Reader 9.1 (Linux) left large temp files in user accounts

We had one user who found himself way over his disk quota recently...upon further examination, it appears Reader 9.1 left some very large files in ~/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp
What are the .tmp files created in this directory used for?
John

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Large Temp Files in iTunes Directory

Hi, I'm noticing large temp files appearing in my iTunes directory. These are created almost every 1-2 minutes during iTunes play and they are 40,938k in size. Currently, I'm deleting them.
Has anyone seen this and does anyone know how to fix it? This is disturbing.
Thank you for any assistance.
1RG

Hi--
So what I've noticed is that ever 7 seconds or so, while iTunes is running, a new file is created in the directory and it's the same size as the E-N-T-I-R-E library. If you try to delete all the files while iTunes is running, it won't let you since it's using one or more of the files.
This isn't going to work much longer for me. I have a 40 gb hd on my Windows laptop and in the course of one day, my 96gb iTunes lib is creating enough files throughout the day to completely fill my hard drive which is only about half full.
Let's not even talk about how slow this is making the machine.
Any solutions? I don't have my iTunes directory in the defaulted location... is this contributing somehow to the problem?
Any help appreciated.

You are unable to log in to the File Vault user account "myaccount "...

I know there are various posts already out there on remedies for recovering your data stored on a FileVault account when you receive the following message at the login screen; *"You are unable to log in to the File Vault user account "myaccount " at this time"*, but this genuinely worked for me despite AppleCare providing absolutely no assistance whatsoever. In fact, if I had followed their advise I'd be inconsolable right now having wiped my MacBook Pro and contemplating the prospect of rewriting my two essays due in 3 days time!
I, in a moment of shear stupidity, decided to move the sparsebundle file in my one and only account to trash. Thinking nothing of my foolish actions I shut down for the evening without a care in the world. The next day I started up my computer as usual, and as usual I was prompted at the login screen for my password. I entered the correct password, but was alarmed to see the message above flash before my eyes. Without boring you all with what I did over the weekend waiting for AppleCare to open again on Monday morning. Anyway, this post is specifically for people who have put the sparsebundle of their FileVault-enabled account in the trash (NOT anything else!) without emptying it, of course! The other prerequisite is that you must REMEMBER YOUR FILEVAULT ACCOUNT PASSWORD!
1. Firstly, you must insert *Disc 1 of the Mac OS X Install* discs.
2. Restart your computer holding down the letter S (make sure you are holding this down BEFORE the start up noise sounds)
3. Select the appropriate language and continue to the next screen (DO NOT go past the next screen, the WELCOME screen)
4. At the grey bar at the top, under Utilities, select *Reset Password*
5. Select the Administrator/Root account and proceed to change the password of this account to test
6. Confirm the password by reentering it and click Save
7. Restart your computer and at the login screen you should now be able to select an account named Other
8. The username for this account is root and the password is test (the password you entered earlier)
9. Using Finder, locate the Terminal utility, which can be found in *Applications --> Utilities*
10. Enter the following, ignoring the bold of course (pay attention to lower cases AND spaces!): *defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE*
11. Hit Enter
12. On the next line, enter: *killall Finder*
13. Hit Enter again
14. Type: exit on the next line and close Terminal
15. This has enabled the hidden files on your computer to be visible
16. You then need to locate the sparsebundle file in the trash of your usual account folder (it could be 501, so search for that too) whilst logged in to the administrator account
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21. In *System Preferences --> Accounts*, create a new user with EXACTLY the same name as the folder you created (eg. Folder name = burtreynolds, new user = burtreynolds)
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22. Click OK
23. Click *Show All* at the top of the Accounts window
24. Restart your system and log in to the new account you have created
25. The sparsebundle should now be visible
26. Double-click on the sparsebundle, it will prompt you to enter a password
27. Enter the password of your former account (if you have genuinely forgotten this password, I honestly can't help any further at this point)
28. If the password is correct, the sparsebundle will automatically mount and you will have access to all the files
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1. Firstly, you must insert *Disc 1 of the Mac OS X Install* discs.
2. Restart your computer holding down the letter S (make sure you are holding this down BEFORE the start up noise sounds)
3. Select the appropriate language and continue to the next screen (DO NOT go past the next screen, the WELCOME screen)
4. At the grey bar at the top, under Utilities, select *Reset Password*
5. Select the Administrator/Root account and proceed to change the password of this account to test
6. Confirm the password by reentering it and click Save
7. Restart your computer and at the login screen you should now be able to select an account named Other
8. The username for this account is root and the password is test (the password you entered earlier)
9. Using Finder, locate the Terminal utility, which can be found in *Applications --> Utilities*
10. Enter the following, ignoring the bold of course (pay attention to lower cases AND spaces!): *defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE*
11. Hit Enter
12. On the next line, enter: *killall Finder*
13. Hit Enter again
14. Type: exit on the next line and close Terminal
15. This has enabled the hidden files on your computer to be visible
16. You then need to locate the sparsebundle file in the trash of your usual account folder (it could be 501, so search for that too) whilst logged in to the administrator account
17. Once you have found it, click *Go to Folder* under Go in the grey bar and type /Users/
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20. Click Get Info on the new folder, and at the very bottom click *Apply to enclosed items*
21. In *System Preferences --> Accounts*, create a new user with EXACTLY the same name as the folder you created (eg. Folder name = burtreynolds, new user = burtreynolds)
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22. Click OK
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Large Temp File in hd:/private/var/.../Cleanup at Startup/ folder, bloating my backup

Everytime Retrospect runs my backup, this large file is there taking up space. Over time, a months worth of these would be 4GB in size. How can I stop these temp files? What are they from?
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Your welcome delbcj, sounds like a plan..
As an aside, I use CarbonCopyCloner for scripted incremental backups, and I found it speeded things up considerably if I excluded all cache folders on my system including Bridge's massive cache files and Safari's large cache.
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I lost power to my pc while typing a new acrobat reader file but never saved it, where is the default temp file located, if this exists? Thanks.

The answer to your question depends upon your version of Reader and your OS. Especially since the last version of Acrobat Reader was version 5 which is four majors versions ago. The last four versions have been called Adobe Reader, not Acrobat Reader. This the forum for the Acrobat commericial product, not the free reader product.
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Sorry to be the bearer of the sad news.

How to read from BLOB and Write to a file in user readable format.

Hi,
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Hi, with this Java Code from Oracle Technet it's a easy thing:
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import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
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import oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver;
// Java IO classes
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
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import java.util.Properties;
* This class demonstrates the Oracle JDBC 10g enhanced features for inserting
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* existing PreparedStatement.setString() and PreparedStatement.getString()
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private Connection conn = null;
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private String url = null;
private String user = null;
private String password = null;
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// the new property SetBigStringTryClob.
private Properties props = new Properties();
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private String fileName = null;
* Default Constructor to instantiate and get a handle to class methods
* and variables.
public ClobMan(String fileName) {
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public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
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DriverManager.registerDriver(new OracleDriver());
// Load the database details into the variables.
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clobMan.password = "secret";
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// the new property 'SetBigStringTryClob' which is set to true. Setting
// this property allows inserting of large data using the existing
// setString() method, to a CLOB column in the database.
clobMan.props.put("user", clobMan.user );
clobMan.props.put("password", clobMan.password);
clobMan.props.put("SetBigStringTryClob", "true");
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//clobMan.insertClob();
clobMan.selectClob();
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* Oracle JDBC 10g has enhanced the existing PreparedStatement.setString()
* method for setting the data more than 32765 bytes. So, using setString(),
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// the CLOB data. The string data is automatically transformed into a
// clob and inserted into the database column. Make sure that the
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pstmt.setString(1,str);
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pstmt.executeUpdate();
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System.out.println("SQLException while connecting and inserting into " +
"the database table: " + sqlex.toString());
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Exception while connecting and inserting into the" +
" database table: " + ex.toString());
} finally {
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if (conn!=null) conn.close();
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System.out.println("SQLException while connecting and querying the " +
"database table: " + sqlex.toString());
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Exception while connecting and querying the " +
"database table: " + ex.toString());
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if (rset !=null) rset.close();
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if (conn!=null) conn.close();
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* then it is created.
* Table Name: CLOB_TAB
* Column Name Type
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Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rset = null;
try {
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if ((conn==null)||conn.isClosed()){
// Connect to the database.
conn = DriverManager.getConnection( this.url, this.props );
// Create Statement object
stmt = conn.createStatement();
// Check if the table is present
rset = stmt.executeQuery(" SELECT table_name FROM user_tables "+
" WHERE table_name = 'CLOB_TAB' ");
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System.out.println("Could not create table clob_tab : "
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if( rset != null ) rset.close();
if( stmt != null ) stmt.close();
if (conn!=null) conn.close();
} catch(SQLException ex) {
System.out.println("Could not close objects in checkTables method : "
+ex.toString());
* This method reads the specified text file and, returns the content
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private String readFile()
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// Read the file whose content has to be passed as String
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return clobData;
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[SOLVED]Sharing files between user accounts.

I want two user accounts to have full access to a common set of files. I have created a group for that purpose but even with umask settings I always seem to end up with a situation where one user does not have full permissions to one of the "shared" files (e.g. because an application uses it's own internal umask).
Essentially, I want both accounts to act as a single account for certain files, and I have considered sharing the UID, but that creates problems with user names and also exposes all files owned by either user to the other. I have also considered solutions using bindfs, but managing the mount points might become complicated, so I'm hoping that there's a simpler solution.
So, my question is what is the best way to ensure that two users always have full access to a set of files in a given location, which still enabling both users to have private files elsewhere?
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Thanks, falconindy.
The setgid bit does most of what I need. The rest can be done with access control lists, which I discovered as I was reading up on setgid:
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I have two user accounts on my iMac and need to make files available to both accounts, back and forth, without having to worry about permissions issues. Files need to be read and edited from both accounts. I posted previously about this and was told to place the files in Users/Shared. I've done this but it hasn't accomplished what I need.
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Or not.
I butt up against this lunacy frquently.
I have just created a file saved to my external NAS - no problem - tried to save my edits - now don't have permission to do so. Again - checked - custom access - again. Ridiculous.
Why can Apple not sort out this fundamental problem - if I create a file and put it on my network where I WANT IT - the OS should not then prevent me from accessing it.
I spend hours, regularly, trying to sort this out. Apple OS is a joke.
And to be kept being told - do this, do that, use terminal, reset passwords is ridiculous.
Sorry for the rant.
But this is the limit.
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Also, the last backup that the system is aware of is from 18th February. I have mounted the vhd file containing all the backups, and the files are available as recently as last Thursday (13th Mar). In 15 years of system support i have never encountered anything
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HOW TO SWITCH FILES BETWEEN USER ACCOUNTS

I'm the administator on my computer and want to switch some stuff - from Itunes and Iphoto mainly - to standard accounts set up for other users, namely my sons. When I try to drag stuff into their folders, they are marked with a Red No Entry sign and I get a message telling me that I dont have enough privilages. I've tried the Shared folder, but although I can drag stuff, it cant be opened via the user accounts: there is the same No Entry sign and message. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.

I'm the administator on my computer and want to
switch some stuff - from Itunes and Iphoto mainly -
to standard accounts set up for other users, namely
my sons. When I try to drag stuff into their folders,
they are marked with a Red No Entry sign and I get a
message telling me that I dont have enough
privilages. I've tried the Shared folder, but
although I can drag stuff, it cant be opened via the
user accounts: there is the same No Entry sign and
message. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.
Hi. I've never had any trouble dropping things in the other user's Public Folder > Drop box. That one should be available to you.
Hope this helps.

Temp files in user temp folder

I have an issue that recently popped up. Adobe Livecycle 7.0 creates a temporary pdf file under C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local settings\Temp everytime a pdf is previewed by the user. The files keeps building and never get deleted. Interestingly, the problem started happening only about a month ago. So it appears that it was getitng purged by Adobe earlier.
Does anyone know what could be wrong and if there is anything that needs to be changed to make the automatic purging to continue to happen ?
Any guidance is very much appreciated.
Thanks !

(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page).
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Here's a screenshot showing the particular links on the page that you should be clicking:
After clicking one of the circled links, you should be taken to another page, and after a few seconds you should see a download dialog appear for the msicuu2.exe file. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like for me in Firefox:
Choose to Save the file. If the dialog box does not appear for you, click the link on the page that says "CLICK HERE IF IT DOES NOT". Here's a screenshot of the page with the relevant link circled:
When the dialog appears, choose to save the file.
(2) Go to the Downloads area for your Web browser. Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
(4) In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any iTunes entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
(5) Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?

How do I share files between user accounts on same MBP

My wife and I both share a MBP and have different logins. We want to be able to access (not just read but also edit) document files in each others Home. From reading the Apple information on sharing files, we can do that by placing them in a Public or Shared folder. But that only gives a the ability to read, not write the files. Am I interpreting that correctly? Or is there a way to do this?

You can transfer the file to your computer, change it, then put it back in the Shared Folder.

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