Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K

Posts disappearing and re-appearing. Threads moving backwards and forwards in time. Bloody-minded refusal to allow replies to certain posts. All part of Dave Minter's (or should I say, "Doctor X") dastardly revenge plans on Sun, I expect

Yeah but it was all worth it... they are giving Dr. X his screen name back.
Party on dudes, and be excellent to one another.

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Strange things are happening to my MacBook. Please help.

Since buying my first MacBook nearly two years I have not had a single problem with it until earlier this week, when strange things started to happen.
1) The first obvious problem was that my dock lost its settings.
2) Then the green light at the top of the screen was on when I turned on my computer. Although this was resolved by shutting down and restarting, I have no idea why it was on in the first place.
3) Thirdly, my email disappeared from Mail. After exploring, I found out that one of the check boxes in preferences had disabled my account and when I checked it again my email reappeared.
4) And finally, it seems to be getting slower and slower. Whether it is opening a program such as Mail, opening system preferences or restarting, it all seems to be taking longer than I previously remember. However, once things are up and running they are generally fine.
After doing some research I have found two possible fixes: resetting PRAM and resetting the System Management Control. The problem is that although I can read how to do them, I have no idea if they will fix my problems or what the implications of doing either are.
So, do you think it would be a good idea to reset either the PRAM or SMC? If so, which should I do or what order should I do them in?
Also, what, if any, are the risks of doing either? As I understand, my settings for things like the display will be reset but not things like wifi or the firewall, and all my programs, updates and files will remain untouched. Is that correct?
Anyway, I hope that all makes sense and thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer me.
Paul

Hmm, free space is okay, though some folks would say it's a little on the low side.
How much RAM do you have in your computer?
Also download SMART Utility here: http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
Run the application--it will give a report for your drive's physical health. If you get anything other than "Passed" you will probably need to replace the drive.
~Lyssa

Making hypertext work if things are NOT in the same folder?

I am writing a large doc with FM (FM 8.0p277), several appendix files, 100+pages, etc. I am using hypertext to link external PNG images with the document. This is working just fine (message openfile:filename.ext). Then, I print as PDF doc, and still keeping the PNGs and the newly created PDF in same folder- the hypertext link still works fine.
My question is: this document will be released to clients, whom we can't necessarily make keep all elements in the same folder. Is there a way, when I generate the PDF of the final version, for the hypertext link to work if things are moved out of the same folder? I'm guessing not, but I thought if anyone would know, it would be in this forum...
Thx
Adriana

If everything is in the same folder when the PDFs are created, then the links should all be relative. As long as the distributed files are all kept together when distributed, then things should continue work. However, if they move some files to different folders, then all bets are off.
Why are you making external links to the graphics files instead of importing them by reference into the FM file - especially PNGs? This doesn't make any sense to me.
If you need to keep everything separate initially (for whatever reason), then consider creating a PDF portfolio in Acrobat, that can't be split up, as the final deliverable.

My key pad colors are fading, especially the circles around numbers

The circles around the numbers on my keypad are fading. Also, when on a call, the background should be solid black, but the background appears splotchy grey, and you can almost make out the outline of my "home" screen picture. How do I fix this? I noticed this after I updated the latest software update.

Many of your points are totally legitimate.
This one, however, is not:
…To put it another way, the design of the site seems to be geared much more towards its regular users than those the site is supposedly trying to "help"…
The design and management of the forums for more than five years have driven literally dozens of the most valuable contributors and "regulars" away from the forums—permanently.
The only conclusion a prudent, reasonable person can draw from this state of affairs is that Adobe consciously and deliberately want to kill these forums by attrition—without a the PR hit they would otherwise take if they suddenly just shut them down.

All of the sudden FF is running very slowly & other strange things are happening as well???

I have FF ver. 5 and for about a week now it is taking way longer than normal to load any and all pages. My OS is Windows 7 & I'm on a dual core processor computer that runs each processor at 3.40 GHz.
I can't play any of my games because of how slow it is running. I'll click on a dropdown menu or something of the like like the "Tool's" menu and it will suck up so I'll have to push on it several more times before it will finally stay open and I can choose something. It also takes much longer for it to close down completely. Start up is running at normal for the most part. Every once in a while it will take a while to load and open. It has also been crashing way more than it ever has before and for no apparent reason.
I've done everything I know to do like clearing cookies and history to no avail. I've even run a virus scan which only came up with some tracking cookies, no viruses or anything like that. I have also done a disk clean up and defragged (which I do every week).
I know about 3 days before this started happening I updated the Java stuff and that's it.
I'm at my wits end as I work on the internet for a living and this is making it very difficult and frustrating to get anything done.
Please help!!!!!!!!!!! :( Cheryl

-> Tap '''ALT''' key or press '''F10''' to show the Menu Bar
-> Update ALL your Firefox Plug-ins https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
-> go to Tools Menu -> Clear Recent History -> '''Time range to clear: select "EVERYTHING"''' -> click Details (small arrow) button -> place Checkmarks on '''Cookies, Cache''' -> click '''Clear Now'''
-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Content -> place Checkmarks on:
1) Block Pop-up windows 2) Load images automatically 3) Enable JavaScript
-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Privacy -> History section -> '''Firefox will: select "Remember History"'''
-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Security -> place Checkmarks on:
1) Warn me when sites try to install add-ons 2) Block reported attack sites 3) Block reported web forgeries
-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Remove Checkmark from '''Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page'''
-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Offline Storage (Cache): click '''Clear Now''' button
-> Click OK on Options window -> Restart Firefox
Check and tell if its working.

Am i seeing things are am i the first, OSX 10.4.11

Mac osx 10.4.11 update!
On Tiger.
Fr.BlayZay.

Christopher Jennings wrote:
Hi Stootka,
please do keep us updated on any potential probs with the .11 update. I'm holding off a bit to make sure it doesn't break any 3rd party plugs.
thanks.
Sure thing. So far I can tell you that BFD1.5.47B1 works fine, as well as PSP Vintage warmer and Liquid Mix. That's all I've up so far. As I keep pluging away I'll post any potential problem plug ins that I find.
Remember, if and when you update, be sure to download the combo update installer. There are some well documented cases of software update messing up the installs.
Stootka

N8-Social-client; strange things are happening !!!

Hi, i just discovered a very strange issue with the social client on my N8; today is one of my FB-friends birthday and when i was checking this friends profile on my N8 there was already a post from myself wich i haven't written. I checked this friends profile on FB on my PC and there i could see that this post was actually from somebody else (wich of course it was since i didn't wrote anything). I logged out on my PC and checked again on my N8's social client and there again it shows my name and picture on that post. What is happening?
N8-Wizard !!! Click the white star if you are happy with my help !!!

Hmm, free space is okay, though some folks would say it's a little on the low side.
How much RAM do you have in your computer?
Also download SMART Utility here: http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
Run the application--it will give a report for your drive's physical health. If you get anything other than "Passed" you will probably need to replace the drive.
~Lyssa

Strange Things are Happening...

Hello,
Whenever I turn on or restart my Mac mini v. 10.4.3, it successfully logs in until it reaches the desktop. Then everything disappears, leaving only my background, and then reappears. However it disappears again and goes into an endless loop of everything - the top bar, the dock, any windows open, all icons on the desktop - disappearing and then, around 3 seconds later, reappearing. Whenever I try to start a program it doesn't start. The finder window will open and then disappear with everything else. I have to start my computer in Verbose mode and enter in a string of text (number 7 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 has the text I must enter). Is there anything I can do to stop my computer from doing this? I posted here before and got a fix, but as I said, it is only temporary. I must do that fix every time I log on. I'm looking to fix it once and for all.
Thank you!

Just a couple of things first. 1. Single-user mode isn't verbose mode. Thus, to boot into single-user mode, restart holding down the S key and not the V key. 2. Your problem appears to be the Finder crashing.
Before redoing the steps in the document you cited, do this:
Insert you install/restore disk.
Reboot into Open Firmware: restart holding down the CMDOPT+OF keys. Then, type these in, sequentially, following each by the return key:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
The last command restarts the machine; thus, hold down the S key to get into single-user mode.
Once you do that, then type these in, sequentially, following each by the return key:
mount -uw /
mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist preferences.old
mv /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist preferences2.old
mv /Library/Caches Caches_old
chmod 1775 /
reboot, holding down the C key.
Click on the install icon, select Disk Utility from Utilities, and repair the disk and permissions, quit DU, select Startup Disk, select the Internal HD, and click restart.

After re-install, strange things are happening with my emails

I had a crash during an optimization adventure with TechTool Pro when I was running 10.4.10. Since I had problems with this version (another issue), I did an archive and install for 10.4.8, with a subsequent upgrade to 10.4.9, and stopped there. So when I moved the mailboxes from the previous system folders to the active ones, my emails "disappeared". The mailbox windows are completely empty. In one mailbox, I "lost" nearly 2000 messages that I needed to archive. On my iMac, I have about 60% of those emails saved and backed up.
I put quotes around "lost" and "disappeared" because I can open the files with TextEdit. They're complete and intact. But I can't open them up within Mail.
I rebuilt the mailboxes, with no success.
So what can I do to get Mail to recognize these invisible email files? Can anyone suggest a way to get Mail to recognize these files?

Rather than tinkering with the contents of ~/Library/Mail/, you should have either restored the whole ~/Library/Mail folder as if it was a monolithic entity, or import the mailboxes by means of File > Import Mailboxes.
That said, if Mail doesn’t recognize the messages in those mailboxes even after rebuilding them, chances are that importing them by normal means wouldn’t have worked either. In that case, you may try using emlx to mbox Converter or Emailchemy to convert the *.emlx files to standard mbox format, then import that in Mail as Other.

Strange things appears suddenly in the iPhone 3GS

Hi
I am writing in this forum because something strange occurs with my iPhone 3GS, not always. Suddenly, when I have the iPhone locked, a strange screen appears.
http://yfrog.com/5lalnj
Anybody knows what does it means? It goes by as the same quickness than it appears.

This is known as "flash" or "class 0" sms ot text. The message appears directly on the screen and isn't saved in the sms message log. It is utilized by some network administrators and sometimes by others if they know the right codes. Not all cell networks support them and iPhones sometimes don't handle them properly.
http://www.mattg.co.uk/words/iphone_messages/

My yahoo will no longer open and I tried adjusting settings and it is worse. Please help. When I log on, in the loading area, instead of the circling symbol, it continues to load numbers, symbols, letters and does not stop.

On Tuesday, I downloaded 4.0 Firefox as Yahoo recommended. After that, every time I tried to log onto Yahoo, the above problem started. I went in and removed 4.0 to the earlier version. It still does not work.
I am receiving messages through my husbands yahoo account but cannot turn off the computer to let it restart as I am concerned HIS will somehow be effected and he needs his for work purposes.
What do I need to do? I have gone in and looked at cookies, systems, etc and may have jimmied something along the way.
Thanks and I await your response.
Trish

On Tuesday, I downloaded 4.0 Firefox as Yahoo recommended. After that, every time I tried to log onto Yahoo, the above problem started. I went in and removed 4.0 to the earlier version. It still does not work.
I am receiving messages through my husbands yahoo account but cannot turn off the computer to let it restart as I am concerned HIS will somehow be effected and he needs his for work purposes.
What do I need to do? I have gone in and looked at cookies, systems, etc and may have jimmied something along the way.
Thanks and I await your response.
Trish

Lion and Mavericks (strange things going on)

Hello everybody,
I have a 2010 (white) macbook,
I just installed Mavericks and updated it to 10.9.3. The macbook runs both 10.7 Lion (my main and most important partition) and 10.9, it's a dual boot.
My partition with Lion is called ''Macintosh HD'' and the one with Mavericks is called ''OS X Mavericks''. (Mavericks is startup partition)
Now i'm using both together some strange things are happening. First off when i opened Finder in Mavericks it only showed ''Macintosh HD'' like that was the partition Mavericks was installed on, now i've added the right partition in the sidebar of the finder (OS X Mavericks). This was already weird.
When i went back into Lion everything was fine but it stated indexing ( i guess the mavericks partition ) this annoyed me because i want them to be seperate.
So I went to settings > Spotlight > Privacy and added ''OS X Mavericks'' so Lion stopped indexing that part of my harddrive.
When I went into Mavericks again, the spotlight on Mavericks was indexing and then randomly stopped. I went in to Setting > Spotlight and Privacy again.
Only now in Mavericks. Guess what: in privacy ''OS X Mavericks'' partition was added.
Is Mavericks reading from the wrong partition??
Is spotlight running between two OS X versions?
How can i make sure Mavericks is reading info from the right partition?
It would be very nice if someone could tell me more about this..
Thanks in advance !!

I remember when Lion first came out, I installed a second Lion partiton and had issues similar to this. The MAS failed to work at all in the new Lion partition until I removed the original.
I suspect there is something with Lion that only likes one OS X per drive.
You might need to install Mavericks on an external drive rather than the second partition.

I updated to FF4 and after a few days, strange things started happening. How do I recover to normal?

I updated to FF4 and after a few days, strange things started happening.
The groups I had set up disappeared and the Group button is gone.
When I first open the app, it opens 8 - 12 separate windows with 1 blank tab. The orange Firefox button is there with nothing else on that bar. Also, 3 tool bars are blank (i.e. space is there but it's just grey) with NO buttons.
If I want my previously opened tabs, I have to use the "Recently Closed windows" option to get back to where I was when I last closed down. The orange Firefox button is missing from this window but all the original menu items are back across the top.
So how do I get back to the way it is supposed to operate?

Have a look here
Mac maintenance Quick Assist
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147

Help needed because of strange things with Lollipop!

Hello everyone. I've updated to Lollipop 5.0.2 .... But some strange things are happening.
I've updated using PC companion. When I finished downloading the update files from the Net
,and I've turned off my phone so the update starts. After 1 minute something wrong went with my
computer. It restarts by itself. So my phone didn't boot anymore. I tried to reupdate it, but
that couldn't be done cause the phone is not booting. So I had one option, which is to do
a system repair to repair my phone. I did it and I succeed. So my phone is now updated to lollipop
, but of course all the data in the phone were wiped out. This is not a problem, I can redownload the apps I want.
The problem is that on Kitkat I used to play a game called ( plants vs zombies ) , but on Lollipop
Whenever I open the game it shuts down after half a minute. I thought the problem was
because I moved it to the SD card, so I moved it to the internal storage of my phone
but no change. It still shuts down by itself.
Another thing is that when I install an app, in normal state there are moving lines from the above
to show that the app is installing . Sometimes those lines disappear , I don't know if this is a problem or not.
This is a screenshot of the fault.As you can see , the line is still. There must be lines moving inside it.Thanks.

Hi! Sorry, I've been busy and hadn't gone on the forum for about 2 weeks haha. Uhm I do not experience the problem anymore it was a long time ago, from where do you download your APK files? I used 1MobileMarket for the download of PvZ2 but I receive updates via Google PlayStore. The only thing I can suggest is that you uninstall it, try downloading it vis 1MobileMarket and see if it works. If not I really don't know what the problem is.. I had my problems with PvZ on the Z, not the Z2, but it was the same you are experiencing with the game. I did notice that whenever I did a factory reset or system repair, I'd lose all my PvZ gaming data although I had my Google Play Account logged it to sync my data. As for the lines while installing the app; If the apps work normal after installing (the lines still didn't show up or disappeared) I don't think it might be such a problem. As long as you can run the apps. Hope this helps!

Strange things happening with fonts?!?

Some strange things are happening with fonts. The following
picture shows part of the problem. This is only occuring with IE 6.
It doesn't happen in IE 7 or the current firefox. The information
in the silver and white box is the problem. This is being pulled
via spry and being displayed via a div tag. It shouldn't be bold
faced. No code is telling it to bold face, yet it is.
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb305/silentbobsecret/fontissue.jpg

Are you using a fade effect on it? If so, that's an IE bug,
which has several workarounds which include setting the background
color on whatever it is your are fading, or making sure that after
the effect is done (via a finish function) making sure to remove
any opacity related style on the element you just faded in.
This sample also had that problem:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/DetailRegionEffectsSample.html
but we used the background color trick.
--== Kin ==--

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