Replaced Backups! Help!

I had my mac restored due to problems. I then manually transferred some of my apps and files from a backup on my external hard drive. When I backed up again, to the same hard drive, Time machine seems to have replaced my old backups, containing files I need, with the new backup! Help!

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Hi all, sry for post sql problens in APEX forum, but i realy need help for this...
I´m trying to replace : for , to make a select where in () with more then one value... but the replace function its not work with more then 1 value...
like this
select name from vw_requerente where id_cliente in REPLACE(:P5000_CLIENTE,':',',')in that item has this value: 71:72:73 , but all i get is a ORA: INVALID NUMBER, how can i make a replace function to work with this?
tnks alot and sry my english.

He also posted this in the pl/sql forum and received some good advice there:
replace function help
Especially the tom kyte blog portion:
[http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/06/varying-in-lists.html]
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX

I have a feeling this has been up here a lot. I updated ios 6 to my phone with no problems but I also back my phone up. I decided to help the wife out and update hers and something went wrong data lost. All contacts, photos, etc without backup, help.

I have a feeling this has been up here a lot. I updated ios 6 to my phone (4S) with no problems but I also back my phone up. I decided to help the wife out and update hers and something went wrong data lost. All contacts, photos, etc without backup, help.

if you have no back up in icloud or itunes the best you can do is sync with your computer and get back what you can from there

I have accidentally backed my sons iPad up from an old backup and i can't remember old apple password (i have to constantly change it because of kids) oh and just to make it worse i have changed my email address since old backup.HELP!!!!!!!!!

I have accidentally backed my sons iPad up from an old backup and i can't remember old apple password (i have to constantly change it because of kids) oh and just to make it worse i have changed my email address since old backup.HELP!!!!!!!!!

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My installer put the backup battery in the attic. I'm disabled so I don't stand a prayer of getting up there to replace the battery. What do I do when it's time to replace the battery? How do I know the battery needs changing? What's the average before a battery needs to be change?

Mine began beeping about a week ago. I could find nowhere on the general website that addressed this problem--even in the automated help (i always got remote control battery replacement...not helpful). Nor was i initially able to get real, live tech support. This morning i got through and was advised consistent with this string: ie verizon warantees the back-up battery for one year only; after that it is your problem. the website is:
fios.asurion.com
please note: there is no www. before the address.
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note also: the back-up battery powers only your phone service in the event of a power outage (according to tech support; no internet, no tv). So...i thought (and was advised by tech support) i could just take out the battery to get rid of the beeping...didn't work.
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Develop Settings lost after backup: HELP!

I have opened LR5 and found ALL the pictures have lost development settings that cost me hours of work.
Or better: when I open a folder in the Catalog the pictures are first shown for a couple of seconds with the edits (for example BW) than as originally imported. All the development settings are gone and can't be found anymore. The history is empty.
The last thing I did when I last used LR was a backup.
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I am honestly tempted by throw this software to the waste bin.
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Max Polix

While regular backups of the Catalog are a good idea, it should not really be necessary to make them every single session IMO. It is (of course) better to become confident and sure enough in the use of the software, that backups are needed only for "background" protection. If you don't trust the software, or don;t trust yourself with the software, that prevents you from progressing - so it is first necessary to understand what kinds of thing can go wrong, but also what kinds of thing cannot go wrong with LR.
Example reasons why your edits may seem to disappear from view, include firstly, that the images may have been Reset. This option applies default values to all the various adjustments, replacing whatever edited value they may have shown prior to that. However, those prior adjustments still remain accessible within each image's History; having being automatically logged to the Catalog as you have gone along, in this case as the previous step before this latest "Reset Settings" step.
Or perhaps the metadata settings may have been brought in from the file on disk, e.g. by accidentally selecting "Read metadata from file" instead of "Write metadata to file". If metadata had not previously been written out from LR to the file, then this would be like going back to its beginning "as first imported". Or if they had been saved, at some earlier point, you would be in effect recalling this earlier state again, to the top of the History. Again, however it may appear, this loading-in of the metadata is a NEW thing happening to each image. The previous step in the History still holds the PRIOR edits of the image, as they appeared before this happened.
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Mac Crashes in the middle of Time Capsule backup --HELP!

Been using time capsule for several months without any issues. In fact, it has been great until recently. A week or so ago, my MacBookPro began crashing in the middle of a time capsule back up. Just suddenly the MAC curtain comes down and tells me I must restart. When I restart I get an error message which I have copied into this message. I tried erasing a whole months worth of backups but still get the same problem........is it possible my MAC has gotten a virus?? Anyone who can help, your comments would be greatly appreciated!!!
Sun Jun 1 10:59:30 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0031678A): "btreeswapnode: about to write corrupt node!\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.4.31/bsd/hfs/hfs_btreeio.c:197
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x34b0f918 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x34b0f94c 0x133230 0x0)
0x34b0f968 : 0x31678a (0x484588 0x92d6000 0x1 0x34b0fa40)
0x34b0f9a8 : 0x1fa244 (0x3054aa60 0x5c85004 0x0 0x0)
0x34b0fa68 : 0x1fb543 (0x0 0x0 0x200 0x0)
0x34b0fab8 : 0x3388b1 (0x4396e08 0x5c853b4 0x484261fc 0x2597b)
0x34b0fae8 : 0x325fa5 (0x5c85004 0x2 0x0 0x1)
0x34b0fc58 : 0x1f3097 (0x34b0fc78 0x5e26660 0x4 0xb52b9a4)
0x34b0fca8 : 0x1e2b5d (0x6354630 0x9361490 0x34b0fe2c 0xb52b9a4)
0x34b0ff78 : 0x3dcf13 (0xa8bec50 0xb52b8a0 0xb52b8e4 0x1)
0x34b0ffc8 : 0x19f1c3 (0x766b0e0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x4b71480)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb0102578
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: backupd
Mac OS version:
9C7010
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C89C8)

Steve --
Got this problem fixed. It seems the 10.5.3 update corrupted the update somehow. You can perform a disk image repair on the existing backup or just delete all your old back ups and start from scratch which is exactly what I did. Good luck!

Find and Replace Issue Help Requested.

Hi all. I've been digging around for a couple of days and
can't seem to figure this one out. For starters, I have already
looked at the Regular Expression syntax and tried the MS word
clean-up option, but no luck. We have about 1,500 pages of content.
They are in DNN, so the pages are created dynamically.
Unfortunately, the page content was written in Word and then dumped
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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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single pass since the "Replace" value is always null.
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Sorry for the long explanation - I just don't want to waste
anyone's time typing responses to things I've already tried to do.
Thanks in advance for any help. This is my first time back in
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sadamec1 wrote:
> Well David, you Findmaster - it worked! (At least it
found and highlighted the
> code). Now, I need to dig through what you sent me and
compare it against my
> regular expression definitions to find out how to grab
the rest of these
> phrases. You're the best. Thank you!
Glad that it did the trick. Just to help you understand what
I did,
there are two main sections, as follows:
<\?xml[^>]+>
and
<[^>]+(?=class=Mso)[^>]+>
They are separated by a vertical pipe (|), so they simply act
as
alternatives.
The first one searches for <?xml followed by anything
except a closing
bracket until it reaches the first closing bracket.
The second one is more complex. It begins with this:
<[^>]+
This simply looks for an opening bracket followed by anything
other than
a closing bracket. What makes it more intelligent is the next
bit:
(?=class=Mso)
This does a forward search for "class=Mso". It's then
followed by this
again:
[^>]+>
That finds anything except a closing bracket followed by a
closing bracket.
The bit that you need to experiment with is (?=...). It's
technically
called a "forward lookaround". The effect is that the second
half of the
regex finds <....class=Mso....>.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Unable to switch/open/close apps, shutdown or backup - HELP

Hi guys,
I'm not so much of a newbie, but I'm kind of lost here and I need your help. I'm working on a MacBook Pro with Leopard.
*Weird Behavior:*
- I cannot open applications (no response when clicking on dock's icons).
- I cannot close applications (no response when right-clicking on dock's icons).
- When I click commandoptionesc, nothing is listed in the "force quit application" window.
- I cannot switch between applications. Command+tab won't work. Expose` won't function. I can continue to work only in the active window.
- The top menu bar stays on the last active application, and stops responding (no response even when clicking on the apple). After few clicks on it, it disappears.
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- My only option in this situation is to do "hard reset" by holding the power button for a few seconds.
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*1. Connecting external Hard Drive*
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Install OS X on another hard drive. Hopefully you have one.
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Hi all,
(not sure if i've posted this in the most appropriate place - wasn't too sure where it should go...)
I have been having issues with icloud since installing iOS 5 on my 3GS. I took the phone to the Apple Store and after much deliberation, they suggested that the only solution would be to erase the iPhone completely and restore as if it were new as there is most probably an issue with a corrupt backup (previously i had been restoring from backup as i didn't want to lose photos, data etc.).
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I have searched and searched and searched the web for methods of exporting sms' onto my computer or back onto the phone but so far have been unsuccessful in all attempts. Ideally i would like the texts back on the phone, but if this isn't possible then at a minimum i want them to be on my computer (i am currently attempting to use the iphonebackupextractor but having issues with this too).
Does anyone know of a successful method of getting SMS' off iOS5?
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I do not believe there is anyway to save your SMS. At some point, you are going to loose them either as part of a phone upgrade or change, software crash, whatever. One thing you could do is take screen captures of the SMS messages you want to save. To do this, position the message on the screen and then hold down the Home and On/Off Button for a second or so. You should see the screen go white for a brief moment simulating a camera flash. Now your screen is captured in your photo library. You could keep doing that until you've captured all of them. Not necessarily ideal, but it's at least a way to make a backup of the conversations.
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I recently reinstalled Snow Leopard. I then re-enabled Time Machine and let it run for a while. Then I discovered to my dismay that it had deleted several months of backups, and it looked like it was going to delete them all. So I turned it off.
Does anyone know why it is doing this? I have done reinstalls before and TM has picked up seamlessly from where it left off. But not this time.
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SECollins7 wrote:
Does anyone know why it is doing this? I have done reinstalls before and TM has picked up seamlessly from where it left off. But not this time.
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If you erased the HD first, then installed OSX and used Setup Assistant to transfer everything else from your backups, it shouldn't have done a full backup. Sometimes, however, it does anyway.
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