Some files have a black overlay, cannot read

This is not an online problem. Some pdf files and some pages of some files have a black overlay, and I cannot read the material. I can select all and copy, and it will show the text (only) in Word, and I can print the file without a problem, I just can't see it on the monitor. I've tried "show large images," and I've tried changing the reading order. Nothing works. What should I do?

I have solved my own problem, in case anyone has the same one: I unchecked "use 2D graphics acceleration" in the Page Display. No black overlay now.

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Some files have disappeared from my macbook pro.they were on the desktop and have vanished,i started to do these files again and upon restarting my macbook this morning the new files had gone.Also i can't launch any of my applications safari or app store

some files have disappeared from my macbook pro they were on the desktop.Iredid some of my work and this morning when i started up my macbook they too had vanished.Spotlight doesn't reveal them and also i can't launch any of my applications like safari app store etc, help please anyone? thanks

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Problem with file type... some files have been changed to folders... Help !

Hello,
I have problem with some files that are located in Library / Quicktime.
I have 7 files in that folder and all are .component files.
3 of them used to look like a lego block :
DivX Encoder.component
macam.component
MayaIFF.component
But today, I have accidentally change them into folders (and I don,t Know how...) So instead of having thoses 3 files with the lego block icon , I have 3 folders and If I click on thoses folder, It open like a standard folder, so I see the "content" folder inside them...
How can I change it back to the .component file type they should be... I know how to change the type of a file, but since they are now folders, there's no "file Type" associated with them (right click / infos)...
Help !

There are lots of things that are in fact folders, but the Finder treats them as "files"--in the sense that normally when you select one you cannot see the contents of the folder. One way this is done is by the use of certain extensions, for instance .app, .pkg, .mpkg, .bundle and .component all tell the Finder to NOT display the folders as folders. If you do a GetInfo on them and the name is still "whatever.component" and the Kind: Component is still showing, and you haven't noticed any problem with QuickTime, then don't worry about it.
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Nikon D600 NEF/RAW files/DNG 8.4 still cannot read

Hi all, I just tried installing several versions of the DNG plug in for CS6 and it still cannot read the Nikon D600 NEF/RAW files on a 2014 MacBook Pro. Any suggestions? I have searched previous questions, but cannot find one on this very topic. Cheers, Paul.

What version of Photoshop do you have installed. If you have CS6 make sure you use CS6 menu Help>Updates. To make sure you have the latest updates. If you have CS6 preternatural you should see version 13.0.6 when you use menu Help>About Photoshop if you hace a Creative cloud subscription you should see version 13.1.2 using menu Help>About Photoshop.
If ACR 8.6 is installed correctly it installs in a common place that is used by both Bridge CS6 and Photoshop CS6.
When you open a RAW file in Phoroshop or in ACR from the Bridge the ACR dialog should open and in its title bar you should see version 8.6. You should not need to create DNG RAW file for your NEF RAW files just to used ACR. You only need to do that if your using an older Photoshop version and an older ACR. version that does not support your Nikon Camera NEF RAW format.
If you have CS6 and the ACR title bar does not show 8.6 you do not have all the CS6 updates installed. If menu Help>Updates doe not install ACR 8.6 try downloading it manually from the CC updates site and see if the manual update works All the Adobe CC Updates: The Direct Download Links for Mac OS | ProDesignTools
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NMH410 some files have become inaccessible

The hardware: brand-new NMH410 with two WD 1TB drives, configured as RAID-1.
The firmware: 3.18.15.
The clients: Linux 2.6.31 kernel, Kubuntu Karmic Koala
Over the past days I've copied over my media library to the NMH410 ... so far so good.
This day I face the strange situation that I get access denied to several files in my media/music subdirectories. I can see from my Linux clients that the files exist and I can also see that they should be readable. However, whenever I try to access these files, I get access denied.
Using the flash-based browser I can access these files, copy them around, et cetera. However, if I do make copies, then I cannot access these copies either. Seems to consistently getting the wrong access rights in the NMH410.
Resetting to factory defaults did not help either. Cleared the browser cache, reloaded. Disconnected SMB clients, attached them anew ... problem still persists. Most files are accessible, quite some audio files aren't anymore.
What am I doing wrong here? I'm totally dazzled.
Message Edited by ogghead on 11-17-2009 11:44 AM

The router isn't involved at all as the traffic is kept inhouse and traverses just a switch; plain level 2 business, no layer 3 involved. Rebooting linux (the kernel you mean?) is not required as the CIFS is nowadays more or less run in user space, if I remember correctly. Dropping mounts cleans up. No reboot or session logout required. Even almost all software package updates, even if they are concerning system daemons and libraries, are done without any reboot. Win7 has an extremely long road to travel to come even close. I have reasons to only use Linux. In office I get paid to loose time with XP. At home I want to be effective.
Oh, and as support was stubborn to insist on windows I grabbed my office laptop with WinXP and gave it a fresh try. Guess what: same result, who could have expected? You know, SAMBA is nowadays better in terms of compatibility between different SMB/CIFS protocol, server, and client versions than microsoft itself. In fact, SAMBA servers and clients on Linux are better at working around errors in Microsofts implementations than Microsofts code. No wonder that Microsoft is not able to document SMB properly, only the SAMBA project has delivered so far.
Together with a support person we found out that the NMH 410 is slowly killing itself by assigning wrong user/group ids to inodes -- well, basically I found that out and the support then more or less agreed and acknowledged. However, Linksys has no idea why the NMH is doing this. I got the advice to backup everything to a locally attached USB disk -- the only thing that worked at this point --, then to delete all files and to copy the files back.
While the backup procedure worked successfully, copying back resulted in complete desaster which even rendered the shared without access! The NMH 410 was, for whatever reason, changing ownership of the share directories to 0/0, thus rendering access impossible to the SAMBA server process. It seems that the webserver is running under root, arrrrgh! Bad design!
The next support person told me to remove the eSATA disks and to reformat them -- he probably meant to kill any partition setup. He didn't care about that I don't have any eSATA bays and interfaces at hand and don't want to drive to a shop just to buy then in order to get the self-hanging unit to work again. After he refused to help and insisted on me having to reformat the drives outside the NMH 410 I ignored his ignorance and phoned Syslink support.
The worked better and I was quickly told to try to completely reset the unit by powering off for more than 30s, then pressing reset and powering up, yet holding reset for more than 30s. I was told this should put the unit into disk repartition/reformat mode. Tried that two times, but the NMH 410 just came up (as expected) with only some settings reset, but the file system untouched and with the wrong owner/group settings. Still no access.
It seems that the problems started when I put the NMH 410 the second day after I purchased it from RAID-0 to RAID-1 with some data already on it. Thus, I put the unit back to single disc use, which causes the file system to be generated anew. This seems to be the only way to do it; two support persons didn't know this, only the third one was aware of this method albeit he suggested the non-working 30s reset procedure.
Finally converted the disks with the fresh file system to RAID-1 ... well, still waiting for the conversion to finish. After that will have finished, I will try to restore some files from the FAT32 USB disk, using FTP as suggested (eeek!). We will see.
After all the years this is the first Linux system I have come across that it killing access to it by randomly assigning wrong user/group ownerships to inodes. This seems to have required brilliant craftmenship by Linksys to make Linux behave in such a braindead manner. My confidence in Linksys and especially this product has totally gone away. Support is awful.
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"can't load because some files are already in use" - Adobe reader! How do i close whatever i can't find that they say is in use!?

Can anyone help me get Adobe reader 11 installed??? The error message when I'm practically done says the file can't be loaded because some files are already in use - and it refers to Adobe reader! What do I do to get past this??? Help! I need to install adobe!
I had been having a problem after I tried to do an adobe update, so i deleted and tried to reinstall the program and it won't let me ! Any suggestions???

Hi Jody414,
Use the Acrobat Cleaner tool ( Download Adobe Reader and Acrobat Cleaner Tool - Adobe Labs ) to remove Reader completely from the machine.
Download Reader 11 from: Adobe - Adobe Reader Distribution and install and check.
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MacBook Pro (Late) 2008 running 10.8.4 Have a Black Screen cannot get out of sleep mode/will reboot/will sound off at restart.

MacBook Pro (Late) 2008 running 10.8.4
I was using my computer every morning as I do everyday with no issues. I had left home for most of the day. Closed lid and while I was gone for a couple of hours. I returned home, opened my MacBook and nothing but a black screen. I've tried many things all evening try and fix this problem out of "safety sleep mode, and other similiar tricks that other people had tried.
I still have a Black Screen and cannot get my macbook out of what seems to be the sleep mode.
I've done a master reset and after I restart, I do get the power up chime but still a black screen. I don't know what else to do. Please help. Should I bring computer to a local repair shop or is there something I can do to fix myself. I just don't know where to start.
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Ibought an ibook by mistake. I wanted an audiobook. I only have an ipad so cannot read large book on it. Can I transfer it to a Kobo Vox? If not, how do I go about switching the ibook for an audiobook. I will pay the difference, no problem.

I bought an Ibook by mistake when I thought I was buying an audiobook. I only have an Ipod - can't read a big book like that on an Ipod. Is it possible to transfer it to a Kobo Vox? If not, how do I get hold of Itunes to exchange them (I will pay the difference)?

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No.
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Some files have been deleted

I have noticed some of my files are missing and I want them. When I want to delete text I select or highlight and then choose "delete". Before deletion is complete it asked me "archive deleted events on next hotsync" Where do they go and can I look at them and repaste themback in current files?
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Preference (.plist) files have a black background with black text

Like the title says. It's not causing any trouble apart from being unreadable, just a little annoying.
Any solutions? Is there a plist file that holds information on how other plist files should look?
Oh yeah, this is my other Mac- a G4 with 10.5.8. Everything else works without issues?
Thanks in advance folks.

Hi, Nick - (no rickroll coming), Hi, baltwo -
I remembered seeing this (black on black .plists) mentioned before, dug around and found this topic at macrumors.
Without making you dig through the posts there, the salient point seems to be that this may simply be caused by "using TextEdit to open files that contain binary data/non-standard characters."
Upshot is that in order to edit a .plist file in TextEdit, you first need to convert it from binary to XML. After editing you can convert it back to binary (although it's also claimed that as soon as you change a preference in the related app, the file changes back to binary by itself). Of course, the app shouldn't be running when you edit the property list.
The above topic also contains a link to this Mac OS X Hints post which describes how to convert .plist files in both directions using Terminal.
HTH
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HT1320 I have a white screen cannot read anything and does not play any advice

My ipod nano has a white screen and I cannot see anything on it any advice

Reset iPad
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My iPod has been behaving very curiosly as of late. For the past month a wanring has flashed up on my iTunes screen when attempting to sync music files. The warning says *"Cannot read the disk 'iPod'. Unable to read or write files"*. Despite this warning my iPod has been able to update daily podcasts without issue. However, when I recently purchased new music I could not get it to sync to my iPod. I have no problem listening to this new album in my iTunes library, but it just will not sync to my iPod. I created a playlist for it and attempted to add it, but I discovered that the iPod was not syncing the playlists either!
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DVD SP can't find some files-won't start

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For each such reference QT file, add an "x" (or something) to the file name in your media folder. (A clue about which QT files are reference movies is an unexpectedly small file size.) Changing the file names like that will result in DVD SP failing to find any trace of them them, one after the other, but this time it will continue to open the DVD SP project file until it displays a box listing the missing file names. Press "Continue" and the DVD SP project file will complete the opening process. In other words, DVD SP will refuse to open a project that needs REFERENCE movies which lack their parent sequences, but will eventually open a project with MISSING OR WRONGLY NAMED movies. You should then re-create the movies as non-reference ones, perhaps after re-creating your Final Cut project or re-capturing the shots from your camera.
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However, I think that it is bad programming on Apple's part to create a situation when a file has to be abandoned unecessarily like that. DVD SP should treat orphan reference movies like it treats missing movies and just complain and get on with the job of opening. It's like my car refusing to move for ever more because, just once, a door wasn't properly shut!
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Cannot Read Font Metrics Issue on Save As PDF

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On saving a document as PDF, the FrameMaker Console displays the message:
The font file may be damaged.
maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named Tahoma-Bold.
The PDF is created but it contains squares in place of letters.
This only happens for one document within my book.
I have removed and reinstalled Tahoma, with no effect.
What has happened and what do I need to do to enable save to PDF for this document.
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