The little gray dot

Does anyone know what the little gray circle in the upper left corner of the screen surrounding is for?

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Hey there.
Whenever I put my iPod shuffle into the usb port on the back of my laptop, the iPod is displayed, etc ... But I can't take songs on or off anymore. I deleted them, and they don't show up as on, but when I turn the shuffle on, the same songs are on. When I add a song, I get a little gray dot next to the songs, and they are not added.
Please, some help with this ...
Oh, and I have the latest updater and the latest of iTunes installed.

Read these articles:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93078
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300505
This will explain the symbols used iTunes - what you describe is an item not yet synced on your iPod.
MJ

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NCesau,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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There is no user preference to change the normal behavior.
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You have posted to the iTunes Match forum, which your question does not seem to be related to. Is your question concerning iTunes Match or syncing with iTunes via USB?

The little clips i'm editing in iMovie 10 in the project view are hallway grayed out. Why is that?

the little clips i'm editing in iMovie 10 in the project view are hallway grayed out. Why is that?

Judy444 wrote:
.. Is there a How To beginners tutorial for this program?
here: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
and the built-in Help of iMovie (as any other Apple app) explains a lot..

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OH my god SOMEONE PLEASEE help me. I closed itunes so maybe it could work again now it looks like its never downloaded it dissapeared from my library. I went to the album it looks purchased but it doesnt have a download button. So what you basicly did is you made up a problem. You failed to help me. You stole 0,90 and still dont care to answer me back. Not community nor if there is any workers here, themselves. I wanted to support one of my favorite singers and this is what I get in return.

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There is a similar issue in this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5108357?start=0&tstart=0
Follow the steps in the Apple KB metioned and hopefully you will have your device back

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I don't know whether or not that means anything in regards to the above inquire?
Again, any help is appreciated.
Fig.1

OK, I think I might have figured this out.
First. You guys keep insisting it's the Movie Explorer. It is not. It is the Actions Panel. You can see for yourself. Option+F9 opens the Actions Panel. Option+F3 opens the 'Explorer Window'. They are similar in appearance but they're not the same thing. They're just not.
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Keep in mind that if you made a movie clip B, within movie clip A, and if you placed actionscripts directly on movie clip B, NOT on a frame, then movie clip B would get a red box and appear UNDER movie clip A, within the SYMBOL DEFINITION(S) pane, NOT the SCENE pane. Ha.
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But yeah, that's it in a nutshell.
Thanks for trying to help anyway.

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