Open specific folder when starting

Would like to set specific folder/catalog as the one to open on initial load of organizer? How?

And, if you're using "Folder View", I think it remembers the last folder used. In any case, you cannot specify the default folder to open.
Ken

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Thanks,
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It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
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* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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See also:
* [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js

Opening specific folder on NAS crashes finder

A subfolder of my iTunes Music Folder, which lives on my NAS, frequently "goes bad", after which point opening that folder always causes Finder to crash in both Leopard and Tiger.
The same folder - let's call it "MusicA" - has been going bad occasionally for months now, and the only way I know to fix it is to log in to the NAS with one of my Linux boxes, create a new folder "MusicB", move the contents of MusicA into MusicB, rename or delete MusicA, and then rename MusicB to MusicA (so that iTunes can continue to find the files it knows live in MusicA).
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I have a massive music collection, which I have ripped and organized over the years using Windows, various flavors of Linux, and more recently, Mac OS X. I currently have a Mini running OS X Tiger, and a Mac Book running Leopard. I primarily listen to and organize music with iTunes on the Mac Mini.
The problem typically develops when I move a folder or folders from elsewhere on the NAS into MusicA. It doesn't happen every time by any means, but it seems to happen once every week or two, and it's a huge hassle to stop what I'm doing and go through the rigmarole I described above, just so I can continue organizing files in MusicA with finder, and adding files from MusicA to my library in iTunes.
I'm wondering if it's an text encoding problem with a folder or file name. I do have a lot of foreign music, but the foreign characters in the filenames and tags don't specifically seem to cause problems. And when I move the files to a new folder, the problem doesn't seem to follow them there. Furthermore, even if I rename MusicA with Linux after that folder has become problematic, opening the renamed folder with either of my Macs still causes finder to crash. Also, other folders on the NAS and on the system I'm using to access it remain unaffected - after finder crashes and restarts, I can navigate anywhere else on the NAS or the local system with no problems.
So it seems to be more of a problem with the parent folder, MusicA, even though the problem arises as a result of moving other files or folders into it.
I have searched this discussion forum, as well as the internet at large, quite extensively to try to find a fix for this problem, and while I've found many different accounts of finder crashing for one reason or another, I can't find anything describing symptoms exactly like the ones that continue to plague me. Stuffit seems to cause finder crashes for a lot of people, but it's not installed on my Mac Mini.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should try next to get to the root of the problem?

Hi vodsonic, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Off hand it sounds more like HDD corruption, but a couple of other things it might be...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Can get corrupted by long filenames or maybe foreign characters, try deleting it and reboot.
In finder, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1, and reboot.
Or we could try deleting those silly hidden DS_Store files first...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10478
Invisibility Toggler - 1.1...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32246
InVisibles - 1.5...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14722
To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below.
Note: This will affect the user's interactions with SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV servers.
1 Open the Terminal.
2 Type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
3 Press Return.
4 Restart the computer.
If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of your newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other target users.
These steps do not prevent the Finder from creating .DS_Store files on the local volume. These steps do not prevent previously existing .DS_Store files from being copied to the remote file server.

How do I open up BIOS when starting up?

I cannot figure out what key to hold down when starting windows xp professional to open up BIOS.
What do I have to hold down?

I am trying to do the same thing - access some type of BIOS or EFI upon startup.
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Centre Cursor/Trackball does not open any folder when pressed

I have a Blackberry Curve. I think it's a 8520 but can't find out the actual model number as the centre cursor/trackball will not let me enter any folder when pressed. It will navigate but does not work or "enter" when pressed to open a file e.g. Cannot open text messages, Cannot mange connections, Cannot access Setup etc. etc. etc Tried re-booting several times. Phone goes through the usual set-up and verification as OK. Screen sticks on "confirm current date & time" as the centre cursor will not allow me to OK or edit.

The device has a physical keyboard? If so, you can navigate to the menu item with the trackpad and then hit the "enter" key on the bottom right of the keyboard. It looks like an arrow going down and to the left.
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Flashing folder when starting up ??

Anyone know how I can remedy the flashing folder when I start up my mini? I have a ministack and if I restart it boots normally with the grey apple. When I turn on the Mini I get the flashing folder and don't boot. Show a Folder logo with "?" . I don't have that problem with my other drives.
How do I fix this?

Two possible scenarios. Don't overreact, and read both to find out which one is best:
1. If you are getting a flashing ? folder that won't quit flashing ? folder, in some cases booting with the Option key is necessary:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106178
You need to use the operating system that is installed or a newer retail operating system disk to examine the disk. I'd only do this on a system that is backed up, and following the instructions in my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
2. If it quits the Flashing ? Folder and goes to the desktop without issue, then you don't have anything to worry about, but you should backup your data in anycase as my FAQ* explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
The Startup Disk will simply need to be reset in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk so it won't flashing ? folder on the next restart.
Do you need a translation? Or do you understand what I am saying?
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Remember to open the specific folder when you go file-open in dreamweaver.

Hi, everytime I go to 'file - open', the default folder under 'look in' is 'my documents'. Once I opened a local folder in dreamweaver, I need dreamweaver to remember that folder for all the time.
I know I can modify required folder as a default folder in words 2003 this way: Tools - Options - File Locations - highlight Documents - click Modify - browse the folder I need the application to remember.
The question is what is the equivalent this in dreamweaver to modify, just like in word?
Thank you for your help,

If you go to Window | Files and select the site you are working on (screen shot posted), then when you go to File | Open, it will take you to that sites root folder. Is that what you were looking for?
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SAP Bex Analyzer (Netweaver 7.1) Opens workbooks twice when starting.

We just upgraded from bex 3.5 to 7.1, and have set it to open the Analyzer whenever excel starts. But now whenever we open an excel workbook it opens each workbook twice. We have one file in the XLSTART folder that loads in macro's but just opens a blank workbook. The file we are opening has code that sets calculation to manual and prompts the user that it has set to manual.
Whenever we open a file, it promps the user twice about setting it to manual, but only 1 workbooks pops up (because excel only allows one workbook with the same name to be open at a time), but we also get two blank workbooks that open up because the file in the XLSTART folder is being opened twice as well.
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What version of SAP-GUI are you using ? SAP-GUI 7.2 (latest version) was heavily rewritten using Visual Studio and SAP has stated that certain features that existed in earlier SAP-GUI versions are no longer available (it's Microsoft's Fault). It is also quite possible that your initial launch macro in Excel is causing the problem.
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How can I search for a specific folder when filing an email message?

Dear all, first of all thanks for your support.
Please don’t hit me but I am currently a BlackBerry user, since this is the standard I got from the company I work for.
That said, new server technologies allows now to use also other devices with the same company server, something that gives me the chance to switch to an iPhone.
Basically it’s all ready for the switch, but just one thing holds me from making the step.
It’s the email messages filing procedure.
With the iPhone, assuming I am not missing something (something that I hope), when you want to file an email in one of your folders you select the “file” function and then you scroll with your finger across the folders list you have in your email account.
This is all right if you have an handful of folders, but if you have hundreds, if not thousands, of folders it will take forever to find the one you’re looking for.
With a BlackBerry, once you selected the email messages you’d like to file, and after you selected the “file” function, you can also scroll, but – very important for me – I can also start typing the initial letters of the folder I’m looking for. The more I type the less folders will appear, as less folders will match with letters I typed. Once the list is short enough to easily see the folder you want (usually after you typed two or three letters, which takes no more than a second), you can pick the folder you wanted in a blink of an eye.
This makes email messages filing a very fast operation, and since I use this for my job I can’t live without email filing.
If someone of you knows how to perform the same with an iPhone, and possibly with the original apple mail software, I will very glad to make the switch.
Thanks to all that will offer their support.
Regards.
Ugo
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Since upgrading to version 32, firefox always opens old tabs when starting, even though i do not have this option set. Version 33.0.3 does the same.

When I updated Firefox to version 32, it started to always show my tabs from the last session when it is started. I tried changing the option "when Firefox starts" to all three of the available choices. None of these changed the behavior. It still opens the tabs that were last opened. I waited for the next release (33.0.3) but the behavior is still the same. I would like Firefox to open to my selected home page.
I'm running Windows 7 Pro.

One possibility is that Firefox keeps crashing during shutdown, and so Firefox is recovering from a crash every time. But if you can see that it is shutting down normally in your testing, that probably isn't it.
Sometimes external software will create or update an optional settings file named user.js. For some reason, one of the things that often shows up in there is a preference to restore your previous session just once. However, because Firefox uses user.js to override your normal settings every time it starts, that then turns into a permanent change. To check for this and remove any user.js file you find, try this support article: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]].
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External drive always opens embarrassing folder when mounted

This ought to make a few of you laugh...
Every time I plug in my 120Gb external WD drive, the finder opens up straight to the Videos>****> folder (less than 1% of the drive, I swear!) This is potentially embarrassing, and I have already narrowly escaped situations with my family and workmates. I don't know how to change it! I don't remember having this problem before I installed Leopard.
Any ideas?
thanks,
B

According to Google, FAT32 uses a 16-bit time field and has a resolution of 2 seconds.
Mac OS X has a resolution of at least 1 second, and possibily even finer granularity depending on the HZ clock frequence used by the kernel for managing the clock, where HZ=100 would be 10 milliseconds resolution
sysctl kern.clockrate
So it is very possible that img99, img100, img103, img104 all have odd time values, and when they are rounded down on the FAT32 file system, they always look older than the originals on Mac OS X.
It is a theory.
Have you experimented using a say another directory on Mac OS X to see if going HFS+ to HFS+ works as expected? Have you tried using a Linux ext2/ext3, etc... file system (which should have at least 1 second precision as well).
OK, using Disk Utility, I've created a FAT32 disk image, and copied a file with a modification time containing an odd number of seconds. Then I compaired the original time against the FAT32 time
stat tmp.1
234881026 61128371 -rw-r--r-- 1 harris harris 0 43
"May 22 21:07:47 2010"
"May 22 21:07:27 2010" <<<--- Modified time
"May 22 21:07:27 2010"
"Dec 26 21:57:18 2009"
4096 8 0 tmp.1
stat /Volumes/FAT32/tmp.1
234881031 10 -rwxrwxrwx 1 harris harris 0 43
"May 22 00:00:00 2010"
"May 22 21:07:26 2010" <<<--- Modified time
"May 22 21:07:26 2010"
"May 22 21:07:46 2010"
131072 4 0 /Volumes/FAT32/tmp.1
Notice the modify time on the original has 27 seconds, but the FAT32 copy of the file has 26.
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ITunes crashing when trying to open "apps" folder when iPhone is connected.

When I plug in my iPhone and try to open the "apps" folder, itunes crashes. This problem occurs everytime I try to open the "apps" folder. Please help?

There seems to be a bug in EAS when opening large outlines. If you look in the tmp directory "C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\tmp" on my machine you will see that every 5-6 min a copy of the otl file with a randomly generated name gets created. Something is timing out and EAS trys again with a newly numbered random otl file name - this goes on till you cancel. The files get left in there forever.
The solution should be to increase a timeout setting someplace but I have not been able to find it and previous appeals here and on network54 have not yielded any results.
There is a work-around however. Make your outline faster to open. If the ESSCMDQ utility does not work, try putting the otl file on an ssd drive. If you do not have one you can try a memory mapped IO trick: copy the outline someplace. Then try to open the original again - it will most likely now be sitting in memory and will open up fast enough not to generate the timeout problem.
Of course delete the copy at some point.
I also make it a practice to periodically clear out the abandoned junk in the tmp directory - the op system will not allow you to delete any file still in use so just del * (boy does that sound dangerous but it works).
Now if someone has a better way I would love to know it.

Scale.tif opening in preview when starting OSX 10.8.2

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I can't get it to stop. I've tried restarting and shutting down with the reopen windows box unchecked, but it still comes up.
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My macbook air has a flashing folder when start up, I just got it back from apple with a new hardrive.

I just got my macbook air back from apple because my hard drive failed,
Now that I have finally got it back I get a flashing folder and when I boot up to the disk utlities it doesn't let me choose a disk and it doesn't provide one to reset the OSX,
This is the worst experience I have EVER had with Apple and I need help.

Stephen ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. This Apple doc may help:
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
...Found by searching here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search

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