Screwy Desktop After Last Update
Rather than type again. I'm gonna copy and paste. I was in the wrong place. Thanks for the help, BDAqua.
I am late doing my updates. I have a friend who has broadband. I usually go to his place to do it. I'm on dialup. So I waited and waited. But it wasn't gonna happen anytime soon. My friend got sick and then sicker at the hospital. As it stands he's a lot better. But he's gonna be a the hospital for a least another month. I'm so gland he's gonna make it. The guy almost died twice. I got a horrorible phone call in the middle of the night from his girlfriend saying the doctor said he doesn't believe he will live through the night. I don't think I cried more that night since my dad died. If he ever decided to get another tattoo it should read "Chuck Norris - Beta". He proved the doctors wrong and lived. Right now he has a tracheostomy and a tube going into his stomach for feeding. I can't imagine the horrors he has gone through. He's gonna pull through, but he has a long voyage ahead of him.
Last week I began doing the update myself. This would be for the last ones; QuickTime (now 7.6.2), Java (now 11.9.0), iTunes (now 8.2) and Security. The Security was finished last night.
Everything was fine a couple hours ago. Then I got a fright. I opened one of a desktop folder. The window didn't open to a list, icons instead. I then opened another folder (also desktop) same deal. Not a list. I ran Disc Utilities and checked my permissions. Everything was ok.
I then restarted. A bigger scare.
My desktop has changed, not the background, but the layout. The folders and documents on the desktop had scattered - not where they were before.
I opened TechTools and booted off my eDrive. I ran tests on Volume Structures, File Structure, Finder Info; all said it was okay. Before I did all of this I reused Disc Utlities and checked the drive. It also said it was okay.
I haven't done the update for Safari, that appeared after I finished with the four above. I opted to wait until my friend got better. I use Firefox anyway.
It looks like all my data is there, just that a database or something got deleted or something.
I haven't touched anything hoping it can be restore - if it can be done. If not I guess I could start from scratch and just redo my desktop; folders locations and window viewing prefs.
The bright side is that I made a bootable back-up of my hard drive before I did the updates. I'm glad I was that paranoid.
Specs: I'm using an iBook G4, running OS 10.4.11.
What if anything can be done?
Oh yeah. I'm just a regular user. I'm not that tech savvy. My friend was my Apple expert. I'm kinda flying blind here.
Since writing that I did some additional looking. I checked the folders on the hard drive, not on the desktop.
Those folders are exactly as they should. The folders that are Picture, Documents, Movies and Music as well as Applications and myself are correct. The icons are on the right spots inside their folder. The folders within are also correct, list where it was listed.
It appears just the desktop folders and documents went screwy. I've opened some of them (documents), they work. That's good.
I wonder if I should just redo it, but I should wait until I get a reply. Maybe there something more I need to check or something.
Thank you Miss Samit.
I've done as you wrote.
I've recreated my desktop locations. My original plan was to boot off my clone drive and take a screen snap, move it to a flash drive and use it to map my desktop. But then recalled my friend's advice - NEVER change the clone. So I decided to boot off the drive and take out some paper and write out the layout. Restart from my laptop and do the deed.
Done.
I've restarted four times, waiting a minute or so before I repeated. Each time I did, the screen was as it should; correct layout. It appears to have been fixed.
Thanks for your help, I was feeling very lost. As I wrote I usually go to my friend for help. The guy has fixed and saved my data on my iMacs back in the day. This would be the days when I had a very customized computer. I've learned my lession the hard way. For some bizarre reason I lost USB ability (iMac - Snow). There was some unknown conflict. Since then I don't play with the OS. Not worth the grief.
Sorry for not writing sooner. I didn't sleep much last night, worst case scenarios dancing in my head. As it turned out I slept in. I feel much better now.
I've decided to start a journal of problems and fixes. And various notes. The fist entry will be your solution.
Out of curiosity, what caused this? Or was this just an OS hiccup?
BDAqua thanks for the link. Not sure. I played with terminal ONCE and screwed it up. I was lucky/paranoid to have written notes of what I did. I had to get help puting it back the way it was. I haven't touched terminal since and that would be when I first got my laptop, three years ago. I'm scared of terminal.
I would like to see a demonstration before I use it. Knowing myself, I would screw it up. 'Which idiot did this?' *raises hand*
I did however download it.
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Path: /usr/sbin/cfprefsd
Identifier: cfprefsd
Version: 855.16
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [281]
Responsible: cfprefsd [4137]
User ID: 502
Date/Time: 2014-06-08 21:11:04.973 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
Report Version: 11
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x000000010e0c3000
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Screenshot_2015-06-09-12-38-28.jpg 351 KBHello, skypeisawfull-,
Thanks for submitting feedback about the battery life of Skype for Android. The developers of the app are making great strides to improve the functionality and other aspects, including battery life, so that it runs better for its users!
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My iTunes won't open after last update.
My iTunes won't open after last update. Can anybody help me?
I had similar problem this time and last time when I upgrade/update iTune, and subsequently solved the problem through the help of this person. You may give it a try and see if this works for you. It works for me now and then. Good luck.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3800524
Oliver -
Can't open my Keynote files after last update on Ipad 2. I created the files on the same Ipad. No Mac involved. What can I do to open and use the files again?
Finally, this helped me:
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Batt poor after last update. 4s 7.0.4
Batt poor after last update. 4s 7.0.4. Anyone got an idea or answer. Phil
Basic troubleshooting from the User's Guide is reset, restart, restore (first from backup then as new). Try each of these in order until the issue is resolved.
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Gdesklets broke after last update
gdesklets broke after last update
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gdesklets", line 3, in <module>
from main import client, DISPLAY, HOME, USERHOME
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
import utils
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
from ErrorFormatter import ErrorFormatter
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py", line 4, in <module>
import vfs
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/vfs.py", line 24, in <module>
log("Using urllib, because gnomevfs isn't available")
NameError: name 'log' is not defined
My ignored package list:
warning: firefox: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.1-1 => 5.0-1)
warning: python2-sip: ignoring package upgrade (4.12.2-1 => 4.12.3-2)
warning: sip: ignoring package upgrade (4.12.2-1 => 4.12.3-2)
warning: xulrunner: ignoring package upgrade (2.0.1-3 => 5.0-1)
Last edited by jeff story (2011-07-24 22:01:03)Back2Cali wrote:
Try rolling back to the older CUPS. It seems several people on the forum have issues with CUPS now
Well, this is impossible since I don't have the old 64bit packages on my harddrive....
It's not impossible, you can always use CVS to get the old versions of PKGBUILD & Co. You can read about it in the wiki
I don't know how much packages are needed for the downgrade but you will need at least cups and libcups:
libcups:
there is only a PKGBUILD (no additional files) so I think this should do it (back to 1.2.9)
cups:
there are more files than just the PKGBUILD, but most of them haven't been modified since a long time except PKGBUILD (9 days ago) and maybe fr-template.patch (3 weeks ago), so most important should be this page.
With these information/files you can recreate the lost/old packages yourself. Copy /var/abs/lib/libcups and /var/abs/daemons/cups into /var/abs/local and modify the PKGBUILDs according to the CVS diff entries mentioned above and type makepkg. AFAIK this should be enough.
If you are lucky (and don't use abs too much, last maybe a month ago or so) then your abs-tree might still contain the old files and you can use them without modifications . -
Flash CC doesn't start up after last update
Flash CC doesn't start up after last update. It said "Training en zelfstudie" (Training and self-stufy in Dutch) for the update.
Everything was working fine before the update, now if I try to start-up Flash solo,
it says: "Flash werkt niet meer" (Flash has stopped working), and quits.
As you can probably tell from the message, I'm on Windows 7.
Now here is interesting info: if I double click a previous movie, then Flash starts up fine and loads the previous movie.
However when I close it and the screen that should appear is the "new movie" dialog, flash hangs again.
So obviously something went wrong installing the new update, or the update doesn't work properly.
I'm now working with my pre-cc flash5.5 version, which I re-installed to avoid crashing flash every time I close a file.
My questions:
1- Where do I log this problem? (Or am I in the right place?)
2- Can I re-install the previous version, which worked fine? (I can live without tutorials etc.)
3- Can I try to re-install this version if the above is not possible and how do I go about doing that?What fixed the problem for me was just reinstalling Flash CC. I thought I'd give it a try, because I couldn't find a message of anyone experiencing the same problem.
So I used the control panel to uninstall Flash, then I tried reinstalling.
Creative Cloud kept saying Flash is up to date, so you can't reinstall. If you click on the gear and choose Exit and then restart Creative Cloud it will take a few seconds, but the it will see the situation as it is and you can reinstall Flash.
After the reinstall the issue was gone.
Thanks for the other solutions, I think this is a handy resource for rolling back Flash if I ever do need it
and gives me more confidence in the creative cloud product.
Maybe Adobe will pick it up and make it easier for us 'normal' creative-cloud users to
pick which version we want. Like you can do in CVS systems. -
After last update, IPHOTO started to converting images database. After step 5/9 it is hanging up. What I can do?????
Please help, i have mora than 100Gb of images and no acces to them.
TomekPYou might want to look at an earlier thread (link) about this issue, I also had the same issue with step 9 of 9 and 5 of 9 and this was my solution:
"Had the same issue with the never ending and faulty update to iPhoto 9.3. I got so frustrated that I ended up getting rid of iPhoto 9.3 and restoring my iPhoto to version 9.2.3.
You can do this by(1) erasing iPhoto from your computer from the applications folder and (2) reloading iPhoto from your iLife '11 DVD. When I did this I got overzealous and accidentally erased previous versions of the iPhoto updates as well. This was easy to correct by going to http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.psp.more&locale=e n_US&q=iPhoto and reloading the 9.1 and 9.2.3 iPhoto updates. Once I restored 9.2.3 -- the version prior to 9.3 -- I was able to see my photos again.
iPhoto 9.3 is obviously faulty if it cannot finish updating. I called Apple support and visited the "genius" bar and was told twice that they had never heard of this issue. Please call Apple support and voice your problems so that someone in the iPhoto software development team will eventually become aware of this problem." -
How to close my app after last update
I can't close my app with normal way after last update
Need help for this
ThxYou still double-click the home button to open the multitasking bar, but you now drag or swipe the app 'screens' up from there and off the top of the screen :
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After last updating for OS 10.7.2 problems with digital certificate
Hi everybody,
Im having problems with lion after last updating yesterday... The digital certificates dont more work!!! In time: the same certificates still work in to snow leopard...
I exported from snow leopard and imported on lion, but nothing.
Until the keychain GUI aborted after that import... Just surfing on HTTPS page with that certificate and safari aborted too.
Some ideia? i id send reports to Apple... but I dont have hope to answer.
To test with version 10.7.2, please access https://www.caixa.gov.br
Thanks
Roberto MalheiroAssuming that the HP software is up-to-date, but still not working, have you tried Image Capture in the Applications folder. Does that work?
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