Stop massive file duplicate operation in Finder - how?

How to cancel a massive "Duplicate" operation in a gentle way? Where is the cancel (X) button?

Try command-period when the dialog is in the foreground. Otherwise sometimes when you hover over the dialog you get the (x) button.

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Stop M2V files from previewing in finder

Is there any way to stop M2V files from previewing in finder? It either always crashes the finder or it just sits there forever(especially if it is a long video) with the cursor spinning until it can preview it.
Also when I try to locate these type of files when DVD Studio cant find them, it crashes DVD studio.

column view is the way I prefer view Finder and that is where it shows a preview of the video in the last collumn to the right. I know that you can turn off this preview from showing on all collumns, but i find it so usefull for everything else.
I remember a couple of years back when it would'nt even try to preview the file it would just show an image maybe the first frame. this was back in the days of DVD Studio 1.0. I'm pretty sure that Quicktime wouldn't open the files either back then either. there needs to be a way to tell OS X not to preview certain file types.
I wouldn't care except it can take up to 15 to 20 min for OSx to preview the file and in that time you cant use the the finder at all. talk about losing your day. most of the time now it just crashed the finder.
I'm still using panther 10.39. is this my problem? does Tiger have the same issues?

Every time i load element i get a bitmap file error but canot find how to correct

I cannot find how to correct the BITmap error message which appear of starting elements. I have repaired the catalogue.
Suggestions please

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I have been sampling new imported drum loops. And if I adjust region to song or time strecth it updates the audio file in the library. How to stop this? I lost the original setting to one loop. automatically doing it ??

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This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
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Finder stopped showing file info

Running OSX 10.6.8 on iMac. Recently noticed that Finder has stopped showing file info and thumbnails when I click on files in list view with columns. Repairing privileges and restarting has not resolved the problem. I'm able to see file info when I hit command-I, but otherwise, simply clicking on the file name no longer shows the mini preview that's so convenient. How to restore this function in Finder?

Long shot probably.
Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
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HT1386 Trying to sync my music into my iphone 4s but a pop up keeps showing up saying "The iPhone "Brandon's iPhone" cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified." How can I fix this?

Trying to sync music into my iPhone 4s but a pop up keeps showing up saying "The iPhone "Brandon's iPhone" cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified." How can I fix this?

Remove any duplicates in your iTunes Music Library by following the link below:
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Flash has stopped a potentially unsafe operation (all files are local)

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Now we want this to work on Mac as well and I can't get Safari to avoid this.
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Why can't we no longer run flash movies locally like this. There is no interaction with internet in any of the files.
How do we fix it, having the users add the directory in Trusted locations in Flash Global Settings is not a good way.

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Don't you just love changes in interfaces?
I found the answer to my question.
When you attach a device (iPhone, iPad) to your Mac, in iTunes 12 in appears as a tiny icon in the second "row" of the iTunes display. Click the icon and the familiar iTunes display for the device appears. From there, on the Summary screen, you can see the dates of the backups of the device (iCloud and backup to the computer). You can also use the button to backup to the computer.

Apple loops for garageband pack doesn't show the folder content (loops, files...) in ableton live suite 8 library browser, but I can see all the loops in the folder from finder. how can i fix this? help please.

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When I click on a file to view in Finder in the view as columns, Finder stops responding. If I use Finder in any of the other views, I don't have an issue.

When I go to finder and view as columns so that the right column will open a preview of the file, I get the endless spinning graphic and when I go to Force Quit, it shows that Finder has stopped responding. When I use Finder in any other view mode, I don't have that issue. This just started today. As far as I know, I haven't done any updates today that would cause the issue. I've restarted a few times. I'm running 10.10 on iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011). I when to updates in the App Store and saw there was an update for 10.10.1 and tried to run it twice now. It starts to install and says I have 7 minutes left and then at about 3 minutes, it just opens all my windows again and acts normally. When I go to "About this mac", I'm still showing 10.10 as the OS. Also, in the App Store, when I click on updates, it shows me 4 updates that I've already installed as ready to install. Not really sure what's going on nor why all the sudden this is an issue, but I use the preview mode in Finder all the time so I would love a fix for this. I've tried logging out and logging in as another user and the same issue with Finder happens with other users as well. I've emptied my trash bin as well.

Step one is to log into a newly created admin user account and see if the problem persists.
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I have multiple iPhoto libraries w/ duplicates in several. How can I consolidate and find the dupes? Some photos are versions of the original.

I have multiple iPhoto libraries w/ duplicates in several. How can I consolidate and find the dupes? Some photos are versions of the original. On my iMac, I also have many folders containing some of the same photos. My computer is used for both personal and business purposes. My libraries should be separated, one for each.

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File History split 1 gig file in to 5 200 meg files, and I can't find how to restore this file

I setup file restore on a Windows 8 computer.
Backed up all the files to a NAS.
Wiped and reloaded 8.1 pro and did a file restore.
All of my files, except one large file, restored.
The file that didn't was a 1 gig TrueCrypt (VeraCrypt) file in the root of "documents".
When I browse out to my NAS, I see 5 files.
One of them is named: TCvol (2014_12_09 02_17_05 UTC) and it is 200 megs.
I believe these 5 files need to combine themselves again to restore my original 1 gig file, but I cannot find any documentation.
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Hi,
It should be caused that Windows Server Backup cannot recognize the encrypted file - I cannot confirm how the third party application (TrueCrypt) work, it seems that it will split an encrypted file into several files and Windows Server Backup only restored
files physically. You can contact TrueCrypt support about this issue.
I searched on your website and found several threads which related to get TrueCrypt working with Windows Server Backup. Specifically to your current issue you can confirm with them about any suggestion to get file recovered or how to do such backup job for
a healthy recovery.
https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/discussions/581529
https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/discussions/577924
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