Power failure corrupted my Mail program - H E L P !!!

I just went through a power failure. The Mac OS has always survived nicely in the dozens of times I've experienced such things before. However, this time Mail got totally melted.
When relaunching the other programs I was running ( Keynote, Pages, Safari, etc. ), the only thing I lost was any unsaved work in an open file. With Mail, it ate my whole list of e-mail accounts (which I have several).
When I relaunched Mail, it went through the account set-up for my main account. When Mail finally opened, the only account was that one and non of the history of other accounts was anywhere to be found.
Fortunately, I am running +Time Machine+. The big question is, What files do I move where to restore the proper account settings and files for Mail?
(Please only respond if you have THE answer — I'm just a bit panicked at the moment and don't want to screw anything else up trying helpful hints that might make things worse.)

This is not THE answer! But it's a harmless check you can make to ease the panic (I had a problem with upgrade from Tiger to Leopard where all my email accounts and mailboxes were showing fine, but there was nothing in them!).
Go to ~user/Library/Mail, and have a peek into some of your email account folders - assuming they are there of course, which will be your first sigh of relief. Then check out the size of the INBOX.mbox in each account - if all your messages are there, those should all be a reasonable size, depending how many messages you had in them.
Then you can relax a bit. Your messages will be there, it's just a matter of how you get Mail to 'see' them, which is where my expertise runs out, I'm afraid.

Similar Messages

Mavericks upgrade has corrupted my Mail program

After upgrading to Mavericks I can no longer open my Mail program, click the icon in the dock and all I get is the Mail menu bar at the top of the screen, no email program on screen, I can still see my desktop, any ideas as to what will fix this, tried Safe Mode boot, didn't help, tried clearing my Caches, didn't help.
Thanks in Advance

Sorted it now, it was a mail account that seemed to be corrupting the whole program, disabled every account and then turned them on 1 at a time, when I found the corrupt account, I just disabled it again and it's now working fine.
Mail menu, then Preferences, then uncheck the Enable this account option on all the accounts, close mail, reopen, then enable 1 account at a time, close then reopen, should work until you find the corrupt account, once it stops working uncheck the last enabled account and continue, mines was only 1 account, so it was easy to solve.

Vista got corrupt after power failure. sfc reports error and Event log service is unable to start itself.

Hi,
After a sudden power failure, I guess vista file system is corrupt.   I am able to start vista in normal mode, but it seems there are errors like Event Log service unable to start itself, when I start IE, it closes automatically ,
Norton antivirus does not start itself. and so on.
After Bing search, I went to safe mode and executed sfc /scannow and it reported error as below.
"Windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them"
Unfortunately I am unable to upload log file, so I am pasting CBS.log content here....   Please advice.
Some parts of logs are removed due to limit of 60000 characters.
Please advice.
Regards
2014-07-07 14:55:57, Info                  CBS    Loaded Servicing Stack v6.0.6002.18005 with Core: C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6002.18005_none_0b4ada54c46c45b0\cbscore.dll
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CSI
00000001@2014/7/7:09:25:58.062 WcpInitialize (wcp.dll version 0.0.0.5) called (stack @0x6e9c8a50 @0x7147854e @0x714563a1 @0x341392 @0x341ed4 @0x3417cb)
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CSI
00000002@2014/7/7:09:25:58.156 WcpInitialize (wcp.dll version 0.0.0.5) called (stack @0x6e9c8a50 @0x714ae7b6 @0x71490f93 @0x341392 @0x341ed4 @0x3417cb)
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CSI
00000003@2014/7/7:09:25:58.187 WcpInitialize (wcp.dll version 0.0.0.5) called (stack @0x6e9c8a50 @0x73981a0d @0x73981794 @0x34360b @0x342be3 @0x3417cb)
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CBS    NonStart: Checking to ensure startup processing was not required.
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CBS    NonStart: Windows is in Safe Mode.
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CSI    00000004 IAdvancedInstallerAwareStore_ResolvePendingTransactions (call 1) (flags = 00000004, progress = NULL,
phase = 0, pdwDisposition = @0x2dfe70
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CBS    NonStart: Success, startup processing not required as expected.
2014-07-07 14:55:58, Info                  CSI    00000005 CSI Store 4780952 (0x0048f398) initialized
2014-07-07 14:56:03, Info                  CSI    00000006 [SR] Verifying 100 (0x00000064) components
2014-07-07 14:56:03, Info                  CSI    00000007 [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2014-07-07 14:56:10, Info                  CSI    00000008 Repair results created:
POQ 0 starts:
     0: Move File: Source = [l:192{96}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\ca20037dc599cf01650000007806a403._0000000000000000.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:104{52}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"
    1: Move File: Source = [l:218{109}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aa070f7dc599cf01660000007806a403.program_files_ffd0cbfc813cc4f1.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:130{65}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_ffd0cbfc813cc4f1.cdf-ms"
    2: Move File: Source = [l:244{122}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\6aca137dc599cf01670000007806a403.program_files_common_files_d7a65bb2f0e854e7.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:156{78}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_common_files_d7a65bb2f0e854e7.cdf-ms"
    3: Move File: Source = [l:278{139}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\2a8d187dc599cf01680000007806a403.program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_818c5a0e45020fba.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:190{95}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_818c5a0e45020fba.cdf-ms"
    4: Move File: Source = [l:286{143}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\4ab11f7dc599cf01690000007806a403.program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_ink_3c86e3db0b3b254c.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:198{99}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_ink_3c86e3db0b3b254c.cdf-ms"
    5: Move File: Source = [l:292{146}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aa12227dc599cf016a0000007806a403.program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_ink_en_7a951cedcb9a5105.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:204{102}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_common_files_microsoft_shared_ink_en_7a951cedcb9a5105.cdf-ms"
    6: Move File: Source = [l:162{81}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aa28487dc599cf016b0000007806a403.$$.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:74{37}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$.cdf-ms"
    7: Move File: Source = [l:208{104}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\6aeb4c7dc599cf016c0000007806a403.$$_ehome_40103e2da1d
2014-07-07 14:56:10, Info                  CSI    121de.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:120{60}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_ehome_40103e2da1d121de.cdf-ms"
POQ 0 ends.
2014-07-07 14:56:10, Info                  CSI    00000009 [SR] Verify complete
2014-07-07 14:56:11, Info                  CSI    0000000a [SR] Verifying 100 (0x00000064) components
2014-07-07 14:56:11, Info                  CSI    0000000b [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2014-07-07 14:56:19, Info                  CSI    0000000c Repair results created:
POQ 1 starts:
POQ 42 ends.
2014-07-07 14:58:29, Info                  CSI    000000b1 [SR] Verify complete
2014-07-07 14:58:30, Info                  CSI    000000b2 [SR] Verifying 100 (0x00000064) components
2014-07-07 14:58:30, Info                  CSI    000000b3 [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2014-07-07 14:58:38, Info                  CSI    000000b4 Repair results created:
POQ 43 starts:
     0: Move File: Source = [l:192{96}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\4a5ad3d4c599cf01391100007806a403._0000000000000000.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:104{52}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"
    1: Move File: Source = [l:162{81}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\4a5ad3d4c599cf013a1100007806a403.$$.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:74{37}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$.cdf-ms"
    2: Move File: Source = [l:234{117}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\cadfdcd4c599cf013b1100007806a403.$$_help_windows_en-us_b594929e73669c5e.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:146{73}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_help_windows_en-us_b594929e73669c5e.cdf-ms"
    3: Move File: Source = [l:228{114}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\2a41dfd4c599cf013c1100007806a403.$$_help_help_en-us_91e6e7979a9bf9c6.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:140{70}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_help_help_en-us_91e6e7979a9bf9c6.cdf-ms"
    4: Move File: Source = [l:214{107}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\ea0ef7d4c599cf013d1100007806a403.$$_apppatch_1143992cbbbebcab.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:126{63}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_apppatch_1143992cbbbebcab.cdf-ms"
    5: Move File: Source = [l:218{109}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\ea241dd5c599cf013e1100007806a403.program_files_ffd0cbfc813cc4f1.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:130{65}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\program_files_ffd0cbfc813cc4f1.cdf-ms"
    6: Create Directory: Directory = [l:48{24}]"\??\C:\Program Files\MSN", Attributes = 00000080
POQ 43 ends.
2014-07-07 14:58:38, Info                  CSI    000000b5 [SR] Verify complete
2014-07-07 14:58:38, Info                  CSI    000000b6 [SR] Verifying 100 (0x00000064) components
2014-07-07 14:58:38, Info                  CSI    000000b7 [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2014-07-07 14:58:43, Info                  CSI    000000b8 Repair results created:
POQ 44 starts:
     0: Move File: Source = [l:192{96}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\eac6f0d7c599cf01a31100007806a403._0000000000000000.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:104{52}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"
    1: Move File: Source = [l:162{81}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aa89f5d7c599cf01a41100007806a403.$$.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:74{37}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$.cdf-ms"
    2: Move File: Source = [l:216{108}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\6a4cfad7c599cf01a51100007806a403.$$_resources_fbee56ab048ab239.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:128{64}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_resources_fbee56ab048ab239.cdf-ms"
    3: Move File: Source = [l:230{115}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\caadfcd7c599cf01a61100007806a403.$$_resources_themes_4d0d4910e83c2273.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:142{71}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_resources_themes_4d0d4910e83c2273.cdf-ms"
    4: Move File: Source = [l:240{120}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\caadfcd7c599cf01a71100007806a403.$$_resources_themes_aero_3fd78bf4cb5fa2c4.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:152{76}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_resources_themes_aero_3fd78bf4cb5fa2c4.cdf-ms"
    5: Move File: Source = [l:252{126}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\8a7001d8c599cf01a81100007806a403.$$_resources_themes_aero_shell_a91dfa5124b343c4.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:164{82}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_resources_themes_aero_shell_a91dfa5124b343c4.cdf-ms"
    6: Move File: Source = [l:276{138}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aa9408d8c599cf01a91100007806a403.$$_resources_themes_aero_shell_normalcolor_10be8ec981b35fb6.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:188{94}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_resources_themes_aero_shell_normalcolor_10be8ec981b35fb6.cdf-ms"
    7: Move File: Source = [l:214{107}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\cab80fd8c599cf01aa1100007806a403.$$_schcache_f995a5d4decb8cc0.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:126{63}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_schcache_f995a5d4decb8cc0.cdf
2014-07-07 14:58:43, Info                  CSI    -ms"
    8: Move File: Source = [l:212{106}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\cad948d8c599cf01ab1100007806a403.$$_msagent_be90584645cb9b95.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:124{62}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_msagent_be90584645cb9b95.cdf-ms"
    9: Move File: Source = [l:214{107}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\4a7578d8c599cf01ac1100007806a403.$$_system32_21f9a9c4a2f8b514.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:126{63}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_system32_21f9a9c4a2f8b514.cdf-ms"
    10: Move File: Source = [l:242{121}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\cafa81d8c599cf01ad1100007806a403.$$_system32_manifeststore_7d35b12f9be4c20e.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:154{77}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_system32_manifeststore_7d35b12f9be4c20e.cdf-ms"
    11: Move File: Source = [l:224{112}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\aae18dd8c599cf01ae1100007806a403.$$_msagent_chars_9a5bcb5da392f588.cdf-ms", Destination = [l:136{68}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\$$_msagent_chars_9a5bcb5da392f588.cdf-ms"
POQ 107 ends.
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI    00000213 [SR] Repair complete
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI    00000214 [SR] Committing transaction
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI    00000215 Creating NT transaction (seq 1), objectname [6]"(null)"
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI    00000216 Created NT transaction (seq 1) result 0x00000000, handle @0x4cc
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI
00000217@2014/7/7:09:38:01.060 CSI perf trace:
CSIPERF:TXCOMMIT;5
2014-07-07 15:08:01, Info                  CSI    00000218 [SR] Verify and Repair Transaction completed. All files and registry keys listed in this transaction
have been successfully repaired
2014-07-07 15:15:58, Info                  CBS    Scavenge: Package store indicates there is no component to scavenge, skipping.

Hi,
First, I would suggest you using last known good configuration:
Using Last Known Good Configuration
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/using-last-known-good-configuration#1TC=windows-vista
if this cannot bring your Windows Vista back to good state, I suggest you perform in-place upgrade to fix the corrupted files:
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 & Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2255099/en-us
If you have any feedback on our support, please click
here
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

I had a power failure 2 days ago, have power now, but cannot send email from my iPad. Everything was fine before that. The box says cannot send mail, the user name or password for Gmail is incorrect. I haven't changed anything. I need help. Thanks

Hi
I had a power failure 2 days ago, my computer is running again, but now I cannot send email from my iPad using Cox or my gmail account. I am receiving mail in my Cox account but not my gmail account.It was working fine until the power failure. It keeps telling me, the user name or password for Gmail is incorrect. I have not changed anything. I don't know what is wrong. Can anyone help me? Thanks

I agree, unplug and replug your router, then reset your iPad by holding down the sleep and home buttons, ignore the red power down slider, and wait til you see the silver apple. let it reboot and then try your connection.
Chances are rebooting the router will help. You may also need to talk to cox. They may need to reset something on their end.

Domain controller VMs using dynamic VHDx corrupt after power failure

Over the past couple of months I have experienced 4 dead 2008 R2 SP1 domain controllers after power failure on Hyper-V 2012 hosts. The domain controller VMs will start after power failure and have varying degrees of file system corruption. In each instance
the corruption has rendered the domain controller unusable. The problem has not occurred with every power failure, but in testing the failure rate has been over 10%.
The Hyper-v 2012 hosts are as follows:
Dell PowerEdge r720 with flash backed write cache on Raid controller
Dell PowerEdge T710 with battery backed write cache on Raid controller
Dell PowerEdge T310 with a single SATA hard drive and write cache disabled
Generic system with a single SATA hard drive and write cache disabled
The VM configuration experiencing corruption is as follows:
Each VM was created from a base 2008 R2 SP1 syspreped VHDx image template file (40 Gigs)
The image template was originally created as a VHD and was then converted to a VHDx
The VHDx file has 512k sectors instead of the native 512e of VHDx files (a result of VHD - VHDx conversion)
Each VM was assigned 1024 Meg RAM and 1 virtual processor
The domain controllers were created by promoting the base 2008 r2 install to a DC after base image deployment
Only one corrupt VM was not running the 2012 integration components. The rest were running current 2012 integration components
I have done extensive testing on this issue and the problem for me seems to revolve around the VHDx file format. I have managed numerous Hyper-v installations since the original 2008 server version was released and I have never seen corruption like this
until 2012 and VHDx.
For the past few days I have been testing fixed sized VHD VMs on a 2012 host and I have not been able to reproduce the data corruption issue. I seem to only be able to reproduce the problem when using dynamic VHDx files. I have not done any testing on 2012
hosts with fixed size VHDx files or dynamic VHD files.
It would be great to hear from anybody else experiencing similar issues so that we can compare notes and hopefully get to the bottom of this problem.

To be honest I was excited to see this fix released, but there are two problems.
1. The hotfix causes BSOD if you have VLANs with a teamed NIC configuration. I found this out the hard way on a production system. How in the world did this thing get through testing and into automatic updates?
2. The hotfix does not seem to resolve the issue in my test environment.
I opened up a case with support and they informed me that they would not provide support for this issue and that I had to open a case with premier support. Premier support informed me that I cannot open a case with them unless I sign a $50,000 per year service
contract. Is there anywhere to get support on this issue?

Problem with corrupted Mail program

This all started because my battery is so weak at this point that if I unplug for more than a few minutes, the system just blinks off....which is exactly what happened while the Mail program was doing something important. When I rebooted, my mail program was completely corrupted.
Now it hangs while checking mail and registers up to 24 new e-mails, but shows none of them, or simply fetches the same e-mail over and over again in each folder. Then it freezes up while the progress whirlygig thing goes around and around...even if I take a mailbox off-line it seems to do this same thing.
I disabled some of the mailboxes and found that this erased the content of all my e-mails in each folder that was disabled.
Meanwhile, it will actually send mail perfectly well.
If I remember correctly, reinstalling my system software will not fix this problem, unless there's something I don't know about. (These days there are many of those things.) Is there a preferences folder I can trash or something I can do to fix my mail program, while hopefully saving my past e-mails (I can dream, can't I?)? Suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks so much!
Jennifer

Golden Shoes:
Thanks for the quick response.
I have a POP account. Several.
Also, I don't run the computer without the AC. It was being moved from a desk to a table when it shut down suddenly before I could reattach the cable.
Would the mail preferences be located in the user folder? I tried getting rid of them and still had the same problem. I'm worried about tossing something global out when I shouldn't.
Finally, if you don't mind, snark never solved a problem. I'm sure you have nothing to prove and if you do, I don't need to know. I simply had a question since I am new to this operating system.

When the program gets terminated unexpectedly (power failure, UPS fails), when I reopen it, it usually does NOT return the previous pages, as I have checked in the 'options' box,

# Question
When the program gets terminated unexpectedly (power failure, UPS fails), when I reopen it, it usually does NOT return the previous pages, as I have checked in the 'options' box, but goes to some random collection of pages often from months ago. Very frustrating - can anything be done to COMMAND it to save current pages and re-open there? (As I said, I have this box checked in the options, but it does not work ..

Very Important, how much Free Space is on your Hard Drive first of all? Click on the Macintosh HD on the Desktop, then do a Get Info on it.
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
Do they launch OK while in Safe Mode?

Mail program may be corrupt

I believe my mail program is corrupt. How do I load a new one after I delete the old?

Here is my setup
Mail preferences/Account information
Account type: POP
Description: pop
Email address: (my email address)
Full name: (my full name)
Incoming mail server: pop.earthlink.net
User name: (my email address)
Password: (my password)
Outgoing mail server… smtpauth.earthlink.net
I keep getting an error message saying that it cannot send out mail in smtpauth,Earthlink.net
In the advance tab:
port is 110 ssl not checked and password OK

Every time my wife logs in and uses her email (os included mail program) the computer freezes and causes corruption of the hard drive. What can I do to remedy this problem

Every time my wife logs in and uses her email (os included mail program) the computer freezes and causes corruption of the hard drive. What can I do to remedy this problem?

Every time my wife logs in and uses her email (os included mail program) the computer freezes and causes corruption of the hard drive. What can I do to remedy this problem?

IMovie video project I made has no audio working after power failure

I have spent about a week stitching together family movies by ripping them to Apple tv format, then use a software program called MPEG streamclip to create a DV version which take about 24 gb a piece, I put 12 hours worth into iMovie which has taken a ton of space etc. So I created a project and am now about 1h 35 min in and this is getting small 3-5 clips of my son who is 7 months and my wife and myself b/c were going to England on Friday so I was created a nice movie for my new in laws and family I am meeting for the first time. So I had a saved file and iMovie was open and I had a power failure. I opened iMovie freaking out and then saw all the footage and the project still there so I was extremely thankful b/c of the 7 dvds I created due to space limitation once I imported I deleted the original (i have the original dvd but it takes about 6 hours to take from DVD to Apple TV format, then about 2 hours to export to DV and then another 1 hour to import into iMovie so each dvd took a full day for me due to work etc)
Anyway whats now happened is there is no audio on either the project or the original footage that has been imported, again about 12 hours of footage and a project thats 1 hr 35 mins. Whats strange is all other projects and imported video the sound and video works perfect. THis is the only one and of course its the most important one. ANY SUGGESTIONS WILL BE APPRECIATED.
If needed I will start over and do as much as I can but of course I am praying there is a simple solution.
Thanks.
newest iMovie, newest OSX etc if that helps

Thought you could use this info about getting FireWire to work!
First, you should always Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before and after any update; I would do that now. If you installed your update with FireWire plugged in, your Mac may not recognize it anymore.
Try resetting your FireWire ports by disconnecting all FW devices, shut down your Mac and unplug it from AC power (wall socket) for 30 minutes. plug it back in and try FW.
If that did'nt work, first run the Disk Repair as shown in Apple doc.#106214 before the next step. Then, download the combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try. Yours is the 10.4.10 Combo update ( PPC, not for Intel systems). Others reading, download the Combo that applies to your system.
If that still did'nt get it Zap the PRAM. While restarting Mac hold down the following key combo Command-Option-P-R. Keep holding those keys down till you hear the second start-up chime, then release.
For those of you with Macs that are not PowerBooks or iBooks, a bad internal battery can cause FireWire to not be recognized, so make sure it's good! Also, here is Apple doc.#88338 on getting FireWire to work.
Cheers!
DALE

Mail Program Not Responding... spinning wheel of death...???

I try to open my mail program and it opens, but then the ball spins endlessly and dosen't load any information. To get it to stop I have to "force close"... I can't seem to find any info on this..? What can I do... anyone else experence this?
Thank you for your help in advance..!
-Dave
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Dual 2.7 Ghz, Memory 2GB
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Dual 2.7 Ghz, Memory 2GB

HI,
I have not heard of anyone saying that they seemed to have found a limit to the open conversations displayed in Messages.
I would try to start the app again whilst you have the Activity Monitor open (Applications/Utilities) and see in Messages or IMAgent become "Stuck" or unresponsive.
It may also pay to open the Console App (Also Applications/Utilities) to see if there any items relating to the Messages app there.
If there is nothing obvious in either Activity Monitor or Console then I would delete com.apple.ichat.plist
Have the Finder as the "Front" app
Use the Go Menu > Go to Folder and type ~/Library/Preferences in the Dialogue box that appears.
Find the .plist and drag to the Trash.
Restart Messages.
9:12 PM Wednesday; January 2, 2013
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Does iMac shutdown nicely on power failure?

I have heard that the iMac 5K 2014 shuts down automatically on detecting mains power fluctuation. Great if this shuts down the 128GB SSD in an orderly fashion. If not I may have to get a UPS, though one I can afford could be unreliable! How paranoid should I be about this?
I do have Time Machine on. Loss of my unsaved data is an acceptable risk, and not what I am concerned about here: I am worried about maintaining iMac system integrity.
So, can someone please enlighten me about automatic shutdown of the iMac?

Tim Durbridge wrote:
That's reassuring.
But does the iMac shut down automatically on power failure?
Does that protect the system well enough for practical purposes?
Would that be why you operate a computer without a UPS?
The iMac does not have an internal battery or UPS. It will NOT shut down automatically or otherwise when power is lost. If you lose the mains the computer immediately stops working and serious corruption can and has indeed happened. Think about what you said. You lose main power to the machine. It has no power of its own, no internal reserve supply (and I know of no personal computer that does). It may or may not recover when power is restored and it depends on what was going on at the time the power failed.
If data loss or corruption is is unacceptable then a UPS is a must have. A UPS will allow the machine to shut down properly. OS X has built-in UPS power management software. You can set the computer to properly shut down when the UPS reaches say 20% reserve power.
Buy the best UPS you can possibly afford.

Power failure then iPhoto library= POOF! :-( PLEASE HELP!

Power failure then iPhoto> library= POOF!
We had a power failure and of course iPhoto was open when my computer was improperly shut down. After powering up, I did the following; repaired permissions and ran disk utility (no problems found).
Upon opening iPhoto (6.03) I got the rebuild thumbnails message, and I said cancel (I was going to do it later), then IPhoto opened and it was BLANK! all 5000+ images were GONE! I am assuming the library got corrupted somehow on either the bad crash, or the canceling of the rebuild option.
Now, I am a bit neurotic about my pics, so I choose to make my own finder folders of pic when I take them off the camera, and then import into iPhoto that way. So the good news is I still have all my original pictures in folders in the finder.
From reading various threads here, and Googleing + Macfixit, etc etc. This is what I have done to try to recover my library. (not necessarily in this order)
[list]
[*]Trash/recreate the iPhoto plist preferences
[*]Clear caches using Cocktail software
[*]Repaired permissions (in Disk utility), and then repair iPhoto library folder permissions usuing instructions found here using Batchmod software
[*]Rebuild the iPhoto library (option, command) and selecting the 3 proper checkboxes.
[*]Ran iPhoto Library Manager software to rebuild the database with no success. I get the error message "This Library cannot be rebuilt because its XML file contains no data".
[*]Updated to iPhoto 6.04/repaired permissions and disk utility.
[/list]
Each time iPhoto loads completely blank and void of my photos!
My assumption is the XML file is corrupt since I am getting that message in iPhoto Library Manager.
So what to do? And hear are my questions /issues.
I would certainly like to preserve my 4 years of customization of keywords, titles , folders, smart folders, etc. (which I assume is held in the now corrupt XML file?).
What is the best way to recover my customization and most importantly the images!
I realize I can just re-import all my images from my original finder image folders that I have, but I assume this method will not recover my keywords ,etc?
Is there a way to recover my customization?
I do have a fairly recent backup of my iPhoto folder on a backup drive ( I think!) It does not have all my newer pics in it, but as I mentioned I do still have all my .jpgs, just not in iPhoto!
Thanks in advance for reading and any help offered!
PBG4 1.33 2gig Mac OS X (10.4.6) 120 gig hd

I got all my pictures AND everything else back, folders, ratings, keywords etc
Fortunately I had a backup of the entire iPhoto library folder, it was about 3 months old (I know shame on me) so I didn't want to just use the entire backup folder and lose 3 months of photos.
So I just copied the AlbumData.xml file and the Library6.iPhoto file. PRESTO all my pictures were back WITH all the folders,keywords etc, etc intact!! (up till the 3 month old backup point).
Then I just re-imported the missing 3 months worth of pictures from the original folder in the iphoto library folder. So all I had to recreate was 3 months worth of customization. WHEW!!
Reading through the discussions it seems there is a fair number of users where iPhoto would go empty, but they knew the images were still on the computer. I am not a programmer, but it seems silly to me the their are files that get re-written everytime iPhoto closes....computers crash. and then what happens to the files? Mine got corrupted, lesson learned BACKUP more frequently!!
Thanks to Old Toad who steered me to the Library6.iPhoto as a possible troublemaker in another thread!

Database startup issue after power failure

Hello, I am hoping someone might have some ideas for me on this issue. We had a power failure over the weekend and I was not alerted in time to shut down my DB server gracefully. I am running a 10g (10.2.0.4.0) standard database on RHEL 5. When power was restored I booted the server and noticed the database did not start (I have a startup script in init.d), I tried running dbstart manually and that did not work either. Below is the entries in my startup.log file and sqlnet.log file, I cannot figure out what is causing the 12514 error, as everything was working fine before the power failure. Interestingly though I am able to start the DB by running dbca and making a minor config change that requires a restart, dbca is somehow able to start the DB. Any ideas would be greatly apprieciated. Thanks!
STARTUP.LOG
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/dbstart: Starting up database "DBS"
Sat Dec 4 15:33:12 PST 2010
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Sat Dec 4 15:33:12 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
SQL> ERROR:
ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect
descriptor
SQL> ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor
SQL>
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/dbstart: Database instance "DBS" warm started.
SQLNET.LOG
Fatal NI connect error 12514, connecting to:
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=oraserver.domain.com)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=DBS.domain.com)(CID=(PROGRAM=sqlplus)(HOST=oraserver)(USER=oracle))))
VERSION INFORMATION:
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
TCP/IP NT Protocol Adapter for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Time: 01-OCT-2009 17:19:10
Tracing not turned on.
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12564
TNS-12564: TNS:connection refused
ns secondary err code: 0
nt main err code: 0
nt secondary err code: 0
nt OS err code: 0

Mohammed Taj wrote:
Why do you suggest starting the db before the listener?
I always start db first then after listener.
Well, there's a good strong justification ....
because if you start listener then that time there is no db services to register, and lsnrctl services will show (no services ....) msg. Ok, so I have this startup script. One line starts the listener, the very next line starts the database. So in the few seconds between the listener starting and the database starting and fully opening, I am exposed to the possibility that someone might try to connect and get "ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor". That's opposed to the error they would have gotten a couple of seconds earlier, that would have said .... "ORA-12541: TNS:no listener"
Or I use your startup script. One line starts the database, the next line starts the listener. A full minute later the instance gets itself registered with the listener. So in the time between starting the listener and the database making as second - this time successful - attempt to register with the listener, I am exposed to the risk of someone making a connection attempt and getting "ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor". And again, this is as opposed to if they had been just a few seconds earlier and gotten ""ORA-12541: TNS:no listener"
or else if you want to start listener first then edit the listener.ora file and add the sid (few lines) then user will not receive the above mention error.In which case I start the listener first, it now knows about the instance without the instance self registering ... but it still has to wait for the instance to come up before it can service a connection request. How is that any different from NOT listing the SID_LIST, starting the listener, then starting the database and allowing the database to self-register? You are not eliminating anything from the user's end .. simply changing the error message they would get.

Mac Mail program won't open

Hi:
My mail program won't open all of a sudden. When I click on the icon the colored pinwheel comes up and just keeps on spinning. Any advice on where to start?

David Gimeno gave this advice on another discussion, worked for me (thanks David!)
The junk filter database has become corrupt. Try this:
1. Either shut down the Internet connection before opening Mail or take Mail offline immediately after opening it.
2. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).
3. Go online again. The problem should be fixed now.

Power failure corrupted my Mail program - H E L P !!!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for