Placing a large number of files into separate pages

Hello,
Let's say I have 50 pages in an InDesign document and also 50 different eps files in a folder. Can InDesign place these 50 eps files on each page? Thank you.

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Hello,
I'm working on an iPhone application where I need to load a large number of strings into memory. Currently I'm simply reading from a file where each string is stored in plain text on a single line. I read the file contents into a string using stringWithContentsOfFile and then I create an NSSet object using NSSet setWithArray:[string componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"]];
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I'd need to know more about what you're doing, but from what you're describing I think you should try to change your algorithm.
For example: Instead of distributing one flat file, split your list of strings into 256 files, based on the first two hex digits of their MD5 hashes*. (Two digits might not be enough--you might need three or four. You may also want to use folders, especially if you need more than two digits.) When testing if a string exists, first calculate its MD5 hash and extract the necessary number of digits, then load that file into memory and scan its list. (You can cache these lists in memory so that you only have to load each file once--just make sure that a didReceiveMemoryWarning message will empty those caches.)
Properly configured, SQLite may be faster than the eight second load time you talk about, especially if you ensure it indexes the column you store the strings in. But it's probably overkill for this application.
\* A hash is a numeric code calculated from a string; on average, changing a single bit anywhere in the string should change half the bits in the hash, so even very similar strings should generate very different hashes. I suggest using MD5 instead of -\[NSString hash\] because the hash method is not guaranteed to return the same results on Mac OS and iPhone OS, or on different releases of either OS. You could also use a different algorithm, like a CRC; these are faster but I'm not as familiar with them. This thread discusses calculating MD5 hashes on iPhone OS: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7362074
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Rman backup failure, and is generating a large number of files.

I would appreciate some pointers on this if possible, as I'm a bit of an rman novice.
Our rman backup logs indicated a failure and in the directory where it puts its files there appeared a large number of files for the 18th, which was the date of the failure. Previous days backups generated 5 files of moderate size. When it failed it generated between 30 - 40 G of files ( it looks like one for each database file ).
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george3 wrote:
Ok, perhaps its my understanding of RMAN that is at fault. From the logs :
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channel m1: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel m1: specifying datafile copies to recover
recovering datafile copy file number=00001
name=/exlibris1/rmanbackup/database_f734055020_s242_s1
recovering datafile copy file number=00002
name=/exlibris1/rmanbackup/database_f734055045_s243_s1
it seems to make backup copies of the datafiles every night, so the creation of these large files is normal ?Above results indicate that you have full (incremental level 0) backup(all datafiles copies ) and there happen update/recover (applying incremental level 1) backup.So there was happen applying */exlibris1/rmanbackup/database_f734055045_s243_s1* inremental backup to full(level 1) backup.And size should be normal
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