Renaming Outbox and losing all accounts

For the second time in the past week, when I opened MAIL, i received a message stating that outbox would be renamed. When I get into mail, all of the accounts are GONE. I re-entered them the first time, but wonder if there is a fix so this doesn't happen again??

any preferences I have changed are removed when this happens.
That's the key! Your Mail preferences file has become corrupt, so that explains everything that's happening to your mail accounts. You haven't lost the emails or the accounts, it's just that Mail doesn't recognize them being there because of the corruption. You can fix this:
If all your email accounts are POP, do this:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Go to Home/Library/Prefernences and delete the com.apple.mail.plist file.
3. Restart Mail and setup your accounts again; Mail should automatically find the existing mailboxes.
If any or all of your accounts are IMAP accounts, do this:
Steps 1 and 2.
3. Go to Home/Library/Mail and remove all your IMAP mailbox folders (the ones that start with "IMAP-".
4. Restart Mail and setup your accounts again; Mail will download the IMAP mail messages again, and find any existing POP mailboxes automatically.

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I have all media sorted in 'typical way' in iTunes. I am tired of this kind of sorting and prefer all the tracks in one directory named as Artist-Album-Track.
I wonder if there is any utility that I can run on iTuned Media Music folder and get ALL tracks renamed the way I want and copy them to a single directory (preferably in one go).
Many thanks in advance.

Again as long as the tracks are properly tagged niether Winamp nor MediaMonkey really care about the physical layout of the files, although both can let you browse your library via location as well as other properties. Disc & track numbers would let you play albums in the correct order if needed when using path as the selection criteria.
Its not what I would recommend, but assuming you're still going to use iTunes to add media to the iPad at some point the first thing would be to go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced turn off the options Keep... & Copy...
With MediaMonkey' Auto-Organize Files... feature using this pattern ..\..\<Artist>-<Album>-<Title> would pop all the tracks up from their respective album folders into the main Music folder and name them as requested. I don't have a copy of WinAmp installed at present but I seem to recall it has a feature to reorganize media, though I don't know how flexible it is.
Once the tracks are where you want them delete the broken links from iTunes, then add back again, or do it as and when you want to use iTunes to manage your device.
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Switching computers and losing all my itunes

I got a new computer (with windows vista)and when I connected my ipod and re-downloaded itunes and downloaded a few songs an information window popped up ans said an itunes library already exists if you sync these songs (the new few I downloaded)all other library will be deleted from your ipod. I don't want that I have almost 400 songs in there. Is there a way to transfer my old itunes library to my new computer? Please help. Could you please reply to my email address [email protected] thank you so much.

Connect your iPod to your computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
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iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iRepo Mac and Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

Mail crashed and lost all accounts

Mail just crashed, and whern I restated, it went back to defaults and all my accounts except .Mac have disappeared. My mailboxes are intact, except all mail in my inbox has disappeared. I know this info has to be on my HD somewhere, where do I find it and how do I get it back?

Hello David.
What is your hard drive capacity and available free space?
As a firs step, check this link for system troubleshooting procedures and when doing so, follow all steps/instructions in the order provided:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
When completed and with the Mail.app quit, using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
If you have limited free hard drive space - well less than 5GB available, do not place the copy of the Mail folder on the Desktop - this needs to be place on an external drive or anywhere else.
Using the Finder go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Delete the com.apple.mail.plist file and empty the Trash.
Note: Deleting the com.apple.mail.plist file will require re-entering all email account information when relaunching Mail with the exception of your .Mac account.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes.
After re-entering all other email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailboxes within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered and all messages are available, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder.

Terrance Devlin answered a question about iPhoto (4-2012) re:copying iPhoto Library to an ExHD, and losing all the albums. I can't locate the "Choose Library" when I open iPhoto with the opt button. Can anyone help?

I tried to move my images (over 25,000) to an External Hard drive to open up some memory, hoping to make my computer run faster. It took three hours to move the images and I see them all in the mac's menus. However when I try to open them with iPhoto now, none appeared. and when I tried to import them back to the main HD they come in to iPhoto just fine, but not with the albums nor any of the massive organization i'd created in the original. this represents years of images, and I can't imagine that I'd have to recopy them into folders/albums again.
Terrance Devlin answered a similar question back in April of last year. He said to make sure the ExHD is formatted to MAC OS Extended (Journaled) and to move the library to the ExHD and then open iPhoto with the option button and select "Choose Library" from the resulting menu.
Command "I" tells me that the new drive is formatted correctly. I can't locate the "Choose Library" when I open iPhoto with the opt button.
First, I wondered if the application needs to be on the same drive as the Library. I sure would like to know if I can find out how to restore all the folders I had them in. Terrance's advice helped the user that had asked the question.
Here's the url for that archived discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3849933?start=0&tstart=0
Can anyone help? I'm using iPhoto 5. My MAC is an OS X version 10.4.11.
thanks, brokenlom

Here are Apple's instructions:
If you are using iPhoto ’06 or earlier, you will need to follow these steps to tell iPhoto where the Library is now located:
Hold down the Option key on the keyboard and open iPhoto. Keep the Option key held down until you are prompted to create or choose an iPhoto Library.
Click Choose Library.
Locate and select the iPhoto Library in its new location.
(from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229 )
Below (in the link below) is what you should see when holding down the option key and opening iPhoto. Keep holding down the option key until this dialogue comes up. You want to select the Choose Library button.
http://appleclinic.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/change-default-dir-iphoto/

I dropped my phone in water. Now iTunes says it needs to be restored. How do I get my original pictures off of the phone before restoring the phone and losing all of my information?

I dropped my iPhone 3G in water and it immediatley turned off. One day later, it turns on again but it tells me to connect to iTunes. iTunes says that I need to restore my iPhone to the factory settings in order for it to work again.
I want to get all of the pictures off of my phone (if it's not too late), but I'm not sure how to do it. The only option iTunes gives me is to restore the phone. My computer doesn't even detect the phone as being connected to my computer so I cannot view the pics that way.
Can anybody help me figure out how to get the pictures off of my phone before restoring it?
Thanks in advance.

http://www.tansee.com/download.html for PC users
http://www.copytrans.net/copytransphoto.php (PC users)
Also you could try this:
Following are Steps to Transfer Photos from iPhone to MAC:
1). Attach your iPhone to Mac
2). Open up Preview
3). Click File menu and from there select “Import from iPhone…”
4). Select the photos you would like to transfer and click import, Select “Import All” in case you want to have all the photos in computer.
5). For confirmation sake go to ~/Pictures/ folder, picture copied from iPhone should be there.
If you have a windows PC then follow below given procedure to Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC.
You can accomplish this just using Windows Explorer, but there are two different methods. And here you go with the first one.
1). Plug your iPhone into your computer without iTunes running.
2). Now pop-up will appear asking what you would like to do with iPhone.
3). Click on “View Content”
4). Locate your photos.
5). Copy the same and paste it at desired location on your computer.
Another method for Mac users is "Image Capture" which is already installed on your mac, I will look for other applications for mac users, hope this helps!

I need to update to 6.0 but it doesn't work--I've tried several times and it never gets past the stage of "connecting to update server"--so how can I update without uninstalling first and losing all my bookmarks and passwords?

I have a MacBook Pro with Lion. Every few days Firefox will tell me, "you really need to update to 6.0," and I say, "yes please!" but then it says "connecting to update server" for ages and ages and nothing ever happens. I wouldn't mind uninstalling the old one and downloading a new one, except that I have lots of bookmarks and passwords saved, and I don't want to lose them all. So what's going on, how can I update?

Thanks, but, using the "free" version of Reader, there is no opportunity to open nor import the xml data - the menu options do not exist - there is no import listed.
If we try to open the xml file directly, then we get an error - something to the effect of "unsupported file type, or the file is corrupted".
I just noticed in my Pro version that there is the command File ->Form Data ->Import Data to Form... command. Is this what you are referring to?
What do you recommend? Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to purchase a few copies of Acrobat Pro for the reservations people to use? I was hoping that the free version of reader would do it, but perhaps not?
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Syncing contacts and calendar and losing all prior info

I have the original iPhone and had my iCal synced to it. Since then my computer crashed so my iPhone has been my main source and it hasn't been synced, but it has been used as my primary contact and calendar. With that being said, I was adding an additional email account (Microsoft Exchange) to my phone and chose to sync the calendar and contacts with it as well. When I did that it completely deleted my prior contacts and calendar that were on the phone. Is there a way to get those back? I tried to restore to a prior back up to see if that would help (from another Windows based computer I've been using), but it said my last back up was corrupt so it couldn't restore.
Any clue on if it is even possible to get my contacts and calendars back?
Also... there should be something that says that syncing will make you lose your current info. before syncing. I defintely would not have done it if I knew that was the case.

To Outlook from the iPhone?
Try entering a single entry into Outlook for both contacts and calendars. Then change the sync settings in iTunes so it shows "sync contacts with Outlook" and "sync calendars with Outlook". Hit "Apply" in the lower right!
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Disconnecting and losing all songs??

ive reset my ipod a total of 4 times now becuase that is what itunes tells me to do. when i disconnect it from my computer after loading back all of my songs it takes a long time to disconnect. When i went to play my ipod there were no songs or videos on it and when i plug it back in it says to restore it. anyway of fixing this myselfor do i have to get a new one?

This might help.
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I AM USING PREM PRO CC2014 AND LOSING ALL SAVES FROM THE PROJECT WHEN i EXIT AND LATER OPEN UP PPRO

I am at wits end as to why three times i have lost all saved info from a Premier Pro cc 2014 project.
If I exit Prem pro and come back later, reopen the project , all I get is the old project with no saves, all changes (hours worth) absolutely $#@#$* gone.
This is the third time !!!! I updated Prem pro about two weeks ago. Have not done any editing since the update, start of this week, now having major problems.
I save the work constantly, Is anyone having similar issues as this has never happened before

Make a new project and import old one into this new one.
See if you can find a up to date Auto Save.
Also make a habit of 'Save A Copy' to a different drive after each edit session. Save A Copy does not overwrite after so many times as Auto Save does.

Error -43 and updating to iOS5 without restoring and losing All Music

Hi there, I've been trying to update my third generation iPod Touch to iOS5. My iPad 2 updated with no issue. Whenever I try to update My iTouch I get this error message during the backup phase of installation (even though when I manually backup it seems to do so with no issue.)
I've read other threads and see that most people have "restored" their pod and then it worked but lost all their music files. Mine are not all from iTunes and while I have on an external hard drive, the 4,000 + songs are organized in gibberish folders/code so it would take days to re drop non itunes songs/videos back on aka a major pain and tedious. I would love iOS5 but not at the expense of deleting all my info and starting over when I know its worked and should work on other Apple devices. Has anyone else had success upgrading to iOS5 without erasing their files, or spoken to someone at Apple about this particular error?
I went to the Apple store and was told to uninstall iTunes and reinstall it and then try. That did nothing. Same message.
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BB 9360 - resetting and losing all my media!

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My server has been working flawlessly for many months. I did the upgrade to 10.5.6 and everything has been fine. I decided to do the software update to 10.5.8. When it was finished I could not log in as admin or anyone else. I finally got in as root...then it gave me an error in Workgroup Manager. Said I was not logged in and there was an error of -14008.
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Hi
I saw your issue and I feel your pain. I did the same upgrade path to 10.6 and found that I had no users!. This is not your typical apple upgrade, the same as all other 10-X from day one. I cheated and used a new drive as I feel that upgrades may cause issues and I also used that as an opportunity to upgrade to a larger hard drive. After booting up on the new system with the upgraded drive I found the same issue to be true. I used the original drive, modified all my users to allow my new admin account to have rights to a user that I called 'move' on the old system. I booted up the old system modified all the users to allow user 'move' then I copied them to the new directory I set up that I called 'move' on the old drive, The next step I set up a new user 'move' on the new system drive and copied all the data from the old system drive 'move' to the new system drive 'move' I created all of my users on the new system drive. I set up all of my user accounts with a simple password 123456 on the new system I copied the users to there new directory. You could restore your backup on spare drive or an external drive with the old OS loaded. Postits on all the users monitors for Monday morning and... grumbling users with all of the data from Friday, get KrispyCreams and leave by the coffee pot [this step i forgot]. The users will talk about how nice it was that you brought doughnuts and not how there login is messed up [ha ha....}
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Mail for me is a system resource hog. I am afraid to open it.

I stopped all processes and deleted all accounts and started over with the gmail account. This time, I chose the option to not store anything locally. It warned me that I would not be able to read email offline. When I clicked "save" from preferences, it froze for about an hour with CPU maxed out. I am going to force quit mail, delete the account again and just go with my fresh iCloud account. I can set my gmail account to forward messages and then I can freely delete them from the iCloud account knowing that they are still there in gmail. I guess this will work ok. I just won't be able to send out from my gmail account from Mail which will confuse some recipients and then lead to people sending mail to the wrong account.
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