the window that says that I have 30 days to activate the software. Then, the serial number that should activate it (per Sparks above) does not. This is followed by another window that says, "We are unable to activate Adobe Design Suite Standard CS3. Click the Phone Activation button to learn how to speak with one of our Customer Care representatives." After clicking the phone activation button, however, and going through that whole process, no opportunity to speak with a Customer Care representative occurs. Before being hung up on by the automated menu voice, I am directed to use the chat feature to "speak" with a representative. This is how I've come to communicate with a number of representatives today (Sunita K / Case # 0213839182; Souvik S / Case #0213841272; Naacom N / Case #0213841941; Sparks / Case # Unknown; and others) - none of whom has been able to follow through on assisting.

Serious Problem with New Mac Pro! Please help!!

Ok, long story short.
My Mac pro keeps crashing after I installed the latest 05-2007 security update. It seems to crash everytime I come back to the computer after the screensaver has been on for a while (its not the screensaver though) I reinstalled the newer v1.1 version of the update and I thought the problem had gone, but it hasnt as the computer just crashed again.
I cannot see any correlation to any other programs, and im 99% sure its not a hardware issue. It does not seem to relate to parallels, or the screensaver, or itunes, or anything!
And there is another crazy thing, when the computer restarts, it says that it recovered from a serious error and asks you to sumit a report, so i click the send report button and do you see a normal report window with all the code ? NO!!! Press report and the initial window just DISAPPEARS, nothing else happens!!! i.e it wont send the but to apple!! no wonder they haven't fixed it!!!
The history of the panic log is always the same error:
Tue Jun 5 19:29:24 2007
panic(cpu 3 caller 0x003BDEB0): OSObject::refcount: Attempting to retain a freed object
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x4c543bb8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x4c543bdc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x4c543bf8 : 0x3bdeb0 (0x3f0f94 0x3f0f70 0x160f5ba4 0xad319c0)
0x4c543c18 : 0x3c0d3b (0x160f5ba0 0x4ae958 0x28 0x3c09c4)
0x4c543c48 : 0x3c0e94 (0x13c58c40 0xad319c0 0x0 0x3c10ef)
0x4c543c68 : 0x3c188a (0xad319c0 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x4c543ca8 : 0x3c18f7 (0xad319c0 0x13c3a100 0x13c36b00 0x1628d8)
0x4c543ce8 : 0x38663c (0xad14840 0x0 0x4c543d28 0x3c1002)
0x4c543d08 : 0x389e5b (0xad02080 0xff7da80 0x0 0xad02080)
0x4c543d28 : 0x3b1448 (0xad02080 0xff7da80 0x4c543d58 0x3bdfd9)
0x4c543d78 : 0x188511 (0xad02080 0x14da63b4 0x14da63c8 0x11cc32)
0x4c543db8 : 0x12b4c3 (0x14df20b4 0x14da6398 0x0 0x0)
0x4c543df8 : 0x124b17 (0x14df2000 0x0 0x18 0x4c543edc)
0x4c543f08 : 0x195a42 (0x4c543f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x4c543fc8 : 0x19b21e (0xb101f20 0x0 0x19e0b5 0xb101f20) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb011e508
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.2: Thu Feb 22 18:08:23 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.19.2~1/RELEASE_I386
Please help someone!

Did you read the thread on Security Update 2007-005?
Frozen Mac Pro

Another 10.4.11 problem, mac not working, please help

I know there are other topics on the 10.4.11 update messing up computers but i've tried their solutions and mine still won't work so any help would be really appreciated. I hadn't backed my recent stuff up aswell so i really don't want to just wipe it unless there is definately no other option.
I originally clicked ok to the update 10.4.11 for my emac thinking it would be a quick simple update... far from it!! I ended up holding the power button to turn my mac off after it froze on the update and since then when i turn it on it gets stuck on the grey screen.
I first tried archive and install and that goes really slow, does a check, starts the procedure then says there is an error and to try again, which i did about 3 times and still no luck. I then tried to hook my emac up to my macbook with a firewire cable, then firewire symbol shows on my emac but my HD doesn't show on my laptop (any ideas here?). So then i tried a disk repair and after about half an hr of spinning beachball it says 'Repairing disk failed with error - could not unmount disk'.
So now i'm really stuck, please help!

So then i tried a disk repair and after about half an hr of spinning beachball it says 'Repairing disk failed with error - could not unmount disk'.
You must repair the HD somehow.
Have you tried booting from the Install CD/DVD then after you choose your language, a Menubar will show up top, find Disk Utility and run it from there.
If DU can't fix it then , your best bets are DiskWarrior from Alsoft...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

Mac booting problem - Please help! very, very desperate!

My mac was being very, very slow so I turned it off, then as it it was booting it was taking ages so i restared in safe mode. While booting in safe mode the black bar at the bottom goes around 2/5 of the way across and then my macbook just switches off.
Ive tried:
fsck
disk utility repair/verify
reinstalling OS X Lion
When i tried to repair, it said i needed to erase everything and reinstall the OS. Last night when i tried to it said both drives are locked so i couldnt. And now when i just tried again, neither drivers are appearing; the box is just blank.
Let alone my livelyhood on the laptop, i have thousands and thousands pictures which if lost, would genuinley heartbreak me. I have much valuable data on my laptop and i really dont want to erase all data, because me being the gigantic fool that i am, i only have one time machine back up from about a year and a half ago.
Please, please help.
Thank you!

humzasadique,
unfortunately you’ve now discovered where the value proposition lies in making regular backups — if your livelihood depends upon your laptop, that lack of due diligence is rather baffling.
Which model MacBook Pro do you have, and which version of OS X is installed on it? Do you have an external bootable drive?

I get windows xp bsod after installing mac os x. please help.

Hi. I get windows xp blue screen of death after installing mac os x. Please help. I'm not a technical person. Thanks.

Boot into safe mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
Try OS X Recovery to run Disk Utility tests.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
Reset PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Flash catalyst trial has downloaded but wont install on my mac os Lion. please help!!

flash catalyst downloaded fine but when i came to installing it, no luck, it wouldnt do it. I have seen online that their maybe be problems related to mac os lion. any ideas of solutions to resolve this? i click on the install box in the catalyst folder and it comes up with an error notice.. -1712 ... means nothing to me. I spoke to apple and they dont know either... please help.

When is it coming up with error -1712? Does this happen when invoking the installer or when trying to mount the DMG file?

Can't start up with mac OS x---please help

i ran ONYX and i was advised to repair my hard drive.
so i inserted my mac os X disc while holding down the C key as the computer starts up.
it won't go to utilities, it goes straight to where u choose which account and password to login.
i repeated the whole procedure for four times, still it can't open disk utilities/repair disc.
i installed a firmware password before on my hard drive but it didn't asked for a password or something while i was starting up.
please help. thanks.
Message was edited by: Alvin Ray

The Macbook will not allow you to startup with your Install DVD while you have Open Firmware password enabled. Disable that first, then try again....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
Launch the Open Firmware application to disable it.

I upgraded to Firefox 7 and lost all my Bookmarks and the Toolbar which I use every day for all the important things I do on my Mac.. PLEASE HELP ME... Is there some way to restore my previous settings, go back to the older version or something?

PLEASE HELP!... I am seriously freaking out... I use my Toolbar all the time!... and ALL OF MY BOOKMARKS ARE GONE ALSO!

I am not an expert or even close, and I offer this only because this is how I figured out how to do it. I used a similar approach to importing all email accounts, email content and the address book into a new version of Thunder bird, but I assume this is common knowledge.
My system:
Windows 7 64 bit, recently upgraded from XP64. Installed Mozilla Aurora but seems the same as recent Firefox versions with respect to these features.
Limitation:
This solution depends on whether or not automatic backups were done of the bookmarks when you used your old installation. They were on my system and I don't remember doing it, but maybe I did. Others might know if this is periodically done by default. Assuming you have some backup (*.json) files,
Locate your the bookmark backup files from the old version of your browser. On XP it was located in
E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.<your computer name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\bookmarkbackups
Each of the bookmark backup files look like this example:
bookmarks-1010-09-22.json
They might also be located one folder deeper, in my case:
E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.<your computer name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\x72qybcl.default\bookmarkbackups
Again, they will look like this:
bookmarks-1010-09-22.json
Copy all of these .json files to the backup folder on your new installation. On my new Windows 7 file system system I found their new home at:
C:\Users\Art\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\0ptl24i3.default\bookmarkbackups
On an XP system I'm sure they would be found along a path, possibly on a differed drive, similar to where your got them from as above.
I fired up Aurora. Drop down "Bookmarks" tab, Select "Show All Bookmarks" (found near the bottom). This brings up the "Library" window. At the top of the window is a tab "Import and Backup". Click this and select "Restore". All of the prior backup files will be available indexed by the date of backup. Select one and all of your prior bookmarks will be repopulated, including the bookmarks Toolbar.
Hope this helps.

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