Recurrent maintenance mystery

Hi everyone,
I have a recurring problem (although it might be more than one problem) and I'm really asking for advice here.
The problem is that every few weeks, my G5 starts behaving strangely and I have to run disk repair from my Tiger install DVD to fix it.
While this isn't catastrophic, I'd love to know what's causing the problem(s) and zap it forever. The cause, whatever it is, only affects my user account. I've already binned one user account and started afresh but it only got me a few months of peace.
So - does anyone know how I can identify and fix the culprit?
Symptoms = various, but for example Finder will misbehave (can't display contents of Applications folder, Utilities folder etc) or will simply hang on start up (within 20 - 30 seconds) and will be "not responding". Another example = Activity Monitor entirely fails to launch. Spotlight, too. As you can see, these things usually occur when I'm already trying to fix slow running or suspect something bad may be happening.
My usual line of attack = launch Disk Utility and run repair disk permissions. Sometimes this helps. Last week, the list of permissions needing to be fixed seemed ridiculously long (at least 5 minutes of scrolling page instead of just a handful of lines).
Suspecting permissions may have something to do with all this, I often trash the relevant plist but sometimes this doesn't help, either (eg with the hanging Finder).
The point I always get to is that I run Verify Disk from Disk Utility and get a report that the volume bitmap needs minor repair - which I do from the install DVD and everything's fine... for a few weeks, when it starts grumbling again.
As noted, other user accounts don't seem to be affected. So it's in 'my' permissions, right?? What should I be looking for? Or have I got a bunch of different, unrelated problems?
One other note (thanks for reading this far!): I try to save power as much as possible, so nearly always put it to sleep at night. I use MacJanitor to make sure the maintenance scripts get an airing, probably every other day or so. I probably run the 'weekly' tasks more than once a week. Am I messing it up??
Any help gratefully received.
Jason
Dual G5 2.5Ghz, Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz, iPod 40GB Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Dual G5 2.5Ghz, Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz, iPod 40GB Mac OS X (10.4.6)

He ain't the only one either. On two occassions I have had my system barf a startup and dump me to the Darwin login prompt. Logins using valid admin user credentials fail. In the first case my system became totally unbootable and seemingly unfixable even after booting from DVD Disk utility could not repair the partition and I wound up backing up my data and reinstalling a clean fresh installation of OSX. On the second occassion my Carbon Copy Clone Backup recovered most of the lost data and fixed the system. Given that I purchased the MacBook Pro 17 in early June I'm not at all impressed by the stability and reliability of OSX. I've come from the Windows world and have not experienced such problems since beta testing Win95, leading me to my less than delighted stance. This is not about win vs OSX though.
One thing I do know that has caused permissions corruption and have verified this problem with other users and multiple versions is the Flash installer. I have replicated permissions corruption and found disk boot failure occurred within a few hours and a restart or 2 of installing Flash 8 or the latest universal binaries release. I contacted Adobe support who said this was not a report they had received previously. I have in my possesion though an email from a user received the he received from Adobe on June 18 stating the same thing in response to the same issue reported on a Mac Mini. I sent email to adobe detailing test cases logs results and email from other users. I sent the message to apple support as well. Adobe support does not respond and Apple quite rightly point out its Adobes problem.
This info may well not solve peoples problems here, but make sure you verify and or repair permissions often! Also backup often! Its ironic that throughout all this my Bootcamp / XP system has run flawlessly. It's interesting that in most cases so far MacDrive6 hangs XP when the permissions and or volume is corrupt and seems to be a good indicator that all is not well in OSX land. Thus far evidence does NOT support the theory that MacDrive is causing the corruption.
McCook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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Where are the regular maintenance updates?

Most expensive/professional software I own licences for
receives maintenance updates and bug fix patches on a regular
basis. Even with shareware and freeware, the patches and updates
just keep coming. Flash Professional should certainly be no
different, there's more than enough bugs to warrant some fixing.
But what did we get? Nothing! Some measly updates for the Flash
player, that's all. Clearly Adobe/Macromedia cannot be trusted in
this department, they just move on to the next project and leave
users to wrestle with bugs.
A few examples off the top of my head:
- The new smoothing algorithm introduced in Flash 8 is
kaputt. It blurs bitmaps even when they're shown in 1:1 scale,
anti-aliasing intentionally aliased stuff. Clearly there's some
rounding error or something messing with the scale of things. For
example, I used Flash 7 to make document and application icons in
128x128. They fit exactly to the pixel grid and when I exported
them from Flash 7 they were sharp as can be. When I export the same
icons to PNG from Flash 8 at 128x128, using the same source files,
the edges are suddenly blurred. With some trial and error I
discovered that I had to export them in 129x129 in order to make
them look as they did from Flash 7, then crop the picture in
Fireworks to 128x128.
- "Convert Lines to Fills" is a mess. It generates a
completely warped rendition of the selected lines if they overlap.
You have to walk Flash through the process by selecting a few lines
well away from eachother, move them away from the rest, convert to
fills, then repeat this process until you finally get a WYSIWYG
rendition of the lines you wanted to convert.
- Various UI graphics bugs. For example if you drag-select
across a number of layers and frames in the timeline and insert or
delete, leftovers from the black selection rectangle are still
visible in the timeline. You have to minimize/maximize the window
to make it redraw correctly.
- If I enter W/H/X/Y coordinates for an object, say "10.0",
it's because I want exactly 10.0. I don't want Flash to arbitrarily
change it sometimes to 10.1 or 9.9. Sometimes you have to enter it
twice to make it stick.
- Flash 'forgets' parts of audio files in the library. I
import a lot of WAV files to the library, and sometimes a few saves
down the line I discover there are mysterious silent gaps in the
audio. I have to re-import the files again to fill these gaps.
- FlashPaper (it installed correctly on very few computers,
you had to fix it in a DOS prompt, or FlashPaper would just hang
when you try to print). I've also had complaints that my FlashPaper
rendered PDF:s won't open in Mac OS X.
These are just a handful of examples I can think of at the
moment, I know I've stumbled upon dozens more and I'm sure there's
a collective pool of thousands. What I want to know is why
Adobe/Macromedia feels it's OK to not bother with maintenance
updates and fixes for a product of this price and magnitude? It's a
despicable business practice I would expect from shady vaporware
peddlers.

It's only your perspective that "nobody seems to care" that
couldn't be anymore incorrect - I see it
first hand how dedicated and caring the developers of flash
are.
I wont get into a platform war either - but i clearly
remember the MS promotion MS was using
claiming the new "Innovative" features of IE7 - specifically
showcases their new tabbed browsing
feature and popup stopper - FF had that long before them -
hardly innovative.
Vista looks and acts very much like Mac OS - at least on the
surface. It's so blaringly obvious to
me that they must have been studying OSX when they were
deisigning Vista.
Anyway - i dont really care about OS - and your points are
totally valid - I'm a PC user only
because flash always runs better on PC then MAC.
I just think your claims that nobody cares and complacency
within Adobe are ill-founded - I am very
much closer to the people that you are talking about and see
their dedication first hand for years -
unless you are as close or closer, it's hard for me to agree.
But if you feel this way from a users POV - then perhaps
something is wrong on a marketing level or
some other area. Flash 8 was developed by Macromedia - the
next version of flash will be developed
by Adobe - let's hold of on judging them until they come out
with the next version - until then,
complaints of non caring and complacency simply hold no
weight.
-regards
-c
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PitchBlank wrote:
>>I don't understand the logic of calling Adobe a
"monopoloy".
>
>
> It couldn't get any more logical, IMHO. Adobe and
Macromedia were the two
> biggest actors in the game, and have (had?) quite a few
overlapping products
> (Freehand/Illustrator, Fireworks/ImageReady/Photoshop,
GoLive/Dreamweaver).
> Then the two companies became one. While this doesn't
constitute a bona fide
> monopoly as such, it's pretty damn close. It's like
Microsoft buying Apple -
> right, so there's still Linux, but it's not like Linux
inspires competitors to
> innovate...
>
> > To be honest - I don't want a new set of tools that
do the same thing.
>
> Neither do I, but Adobe still needs competition or
they'll become more
> complacent than they already are.
>
> > MS is famous for duplicating (stealing) ideas from
others before them and
> calling it "innovative" (example; IE7, Vista).
>
> I don't recall MS ever calling IE7 innovative, and I
don't get this whole
> plagiarism thing with Vista. Where's the ripoff?
Gadgets? Apple stole that from
> Konfabulator. Instant Search? Apple implemented
Spotlight only *after*
> Microsoft had showed off their instant search. The
interface? I don't see
> transparent window elements prominently featured in OS
X, and Apple hardly
> invented the 3D look and feel with drop shadows around
windows. The Vista UI
> isn't a ripoff, it reflects the current fashion in UI
design. If bell bottom
> pants come back, both Lee and Levi's will make them,
without one ripping off
> the other. OS X features several Windows ripoffs (Time
Machine, Spotlight,
> automatic OS updates etc - and Microsoft had its Media
Player in place back
> when Mac users were still fiddling with crummy shareware
like SoundJam), but
> nobody wants to hear about those because they think
Steve Jobs is Jesus.
>
> Anyway, I don't want to get into the whole platform war
thing, my point was
> that Flash is buggy as hell and nobody seems to care,
especially not Adobe. I
> was expecting replies more along the lines of "No, it's
not buggy at all, it's
> flawless and you're a moron".
>

Poor site maintenance tool

I know that I complain about Dreamweaver a lot. But, that is
because there are a lot of things to complain about Dreamweaver. I
know a lot of programmers love it and it's probably a great tool
for writing scripts etc. but for site maintenance I find it very
weak to the point of being pathetic (and job threatening).
One of my clients has a site that is quite large -with
approximately 2,300 items to keep track of (pages, images, etc.).
Dreamweaver has not been able to sufficiently manage the site well.
It constantly loses track of page links, and just this morning I
discovered that Library Assets on several pages have mysteriously
become unlinked. But the kicker is, if I make an update to the
Asset, Dreamweaver ACTS like it is making the updates to all of
those pages - but it isn't. That kind of poor linking and dropping
page information is unacceptable. Other coding issues have
periodically popped up as well - Drop Menus for some reason stop
working and must be replaced even tho nothing has been done to
them. They just stop working.
And again, Dreamweaver is terrible at uploading updated files
to the server. It often skips pages and images that have just been
updated - causing me to have to manually triple check each file to
make sure it was uploaded. Not a real confidence building piece of
software.
Those are just the most recent developments in Dreamweaver's
poor site management. I've been on Dreamweaver seriously for a year
now and frankly I have not been impressed by it's performance at
all.
The program interface also doesn't add any ease of use to the
work flow either. The Windows "explorer" navigation is terrible and
I swear they must have used the same rendering engine that Internet
Explorer 6 uses because they look exactly the same - terrible.
Thanks for promoting such a crippling application Adobe.
On the bright side now I know how all of those Microsoft IT
professionals feel about job security due to terrible software that
they support.

"Damn the torpedos" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:go6c7h$f90$[email protected]..
>I know that I complain about Dreamweaver a lot. But, that
is because
>there are
> a lot of things to complain about Dreamweaver.
The problems you list certainly sound like showstoppers. All
I can say
is that I have never encountered them, but I don't maintain
such large
sites, so that might explain the difference. Getting things
off your
chest here undoubtedly helps you let off steam, but it
doesn't get the
message to where it really matters: the development team. If
you come
across serious issues that affect your workflow, file
detailed bug
reports through the feature request/bug report form:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Rather than pile all your complaints into one submission,
focus on one
issue at a time, and give detailed steps of how to reproduce
specific
problems.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com

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thx

See this article:
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Hiding a Maintenance View in a View Cluster

Hello ABAP Experts,
We have a scenario where we would like to hide a maintenance view to an existing view cluster based on condition.
Is it possible via events of a view cluster, where i can hide the view at runtime based on some condition before the view cluster is displayed ?
Is there any way as well, which help achieve this hiding of views ?
For example in the below View Cluster, i would like to hide "Define object links" view from the main view cluster "Define document Types".
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Hi Naresh,
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when you define the subroutine, it will ask you creat a mian program, in this main program, you need 'INCLUDE lsvcmcod'.
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INCLUDE lsvcmcod.
FORM yourSubroutineName.
DATA: viewname TYPE vclstruc-object,
        error_flag TYPE vcl_flag_type,
viewname = 'ZTEST_VIEW1'.
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*                                       CHANGING error_flag.
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The characterstics are as follows:
All my family phones have the appropriate IOS and hardware updates (verified by the GeniusBar at my local Apple Store).
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3. However, inside the FORM routine,
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How to create transaction for a maintenance view,
Thank you.
deniz...

Hi Deniz,
Go to se93.
Then create the new T.code.
Under that select parameter Transaction.
Then give the sm30 in the t.code in default values tab.
check the checkbox skip initial screen.
in classification tab.
click checkbox inherit gui attributes..
Now below..
In the default values..
select
viewname and give ur table name.
UPDATE= Xsave
view - table name ( Should be upper case
update X ( should be upper case).
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/sapbs011.htm
Hope this helps you.
Regards,
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I have a requirement like this.
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I am doing like this.
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Transaction                                                           SE16
Selected the check box "Skip Intial Screen"
Selected the check box for GUI status
Name of the Screenfield                                          DATABROWSE-TABLENAME
value                                                                      ZVHR_GRD_TARGET (i.e, view name)
But the transaction code is not executing.
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Regards
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Anchorage,
Please refer to the following link:
Read Only Schema in Oracle APPS 11i
http://oracle.anilpassi.com/read-only-schema-in-oracle-apps-11i.html
You may also search this forum as the same topic was discussed here many times before.

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hi ,
want to use table maintenance view in a module pool screen so that i can edit, insert, delete and update date in to the ztable.please help.

You can simply call it via SM30.   Or you can call the table maintence view from any program(report or module pool) using a function module.
call function 'VIEW_MAINTENANCE_CALL'
       exporting
            action                       = 'U'
            view_name                    = 'Z_Table_Name'
       exceptions
            client_reference             = 1
            foreign_lock                 = 2
            invalid_action               = 3
            no_clientindependent_auth    = 4
            no_database_function         = 5
            no_editor_function           = 6
            no_show_auth                 = 7
            no_tvdir_entry               = 8
            no_upd_auth                  = 9
            only_show_allowed            = 10
            system_failure               = 11
            unknown_field_in_dba_sellist = 12
            view_not_found               = 13
            others                       = 14.
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Hello Abapers,
Can anybody explain with some examples. How to call a mainetenance view from a program.
Thanks
Ranjith.

Use FM 'VIEW_MAINTENANCE_CALL'.
REPORT zmaintaintest.
VARIABLES / CONSTANTS
CONSTANTS:
                c_action(1) TYPE c VALUE 'U',                                 "Update
          c_viewname TYPE tabname value 'ZEMP_EXAMPLE', "View Name
          c_field(6) TYPE c VALUE 'EMPNO'.                            "Field Name
INTERNAL TABLES
DATA: itab_rangetab TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vimsellist,
          v_empno TYPE zempno,
          wa_rangetab TYPE vimsellist.
SELECTION SCREEN
PARAMETERS:     p_empno TYPE   zempno   OBLIGATORY. "Emplyee ID
AT SELECTION-SCREEN
AT SELECTION-SCREEN.
Chcking the existence of the user in EMPLOYEE table
PERFORM validate_employee.
START_OF_SELECTION
START-OF-SELECTION.
This will restrict the user view so that user can only view/change
Table data corresponding to his/her Employee ID
PERFORM define_limited_data_area.
Displaying table maintenance view for a particular employee ID
PERFORM call_view_maintenance.
*&      Form validate_employee
Validate plant entered in the selection screen
FORM validate_employee.
SELECT SINGLE empno     u201CEmployee ID
    FROM zemp_example     u201CEmployee Table
    INTO v_empno
    WHERE empno = p_empno.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
    MESSAGE 'Not an Valid User' TYPE 'I'.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    "validate_employee
*&      Form DEFINE_LIMITED_DATA_AREA
To restrict the user view so that user can see/change table data
corresponding to his employee ID. Here one internal table is
getting populated with field name as u201CEMPNOu201D (Key field of the table)
And value as given by user in Selection Screen and this is passed as
Parameter in function module 'VIEW_MAINTENANCE_CALL'
FORM define_limited_data_area.
CLEAR wa_rangetab.
wa_rangetab-viewfield = c_field.
wa_rangetab-operator = 'EQ'.
wa_rangetab-value       = p_empno.
APPEND wa_rangetab TO itab_rangetab.
ENDFORM.                    "define_limited_data_area
*&      Form CALL_VIEW_MAINTENANCE.
Displaying table maintenance view for a particular employee ID
FORM call_view_maintenance.
CALL FUNCTION 'VIEW_MAINTENANCE_CALL'
    EXPORTING
      action           = c_action
      view_name   = c_viewname
    TABLES
      dba_sellist     = itab_rangetab.
ENDFORM.                    "call_view_maintenance
Regards,
Joy.

Validating records into a maintenance view

Hi folks!
I have a simple Z table (say ZTABLE) and a Z view based on it with some related description (say ZVIEW). The ZTABLE has a DEC field (called COEF) with 2 decimals and it should have only numbers between 0 and 1.
I set the valid interval from 0 to 1 but, as help says, it's only checked for CHAR, NUMC, DEC, INT1, INT2 and INT4 data types. Not for DEC.
Then I use an event on ZVIEW. On SE11 I went to "Table maintenance generator" - Environment - Modification - Events. So there I put the 05 event (Creating a new entry) and I programed the check. It works fine for new entries, but if you have a record on table and you want to change the COEF field you can put there any number, even outside the 0-1 range.
I tried with the 01 event (Before saving the data in the database) but it seams to be called only for last record.
Could anybody tell me what can I do?
Thanks!

Hi,
Since it is a Z TABLE..
You can directly modify the flow logic in SE51.
Go to SE51
Give the program name - SAPL + Function group name
Screen number
Press change..
In the flow logic..
Add a module after the FIELD ztable-number, in the PAI event..
Ex..
FIELD ZTABLE-NUMBER MODULE NUMBER_CHECK.
And in the module validate the number..
MODULE NUMBER_CHECK INPUT.
IF ZTABLE-NUMBER <> '0' OR
ZTABLE-NUMBER <> '1'.
MESSAGE E208(00) WITH 'Not a valid number'.
ENDIF.
ENDMODULE.
Thanks,
Naren

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