Save As bug in File Manager

OS Version 2.1.0.1032 Build ID 328132
I'm using the PlayBook as a handy substitute for a netbook for mobile form filling:
I work around hospitals testing medical devices.
I load up a set of basic MS Word 2003 forms listing the test steps for each make/model of device around the particular hospital. When I see an item due its annual test I open the blank form for the particular type of device using the default BlackBerry word processor app pre-installed on the PlayBook. I then make the required checks and type the test results into the form. When I want to save the test results I press "Close" and from the options "Discard", "Save" or "Save As" I then choose Save As and name the file with the 6 digit Asset number for that medical device.
Nine times out of ten all goes well and the file is saved.
One time out of ten it will repeatedly refuse to save the file. If I instead choose "Save" it will overwrite my master copy of the form which is useless. If I choose "Discard" it will indeed discard my typing which is of course even worse.
If I then start testing another device of another make/model using one of the other master copies all will go well and the results will save with the new item's 6 digit file name. If I then return to the original item, open its form master copy again, enter results and Save As with the original 6 digit Asset number it will save it after all.
It is not a fault therefore either with the form or with the file naming used. The file Managers "Save As" function is simply erratic and unpredictable. It will fail then succeed in an entirely random manner, sometimes I can complete well over a dozen tests with no glitch then two docs in a row will utterly fail to save.
The PlayBook is a brilliant gadget that fits the bill exactly for portable note taking in such a situation but at present its unreliability is rendering it useless.
Can you please advise?

Thanks for the advice "Troy".
I've resorted to immediately saving a result with only the Asset number entered in case a Save As fail occurs. I've never so far had a basic Save fail, so once a save process is started I'm safe. If the Save As fails I discard the new entry with no damage to the master and minimal time lost.
All results are downloaded from the PB and safely stored on a hospital server so if a master on the PB gets overwriten then after downloading results to the server I reload a clean blank form up into the PB.
I use two PBs one at each hospital and they both had the exact same problem from new despite several software updates.
As an engineer I've tried a number of approaches to identify the problem's source including:
Loaded only MS Notepad versions of the files to eliminate hidden formatting blocking the save (since the PB will save a particular design of form several times before finally refusing, this was never really likely).
Reverted to short file names to eleminate any potential file naming problem.
Avoided contacting any parts of the front touch sensitive surface other than keys being touched while doing the Save to eliminate hardware blocking the save.
Refridgerated the PB to eliminate a potential thermal problem caused by my heavy use.
All to no avail.
Consequently I'm confident its a PB software bug so I'm hoping that an Update will eventually fix this. It's a shame because it has undermined my ability to convince other hospital engineers to use mobile IT. Surprisingly many are still wedded to paper sytems because, as they say, paper can't have a flat battery, a bug or a virus.
The word processor in these units is very good and the whole package in terms of features, size, robustness etc is bang on what my mobile application needs. As it is, without a fix, I will soon be compelled by management to abandon their use.
Marc

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machel wrote:I know it looks complex, but I believe it is not as complex as it seems to be although
not as simple as I want it to be. Any ideas how to make it simpler are highly appreciated.
Well, for start: Is there really a reason to use different character for directory and its subdirectories? As far as I can tell, you could just use '%' for all directories and decide what is top-level directory and what is subdirectory based on the indentation. Also, it would be nice to reserve '#' for comments, as it is common in many languages.
machel wrote:2) Use action tags to specify operations. They apply to single entries, groups of entries or whole directories
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dolik.rce wrote:ability to execute commands on the files/directories
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machel wrote:
dolik.rce wrote:execute some actions conditionally
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Tfman already have tags to stop parsing file, stop parsing line and goto next,
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I submitted about 20 different bug reports about Konqeuror 4, mostly features that they'd deleted or mangled; some of them are starting to be addressed now. I don't think they'll ever fix the speed issues though, because those are dependent on the underlying KDE 4 libraries as far as I can tell -- it's as if KDE 4 were purposely and deliberately designed to be slower than KDE 3. Even if they fix all of its deficiencies, that'll probably keep me from using it...
Right now there's KDEmod, which will hopefully maintain its KDE 3 branch for a while longer. It's starting to show some problems, though; I haven't been able to get kdemod konqueror 3 to work fully out of the box (the settings pages are all blank). On my main machine, I somehow managed to hack together some of the KDEmod3 packages so that I have a functional konqueror 3 running alongside the Arch repository's version of KDE4. I'm afraid to pacman -Syu now, though, because it will probably break horribly :P
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If KDEmod3 ever goes away and there's no other good replacement file manager by then, I'll probably take the source code of KDE3 and try to make a standalone version of konqueror out of it. (Which will probably be quite a project because of how interdependent all the KDE components are.)
Some features I "need" in a file manager, besides the ones you mentioned:
- Konqueror's tree view (where you can expand folder branches in the file list)
- Infinite view splitting -- I frequently have my konqueror windows split into 4, sometimes as many as 6 or 7 view panes. Very useful for sorting out files.
- Selection rectangles are sensitive only over files -- I find full-row-select really annoying, because there are no guaranteed "blank" areas that you can click on to clear a selection. I also use this behaviour to grab long-named files that are interspersed with short ones, because they hilight first when the rectangle touches them (you wouldn't think this very useful, but surprisingly often you do want to do something to all the long-named files...)
- Right-clicking on a folder and clicking "Paste" pastes into that folder, not the current one -- you'd be amazed at how many file managers get this wrong. I shouldn't have to cd into a folder just to paste some files there.

File Manager and Synchronization

Thought I would bring this to wider attention (so reposting part of another post, apologies for that if you read it twice): the new File Manager app (by Acaras, I believe) seems to work just fine and is well worth 5 dollars. Great to see that holes in the Playbook experience are gradually being filled. I can click and open any file listed here, from word and excel to mp4, and even photos show up in small but view-able icons.
This takes care of a huge issue for the Playbook being able to justify a claim to being a business tablet. Now we can organize many documents (word, excel, powerpoint, pdf) into folders or categories, browse by those categories and open them accordingly. Once a document is in a folder, when you work on it and save it, it remains in that folder. I tried opening a new document, however, and there is no apparent way to control where it saves into. *I hope that will be another function added soon by RIM and partners.
Another big issue was regarding synchronization, there didn't seem to be a way to synchronize documents between Playbook and the computer. DataViz (which is now owned by RIM) invented this type of function in the days of Palm, so a mystery why it wasn't developed for Playbook. *Is this feature going to be added, RIM? However, I have found that I can synchronize using an application on the computer, I have used GoodSync to synch between laptop and desktop for several years. So this application detects whatever changes you have made to a document on Playbook and updates the same document on your computer.
The only problem I can see here is that you can't easily list a number of documents on your computer to synch to your Playbook (the way Documents to Go would do on my Palm), or if you really wanted to do that with GoodSync it seems quite cumbersom. Instead, I have to set up a few folders (eg. Playbook Working Folder, Current Reading) where I place current documents that I know I may be using on the Playbook. I tried using a shortcut instead of the original document to place in that folder, but it doesn't work. Anyway, this solution is still pretty helpful. It's not a bad thing to be forced to go back and finalize a working document and store it carefully when you're finished your active work with it. In the past I tended to leave different versions and when I went back, I had to check which was the last version.
If anyone had any further experiences or suggestions for how to manage and work with files that would be great to see.

hi, the file manager from acaras does work pretty well (for sure the best), but the videos app remains a total mess! i was hoping that rim would expand on that app, because no matter how organized my acaras app is, any kid who grabs my book and hits video, is going to be greeted with a whole mess of adult material!
also, still no support for mpeg video huh? brutal.
also, still no support for eye-fi cards or the fabled andoid player. brutal.
also, direction buttons on the key pad maybe?

File management workflow - in and out of PS CS

I am getting used to using LR in my workflow and find it great for a simple shoot where I sort/cull, process and export. However I am getting into a bit of a muddle on the file management side
1) Moving files in and out of PS
I often create complex manipulated images - here I edit in photoshop and tend to create many versions. I save a version whenever I feel I have got somewhere with the file. However if I use 'save as' the file doesn't appear in Lightroom - I would have to go and re-import them. I've noticed that lightroom does create a new edit each time I close and reopen the edit, but this is time consuming and I don't want to do this.
My process in PS CS would be to flag relevant raw files, open in PS and save to a Work in Progress folder. Here I would store the various versions. Then once the images had been finalised I would save to a Final folder.
At present with LR - I am importing into LR, sorting/culling, using Develop for basic edits, opening in PS for manipulation and then getting into a muddle with files and versions.
How do other people deal with the interlink between LR and CS?
2) Creating a final portfolio
I tend to export any final images as Tiffs in to a Final subfolder, as I am slightly wary of leaving them as Raw with an attached xmp in case things get messed around when I archive them to a separate HD.
What is the best way of creating a "portfolio" library, versus a working library? Re-importing the Tiffs and keywording/rating for portfolio? Or creating a separate LR Library where only final files are deposited?
I would be grateful for any tips/workflows you find work.
Thanks
Emm
Mac OS X, PS CS (not 2)

> ) Creating a final portfolio
 I tend to export any final images as Tiffs in to a Final subfolder, as I am slightly wary of leaving them as Raw with an attached xmp in case things get messed around when I archive them to a separate HD.
 
 One way around the latter is to convert to DNG as a final step. When i do this, I know the file is pretty complete. By using "Edit in PS" my work gets linked with the original RAW or DNG file, has ratings, key words, etc. But I've not done a lot in that area, and not sure how I'd handle multiple versions of photoshopped images from one RAW file. I might be inclined to save snapshots within PS or layer comps.
 
 

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Option to save snapshots in the file!!

Snapshots are such a great feature that allow to have different versions and trys of a file. It is really bad for the work process that it is not possible to save those snapshots in the file. The only way is to save them as different files. Layer Comps are nice, but are not as powerful. Snapshots allow to save different states of the document or completely different versions, without the need to duplicate all layers and then to change the visability of layers. That's not practical and error prone. Also if there is a crash there was no way to just save the file during working. This is my #1 feature request!
Marcus

Yes, and No. The size of a single file becomes large, but if I would save each snapshot state as a seperate file (which is the only way to preserve the states at the moment) the sum of the files sizes of those files is definetely larger than the size of a single file, because of all the redundant layers. If you chose to copy the whole layers set of each version and disable unused ones it also adds up more file size and this way you save each state in the same document, too, but without the easy handling of snapshots.
Working with seperate files is a bad crutch, because if I'm playing around with different versions I might have to redo work in each file. (Often I'm experimenting with different colors or placements and sizes). I also don't see the file size as a problem anymore. There is so much space wasted for so many things that I happily use the space for my benefit. The benefit of an option to save snapshots in a document weighs so much more.
Further the snapshot information of an open document is stored in RAM or in temp files on the disc anyway. So the information is already saved. The space will be freed of course if the file is properly closed, but if I need the snapshots for further use I need to save them anyway somewhere.
If I'm experiencing a crash of Photoshop, the OS, or just a power outage all my snapshots are gone. I had serious problems due to the bluetooth bug in the vista drivers that caused a blue screen when you brought your system into or out of stand-bye or hypernation. Unfortunatley stand-bye and hypernation are the only possibilities to not erase the snapshots and be able to continue working on them later. If I didn't save the document in the state of the main version and just played with a suboptimal version my main version was gone (and often I had more than one main version). I had to create seperate files from each snapshot an save them all. Definetely to much to think and care about. Photoshop should make work easier.
Snapshots would make it very easy and straight forward to present different variations of an idea to a client, too.
Marcus

Can I fill in PDF forms and export / save as un-editable file?

Hi all,
I have a client for whom I am creating an invoice template. I created the file in InDesign and have exported as a PDF.
Working with Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.1.4 on Mac 10.6.8, I have managed to add text fields for my client to fill in with job-specific information. (Job number, item / descriptions / costs and so on).
Is there a way that he/she can fill in job specifics, and then save or export the file so that when opened by their client, it appears as UN-editable?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Yes, you can flatten the form, which converts the field appearances (and any other annotations) to regular page contents. Here's a link to a free JavaScript-based tool that you can use: UVSAR : Selective Flattener tool for Adobe Acrobat 8, 9 and X
The basic JavaScript statement is:
flattenPages();
More information is in the Acrobat JavaScript reference, which is included in the Acrobat SDK and online.
For invoices, I created an automation tool that adds certain metadata to the invoice (e.g., invoice #, date, total amount), flattens certain fields, and adds a certification digital signature. the original field values are copied to fields on a hidden template so that it is readily available if it's ever needed.

Welcome window problem. appears every time i save and close a file of photoshop

How to fix a bug regarding welcome window. this window appears every time i save and close a file of photoshop, its started after the last update 2014.2.0

See this document: Troubleshoot Welcome Screen in Photoshop
Scroll all the way down to the bottom. There's a check box "Don't Show Welcome Screen Again"
You can relaunch the screen at a later date by selecting Help>Welcome Screen...
~ Arpit

Where is the file management utility on my HP Pavilion dv5-1150us Entertainment notebook pc?

I am trying to hookup a WD My Passport Ultra 2TB external drive for backup on my notebook. It tells me to check the file management utility to see if the WD File Setup is listed. How do I go to and find that utility?

Hi,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41501-42000/sp41698.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Right click the IDT device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall.
When complete,download and reinstall the Chipset driver on the link below.
Chipset Driver - Windows Vista.
When the reinstallation has completed, shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 30 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
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How do you set the default file manager in kde?

I'd like to set dolphin as the default file manager in KDE, how would I go about doing that? I have an installed working copy of dolphin on my comp right now.

pressh wrote:
associate dolphin as default for directories in control center.
kde components -> file associations -> inode -> directory
Thanks, but for some reason when I go in there and change it as a user, it doesn't save the setting, and it doesn't work. However, when I do the same thing as root it works, but of course, it only works for root then.
pressh wrote:
grizz wrote:but, it's several months waiting
and dolphin is nice
actually i think konqueror is more powerfull in kde3. However, the dolphin version in kde4 trunk is shaping up nice and looks promising.
Dolphin is a little bit less cluttered, and seems to be faster too. Most of the features in konquerer I never use.

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