Posting a question

I am new to the Discussions forum and want to post a simple question. I would think that posting a question would not require me having to search "how to post a question". It's a bit annoying that it's not obvious. When I click on a category I think there should be a blank space (or something) that says "ask your question here"--like in Yahoo Answers.

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Help! Where should I post this question, so I can get it answer?

I'm with the greastest Apple communuty on earth, but know ones responds to my question, except once. Is it worded incorrectly or difficult to understand. I been at for 4-5 months. Any help is well appreciated.
see below for my past adventures:
Can you help? I have pot this problem on the discussion board times 3 with no response except this time. See below.
down;oading podcast
Posted: Jun 23, 2007 8:04 AM

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Can Itune get too full whereas it will stop downloading podcast automatically or manually? I just exported my 2006 " bibleonradio" podcast to a folder on my harddrive. Immediately itune started downloading podast from that site. But for the last 4-5 months it would hit and miss with downloading and the last 2 weeks it quit altogether.I would go to the site and download the podcast to a selected itune folder as a mp3 for listening.
Do I need to do some type of maintenance to prevent this from occurring? The site is simple reading of bible scriptures. Could itunes get confuse with 2006 podcasts, thinking I already have the podcast, even though the release date for the new podast are mark 2007?
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Diane Wordsmith

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Re: down;oading podcast
Posted: Jun 24, 2007 9:23 AM in response to: Austin Smith2

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Look at the Podcasts in your iTunes Library. Do you see a little exclamation point to the left of the listing? If so, click on that.
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Austin Smith2

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Re: down;oading podcast
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 3:35 PM in response to: Diane Wordsmith

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Thank you for your reply:
I have that symbol on some of my other podacst sites, but not this one because I listen to it daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day. Could the exclamation symbol for the othe sites, which goes away if I start listening to them again affect this podcast? but these site with the exclamation also hit and miss when itunes downloads, as much as 2-3 weeks once I start it back up.
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Diane Wordsmith

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Re: down;oading podcast
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 3:49 PM in response to: Austin Smith2

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What's happened to me is that some Podcasts I subscribe to I might get lazy about listening to. Several of the Podcasts will pile up, and after a while iTunes will stop updating if you haven't listened to them. When I click on that little exclamation point in a circle, it will tell me that iTunes hasn't been updating that podcast because I haven't listened to it in a while. I think it asks if you want to continue (or maybe you have to click on subscribe again to get them started back).
If you are listening to this particular podcast every day, that shouldn't be a problem. And not listening to the other ones shouldn't affect this one. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I'm not sure what is causing it.
You might go to iTunes> Preferences and click on the tab for Podcasts and see what your settings are there.
Diane Wordsmith
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Austin Smith2

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Re: down;oading podcast
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 8:07 PM in response to: Diane Wordsmith

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Thank you again for your reply.
My settings in preference for podcast are::
check for new episodes-every hour
when new episodes are available-download all
keep-all episodes
does anyone else have this problem or any idea how to fix it?
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Posted: Jun 13, 2007 8:49 AM

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Trying to come up with an alternative to incomplete podcasts downloads from a website. What I'm trying to do is convert some the missing podcasts file from a website that itune don't download-reason unknown. I'm able to download a mp3 file of the podcast from the web site to my desktop, but I would like to add this to my podcast library under the same name of the podcast that I subscribed, then add to my playlist for continuous playing. Is this possible?
Thank for any Help,
Austin
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automatic podcast downloads incomplete
Posted: Jun 9, 2007 10:54 AM

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I was on the wrong forum. Hope someone might have an answer.
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automatic downloads incomplete
Posted: Jun 4, 2007 7:54 AM
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Some Podcasts have many episodes and when I subscribe, I get them all at once. But with some podcasts ( http://www.bibleonradio.com/ ), only a few episodes download, and I know there are many others available either because I can see them listed by going directly to the site or because they are numbered and some are clearly missing. I have tried setting my preferences both to download the latest edition of a podcast when I update or to download ALL editions. No difference either way.
Strangely enough, if I am patience , sometimes the gaps will fill themselves in or all at once when I choose to click update. Anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I email the web administrator and they said they were able to go to the itune store and download all the recent episodes. Below is my email conversation.
Thanks,
Austin
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Austin Smith2
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Re: automatic downloads incomplete
Posted: Jun 7, 2007 4:07 PM in response to: Austin Smith2
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Oops, I left off the dialog. Hope someone can Help.
Austin
From: Austin Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: podcast
no podcast downloading after feb 17th. Can you help?
On Feb 19, 2007, at 8:45 AM, MasterMedia wrote:
Austin,
If you mean podcasting of the One Year Audio Bible, then whenever the podcasting is behind you can always go out to the website and download from there. That’s usually been updated even when the podcast has not. Sorry for the inconvenience but the podcast should be brought up to date soon.
MasterMedia
From: Austin Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:21 AM
To: MasterMedia
Subject: Re: podcast
Thank you for your quick reply.
I was able to get itunes to download all the updates except,
Feb 18 New testament,
Feb 20 New Testament,
Feb 22 Old and New Testament.
Is this a problem on my end?
You wrote, "If you mean podcasting of the One Year Audio Bible, then whenever the podcasting is behind you can always go out to the website and download from there."
If I manually download the mp3 from your website, can I put them into the postcast library?
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: podcast
Date: February 20, 2007 9:14:44 AM CST
To: [email protected]
Austin,
I just went out to the iTunes store and tried to download those dates you had a problem with and I was able to download them without any problem. Maybe you should try again. And yes, you can manually download them from our website and store them into your podcast library. I’ve done that before and it works too.
MasterMedia
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Re: automatic downloads incomplete
Posted: Jun 7, 2007 4:12 PM in response to: Austin Smith2
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Just a suggestion, since this is a podcast issue, you might find more help in the podcast section of the Mac forum.
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Posted: Jun 9, 2007 10:50 AM in response to: StarDeb55
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Thanks.
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Re: seeking wisdom-please help-automatic podcast downloads incomplete-
Posted: Jun 13, 2007 7:29 AM in response to: Austin Smith2

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Guys am I asking the wrong question? I have posted this question 3 times, but I don;t get a reply. Am I in the wrong section? Am I the only one experiencing this problem?
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Hi I found the answer from another post. So far everything is working find. I been trying to fix this since march,
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Re: itune application and itune folder
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 7:16 AM in response to: Austin Smith2
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Deleting the application rarely solves anything on Macs. A better starting point is normally to delete the preference file for the application (in Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist) or see if you have the same problem in another user account on the computer.
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Re: itune application and itune folder
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 12:51 PM in response to: Mike N. (nahyun...
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Mike, deleting the preferences did the trick, but I don't know why. Itunes downloaded 5 days of podcast! Hurray!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

First off, i think it's sad that i have to use my non apple device to post this question... Why has my iPad become absolutely useless after updating to iOS 8.1? I am unable to use my mini because it crashes, slow performance, major battery drain.

First off, i think it's sad that i have to use my non apple device to post this question... Why has my iPad become absolutely useless after updating to iOS 8.1? I am unable to use my mini because it crashes, slow performance, major battery drain.

Restore iPad to Factory Default; do not restore from backup. It may be the cause of the problem.
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A few post config questions on new setup

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First, how can I confirm my controller is in fact associating properly with an NTP server? On a typically cisco product, I could just do a 'show ntp associations' or a 'show ntp status'. I cannot see a way to confirm this on the gui or command line.
Second, on my guest network with web-auth, if one were to choose to not use https for web-auth and instead use unsecure http, would that be possible and if so where in the gui?
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The third field is from a WLC running v7.4 not v7.2. I usually would install a 3rd party certificate, but what eles you can try is issue this command on from the CLI. It had issues working with certain code versions, but you might as well give it a try.
config network web-auth secureweb disable
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Why can't I post a question from my new system?

Hello All:
I was just trying to post a question from my new mbp but it wouldn't allow me to do anything. It continually gave me a message highlighted in 'red' that i was;t allowed to modify or post anything. I've been asking questions for quite a while and have never seen this. I also happen to have my older bmp, also logged onto the 'Apple Discussions' site, open beside me. Can anyone explain this to me please? BTW, my new system obviously has Yosemite on it while my older bmp has Lion. Thanks in advance, to all those who respond.
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ChitlinsCC, I'm adding your reloaders to my article on how to make using ASC easier.
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I'm not sure if I am writing this in the correct area (this is my second attempt at posting a question), but I have a comment about a recent store experience in Sandusky, OH. I am not a current Verizon customer, but I was visiting friends and we had to g

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but i am not able to post it.
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SAP Version to be added in the subject line while posting a question.

Hi,
We all have been posting and answering thousands of questions on the SDN. Many times I have seen moderators asking the person who posted a question to use a correct and informative subject line.
With respect to that, I would like to suggest the moderators to add a rule in the rules of engagement asking the users to provide the SAP Version in the subject line while posting questions.
This way the person answering the question can appropriately provide information based on that version only and would save the time and effort of everyone.
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ECC 6.0 Function module xyz is not returning correct results.
I would like to know the opinion of other users too on what they think about this suggestion.
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In theory - a very good idea.
In practice - hard to enforce.
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When I want to ask a question in Thunderbird site, I had to make new account when I wanted to post the question it is asking to make another account or use Yahoo/Facebook/Twitter.
Because of all this kind of cheating and fake things I started using Mozilla products but it seems I was wrong.
Just enlighten why would two accounts are needed to post a question?
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After posting a question on the community forum page, will I be notified when an answer appears?

After posting a question on the community forum page, will I be notified when an answer appears?

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My photoshop element 10 stop working, I am not able to open ti anymore. ? I posted this question a few days ago and I did not get any anwer yer, please help

I have photoshop premiere element 10 editor and organizer and I have a Macbook pro 10,9,9
When I try to open a picture with element editor or if I try to open PS editor directly I see this
file:///Users/main/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-26%20at%201.17.35%20PM.png
when I click on Modify it doesn't open and I have this window
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Hi,
Could you please some give isteps to posting questions for ask.tom .I tried in his site ,but i didn't find the post thread/question kind of options.

And besides waiting in vain for days, staring at the "Sorry I have a large backlog right now, please ask a question later"-message and getting more and more depressed (just kidding ;) ), you could always ask your question here on this forum.
If you do that:
Provide details about DB-version, make a small but representative example, use the tags.
(that way you have practised on how to ask questions to Tom when you get your chance ;))
And usually by doing some searches on here and AskTom there's great chance you'll find your answer(s) without having to ask anyone.

Looking for the appropriate spot to post my question....

This Feedback about the Discussions forum is intended for questions about how to use Apple Discussions
......but not sure where this one should go: looking for info & advice as to what Mac configuration I should build/buy with a $2000 --> $2500 budget.
Thought it would be fun to post a 'Wish List' from other Mac users if they could set up a system from the ground up with the above budget limitations.
I'm currently an iLamp user who's in need of more computing power for working with digital photos and just recently I started shooting underwater video so I need a bit more power than what my iLamp can deliver.
But first: where do I post this question???
iMac PowerPC G4 700MHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) iPod Nano 4GB/white + iPod Video 60 GB/white / iBook

Hi, Modiver -
There is no forum in Discussions perfectly designed for your type question - all forums are specific to certain hardware or software. Perhaps it would be a good idea for our Hosts to add a forum for this purpose.
You can do some prescreening of your own in order to find the best hardware forum to discuss this in. A good place to do that is in the Apple Store - check out the specs of the machines in your price range. Don't forget to allow space in your budget for additional items, such as for a monitor for the Mac Pro or Mac Mini models, and for software.
For example, are you looking for a laptop type machine, or a desktop type?
Do you need, or envison a need for, any expandability beyond adding RAM?
Examine the specs of current models, run up a cost total including ancillary hardware (extra RAM, monitor if needed, etc.), and compare the results. Then go into the hardware forums for the two or three best choices and discuss the models vs. your needs with the folk there.

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