Weird, Maybe dumb question. My iMovie screen is gone

This may seem like a dumb question, but it has rendered my iMovie useless. Somehow, my iMovie screen got minimized and I can't see it. et me explain. I open iMovie, the menu bar is there. If I select an opion such as show fonts, or open new project, I get the menu screens for that. However, I don't see the workspace. I have ried playing aound with expose or spaces as it seems iMovie is hidden somewhere,but nothing seems to work to get it back. I tried recovering an older version, but that didn-t work.
thanks for any help you cn provide.
ESL

All I can suggest is the standard troubleshooting steps in order.
Restart your iPod: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until a red slider appears, and then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Reset your iPod: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Restore your iPod: Restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Make an appointment to have an Apple Genius look at your iPod. http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

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I wanted to check on my hard drive since last night when booting up, I momentarily got the flashing question mark. The computer very briefly hesitated then booted up fine. I searched on this issue, and found that I needed to make sure that I had a start up disk selected. I did this, and have not had any further problems booting up with regard to the flashing question mark. (I have done this about 6 times.) I assume that addressed the flashing question mark issue.
However, I noted that the flashing question mark cold be a sign that there is a problem with my hard drive, and over the past two weeks it seems to me that my boot up is slow on my computer (macbook pro core duo processor) as the icons on the finder bar (wifi, speaker, clock and battery) are slow to appear.
With this in mind, I would like to run the disk utitlity to see if all is well on the hard drive.
When I boot up off the install disk, and hold down the "c" key, it acts like I want to instll the software. The first screen asks what language I want, and then after I chose, I am presented with a status bar and underneath it says something like preparing for installation.
I don't want to install. I thought a disk utility option was supposed to appear.
Should I let it continue on with preparing for installation, then when it is done, does it give the disk utility option?
I just seems to me that I don't want to do an install.
Thanks in advance.
Russell

Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Of additional interest is maintaining your system properly:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.2 is Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

Quick,,maybe dumb question

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Zaiko00:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
No, I don't have the disk, and about buying the the tiger disk, wouldn't it be better to get the newer leopard instead, since I'm gonna end up spending about the same amount of money or is there a place that I can take the PB and do that for cheaper??
Your profile does indicate that Tiger is installed on the computer. Is that so? If it is maybe we can fix it so that you can get in and set up your own account.
Second, Tiger Full Retail Installers are difficult to come by and when you find them, they sell at a premium. It may be cheaper to buy Leopard, which are going for $129 at the Apple Store. However, we do need to check and see that your computer meets the Leopard installation system requirements. You may be able to get it at some online retailers for a bit less. I don't recommend getting it from eBay unless you know exactly what you are getting and can check with the seller to see that you are getting what you need, the Full Retail Version, and not a computer specific or upgrade version.
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Good luck.
cornelius

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This maybe a really dumb question...

I know this maybe a really dumb question but I do need to ask:
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(I have a start up one that was included with my previous pc laptop..)
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Thank you in advance.

jlee636:
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-In terms of partitioning, how should I distribute space?
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-Do I need to buy a new vista to install on my new mac?(I have a start up one that was included with my previous pc laptop..)
It is more than likely that the Windows disk that came with your previous PC/Laptop is an OEM disk and will only work properly with that particular PC. This is generally the case with Dell, HP, Sony etc. The installation disk in the cases above are usually branded.
For more information on which Windows version(s) work with Boot Camp then please click [HERE|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11889.html].
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This maybe a dumb question but...If I buy Aperture are the updates already installed into the purchased version or do I need to update them?

This maybe a dumb question but...If I buy Aperture are the updates already installed into the purchased version or do I need to update them after the prograam is installed?

Should come updated from the Mac App Store. Obviously, it's tough to keep things up to date when they are sitting in a box on a store shelf.

Hi,, Sorry because maybe this is a dumb question... I wan...

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Maybe a dumb question, about which power connectors to use, but....

This may sound like an incredibly dumb question, but here goes anyway....
I upgraded my system a few weeks ago, and will be slapping in a new ATI X850 Pro AGP card in a few days. My current graphics card is a p.o.s. Radeon 9550, so it doesn't have its own power connector or even a fan. My PSU is a dual-rail Antec model, and I'm wondering if it should matter any about how many or which devices I have connected to each power cable set. My psu came with cables to attach, only 2 of the 4 though are the 4-pin molex - the other 2 are pci-e power connectors I believe. Should it make a difference which or how many devices I connect to each cable? For ease of plugging in, I believe my DVDRW and CDRom are using 1 cable, and my ide drive and floppy are using the other cable. Also, I have a pci fan and a case fan running off 1 or the other. I'm likely to jump the power cable for the video card off the one the hard drive is using, unless someone has some suggestion to offer to the contrary.
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My list of devices to plug in would be:
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Two really quick/dumb questions!

Hi All,
I have just bought a new Mac Mini and hooked it up to my Samsung 55 inch TV via HDMI and everything seems do be working great.
My two dumb questions are:
1: where on the new OS (I had a Mac 5 years ago and things have changed) is the top "Finder" bar and "disc" icon to save files?
2: In Safari I do not seem to have a tools bar where I can for example open another tab for a new web page.
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You are running a Mini so it might be that the screen resolution is not exact for your display. I have used a Mini with a conventional display but not HDTV. You might need to go into the settings for the TV to set the screen resolution to accommodate the mini's capabilities. Sorry that I can't offer more on that score; when I use my Sony Bravia HDTV it is with the iPad2 and HDMI and I have encountered no issues. Perhaps someone else on the forum has better insight into the Menu Bar problem on the Samsung as the principal display.

May be a dumb question...

Just got the iphone and am excited and FRUSTRATED! I just read through some of the earlier posts about ringtones and a bug in being able to sinc...just successfully resolved or got around that problem.Now my dumb question is...I played a couple of tracks I downloaded but seem unable to stop the track...I can pause it but unable to stop it...please help me.
Thank GOD for you guys.

single touch the screen when a song is playing and some extra controls that let you pause/stop a song come up. it also shows a slider so you can drag your finger through a song to skip to the part you want to hear.
also, depending on how your iphone is configured, try pressing the home button twice (i.e the rounded square button). if you click that twice, quickly, you may see control come up that let you pause/stop a song.
check out the tutorials movies on the apple support site for lots of useful tips.

Dumb question Mac Mail inbox synchronisation

I'm really sorry if this is a dumb question...I have just started using Mac Mail (from Entourage) with a .Mac account and want to synchronise my messages across my two Macs. I thought that if I deleted messages on one mac, they would be deleted from the server and when I checked mail on the other Mac they would be gone. However, this does not seem to be the case - instead, I need to delete them on both macs. Is something in my setup wrong?
Thanks for any help

I haven't....are you saying you think I should? Funnily enough, after never having had a problem before, I had a problem syncing my bookmarks yesterday, so maybe I should resetting the SyncServices.
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Reeeeeeally dumb question

Total computer-building newbie here. Had a nice guy at the local Fry's help me pick out the parts of a new system, including my swanky K8N mobo.
So, I've got me my mobo, my tower, couple of hard drives, internal modem, couple of CD/DVD drives, video card, 1394/firewire thingie card. And thanks to earlier help from kind people here, I actually managed to get all this stuff assembled, installed WinXP -- in short, I'm up and running.
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SUPER dumb question: Do I need a sound card? Or should what I have give me sound? And if yes to that, which of the three audio plugs do I plug my speakers into?
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The firewire card is leftover from my old machine. I've got two different iPod docks (15GB and 40GB) to plug in, so I do use it.
As for which mobo I have, here's what the manual has on the front: NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb Chipset Based, K8N Neo Series. I think there's a regular and a Platinum version of this and I think I've got the regular, because I don't have the various optional items shown in the manual (e.g. I have two SATA connections, not four).
I just went into the BIOS set-up screen and I didn't notice anything related to sound. Where should I be looking?
Now, you said I should make sure I've loaded the driver software for my mobo. The last week of computer assembly and software installations has left the old noggin' a bit muddled. I would assume if I've gotten as far as I have (WinXP w/ SP2 and Office installed) that somewhere along the way I would have done this. Wouldn't I have? If not, do I download them from the MSI site? Should they be on a disk I got?
And if I can re-ask that other question from my original post: How do I know which BIOS I have and that it's updated. In the BIOS set-up, it said this: Phoenix-Award BIOS, W7030NMS V1.3 072804 13:15:30.

Two dumba$$ questions

Sorry, I know these are two really stupid questions, but I know nothing at all. I've just bought a new iBook after ahving a really ancient Mac. Both my questions are to do with Garageband...so here goes...
Question 1
What other equipment do I need to be able to record real instruments (string quartet)?
Question 2
I was just having some fun the other night, making up some stuff and trying to familiarize myself with the whole Garageband thing (which I love already).
As I was adding loops I had the sneaking suspicion that some where starting to go missing - why was there an 'Acoustic Noodling' numbers 2, 3, 4 etc but no number 1? Where were 'Asian Gamelan' 3 and 4?
Chose not to save anything I'd done so far and after did a quick search in the Garageband loops search bit, but nothing came up. Went through the installation disk thinking it would put back anything that had gone missing. Still nothing. Did a spotlight search and a few of the items I thought had gone missing were in iTunes.
Maybe they were never in the Garageband loops samples first place? Is this possible? Is there somewhere that lists what loops come with Garageband? I'm starting to doubt my own sanity, especially since I went through the installation disk...
I now have the following samples on my desktop - ones which I thought had gone AWOL:
Acoustic Noodling 1; Asian Gamelan 3 and 4;
Middle Eastern Oud 3 and 4.
I have tried to drag them into the Garageband loops section, but they seem to disappear into the iTunes...I have no idea what's going on...
Apologies in advance for these dumb questions.

For what you need to do your string quartet recording, read HangTime's FAQ to get started:
http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html
Contrary to what you might think, you probably don't want to record the four members of the quartet separately on their own tracks, each with a mic close to the instrument. String quartets need to play all the parts together at once, to get the best feel and performance.
You'll probably want to put up a pair of mikes arranged in a stereo pattern, at some distance from the string quartet (a couple of meters at least), in a nice live-sounding room. Mike placement techniques are hard to describe in this kind of forum, but you can find textbooks on the subject with diagrams.
You'll need a matched pair of better-than-average-quality condenser microphones, and an audio-to-computer interface with better-than-average preamps.

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This may be a dumb question, but nonetheless, here goes:
I just moved from 1st gen ipad to new ipad-air. Great and happy! But, one thing I can't figure out how to do is to delete the pages/sites/apps that I have just used? For example, on the 1st gen. you could double-tap home button and past actions would come up on bottom of screen. I could then delete them one by one, to keep things cleaned up. Am I missing something here? Does it keep a log irregardless? Not the same as deleting history - at least didnt' work for me.

Close apps and not delete apps.
1. Double tap the home button to bring up the multi-tasking view
2. Swipe the app's windows upwards to close
3. The app will fly off the screen

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I'm not as 'literate' as some are when it comes to computer technology...but here is the question...If I walk into a place that has wifi and my iphone is set with wifi ON, how will I know if there is a charge for using the wifi? Will my iphone automatically kick into the wifi or will there appear an invitation to pay a fee to connect...and how do you pay and do you have to have a password and if so, how do you get that? I know....dumb question...Thanks.

Not a dumb question at all.
First of all, set your iPhone up like this:
1) Go to Settings on the main screen (looks like gears)
2) Click on "Wi-Fi" (second option from the top)
3) At the bottom of this page (Which should say "Wi-Fi Networks" at the top) turn "Ask to Join Networks" to the "ON" position.
Now when you walk into a place that has Wi-Fi, your iPhone will display a little window that asks you whether you want to join the network or not.
In some places, you may even see a list of more than one Wi-Fi network to join. This is quite common in New York City. The reason is because so many people have Wi-Fi in there apartments, and they all live so close together, that sometime your iPhone can detect multiple networks. The coffee shop near my apartment has their own network, but I can also connect to the Wi-Fi network in my apartment because I only live about 50 feet away.
Anyway, when you see the list of Networks to join, you may notice a little padlock symbol next to some of them. This means these are closed networks that require a password to connect to. (My network is "Closed", ie requires a password so that everyone in the coffee shop next door doesn't use my internet).
Networks that DO NOT have the little lock symbol are "Open" which means you can join them without a password. But there is a catch... A lot of coffee shops have open networks, but as soon as you try to browse the web, they redirect your browser to their own page, no matter what web address you enter. Basically, they are letting you connect to their network without a password, but not letting you browse the internet without giving them some money.
So (as the previous poster said) the page that the coffee shops redirects you to, usually has instructions, and of course a place to put in a credit card. Once you do all that, then you can browse the internet without getting redirected to their little payment page. Its sort of confusing because you don't need a password to connect to their "open" network, but you do need one to browse any web pages. How you get the password differs from coffee shop to coffee shop, but usually they give it to you right inside your web browser once you give them your credit card number.
T-Mobile provides wireless for Starbucks (at least in a lot of places they do). So once you have an account with t-mobile, you can use it in any starbucks or "T-mobile hotspot"
Now this all sounds kind of complicated, but more and more these days, you can just walk into a place, find an open network (one without a lock next to it) and start browsing without being redirected or dealing with credit cards. Basically these places are providing free internet to try to attract customers.
Good luck
P.S. Wi-Fi eats up battery life. If you aren't going to be using it to browse web pages, you can go into settings, then Wi-Fi, and turn Wi-Fi off. This will save you battery life, but you have to remember to turn it back on. Even without Wi-Fi on, you can still browse the internet if you see a little "E" at the top of your screen. The E stands for the AT&Ts Edge network, which isn't as fast as Wi-Fi, but covers pretty much everywhere that your phone can get a signal.
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