Undo Command Functioning Improperly

Hello, I am having a very irritating and odd problem with Final Cut Pro 5. For some reason, when I hit cmd+Z or select the undo command from the Edit menu, it does not always undo the previous action. Sometimes it deletes clips and sometimes it throws other clips and edits out of sync. It is not consistent in any way and sometimes it even works normally. I trashed preferences twice and that did not work, does anyone know of a solution that doesn't include updating/re-installing the software? Thanks!
FCP 5.0.3

When strange, inconsistent things start happening on your Mac, try the following:
· Reboot
· Repair Permissions
· Make sure all hard drives have at least 10% free space - especially the boot drive
If those don't work, post back.
-DH

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UNDO command in itunes - c'mon already!

This is a copy of a letter of a letter I just sent to Apple. Could some other users please back me up on this one and maybe help to drive the point home? IMPLEMENT UNDO IN ITUNES!
Dear Apple,
I could not be more frustrated right now as I just accidentally deleted my most important playlist in itunes - the one that tells me "these are the songs that you have to organize into playlists when you get around to it". And what really adds insult to injury is that there has been a greyed out "Undo (ctrl-Z)" command under the edit list for as long as I can remember, that has never done a darned thing except frustrate every user who makes mistakes from time to time - which is everybody! After God knows how many updates there have been to itunes since I started using 6 years ago - why has this never been addressed? Seriously - I want answers. This has long frustrated users and just cost me countless hours of work - I'm a professional dj, so yes - music management is work. Especially when you're dealing with 20,000 + songs. Now I have to sort through them all one by one to see if 20,000 songs are in the right playlists? This Is Ridiculous!
If for whatever reason an "undo" command cannot be implemented into itunes (wouldn't seem so difficult - just about every program has one), then how about a lock / unlock feature for individual playlists, that would prevent somebody from deleting an entire playlist when all they're trying to do is delete a song. This has been a long-standing problem amongst itunes users and it's about time that something be done. I know about the pop - up warning box, and I see it so often as I delete songs frequently and it pops up every time, that It's just become habit to press Enter when it does - Yes I'm sure I want to delete the song - BUT NOT A PLAYLIST! UNGH! Deleting an entire playlist should not even be that easy in the first place - hide that in the Advanced tab along with the other commonly used features that you actually want to access regularly. Unbelievable.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this matter and the logic behind why an UNDO command is apparently out of reach for your developers. Please - enlighten me.
Anxiously Awaiting,
xxxxxxxxxxx

"I have nothing against your quest for an Undo command, I think it would be a good thing, but you are basically calling the programmers... I dunno, programatically challenged"
Thats exactly what I'm calling them
j/k - I'm not one for name-calling.
but seriously is there any good reason why this seemingly simple, yet potentially life-saving function cannot exist? If Not, Why even have the tease of the grayed-out "Undo" command just sitting under the Edit list - as if to say, "If this worked, you wouldn't be pulling your hair out right now"? I'm still way behind now, It's Saturday night and I'm clicking "show playlist" on everyone of my MP3's - and I'm not even 1/20th of the way through the library. I'm not sure when if ever I'll recover from this and find the MP3's that were in the list I accidentally deleted.
Sorry - had to vent there. This Is So Frustrating!
I'm still anxiously awaiting a valid reason though. People are prone to make mistakes. So why wouldn't somebody recognize this, before moving on to playing movies on an ipod? Get the basics right first. 7.whatever versions later and some itunes basics are still flawed / missing? Makes no sense to me. Maybe one of the "programmatically challanged" could chime in here

Undo command malfunctioning in strange way...

I've read a lot of posts about problems with the Undo command. The problem I'm experiencing seems different. In the middle of editing, I'll go to Undo something and it usually works. But sometimes it will only let me undo the last couple or few edits. Then, if I look at the Edit menu, the Undo option will still be there, and not grayed out, but it does nothing if I click it. And it just says "Undo." In other words, it doesn't say "Undo Effect" or "Undo Trim." When the undo actually is working and does something, it does say "Undo Trim" or whatever. But, when it stops working, it just says "Undo."
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Personally, I have grown used to rebuilding my autoload at every revision in the tenth placeholder (i.e. 7.0, 7.1, 7.2). Updating environments, things like that. If you need to really curb a corrupted file sometimes you have to go to extremes such as copy/pasting portions of the arrange into a fresh song. I've had to do this AND remove, manually restore plugins and mix settings on a few tracks. It has caused enough problems that I just run several sub sessions and the actual session that provides the mix and final bounce is little more than several contiguous tracks without submixes. If I have to change something I just go to the session. Today i have been working on drums, I have a session for drum editing which contains the 3 best takes. I do my chopping/quantizing and on and on....the session becomes a few MB. At the end I export the tracks and import them in to the master song session. So the master session hardly runs any plugins and requires little more than alot of disk streaming. It is also void of any events and objects which don't belong there, using song backups is my way of storing outtakes. So far this has been working much better (much less song corruption and rebuilding). But of course can be a time killer and take up alot of disk space. 7.2 manages things better IMO, but I started this process a while ago and probably won't get out of it for a while.
Rohan suggested that opening songs in OS 9 has cleared many problems for him, though it's best to hear the method from him.
There are many threads on this subject but they are usually in replies and not topics, so hunting them down with the search function would help. I don't know if Apple would like a massive topic dedicated to it in their forum...? I really don't know. It's good for users but it doe look kinda bad.

Undo Redo Function

Hi all,
I want to implement Undo Redo functionality in my application.For example , I have a JFrame with a button in it. On clicking the button i am importing a image in to it,and performing some action like resizing the image and dragging it within the frame.What if i want to go back in the process.I have no idea about it.Please help me do that.
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This is far from being easy...
Basically, you have to put every action on a stack, where you can recall them. Each action must contain ALL Information that has been changed, before it was changed. So when you undo it, you copy back all necessary properties.
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Hello dcode25,
>>Is there any Undo command in entity framework ?
It is not very clear what operation you want to undo, if they are changes as insert/update/delete, since Entity Framework would use a state manager class to manage these states of entities, you could achieve the undo operation by changing these states of
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Hi Steve,
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Jenn,
Please do not cross-post in these forums. I'll answer in
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/799411
- Michael

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Posting my own solution to this on account of new
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<b>However</b> changing the undo’ settings
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Adam.

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Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
Daniel

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It's back. Must've been a glitch that decided to disappear... Is Microsoft writing code with Apple these days? LOL

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I'm working on a text editor, with much the same functionality as vi. I'm kinda stuck on the "repeat last command" feature. My thought was to get the most recent undoable edit, and then call a redo on it, but that doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

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http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/generaltext.html
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2) register the document object of the text area as an UndoableEditListener
3) implement undo and redo actions that extend AbstractAction (I copied these from the above page)
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What is an undoable edit and not undoable are (presumably) defined in javax.swing.undo also.
Thanks for your reply,
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