Raid 1 on MacPro - slow and SMB

Genius at the Apple store said using Raid 1 on a MacPro would explain why SMB is s-l-o-w. Have one user running database files off a PC. When we had it on Panther (not RAID) - the speed was fine. We upgraded to Leopard and new hardware and the speed is awful.
If we go back to a single drive and skip the Raid1 will we get the speed back? Would new Raid 5 hardware separate from the MacPro be a better solution?

Hi danieljackson;
It sounds like you have a good plan there.
I just want to check to be sure. You would not believe how many times I have had to explain this to people that RAID 0 is not a valid backup solution and that includes some who call themselves IT professionals.
Allan

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    Boot in safe mode to rebuild the font caches. Boot again as usual and test.
    Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t boot in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.
    Also note that if you deactivate or remove any built-in fonts, for instance by using a third-party font manager, the system may become unstable.
    C.
    "BlackBerry Desktop Manager" is incompatible with Mavericks and should be removed.
    Any third-party software that doesn't install by drag-and-drop into the Applications folder, and uninstall by drag-and-drop to the Trash, is a system modification.
    Whenever you remove system modifications, they must be removed completely, and the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job.
    I never install system modifications myself, and I don't know how to uninstall them. You'll have to do your own research to find that information.
    Here are some general guidelines to get you started. Suppose you want to remove something called “BrickMyMac” (a hypothetical example.) First, consult the product's Help menu, if there is one, for instructions. Finding none there, look on the developer's website, say www.brickmymac.com. (That may not be the actual name of the site; if necessary, search the Web for the product name.) If you don’t find anything on the website or in your search, contact the developer. While you're waiting for a response, download BrickMyMac.dmg and open it. There may be an application in there such as “Uninstall BrickMyMac.” If not, open “BrickMyMac.pkg” and look for an Uninstall button.
    Back up all data before making any changes.
    You will generally have to reboot in order to complete an uninstallation. Until you do that, the uninstallation may have no effect, or unpredictable effects.
    If you can’t remove software in any other way, you’ll have to erase and install OS X. Never install any third-party software unless you're sure you know how to uninstall it; otherwise you may create problems that are very hard to solve.
    WARNING: Trying to remove complex system modifications by hunting for files by name often will not work and may make the problem worse. The same goes for "utilities" such as "AppCleaner" and the like that purport to remove software.

  • Mail is getting slower and slower...!

    We are running an OS X 10.4 Server on a Mac Mini 1,7 GHz Intel Core Duo. We are running from a raided external drive with 2 mirrored 250 GB drives connected via Firewire.
    After a couple of weeks we notice that getting mail is slower and slower. After another week it's too slow to use. Then we restart and it works ok again.
    I first noticed this about a year ago, but it feels that it has been worse since then.
    We have about 80 accounts on the server, with the heaviest load from spam of course.
    Nothing else on the server seems slow.
    Any idea where to start...? :-/

    I am now experiencing a slowdown when getting mail from the server.
    This is a direct output from the Top command:
    Processes: 158 total, 2 running, 1 stuck, 155 sleeping... 744 threads 23:19:27
    Load Avg: 0.76, 0.41, 0.25 CPU usage: 0.9% user, 13.2% sys, 85.9% idle
    SharedLibs: num = 188, resident = 8.46M code, 1.24M data, 2.04M LinkEdit
    MemRegions: num = 13965, resident = 129M + 7.41M private, 36.9M shared
    PhysMem: 277M wired, 176M active, 556M inactive, 1010M used, 12.5M free
    VM: 9.77G + 108M 17877937(0) pageins, 13756427(3) pageouts
    VM: 9.84G + 108M 17877239(0) pageins, 13756368(0) pageouts
    PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
    8661 top 14.1% 0:07.52 1 19 21 2.02M 304K 3.84M 27.0M
    330 fmserverd 5.6% 11:20.26 48 171 267 2.18M 1.40M 3.92M 188M
    0 kernel_tas 2.5% 60:40.93 47 2 1294 13.3M 0B 150M 988M
    48 syslogd 0.0% 4:20.01 1 14 19 76.0K 260K 448K 26.6M
    291 mysqld 0.0% 1:52.45 15 54 78 2.10M 548K 2.07M 471M
    355 java 0.0% 15:50.64 48 954 385 27.4M 2.31M 29.5M 830M
    221 ARDHelper 0.0% 0:16.95 1 9 16 16.0K 236K 152K 26.6M
    53 master 0.0% 3:46.31 1 15 18 88.0K 300K 204K 26.7M
    366 java 0.0% 9:37.42 44 657 309 14.1M 1.39M 9.67M 753M
    7857 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.25 1 16 91 340K 904K 1000K 28.7M
    369 FM Web Pub 0.0% 3:55.41 45 183 185 1.46M 1.46M 2.50M 127M
    8659 sshd 0.0% 0:00.02 1 11 23 120K 1.09M 464K 29.9M
    61 notifyd 0.0% 1:13.85 2 156 21 196K 264K 460K 27.2M
    343 SystemUISe 0.0% 0:19.86 2 195 190 824K 8.89M 1.41M 98.6M
    78 WindowServ 0.0% 1:40.59 3 168 297 464K 9.62M 9.11M 353M
    305 fmserver_h 0.0% 0:18.73 13 52 95 144K 1.23M 712K 62.6M
    218 ntpd 0.0% 0:16.89 1 11 19 88.0K 320K 380K 27.1M
    387 httpd 0.0% 0:08.01 1 10 255 20.0K 1.61M 92.0K 64.9M
    42 fmservicew 0.0% 0:04.08 1 27 47 16.0K 460K 428K 57.8M
    392 webperfcac 0.0% 6:03.26 66 109 153 992K 276K 872K 99.6M
    29787 imapd 0.0% 0:00.49 1 25 102 204K 1.87M 588K 49.0M
    29784 imapd 0.0% 0:00.51 1 25 102 200K 1.86M 580K 49.0M
    29762 imapd 0.0% 0:00.51 1 25 102 204K 1.86M 592K 49.0M
    28887 imapd 0.0% 0:00.39 1 25 102 196K 1.87M 556K 49.0M
    28884 imapd 0.0% 0:00.23 1 25 102 160K 1.86M 508K 49.0M
    28883 imapd 0.0% 0:00.38 1 25 102 264K 1.86M 552K 49.0M
    28867 imapd 0.0% 0:00.53 1 25 102 200K 1.86M 580K 49.0M
    28742 imapd 0.0% 0:00.45 1 25 102 164K 1.86M 508K 49.0M
    28740 imapd 0.0% 0:00.42 1 25 102 204K 1.86M 560K 49.0M
    28739 imapd 0.0% 0:00.24 1 25 102 4.00K 1.87M 296K 49.0M
    28738 imapd 0.0% 0:00.21 1 25 102 4.00K 1.87M 296K 49.0M
    28737 imapd 0.0% 0:00.22 1 25 102 160K 1.86M 444K 49.0M
    28736 imapd 0.0% 0:00.37 1 25 102 224K 1.87M 548K 49.0M
    28735 imapd 0.0% 0:00.68 1 25 102 196K 1.87M 580K 49.0M
    28734 imapd 0.0% 0:00.17 1 25 102 156K 1.86M 504K 49.0M
    28733 imapd 0.0% 0:00.37 1 25 102 216K 1.86M 540K 49.0M
    28731 imapd 0.0% 0:00.19 1 25 102 64.0K 1.86M 408K 49.0M
    28730 imapd 0.0% 0:00.72 1 25 103 212K 1.86M 588K 49.0M
    16102 ScreenSave 0.0% 0:05.97 1 60 84 560K 8.71M 940K 95.9M
    15599 sh 0.0% 0:00.25 1 14 17 4.00K 500K 8.00K 27.1M
    11822 imapd 0.0% 0:00.56 1 25 102 196K 1.86M 556K 49.0M
    11665 sh 0.0% 0:00.02 1 14 18 4.00K 500K 8.00K 27.1M
    11580 imapd 0.0% 0:00.52 1 25 102 156K 1.86M 500K 49.0M
    11579 imapd 0.0% 0:00.28 1 25 107 148K 1.87M 340K 49.2M
    11195 imapd 0.0% 0:00.69 1 25 102 4.00K 1.86M 284K 49.0M
    9381 imapd 0.0% 0:08.38 1 25 102 204K 1.86M 556K 49.0M
    9354 imapd 0.0% 0:08.83 1 25 102 212K 1.86M 564K 49.0M
    9353 imapd 0.0% 0:07.95 1 25 102 200K 1.86M 528K 49.0M
    9352 imapd 0.0% 0:02.66 1 25 108 156K 1.88M 364K 50.2M
    8660 bash 0.0% 0:00.01 1 14 17 180K 628K 788K 27.1M
    8657 sshd 0.0% 0:00.11 1 16 24 132K 1.09M 1.39M 29.9M
    8655 perl 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 159 936K 14.2M 2.09M 57.8M
    8653 perl 0.0% 0:00.02 1 8 159 988K 14.2M 2.17M 57.8M
    8639 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.05 1 18 91 612K 904K 2.27M 28.7M
    8638 smtp 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 19 228K 424K 844K 26.8M
    8634 bounce 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 19 212K 356K 776K 26.7M
    8632 lmtpd 0.0% 0:00.06 1 25 101 788K 2.21M 3.06M 49.0M
    8631 lmtp 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 19 212K 368K 788K 26.8M
    8630 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.04 1 16 91 536K 904K 1.33M 28.7M
    8627 pop3d 0.0% 0:00.05 1 18 97 532K 1.90M 2.30M 48.3M
    8569 smtp 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 19 220K 424K 596K 26.8M
    8568 cleanup 0.0% 0:00.03 1 16 19 224K 392K 824K 26.8M
    8565 proxymap 0.0% 0:00.01 1 16 19 196K 308K 712K 26.7M
    8560 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.06 1 16 91 532K 904K 2.18M 28.7M
    8450 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.06 1 16 91 176K 904K 768K 28.7M
    8443 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.08 1 16 90 232K 904K 792K 28.7M
    8415 smtpd 0.0% 0:00.10 1 16 91 216K 904K 796K 28.7M
    Nothing strange what I can see. I'll look at it in a couple of days and maybe we'll see a difference.

  • General Slowness and Wierd CPU Usage

    Writing on behalf of my uncle. He has a dual quad-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro with 2GBs of RAM (I verified this). And yet his system is slow and very, very crash-prone. Daily tasks such as emailing, using iWork, and Firefox or the cats pressing keys on his keyboard freeze his system.
    I called him up and had him look at Activity Monitor. Even with "All Processes" selected, the top users of his CPU come in at 2%. Meanwhile, at the bottom, the value of "% User" is fluctuating from 30 to 60. (It's not RAM usage; he had ~1.5 gigs free).
    Any ideas why this is happening or what can be done to speed up his system? Thanks.

    the value of "% User" is fluctuating from 30 to 60.
    That is actually pretty high and would say that you are hitting 3-5 cores at 100% and that there should have been a process (or group of processes at the top, viewing by cpu usage) eating up A LOT of cycles.
    I think somewhere along the line, either the original OS build itself was bad, which happens, or bad hard drive, or bad RAM even. Or installed something wacky.
    The OPs title and symptoms sure sound like MA gone wild, and sadly, the old "reinstall to cure" in such a case - people think it isn't needed or that is "... so Windows-like" and this time, take notes, exactly what steps they took and what they did that triggered the problem, maybe next time have "Missing Manual" in front and take notes and be more careful.
    But Migration Assistant wasn't involved, and there was no G4/G5 involved. But I would think someone writing a program would recognize safe vs harmful and avoid killing a system the way it can, and which I've walked people through, often grudgingly and dragging to have to "do it all over again" and a fresh install of everything (clone your system before you make changes folks!).
    For each burn project you use to need 24-40GB of free unfragmented space for best results. I guess that could double, and then you are talking very low disk space. But that was not their problem (low space).
    People thing leaving a system on overnight to run scripts. Okay, don't do it for three months and see what happens or not. Test the theory.
    My personal worst example of system meltdown (I saw a meltdown in 10.5.1 era too caused by pre-mature syncservices gone wild and the system refusing to respond, and did a fresh install finally as I installed 10.5.2, but got by using Disk Warrior which found a number of errors - errors that got there I know not how or why.
    Yesterday I was moving drives to a new case, resized some partitions, it looked okay, ran First Aid, started copying files... and the system just froze. This is a $200 FirmTek dual-drive case.
    Reboot after hitting power. Zilch. Nada. Had to power off the drives I was working on. Nada. Popped one of my 'spare' boot drives into Mac Pro and booted off that. Checked existing drives. Rebooted with the external drives and those checked out, but reformatted anyway just to be safe.
    Disk Utility changed in Leopard. Creating partitions I sometimes have to quit and relaunch Disk Utility. That the resizing/creation of partitions for me still looks like it isn't right. And that a reboot may have been needed.
    Disk Utility even said it "lost communication with a drive" and to relaunch Disk Utility. I think I saw that once back in 10.5.0 or 10.5.1 and was why I felt it was looking more like Final Candidate than ready for prime time. But I thought 10.5.4 was prime time.
    I've zeroed one drive. Have run Speedtools Integrity and Media test, and has the option to map out bad blocks automatically, but I don't think those will find anything, I just thing OS X has gremlins.
    My worst fear was the sound, lack of, when drives go silent when they are always running (and is a RAID which don't spin-down) or mechanical.
    Second fear: heat from the external drive case. Summer. Drive reported 49ºC.
    Third: the entire system stopped responding. Could not force quit and even Activity Monitor was beachballing. I had just quit OmniWeb and it wouldn't. And in the Finder it was doing a copy of disk images to backup which I do a lot, and later redid 300GB copy without issue.
    Fourth: a new ergonomic keyboard caused the system and Finder to freeze and lockup???
    Anyway, I really try to figure out why things happen. This is harder than the old mainframe that didn't have this many variables to worry about!!

  • Raid inside Macpro or external?

    I'm going to start shooting lots of 720p DVCPRO HD video and am considering setting up a raid. What is the benefit of using an external enclosure for a raid like something like this:
    http://www.g-technology.com/products/G-RAIDpro.cfm
    as opposed to doing it within the Macpro?
    Thanks!I

    There are two types of RAID available within the MacPro: software controlled and hardware controlled.
    Software controlled RAID configurations can be set up using Apple's disk utility. The advantage is you need no other equipment and/or software to get it running. It allows for RAID level 0 (Striped) and level 1 (Mirrored). I don't believe it allows for RAID 5 which gives you the ability to have a drive fail in the set and the data to be rebuilt from the remaining data. The downside is because all the RAID information is software controlled, in the event of a serious system crash/rebuild, you can lose everything on the RAID drives in a RAID 0 setup. Not sure what happens with a mirrored set.
    Hardware controlled RAID configurations require a 3rd party controller board. As Shane notes, Apple & Caldigit offer them. In hardware RAID, the control resides with the board - not with the system itself. In the event of system failure, your data control is not affected. Hardware raids offer multiple levels. I know the Caldigit card offers 0,1,5 configurations.
    In my opinion, if you require a RAID array, an external - such as the Caldigit HDOne - is a better way to go. That particular model contains 8 drives and supports prodigious data rates and RAID levels 0,1,5 as well as RAID 6 (2 drives can fail).
    Have fun.
    x

  • Since installing LTR 5.4, which I've now upgraded to 5.6, I've encountered repeated slowness and malfunctions in operations, especially when using the Compare View function and the Tab key to open and close the right and left side panels.  Such problems n

    Since installing LTR 5.4, which I've now upgraded to 5.6, I've encountered repeated slowness and malfunctions in operations, especially when using the Compare View function and the Tab key to open and close the right and left side panels.  Such problems never arose during two years of using LTR-4 and nothing else has changed on my computer.  I have a pretty simple system with only a few plug-ins, which are usually not in operation.  I have 12GB of RAM in my Windows 7 PC.  I could illustrate these problems with screen shots if you would tell me how to submit screen shots.  Otherwise I will try to describe the problems in words.
    The problem is clearly cumulative, growing worse as usage time passes.  Compare View feature gradually slows down and eventually seems to choke as my work session proceeds. If I Exit LTR and re-enter and start all over, things will work normally for maybe 30 minutes, but then the Compare View feature begins to become very slow to respond.   In a recent example with my screen full of thumbnails in Library mode I highlighted two images to compare. LTR started to open the Compare View screen by first having the top row of thumbnails disappear to be replaced by the "SELECT" and "CANDIDATE" words in their spaces  (but no images), but Compare View never succeeded in gaining control of the screen. After some seconds the top row of thumbnails reasserted its position and the Compare View windows disappeared. But LTR kept trying to bring them back. Again the top row of thumbnails would go away, Select and candidate would reappear, try again, and give up. This went on for at least 2-3 minutes before I tried to choose File and Exit, but even that did not initially want to respond. It doesn't like to accept other commands when it's trying to open Compare View. Finally it allowed me to exit.
    To experiment I created a new catalog of 1100 images.  After 30-40 minutes, the Compare View function began to operate very slowly. With left and right side panels visible and two thumbnails highlighted, hitting Compare View can take half a minute before the two mid-size  images open in their respective SELECT and CANDIDATE windows. When the side panels are open and two images are in the Select/Candidate spaces, hitting the Tab button to close the side panels produces a very delayed response--25-30 seconds to close them, a few more seconds to enlarge the two images to full size. To reverse the process (i.e., to recall the two side panels), hitting Tab would make the two sides of the screen go black for up to a minute, with no words visible. Eventually the info fields in the panels would open up.
    I also created a new user account and imported a folder of 160 images. After half an hour Compare View began mis-placing data.  (I have a screen shot to show this.)  CANDIDATE appears on the left side of SELECT, whereas it should be on the right. The accompanying camera exposure data appears almost entirely to the left of the mid-screen dividing line. Although the Candidate and Select headings were transposed, the image exposure data was not, but the data for the image on the right was almost entirely to the left of the line dividing the screen in two.
    Gurus in The Lightroom Forum have examined Task Manager data showing Processes running and Performance indicators and they see nothing wrong.  I could also send screen shots of this data.
    At this point, the only way I can process my images is to work 30-40 minutes and then shut down everything, exit, and re-start LTR.  This is not normal.  I hope you can find the cause, and then the solution.  If you would like to see my screen shots, tell me how to submit them.
    Ollie
    [email protected]

    Since installing LTR 5.4, which I've now upgraded to 5.6, I've encountered repeated slowness and malfunctions in operations, especially when using the Compare View function and the Tab key to open and close the right and left side panels.  Such problems never arose during two years of using LTR-4 and nothing else has changed on my computer.  I have a pretty simple system with only a few plug-ins, which are usually not in operation.  I have 12GB of RAM in my Windows 7 PC.  I could illustrate these problems with screen shots if you would tell me how to submit screen shots.  Otherwise I will try to describe the problems in words.
    The problem is clearly cumulative, growing worse as usage time passes.  Compare View feature gradually slows down and eventually seems to choke as my work session proceeds. If I Exit LTR and re-enter and start all over, things will work normally for maybe 30 minutes, but then the Compare View feature begins to become very slow to respond.   In a recent example with my screen full of thumbnails in Library mode I highlighted two images to compare. LTR started to open the Compare View screen by first having the top row of thumbnails disappear to be replaced by the "SELECT" and "CANDIDATE" words in their spaces  (but no images), but Compare View never succeeded in gaining control of the screen. After some seconds the top row of thumbnails reasserted its position and the Compare View windows disappeared. But LTR kept trying to bring them back. Again the top row of thumbnails would go away, Select and candidate would reappear, try again, and give up. This went on for at least 2-3 minutes before I tried to choose File and Exit, but even that did not initially want to respond. It doesn't like to accept other commands when it's trying to open Compare View. Finally it allowed me to exit.
    To experiment I created a new catalog of 1100 images.  After 30-40 minutes, the Compare View function began to operate very slowly. With left and right side panels visible and two thumbnails highlighted, hitting Compare View can take half a minute before the two mid-size  images open in their respective SELECT and CANDIDATE windows. When the side panels are open and two images are in the Select/Candidate spaces, hitting the Tab button to close the side panels produces a very delayed response--25-30 seconds to close them, a few more seconds to enlarge the two images to full size. To reverse the process (i.e., to recall the two side panels), hitting Tab would make the two sides of the screen go black for up to a minute, with no words visible. Eventually the info fields in the panels would open up.
    I also created a new user account and imported a folder of 160 images. After half an hour Compare View began mis-placing data.  (I have a screen shot to show this.)  CANDIDATE appears on the left side of SELECT, whereas it should be on the right. The accompanying camera exposure data appears almost entirely to the left of the mid-screen dividing line. Although the Candidate and Select headings were transposed, the image exposure data was not, but the data for the image on the right was almost entirely to the left of the line dividing the screen in two.
    Gurus in The Lightroom Forum have examined Task Manager data showing Processes running and Performance indicators and they see nothing wrong.  I could also send screen shots of this data.
    At this point, the only way I can process my images is to work 30-40 minutes and then shut down everything, exit, and re-start LTR.  This is not normal.  I hope you can find the cause, and then the solution.  If you would like to see my screen shots, tell me how to submit them.
    Ollie
    [email protected]

  • Multiple (but separate) domain problem & Apple's slow and useless response

    I am having problem with multiple (but separate) domain. I opened a ticket.
    Here is Apple's slow and useless response and my follow up.
    This follow up is not going to resolve the issues I am having. The sites are not in one domain file. I have split them into separate domains. I found that the simplest change to any page made the publishing process extremely and reasonably slow. If I updated a single site, iWeb republishes the whole conglomeration; hardly the most efficient way.
    I have several directories under the ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ directory with separate Domain.sites2 files for each site:
    consultingAM.com
    DarkAssassinMovie.com
    Fuzzy Llama Junior Optimist Club
    GulfportOptimist.com
    OptimistView
    pAwesomeProductions.com
    www.nfdoi.com
    With the previous version of iWeb, I navigated to a specific ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ directory, selected the Domain.site file, and opened it. This would open iWeb with the selected domain. Several of the sites have their blog page with the RSS subscribe option.
    Once I made the update, all I usually had to do was publish site and all was well. Occasionally, I would have to do a publish all if I changed domains. All in all, I had no problems with publishing once I found the right steps to be able to maintain multiple domains.
    Now, using the default publish or publish all process, all I get is the last site I published. In order to get things semi-functional, I published a site, then I would go to iDisk/Web/Sites/ directory, select the folder name for the site I had just published, then copy it or move it to iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb directory. This was rather slow and I suspect it is not an approved solution, but it semi-worked. My sites are back up, but they are not fully functional.
    Is there anyway to get back to using the ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ directory (separate Domain.sites file for each site) process to publish multiple sites? If not, is there any way to suck in the various domains back into one? If that is possible, will it take hours to publish the combined 2-3GB like it did with the previous version?
    How do I reverse the 'personal domain' process? I do not want to do this at this time. I just wanted to see what the steps were. I have done the first step, but not the second.
    I was glad to see some of the changes made in the upgrade (web widgets, maps, html snippets, theme switching), but I am too happy about the changes made by the upgrade process. In the past, I upgraded my Apple related stuff as soon as it came out. Based on this upgrade, that won't happen again.
    It took you guys 5 days to get back to me (during which time several of my sites were down) and I do not believe the information you provided is going to solve my specific problems. I am very disappointed with the results of this upgrade. Clearly there was inadequate testing of this product before it was released. I cannot recall seeing the Apple discussion forums with hundreds of topics and thousands of posts within a week or two of a new release. Apple had to upgrade iWeb in the first week, another poor sign.
    Apple is beginning to slip back to the pack; all vendors all below average. Apple is getting more like Microsoft everyday. First Apple delays the release of an OS upgrade so they can concentrate on a freaking phone, now you release software that is so buggy it should be classified as beta at best.
    Some of the changes/problem I am seeing since the upgrade (in addition to the problems mentioned previously) are:
    layout changes; some of my pages no longer look the same; same of the changes are so bad the pages are unreadable
    broken photo pages; some of my photo pages no longer work; some of them have no text or pictures
    file/page name changes; why would Apple change the location of the files; now my domains are not pointing right location; special characters (like spaces, ampersands, etc.) are handled differently in this version; specifically, I see that spaces are changed to underscores (_); iWeb used to use '%20' for spaces; what was Apple thinking?
    broken 3rd party themes; I know Apple is not responsible for 3rd party themes, but you should certainly be aware that they exist
    Based on what I am seeing online, most of the people who are complaining about major iWeb issues are not newbies; based on the technical details in the threads, there are clearly some experienced people who are trying to figure things outw. I have lost many hours trying to figure this mess out. I now have to review hundreds of pages to try get things to look and work the way they did before the upgrade. I have had to handle dozens of phone calls and emails from my viewers and subscribers trying to explain the situation.
    I googled 'iweb 08 *****' and got nearly 50,000 hits! I think Apple better get in front of this train before it gets run over.
    On Aug 19, 2007, at 11:09 AM, .Mac Support wrote:
    Dear David,
    I understand that you are experiencing an issue viewing some of your websites published in iWeb:
    I have examined all of the published pages and they appear to load and function as expected. If you published your website to .Mac, you can visit it either of these ways:
    - In iWeb, click the Visit button in the lower-left corner.
    - Enter the following URL into a web browser:
    http://web.mac.com/daviddawley/
    If you have published more than one website, the URL above will take you to the default website, which is the first website listed in iWeb. To visit another website you have created in iWeb, use the following URL format:
    http://web.mac.com/daviddawley/iWeb/YourSiteName
    Using this form, the web addresses for the two sites you mentioned would be:
    http://web.mac.com/daviddawley/iWeb/FuzzyLlamaJuniorOptimist.com
    http://web.mac.com/daviddawley/iWeb/pAwesomeProductions.com
    To change the default website, simply open iWeb, and in the Site Organizer, drag the desired default website to the top and republish to .Mac.
    NOTE: Be sure to give each website a unique name. This will help prevent one website from overwriting another. For further information, refer to the following article:
    iWeb: Do not use similar names for your sites
    http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303042
    If you still experience issues with the website, try the following troubleshooting steps:
    WAIT SEVERAL MINUTES
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