Stupid thing to do

Whilst trying to back up my HDD to external I somehow managed to move my home folder in some way. I can see all my data, music, photos, documents etc but my profile is screwed up. iTunes can't fine the music and wants to start again, iPhoto can't load my pictures and worst of all Mail wants to configure me as a new user. Even my dock has lost all the icons and gone back to the standard OS settings!
Can someone tell me how to put things back as they were?

in the iPhoto folder that is in the picture folder, try removing the item "AlbumData.xml" and replacing it with the one from your previous library folder.
I think that if you were to take the whole iPohot folder off the desktop, and move it into the pictures folder, first move out the "new" one of course, and just see if that changes anything in iPhoto. Do any of this while iPhoto is off of course, and something might work, though other then those two things I can't think of anything.

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The ipad safari on facebook will echo characters on the search feature. Please fix this STUPID error! At the least, investigate it and come to a suitable response. Stupid things like this are making me lose faith and interest in Apple products.

The ipad safari on facebook will echo characters on the search feature. Please fix this STUPID error! At the least, investigate it and come to a suitable response. Stupid things like this are making me lose faith and interest in Apple products.

This is a user Forum, No one here works for Apple.
If you can be a bit more clear with what your problem is, maybe someone here can help you find a solution.

10 Stupid Things Managers Do To Screw Up performance

From the Movie : "I HATE MANAGERS"
Stupid Thing #1: Spending more time on performance appraisal than performance PLANNING, or ongoing performance communication.
Performance appraisal is the end of a process that goes on all the time - a process that is based on good communication between manager and employee. So, more time should be spent preventing performance problems than evaluating at the end of the year. When managers do good things during the year, the appraisal is easy to do and comfortable, because there won't be any surprises.
Stupid Thing #2: Comparing employees with each other.
Want to create bad feelings, damage morale, get staff to compete so badly they will not work as a team? Then rank staff or compare staff. A guaranteed technique. And heck, not only can a manager create friction among staff, but the manager can become a great target for that hostility too. A bonus!
Stupid Thing #3: Forgetting appraisal is about improvement, not blame.
We do appraisal to improve performance, not find a donkey to pin a tail on or blame. Managers who forget this end up developing staff who don't trust them, or even can't stand them. That's because the blaming process if pointless, and doesn't help anyone. If there is to be a point to performance appraisal it should be getting manager and employee working together to have
Stupid Thing #4: Thinking a rating form is an objective, impartial tool.
Many companies use rating forms to evaluate employees (you know, the 1-5 ratings?). They do that because it's faster than doing it right. The problem comes when managers believe that those ratings are in some way "real", or anything but subjective, often vague judgements that are bound to be subjective and inaccurate. By the way, if you have two people rate the same employee, the chances of them agreeing are very small. THAT'S subjective. Say it to yourself over and over. Ratings are subjective. Rating forms are subjective. Rating forms are not behavioral.
Stupid Thing #5: Stopping performance appraisal when a person's salary is no longer tied to the appraisals.
Lots of managers do this. They conduct appraisals so long as they have to do so to justify or withhold a pay increase. When staff hit their salary ceiling, or pay is not connected to appraisal and performance, managers don't bother. Dumb. Performance appraisal is FOR improving performance. It isn't just about pay (although some think it is ONLY about pay). If nothing else, everyone needs feedback on their jobs, whether there is money involved or not.
Stupid Thing #6: Believing they are in position to accurately assess staff.
Managers delude themselves into believing they can assess staff performance, even if they hardly ever see their staff actually doing their jobs, or the results of their jobs). Not possible. Most managers aren't in a position to monitor staff consistently enough to be able to assess well. And, besides what manager wants to do that or has the time. And, what employee wants their manager perched, watching their every mood. That's why appraisal is a partnership between employee and manager.
Stupid Thing #7: Cancelling or postponing appraisal meetings.
Happens a whole lot. I guess because nobody likes to do them, so managers will postpone them at the drop of a hat. Why is this bad? It says to employees that the process is unimportant or phony. If managers aren't willing to commit to the process, then they shouldn't do it at all. Employees are too smart not to notice the low priority placed on appraisals.
Stupid Thing #8: Measuring or appraising the trivial.
Fact of life: The easiest things to measure or evaluate are the least important things with respect to doing a job. Managers are quick to define customer service as "answering the phone within three rings", or some such thing. That's easy to measure if you want to. What's NOT easy to measure is the overall quality of service that will get and keep customers. Measuring overall customer service is hard, so many managers don't do it. But they will measure the trivial.
Stupid Thing #9: Surprising employees during appraisal.
Want to really waste your time and create bad performance? This is a guaranteed technique. Don't talk to staff during the year. When they mess up, don't deal with it at the time but SAVE it up. Then, at the appraisal meeting, truck out everything saved up in the bank and dump it in the employee's lap. That'll show 'em who is boss!
Stupid Thing #10: Thinking all employees and all jobs should be assessed in exactly the same way using the same procedures.
Do all employees need the same things to improve their performance? Of course not. Some need specific feedback. Some don't. Some need more communication than others. And of course jobs are all different Do you think we can evaluate the CEO of Ford using the same approach as we use for the person who cleans the factory floor? Of course not. So, why do managers insist on evaluating the receptionist using the same tools and criteria as the civil engineers in the office?
It's dumb. One size does not fit all. Actually why do managers do this? Mostly because the personnel or human resource office leans on them to do so. It's almost understandable, but that doesn't make it any less dumb.

mary ann,
According to MacTracker, this Mac can only address 3GBs. You can put 4GBs in, but it will use only 3.
Has your hard drive ever been much fuller than today? If so, you may have significant file fragmentation, especially since you've been using it for quite a long time.
To assess that, download the free demo of iDefrag. It will not defragment your drive, but it will tell you how fragmented your files are.
If fragmentation is an issue, then my cure is to clone your hard drive (I used Carbon Copy Cloner - donationware), to an external drive, and make a bootable system. Then boot from that system, and clone back to your internal drive.
Getting back to improving the overall performance of your Mac, you should probably move old files that you don't use often to a large external drive.
If you can get your internal drive to less than 50% full, it will run faster. The reason is that all the data will be grouped together in a small part of the drive, and that part has faster data transfer. So you get two benefits. Faster location of data, and faster transfer of data.
Also, if your system is getting Page Outs even after you add all the RAM you can, the paging will be faster if the drive is less full.
The same story applies to external drives. Buy the biggest capacity drive you can get and it will go faster. Especially on the first partition you define (if you decide to partition it).
Hope this helps. If it's not clear, do add followup questions

Hi, I have recently done some online updates and now I have to restart my mac each time for the stupid thing to recognise my internet settings. Any help gratefully accepted.

Hi, I have recently done some online updates and now I have to restart my mac each time for the stupid thing to recognise my internet settings. Any help gratefully accepted.

Please be specific about the updates.
Were they Apple updates from Software Update or were they downloaded updates, including 3rd party updates from a website (Including Apple's)?

Bloody stupid thing to do: why not IOS6 for iPad first generation ??

I do not understand why this version is not available for the first generation. this is stupid ... The iPhone 3GS ist older !!! It's very very stupid and I'm very very angry

kkuelor,
I just had mine do the same thing (first gen iPad on iOS 5.1). It seems to have occured overnight. Odd that the iPad is failing at the exact 2 year mark or so. I got my first gen on the very first release date in April 2009 and from last night to this night, the iPad does not charge when connected via the 10W adapter, tried new USB cable, different wall outlets with other things plugged in (and on)...now it will not connect to iTunes/iPhoto by cable or charge via cable. I'll try the wall charge while it is off, and hopefully I can keep some charge on it while a solution works out. Hoping to see an answer to your question as I'm in the same boat now.

How can i turn off the rotten restrictions, its so easy to turn on but impossible to turn the stupid thing off

i have been trying for days to turn restrictions off, but there is no easy way to do it, i dont have the password as i bought it from someone and they say they dont know it, it is stopping me from doing many things.
I am so frustrated with this I PAD it is not user friendly at all, sorry i bought it now, i found a message to tell me how to do a reset, which tells me to go to the summary button, but cannot find it anywhere, go to help and its no **** help at all, 144 pages of no help in the manual its totally confusing and make for computer geeks not the new users.
Is there someone out there that is smarter than the fools who set up IPADS in the first place. that can help me reset this dang thing b4 i throw it up the wall

I don't think that you will necessarily need recovery mode as long as it is only the restrictions Passcode that you need to reset.
First of all, you should be upset with the person that you sold you an iPad that had a restrictions Passcode that they could not remember. They put you in a bit of a bind. You have to erase the device and start over now, which is what the person that sold you the device should have done before they sold it to you.
Connect the iPad to any computer running iTunes - ideally your own if you have content that you want to sync. Launch iTunes. Click on the iPad name on the left sidebar under the devices heading. Click on the Summary Tab on the right. Click on the Restore button. This will restore the iPad to factory settings and erase the restrictions Passcode.
If you are running iTunes 11 - go to View>Show sidebar from the menu at the top of the screen so that you can see the iPad under the devices heading.
You absolutely must do this on a computer running iTunes or you will never be able to unlock the restrictions.
This explains how to restore, although I gave you the instructions above.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

Undo list is saying stupid things

I'm working on some rather large files imported from a ProTools aaf (originally from an Avid omf) and every time I try and undo any audio edits it takes hours (spinning beachball of death territory). Undoing automation is a little sluggish, but not as bad.
The most worrying thing is that The Undo List seems to be talking rubbish - the list doesn't refer to the edit steps that I have just taken - it seems that they are from several steps before - however, if I undo, it, at least, still undoes the last edit that I have performed rather than the one that it says (but like I say, it's painfully slow).
The Undo History, however, seems to say the correct edits, but stepping back through this is even slower!! I have tried deleting this History, but it hasn't made the blindest bit of difference.
I don't seem to have these problems with any other (smaller) files - could it be a memory issue?
Cheers

Thanks again, but I don't think you've quite understood the necessity for handles on the audio files Ray: these are extra portions of sound at either end of the audio files, which you don't get if you consolidate all the audio into one file.
I'm editing dialogue for TV/Film and each individual take/slate has it's own little clip of audio associated with it. They are all at different levels and with differing tones and background noise. I need those extra bits of sound so I can have the flexibility of extending the clips until the next bit of dialogue comes in, creating crossfades between sections, or for things such as finding a blank bit of audio to insert in a gap or for use as a template for noise reduction... I am also correcting rough audio editing done by the film editor, and in some cases, this means that some words are missing or have been truncated.
If the audio was all merged into one file, these sections would be impossible to fix and tidying up the rest would become much more difficult and less effective.
If you're talking about exporting each file individually, then that's a huge task - each half hour episode of the series I'm working on at present has between 1200 and 1300 files!! I think I'd rather put up with having to wait a while for some undos to happen than have to do that!
I really wish that I didn't have to worry about this sort of thing, and I second the opinion of several other contributors that I have read, who feel that recently the quality and reliability of Apple hardware and software has gone downhill...
In the meantime, I'm having to retrain myself to manually redo any edits that I have made rather than reaching for +command z+... it's getting there...

How do I get this stupid thing to work anyway? Im trying to set it up and it's not working (FWIW I'm typing this on my real computer - not an apple)

Can't set it up. The damned thing is yammering at me, unhelpfully. Tempted to use a hammer on it by now.

A new Mac comes with 90 days of free tech support from AppleCare.
AppleCare: 1-800-275-2273
Call AppleCare. They will walk you through the steps over the line.
Best.

Help!i think i did a stupid thing to my quick time

hi guys!!
well this is a stupid mistake that i did
i just uninstalled quicktime "Accidentally" because i was uninstalling another media player file.. then after 30 minutes of surfing and all that crap, i decided to empty my trash which i basically do everytime i can..
only after did i know of the stupid mistake that i did... now i surfed the wed and read that itunes need quicktime to work but my itunes was working perfectly, either way i decided to reinstall it but the one that i got was version 7.6.6?? im not entirelly sure cause rite now im on my desktop.. and clearly the 7.6.6 version is very different from the one i used to have.... the one before was like a screen with just a semi tranparent control keys while this new one is a greyish boxy program that looks like it came straight from 2005..
well now i am wondering if i actually still need quicktime to suport other programs(itunes etc.) or am i fine without it cause i already have VLC which i know how to navigate better with. and if i doneed the program, where can i dowload the latest version???
thanks forreading this long *** post and please help me, thank you!!!
p.s. i havw the new macbook air 13 inch, i just bought it 2 weeks ago and started using it for about less than a week.. its my very first apple anything so you will probably see alot of me in the future lol

If you've been using TIme Machine or some other utility to back up your system, you should be able to just restore QuickTime X Player from the backup. Otherwise, you'll either need to reinstall OS X or extract QuickTime X Player from the OS X installer or perhaps the Combo Updater (which you can download from Apple) using Pacifist from CharlesSoft (not a free program). Whether you actually will need QuickTime X Player is something you'll have to decide.
Regards.

HT2292 ive tried everything and the stupid thing just charges HELP

ive tried just about everything apple has told me to do but the stupid touch just charges its like its giving me the middle finger, plz help

What does this have to do with iTunes for Windows?
What is it not doing that you expect it to do?
Is it turned on?

I did a stupid thing and cancelled my mozilla foxfire. Then I tried to put in an updated one...I need help

I installed an update because it was 2014 and it cancelled my program but did save all my information can you please give me back what I had ?

See:
* Firefox/Tools > Options > Advanced > General : Accessibility : [ ] "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page"
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/accessibility.blockautorefresh
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Options+window+-+Advanced+panel#General_tab
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
* Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
* Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
If the home page setting doesn't keep then see:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Have I done a really stupid thing?

Hi
On a whim, I recently purchased a 20" Apple Cinema Display on ebay. Whilst the listing said it was faulty owing to a damaged power supply - that had been 'professionally repaired' - I thought it would be a good buy and I could get the problem diagnosed and hopefully just replace the power supply.
I won the auction and paid just £100 ($190) so I thought, even if I bought a new power supply, I would have a bargain.
The display arrived this morning and, apart from a few cosmetic marks on the casing, it's in pretty good condition, the LCD is unmarked. However, the 'professional repair' of the power supply looks to be a joke and the power adapter has been replaced with a very cheap looking black plastic box. In addition the DVI(?) connector appears to have been dismantled and put back together with sellotape!
I was under the impression that the power supply can simply be unplugged from the back of the display - a la my iMac - so I could test it using the power supply on a colleague's display in work, but this does not appear possible? (well, not easily anyway).
So, getting to the point, has anyone ever replaced the power supply on an ACD and how much did it cost? Also, I was expecting there to be a plug for a wall power outlet? Does the screen just connect to the DVI output on my powerbook? Do I need to plug in any of the USB/FW connections?
I realise I have been a bit naive buying 'sight unseen' but as I say it was on a whim - I don't even have a use for the display in mind at the moment. I'm usually the first person to say if something looks too good to be true it probably is, but I hope I haven't bought a complete waste of aluminium!
Be gentle with me - I hope someone can reassure me it can be repaired.
Many Thanks
Tim
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Yes unfortunately the cable to the display is not detachable, It would be very convenient but would also make for a very complex connector to accommodate DVI, USB, FIreWire and Power all at once !!
I'm sure your actual display is ok... provided that cheap sounding power transformer hasn't fried it.
The cables of a new cinema display look like this:
http://images.apple.com/displays/images/designsidebarcable20060721.png
from left to right: DVI, USB, FIreWire and Power on the far right.
The Power connector is Apple's proprietary connection and plugs into the power transformer, which in turn plugs into the mains.
So yes you should have a plug for a power outlet... (DVI doesn't power it). The USB and FireWire connectors don't have to be plugged in ... they just connect to the display to act as a hub with the ports on the back of the display... all that is required is the DVI and for the DIsplay to be powered.
I wouldn't recommend using whatever power transformer they have given you... if you can i would recommend trying to find an original power brick from apple... does the power cable still have the apple connector or have they stripped it to fit their adapter?
If the DVI connector looks that bad then you could get a new one and replace it yourself if your handy with the soldiering iron, just make sure you label the wires because theres a fair few. Or you might just want to open it up to check it's intact inside then seal it properly.

Stupid thing .... have spent hours on trying to STOP the apps.. I have no 'setup' where it says

I have a hp photosmart 5510 All-in-one B111a When I installed my printer I chose one app to see how it works ....... I DON'T need or require this or any other app and I want to stop it asap.
I have tried to follow the instructions from the forum BUT what they are asking is not on my screen
Would it be too hard for HP to have a simple INSTALL/DELETE for their Apps? Ridiculous!
Can anyone explain simply how to be rid of it please
Thank you

Cancel the application from the task manager.
Open Task Manager by right-clicking the taskbar, and then clicking Start Task Manager.
or Incase the program is already installed on your computer then uninstall the application from the Control Panel
Open Programs and Features by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Programs, and then clicking Programs and Features.
Select a program, and then click Uninstall. Some programs include the option to change or repair the program in addition to uninstalling it. but many simply offer the option to uninstall. To change a program, click Change or Repair. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Note
If the program that you want to uninstall is not listed, it might not have been written for this version of Windows. To uninstall the program, check the information that came with the program.
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I need help its for a stupid thing but please

HOw do i change my picture for my itunes account ?

That has nothing to do with iTunes. Its the Apple web site forum information.
Click on your photo. It should have an edit photo and avatar link. You have to be level 3 or greater to use a custom avatar.
Award points, level up, and earn new privileges - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6081

IPad 3 freezes after upgrade to 8.0. Never ever had a problem with 7, at all. want to throw the stupid thing out.

After upgrading from 7 to 8 my iPad 3 will freeze using email, safari, games. I never ever had a problem before this upgrade. Have done all the temporary suggestions but nothing is a permanent and will come right back. I am so sorry that I upgraded, can not go back. I really want to thank the IOS guys for screwing everything up. Seems like old times with the Microsoft Tech guys. I have no problem with my iPhone 6 Plus phone.

It seems to be caused by roboform 7.5.1. I upgraded to the latest version of robo and it's working now. Sorry mozilla, not your fault.. very frustrated.

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