User Tips General Procedure

Hey all,
I was thinking of drafting a user tip or two for the FCE forum and I thought I'd first ask here regarding the couple questions more experienced posters might have the answer to.
1. Is it even worth posting a User Tip seeing as the forum transformation is happening in the near future? Will these tips remain prominent in the new forum layout? (this one is mainly directed toward the Hosts.)
2. Would you recommend posting a separate tip for each narrow topic, or a large combined one such as "Basic Troubleshooting Procedure in Final Cut Express" that addresses more than one common problem?
Thanks for the advice!
Sasha

Hi,
I still use the Users Tips Contribution Forum (your post reminded me to check my last).
If you happen to know the knowledge base lettering to aid Searches I would include that in the leading info (Such as kichat or kisight)
I tend to write items that address a specific topic issue and address it to as many versions of iChat as possible. (As I specialise in iChat)
Examples
I do have this in support of that as well.
I know iFelix keeps these Pages
Pondini seems to have a Users Tip on Time Machine that is Title/links to external pages. Keeps the Users tip Short(er), groups the topic but keeps the detail somewhere else which can be easier to update.
I started with Users Tips then realised I had more info than I could get in the Tips (Old Forum Software) so started keeping a web site. (it now has a life of it's own )
Basically, as Eric says, it is do as you feel.
However if you plan to cover everything you can think of I would think of combining the two.
I use Level4 And save the Message as a Snippet (to Save a Copy) so that I can edit newer version when required)
I would certainly recommend keeping something locally preferably something that can handle the HTML links and formatting you use.
10:23 PM Wednesday; November 24, 2010

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I'd appreciate the clarification.
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Hi Jeremy,
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Is there another Forum you would like them to be linked from? Or would you prefer them to be moved to the User Tips Library itself? You make it seem like the later is preferred, "useful in numerous forums."
Let me know. And thanks for your help.
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I have posted [a tip in the User Tips Contributions Forum concerning the interworking of Apple Mail and Gmail IMAP|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1692982] on 3rd of September 2008 and in a follow-up post announced that it's ready for publication the same day. I never got any feedback, complaints or objections, so I assume the tip is ok. I followed the given directions on the procedure word-for-word.
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a brody, thanks for your quick reply. Although you might get a different impression from my post, I am patient All I ask for is to honestly state the time a publication may take. I come to the conclusion that the talk about "approximately 5 days" is complete eyewash!
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Thanks RS

You need to be at least Level 2 to submit a suggested User Tip; this is done by going to the User Tips Contributions board, reading the instructions there, and then creating your tip. Tips require the approval of a host before they are added to the User Tips area, and only hosts can create threads directly in the User Tips folder.
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I did want to share this in case someone runs into this problem:
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A fact checklist:
All the drives were from different makers and different ages (some brand new, some 1-2 years old). Made no difference.
The drives were both powered and unpowered. Made no difference.
The "destruction" would happen either when the computer went to sleep or simply when trying to use a USB hub.
I tried 5 different USB hub models. All of them did the same thing.
To avoid issues, I was reduced to NOT using USB hubs (or even trying) and unplugging EVERYTHING at the end of the day.
An assistant who was not aware of these problems made the horrible mistake of getting a USB hub and pluging these drives which now held VERY IMPORTANT information, some backed up, some which it had not been backed up yet. Almost INSTANTLY all the drives went bad: Unrecognized. Now, I really couldn't get mad at her because - let's be honest- using a USB hub is not "up there" in the scale of "dangeorus activities" in the computing the world, but it left me 3 dead large size USB drives..And they all had the same problem:
When plugged in, the system would simply not recognize them.
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NONE of the repair tools could fix them: TechTool Pro, Disk Warrior and fdsk were helpless.
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After some digging around it seems whatever is happening with MBPr's USB/Mac OSX/Firmaware is destroying the PARTITION TABLES of USB drives. The data is still there, the system simply cannot access it.
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Get the software here: TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk If everything goes well, this will be the one time you will truly be motivated to donate some cash. The euphory alone will do it. I know it for me, that's for sure.
For my recovery I followed this step-by-step tutorial by Perro Hunter, but BE AWARE that it was written at an earlier date as apparently some of the features that the tutorial mentions as "not working yet" are now.
http://perrohunter.com/repair-a-mac-os-x-hfs-partition-table/
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Hi Gurus,
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> Hi Gurus,
>
> What is the general procedure for accounts
> payable.(path purchase order,stores dep like that
> whom to whom it will pass)
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> what are main differences between accounts payable
> and accounts receivable?
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user507290

Dear Shmyg and VAS.
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User Executes Stored Procedure That Executes sp_send_dbmail; receives email but also gets error Cannot alter the queue 'ExternalMailQueue', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.

Using SQL Server 2012 SP1
I have a user that is submitting a procedure that uses sp_send_dbmail. I have also noticed that they have the following code in their procedure
DECLARE @rc INT
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CREATE PROCEDURE sysmail_start_sp
AS
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Permission for altering a queue defaults to the owner of the queue, members of the db_ddladmin or db_owner fixed database roles, and members of the sysadmin fixed server role.
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My PC configuration
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Can't Post in the User Tips Library

Hello,
I just recently achieved Level 2 ranking status in the forums. For some weird reason, I can't post in the Tips Library. I click on 'Post New Topic', and it asks me to log in. I had already logged in, but I do it anyway. I type in my password, and click Log In. I am back in the Tips Library, and now logged in. When I click 'Post New Topic' again, it asks me to log in again, although I am already logged in! It is an endless circle.
I really want to contribute!
~Christoph

Christoph * wrote:
The post must be approved by Apple before it is posted. What are they looking for when they approve these posts?
Accuracy. Before allowing a post to be considered a valid answer to a frequently asked question about using Macs, Apple wants to make sure it is actually a correct answer and an appropriate solution to whatever technical problem is being addressed.
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Read through the steps explained in the section titled "The Process" on both pages. It explains this in detail.
\[Edit: I took ages editing my post and Niel beat me to it. I'll leave my post in case it helps clarify anything. :-)]
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font color="green" How to Find Users Tips (FAQs) on iChat /font

Hi,
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There more, (you may wonder where FAQ 1 is for example).
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