Problems galore!

I'm wondering if anyone else is having these issues and if there is a way to fix them.
1. The notes application now often deletes what I recently wrote in my notes. I'll write something out, go to my home screen, go back into the note and everything I wrote is gone. Sometimes it will even disappear when the note is still open! Other times, it will delete what was on the note and a few minutes later I get an email from myself, containing what I had written in the note. It's weird!
2. The photo gallery often has to "rebuild" and when it's done, all of my photos and videos are in disarray and are no longer arranged by date. This is a big pain and as far as I know, there's no way to fix it.
3. Pretty much any and all videos over 2 seconds are unable to be sent via email. Is there anywhere I can go to lower the quality settings? I know I can use the front facing camera, but even so, the videos end up being gigantic.
4. I often get a "No sim card" message and have to restart the phone to get service again.
5. The battery definitely does not seem to last any longer than the 3GS... is anyone else having a different experience with this?
Nothing major, just little bugs (not that the video thing is a bug) that I'm wondering about. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.

Jennn wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone else is having these issues and if there is a way to fix them.
1. The notes application now often deletes what I recently wrote in my notes. I'll write something out, go to my home screen, go back into the note and everything I wrote is gone. Sometimes it will even disappear when the note is still open! Other times, it will delete what was on the note and a few minutes later I get an email from myself, containing what I had written in the note. It's weird!
2. The photo gallery often has to "rebuild" and when it's done, all of my photos and videos are in disarray and are no longer arranged by date. This is a big pain and as far as I know, there's no way to fix it.
Photos are arranged in the date they were taken, not the date they were modified or by file name.
See this post for more info:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2526944&tstart=30
3. Pretty much any and all videos over 2 seconds are unable to be sent via email. Is there anywhere I can go to lower the quality settings? I know I can use the front facing camera, but even so, the videos end up being gigantic.
When you select a video to e-mail, at the time of sending you are given the choice of what compression level you would like to use.
What error are you receiving?
4. I often get a "No sim card" message and have to restart the phone to get service again.
Take out your SIM and re-insert it again
5. The battery definitely does not seem to last any longer than the 3GS... is anyone else having a different experience with this?
Try turning of "Push" or setting it to 30 min. or 1 hr.
Nothing major, just little bugs (not that the video thing is a bug) that I'm wondering about. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.

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*constantly grumbling hard drive (known complaint I believe)
*wireless keyboard gets disconnected randomly and quite often
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comprachio wrote:
ah right I follow now. To do that I'll either have to buy another HD or wipe my bootcamp HD:( Neither is an appealing option though.
I have two external drives for backup: One for Time Machine, one for SuperDuper!. I wouldn't think about doing otherwise, as they complement each other functionally. Regardless of your current issue, I (and I think most folks) would strongly recommend that you do indeed get a second external backup drive, for a clone backup (either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner). You may as well do that now, as it will then enable you to create the clone (as I said, I believe it's something that you really should have anyway) and use it to help diagnose your current problem. And if it turns out tht your internal drive is failing, it's much easier to use a clone than TM to recover everything to a new internal drive.
I got my iMac at the start of December 2009. HD is WDC WD1001FALS-40U9B0 which is identical to the HD in my last iMac (which didn't grumble or groan).
I thought perhaps it was an old platter. Guess not.
Personally, I never had much confidence in WD drives...but I know a lot of folks who simply love them. I used to think that Seagate was the only way to go. However, I've changed my opinion of Seagate of late. In fact, I don't think any of the drive manufacturers are currently building quality products: They've off-shored most of their production to second/third-rate assemblers and suppliers and, consequently, lost significant quality oversight and control. Mind you, that's simply my opinion, but if you mouse around the newsgroups and forums and read experience-based user opinions, you might arrive at a similar conclusion.

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Not sure if this will be of any help but, if you're willing...
In itunes, convert the problem songs/albums' ID3 Tags to v2.3, even if they're already v2.3. (Right Click on song(s), on the menu that appears, "Convert ID3 Tags")
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Dual monitor support I can wait, thought I'm not happy. I have two monitors, I'd like to make use of that real estate to expand the panels a bit so I can see everything. Scrolling the panels is a huge waste of time.
But batch processing is missing? Are you kidding me? Just about every event shoot I do, I need to run through Noise Ninja. I have no way to do that now.
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I can't delete multiple photos from the strip. Multi-select and then delete, and only the last one selected is deleted.
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Okay, point in favor of LR, I can look at these while the import is going on. That's nice.
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It is as if the program loads the original image, then loads the preview, THEN does any processing that the develop settings would indicate. That last step should be part of the preview and cached, of course. It appears that it is not.
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IMac 24" Problems Galore . . . advice?

I just received my new IMac 24" with the Leopard disk included. While running the new machine with the pre-loaded Tiger, I noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Post-Leopard download is when the frustrations began. For instance:
1. Chimes at start up were very quiet, almost muted. The volume settings on the machine were fine but the chimes were nearly non-existent. Not a huge deal but it was the first oddity I noticed.
2. Boot-up time is ridiculously slow; I understand Leopard is "more complex" but the start up is triple in time compared to Tiger on my old IMac G5.
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coltsfan53 wrote:
Boot-up time is ridiculously slow; I understand Leopard is "more complex"
but the start up is triple in time compared to Tiger on my old IMac G5.
That's not normal. Leopard boots in 25-30 seconds on my 2.16 GHz iMac.
I spoke to AppleCare and I was unimpressed. I was told by the frontline guy that I
would "need to replace the machine" and was elevated to the next level of service.
Since Tiger ran without problems, it's not likely to be a hardware failure. Did the
AppleCare phone droid tell you why he thought "replace the machine" was in order?
Try clearing NVRAM and resetting the SMC. If that doesn't help, do a clean reinstall
from the Leopard DVD with the 'Erase & Install' option. It makes no sense to replace
the machine before eliminating the possibility of a software SNAFU.
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Bohdanz wrote:
I just installed the firmarware update on my Macbook Pro.
The *function keys* won't work even AFTER I select them in System Preferences.
Which update did you install and did it come automatically via the Apple Software Update?
I tried doing Repair Permissions and the progress status bar gets stuck around 10% into the process (even though 'estimated 1 minute' keeps showing 20 minutes later.)
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Verify permissions for “Whopper” (the name of the 250GB hard drive)
ACL found but not expected on “Library.”
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Repairing permissions for “Whopper”
ACL found but not expected on “Library.”
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I am now running a test on the RAM, using Rember, as suggested in another thread. –All tests passed.
So, there you have it.
Suggestions?

TheRever wrote:
You're not kidding, are you? Can I choose door number 2? To say that I'm disappointed and disillusioned would be insufficient. I've done precisely what I learned at a local Apple Store.
Sorry, I'm not kidding. But it isn't that big a deal. You are probably just frustrated and disillusioned based on your experiences with your flaky install. Try to remember how you felt about upgrading to Leopard before. That optimism is still warranted, with a little effort.
I'm sure Apple's official instructions work fine 99% of the time, but there is no way that Apple or anyone can guarantee an automatic upgrade. That is why Apple always says to have a good backup before any upgrade.
Would you translate what you instructed me to do? I don't know how to re-partition my original drive, nor do I know how to do a default MacOS X installation. It reads like I'm going to get a virtually naked machine, with none of the settings or files from before. Is that correct?
Yes. That is correct. You start with a naked drive and install everything from scratch. Your machine will be "as if" it came from the factory with Leopard installed.
You can boot off of the Leopard install DVD and run Disk Utility from the Tools? menu and delete partition on your "Whopper" drive. Then, return to the installer and just accept all the defaults. You don't have to worry about "upgrade install" vs. "archive & install". This will give you a fresh system.
Is it possible to wipe-out what I have done on the newer hard drive (250GB), and go back to the original 60GB drive? Is it possible to start again, or are the files on that drive now converted to the new? Does that make sense?
It would be ideal if you could throw away everything on the new drive. You can always copy off any new or modified files and restore those later. It sounds like you haven't been able to do much on Leopard anyway. It also sounds like you still have your 60 GB original, pre-leopard backup, which is a very good thing.
There may be some people who will tell you to do an "Archive and Install" to install a new 10.5. That will probably work too. You will have to resist the temptation to go into the archived area and just start copying files back. That would likely put you right back where you started. The same goes for any of the "migration" tools. For all I know, they work great 99% of the time. I've never tried them and I've had problems 0% of the time. The reason I always recommend a re-partition is because it guarantees you have a factory install. It makes restoring more difficult, but I consider that to be a good thing.
Here is my recommendation:
1) Make sure you have a backup of your current boot drive
2) Boot from from install DVD
3) Use Disk Utility to re-partition boot drive
4) Reinstall MacOS X using default options
5) Reinstall any applications
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7) Copy over your old user and data files into a quarantined location.
8) While maintaining backups of your new preferences and settings files, selectively restore your old files. These are things like your old Address book, your old Mail folder, and 3rd party application preferences files that contain license codes, etc.
Step 1-5 will take a couple of hours. Step 6, 7, and 8 may take a few days to get sorted out the way you want.

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