Solution for Slow XP to OS X File Transfers

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I was having the same problems as you with a very similar motherboard so I found your post. However, I didn't fancy having to get another network card so I altered the receive and transmit buffer sizes from 64 to 256 on the advanced settings for the motherboard NIC and now everything is just dandy...

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Solution for Slow Open and Save As Dialogs under 10.4.4

I don't know how many others out there may be experiencing this, but...
I noticed that -- after updating to 10.4.4 -- I started getting really long delays when accessing Open and Save As file dialogs -- I mean, sometimes it would take 5 to 15 seconds for the dialog to appear!
I did a lot of troubleshooting, and finally hit upon the solution a couple of nights ago:
It's the Desktop iDisk!
Going into the .Mac Preference Pane and turning off "iDisk Syncing" has totally eliminated the slowdown.
I think it has something to do with DiskMirrorAgent, since that has frozen on me a couple of times and prevented logoff until I force-quit it.
'Hope this helps.
-- Steve
Late 2005 DC G5 2.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Matt,
One can always manually mount the iDisk when needed, and it still syncs, albeit in real time, and kind of herky-jerky.
As for the slowdown when multiple items are mounted, I believe I'm describing a different issue, related to DiskMirrorAgent. If and when you get this slowdown (with desktop iDisk syncing enabled), check Activity Monitor, and you'll see DiskMirrrorAgent sucking up most of the CPU time for the time it takes before the dialog appears. My record time was about 25 seconds.
As for slow Open and Save As dialogs when multiple items are mounted: I customarily have several external FireWire drives mounted, and often a couple of CDs and/or DVDs (I produce a radio program, and have several optical drives), and I have had no Open or Save As dialog slowdowns since at least 10.3.x, maybe earlier.
Even when the dialog opens to a directory on a CD that has spun down, the opening time on an Open or Save As dialog is nearly instantaneous for me, suggesting that Mac OS X 10.4.x is doing a good job of caching the data.
But I hear you about the "old days," when it used to take forever to get a dialog to appear, just because a CD was mounted! Maddening!
-- Steve
Late 2005 DC G5 2.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Solution for undefined Sym when compiling multiple files

Hi, I'd like to suggest a solution for the common 'undefined sym' problem.
Combining all the source files into one file solves the problem quite effectively.
I'm not sure if this is due to gcc, or some name mangling scheme that's throwing
the avm2 off but in any case, when I compile multiple c++ files 'separately', ie
g++ (or gcc) A.c B.c C.c -O3 -DOSX -DRT_AS3 -swc -o library.swc
results in
1) undefined _main if main() is not in C.c (but in another file which is not last in the list),
and
2) calling ANY function in A.c or B.c from C.c results in an "undefined sym" runtime error.
When combining the files into one unit however, and then compiling that unit works fine:
on linux/darwin:
cat A.c B.c C.c > unit.c
g++ (or gcc) unit.c -O3 -DOSX -DRT_AS3 -swc -o library.swc
hope this helps someone.
J

Perhaps I didn't explain my question well enough. We already are using a dependency management system (based on jam - blows the doors off of make). However, some of our libraries that we build consist of many ( 100+ ) individual .cpp files, and there are many of these libraries in a dependency hierarchy. Invoking the compiler once per file seems to be a source of considerable overhead. I want to invoke the compiler only twice per library, no matter how many individual .o files need to be rebuilt - once to rebuild the out of date subset of .c files (one "-c" style invocation, no link step, generate object files only), and once to link the rebuilt .o files and the unchanged .o files into the target shared object.
However, the compiler will not accept multiple "-o" flags, forcing us to invoke it once per file if we want to specify an output name. I want an option (or a workaround) that will allow us to specify multiple source files, and the output name for each in one compiler invocation. One approach could be a flag that could be used repeatedly to specify source file name / object file name pairs on the command line. Another would be a flag that set a derivation rule by which the output object file name would be generated from the input source file name.
Repeatedly invoking the entire toolchain to compile one file of many, when the include dependency graphs, symbol tables, template instantations, etc. of each of those files are certain to overlap to a great degree, seems to me like a huge waste. Why must we reparse std::basic_string for each source file if we know the build environment is the same, just because we want to specify the output filename?

Solutions for slow boot times?

I got a custom-built AMD Phenom II X3 710 system (2.6GHz, 8GB DDR2 RAM, no overclocking), Win 7 Ultimate x64. It's got a truly annoying boot up time. I measured with a stopwatch, and it took 2:08 minutes to boot from start to the user logon. But it doesn't
stop there, even after getting into the user account, there is still further boot up going on, and the hard disk LED basically remains on full for 5 minutes (since boot) before we see it first flickering down. The system is somewhat heavily loaded with hardware,
it's got 4 hard drives internally, and a couple of more externals attached via USB. The boot drive is a 1TB Hitachi SATA.
The same machine dual-boots into Ubuntu Linux in about 1:30 minutes flat from the same physical hard disk (different partition).
I've been lately trying to optimize the services, by changing some of the automatic startup items to the new "automatic (delayed start)" method, but it hasn't made much difference. In the event logs there are various warnings and errors that show
up constantly during the boot process, which I think are relevant here:
One warning is from Wininit, event 11, "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application".
One error is from Volsnap, event 25, "The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow
copied."
Can anyone explain these above two messages, and what I can do about them?

Well, okay, I've gone through your procedures, it's certainly helped a bit, my startup-login time has gone down to 1:49 minutes (down from 2:08 minutes). And the startup-disk flicker time has gone down to 4:43 minutes (from 5:00 minutes). But unfortunately,
I still can't say that this is fast.
My feeling is that the disk seems to be doing a lot of seeking during this time, without doing a lot of transferring. It seems that the heads are so busy going back and forth, that it prevents actual work from getting done. Shouldn't the system disk cache
be preventing this from happening? I got 8GB of RAM, so there should be plenty of room for disk metadata to get cached.
Whoa! I've been able to get back another massive chunk of time by solving the Wininit, event 11, "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application" warning message mentioned at the beginning. My startup->login time has gone
down to 1:11 minutes (down from previously optimized 1:49, and unoptimized 2:08); meanwhile, the startup->disk flicker time has gone down to 4:01 minutes (down from previously optimized 4:43, and unoptimized 5:00). Plus the system has gotten much more responsive
during boot too!
I found the solution to that warning on a thread from the
Microsoft Answers forum here . According to the solution there, when I change the registry value of HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\LoadAppInit_DLLs
from 1 to 0 , I immediately got back those massive chunks of time. I'm still not all that highly impressed with the actual Windows 7 boot times, but at least I'm able to click on stuff during the boot process and get
some response out of the system: I was not getting any responsiveness before, and that annoyed me about the boot process. Since that event was listed as a warning, I was inclined to let it be, since it not as serious as an error. I'm glad I didn't wimp out
and sought out a solution for it, otherwise I wouldn't have discovered this very simple solution. It looks like Windows 7 was loading a whole bunch of unnecessary DLLs for every program it was starting, and this stopped it from doing that.
Thanks to Andre's boot optimization techniques, and this DLL load issue being solved, I got a much more responsive system that boots a lot faster too! And for the first time since I can remember there's no errors at all during boot-up on this system.

Touch pad diver for windows 8 in Pavilion G4-2008TU and solution for slow performance

Friends,
my laptop Pavilion G4-2008TU is giving trouble. a few days ago, while i was chating through skype, suddenly the screen became dark and showed the message," no disc found". the power button wasn't working. I removed the bettry and then faced so much trouble as it was not getting startted. then after a while i was able to make it started, but from then, it has become very slow. I setup the windows for three times. but still no progress. last time i installed windows 8 and i need the touchpade driver. and please help me to improve the condition of the laptop

I would suggest the troubleshootings tips here:
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Your Windows 8 drivers are all posted here:
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Solution for slow attachment downloads

I see a fair number of forum posts regarding slow Mail attachment downloads for .Mac accounts after moving to OSX 10.4.x from 10.3.x
I had the same problem and here’s what I did to address it. Your mileage may vary.
In Mail, crate a new account to access your .Mac mail account, but instead of connecting with the IMAP or .Mac settings, use POP.
This change, on my system, allows attachments to download at the speed of my internet connection.
Branwell
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It sure would be great it that were true. I find however its not at least on my workstation. My workstation Processors are only 2ghz. Mixer brushes seem to be multi-threaded for I see at least half the process are active when I use a mixer brush like the round fan stiff thin bristles. I see quite a bit activity on 12 processors.. However if I have two layers. My Canon 1D4 16MP image in 16bit color and an empty layer on top. The document is 4886x3264px. If I use a that brush as large mixer brush zoomed out so I'm working on all the image pixels. The lag is painfully slow. If Photoshop Performance setting are set to 4 cache levels and a tile size of 128k or 1028k. If I zoom in to Actual pixels so I'm only working on a screen size number of pixels the lag is still bad if I use a large tip size like 50 to 60px. If I use a small tip like 10px there is some lag but not painfully slow. Lag is bad when working on a large number of pixels and become painfully slow as brush size increases. On my windows workstation...
I think think the only way Photoshop performance could be improved would be to work on the small image being displayed and processing the image actual pixels in the background. Then syncing the the displayed image with the actual image when the background process become idle. Photoshop was not designed to be a Paint program. If your a painter an artiest I would think there are better paint programs in the market place then Photoshop.

My solution for: Slow Installs and poor performance

So up until today, most of anyting on XP or even vista 64 ultimate was taking a very long time to install or copy from one part of the drive to another. Startup would grow longer and game performance was dying and only once ever did reinstalling the OS do anything. No matter what I did, nothing would fix the problem.
I ran multiple utilities (disk utility, disk warrior, tech tool deluxe, etc) but none said that there was a hardware problem. But this issue I was having (and I know some of you do) was definitely related to the computer. From my experience, I determined that there was no way this mac was perfect.
So I scheduled a service and repair at my apple store (under warranty). When it was done a few days later, sure enough, I was told that even though the utilities we users can use on our end to diagnose problems didn't find any problems, the hard drive did not pass apple's detailed inspection and was replaced.
In conclusion, I say that if you are having this problem, run disk utility and if you have the extra protection plan, download the Tech Tool Deluxe that apple provides on the support site. Disk utility may find some permission and disk issues but if Tech Tool doesnt find anything even on the surface scan, take it in to the apple store to have a Genius look at it. If it's not under warranty, it's up to you whether or not you want to spend that money. Overall, my computer both on Leopard and XP now runs just as it should.
Hope that helps.

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Ovi Suite 2 on Windows 7 maybe a solution for slow...

I was having issues with Ovi Suite on Windows 7, instead of using the normal when connecting select PC Suite, I chose Mass Storage instead the other night and it now syncs a lot faster, normally for me it fails.
just my 2 cents
what do other think? Try it and let me know?

Hi,
What Ovi suite version you are trying to use?
I think the best thing at this point is to reboot your PC. Once rebooted then please check that there is no nokiaovisuite.exe running in Task Manager (just to be sure it is not automatically started). Then start Ovi Suite (you can start it also as an admin if needed). Make sure you are not trying to run Nokia Software Updater at the same time.
It would be helpful if you could also provide your system details for us.

One Solution for Fixing Slow Wireless Connection

Quick and easy solution for slow wireless connection.
My hardwired PC connection was working fine over FIOS, but my wireless connection through my Macbook Pro was soooo slowwww, although the machine itself was fine. Pages would take forever to appear, then finally sort of pop up. Didn't really seem to be a Mac problem, just a connection problem.
After searching forever to find a fix, I found a quick & easy solution that works at least for now: change your DNS address.
I'm not a techie so I don't know ALL of the implications of doing this, but in desperation, it has worked for me and I think at no risk to your network or machine. Changing my DNS address has made my connection blazing fast and relieved many weeks of frustration.
HOW: I can only share how to change on a Mac. (Please chime in if you can give directions for PC. ) Just go to this Apple support page, which will outline exactly how to do it. I used 4.2.2.2, I think you can also use 4.2.2.1 as the DNS address. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2002
Other resources I've found follow:
(specific to FIOS): http://www.stationstops.com/2008/04/16/high-speed-internet-3-tips-to-optimize-your-verizon-fios-broa...
(Specific for Mac): http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=358919
Maybe this is a commonly-known fix but it wasn't for me, so hopefully it will help some of the other less-than-technical people out there. Good luck!

Actually this is a common problem with Mac OSX (http://rubyisbeautiful.com/2008/2/8/osx-dns-fix-update) and how it does DNS lookups and pertains to routers that provide the internal gateway (i.e. 192.168.1.1) as the DNS address which is what the ActionTec does by default.
You can change that at the router level to either push out Verizon's dns that the router then uses or any other open dns server. I had to do this a long time ago for some of the OS X boxes on my network.

Online solution for Time Machine

I was wondering if anyone had a good solution for automatically backing up Time Machine files online. The drive I use for my TM backups failed. Even though my main Mac drive is fine and I can start a new TM archive, I've basically lost the time stamped backups of previous states which comes in handy once in awhile. So it is necessary to have a backup of the backup which I could do with Raid 1 which I will probably now do. But ideally it would be nice to backup the TM archive online. I looked into doing this with CrashPlan but they don't want customers to backup the TM archive because of the file size due to redundancy so it doesn't seem like it would be easy to set it up automatically. You would have to remember to every once in a while to copy the TM archive to your main drive. I was hoping that it might be possible to do this with the iCloud drive but it really isn't set up for that. I know that online backups are slow but once the online backup is seeded I wouldn't think it would be too much of a problem afterwards since TM is incremental and I wouldn't think it would be any slower than the regular incremental online backups for the main drive.

With Mavericks and later, multiple disks or multiple Time Capsule targets are supported for Time Machine, and the backups will alternate if both are present, or to whichever one is currently present (such as one at home & one at an office, for instance) if both targets are not present at the same time. (There are wrinkles.)
Time Machine supports the ability to attach a disk and create a backup archive.
With directly-attached storage such as USB or Thunderbolt, RAID arrays will work just fine as Time Machine targets.
With an OS X Server system configured and running — a second Mac Mini, for instance — Time Machine can write to disks on that system, whether RAID or not.
For off-site backups, making a disk image copy of a Time Machine disk will work probably work, but'll be a pain to restore, and pulling data off of a Time Machine backup is going to be pretty slow due to its complex structure. You'll usually end up transferring disks around as part of this, unless you have a very big network connection and enough storage (somewhere) to keep a couple of copies around.
Alternatively, use a different backup tool.
In general, RAID is not a backup. User errors, nefarious deletions and ordinary data corruptions can clobber a Time Machine backup, even if the underlying storage hardware is working fine.
Podini has a whole pile of Time Machine information online. Some of which is linked above.

SOftware for compressing, decompressing, encrypting and dencrypting files

Hi, I'm new to the Mac world. I'm struggling to find a software that can open my .rar or .zip password-protected files (created in PCs) and that can create other password-protected either zip or rar files to be used in the mac or pc. I know all about disk utility but that's helpful only for Mac. And i've also read re certain applications that do part of work but don't know yet of any soft that serves as a one-stop shop solution for opening, creating, encrypting and decrypting files. Your assistance would be highly appreciated. thank you

I know nothing about it but have a look at TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/). It is a cross-platform application. Have you maybe thought about encrypting a flash drive and using that to store your files? I know it has a portable mode but again, I don't know anything about the program so you will have to look through the documentation.

Is there a solution for my "files in use" installation problem with Adobe Reader XI?

I have tried repeatedly to download Adobe Reader XI (11.0.07), but I keep getting a "files in use" message that indicates my current version, Adobe Reader 8.1, is using files that need to be updated by the download's set up. The message directs me to close my Adobe Reader 8.1 and then continue, but when I receive it my Adobe Reader 8.1 is always closed. I am tempted to uninstall my Reader 8.1 and then try downloading Reader XI, but I am afraid I could be inviting even more trouble. I should mention the reason I am trying to download Reader XI is a notification I received in my computer's status box that indicates my Reader 8.1 is not working properly and suggests I download the latest version. I discovered the notification after I was unable to open a GIF file attachment. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Thanks for your reply.
I tried to uninstall my Adobe Reader 8.1 in safe mode, as suggested above, but received a message which indicated that Windows installer could not be accessed. That was a strange message, because I have not had problems uninstalling programs in the past, and, after receiving the message, I tried uninstalling a different program in safe mode and had no problem doing so. I am now going to try your suggestion.
Honestly, these types of technical issues always leave me so frustrated. I do not have a high technology acumen, and because my laptop is six years old, I cannot get professional help without paying a hefty fee. Thank goodness for this forum. If the solutions suggested here do not work, I guess I will keep my laptop until my Adobe 8.1 gives out completely.
Thanks again for your assistance. I will let you know if it works.

Best solution for customers to edit InDesign files within a browser????

I have done a lot of research of some of the companies out there now that do this (one2edit, wealledit, chilli publishing, etc.) and none are really what we are looking for. To begin, we are a publishing company that produces custom academic planning calendars....which includes formatting rules/regulations for schools that will be included with a calendar. Basically, we currently export an RTF each year and the school will edit that RTF file. We then use some custom scripts to import back into InDesign. Now, if they do this correct (use our styles in the file, etc)...typically, this works pretty well. However, out of 2000+ schools, probably only 60-70% do this right....which leads many more hours of formatting, etc. We also post a PDF proof online before we send the files to print and the school has an opportunity at that time to make changes, edits, etc. to the rules and regulations section. Currently, they simply tell us what they want changed, added, etc and we do that for them.
Our goal here:
We would like the schools to be able to make their changes in the begining of each year as well as at proof time live in the InDesign document via a browser. One company that is similar to this is WeAllEdit. There are some issues with how they update the info live (to see page flow), etc. and that is a huge feature we need. We would like the admin at the school to make whatever edits they have each year or at proof time in a browser that looks EXACTLY like the InDesign document we have created for them. This will include current page flow, paragraph styles, custom tabs (mainly text). If they are to make a change in the browser that affects page flow - i.e. pushes something to a new page or pulls something from the next page, we want to be visible to the customer so they can see exactly how the flow of the document is and how it will print.
Solutions:??
- Again, WeAllEdit seems to be the closest to what we are looking for (for a reference point), but, still has issues with what we are looking for.
- Do we investigate purchasing a InDesign server license and develop/design our own interface for this?
- Is .XML an option? You can currently export an XML file with tagged text. Is this something that can be translated into an online feature with a good designer?
- other suggestions??
Sorry for the lengthy post, just wanted to be very specific as to what we do and what we are looking for. ANY help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

I am faced with the same problem today. Did you ever work out a solution for this?

Since I have connected my iPad with the MacBook through ICloud I have problems in Preview of opening PDF- and JPG-files. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Since I have connected my iPad with the MacBook through ICloud I have problems in Preview of opening PDF- and JPG-files. Does anyone have a solution for this?

I'm not sure I understand the connection between iCloud and this problem. Is it simply a problem of coincidental timing (ie, the problem happened after you set up iCloud)? If so, there's almost certainly no connection between these two events.
Where are you getting the files you're trying to open, and what specifically happens when you try to open them?

Solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0)

We have a new blog post up about solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0) because of conflict with DVCPROHDVideoOut QuickTime components.
Please read that post and let us know here on this forum thread if you have any questions or comments.
Also, please let us know if the proposed solution works for you.

Mark - The new document that we published is meant to address a specific issue. You can confirm you have the issue by the following:
Adobe QT32 Server is not running when you receive these errors. Keep Activity Monitor open to track whether or not it is running.
The crash log for QT32 Server indicate CoreAudio as the last component called. You can find the crash logs in Users/username/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. The report will look like this:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   ???                                     0x04981f90 0 + 77078416
1   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio               0x949d05c1 __Call_block_invoke_03 + 56
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x94a90f8f _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
If this is not the issue you're having, please start a new thread and provide the usual data. If your problem does match this issue, please double-check that you've followed the steps in the new document and post back here.

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