What are all these unwanted sounds?

Recently, after I've signed onto the my A8 17-inch laptop, the appearance of my desktop is accompanied by an obnoxious trumpet fanfare. I have no idea why this started; I sure did not program it. The other day an annoying electronic sound accompanied my clicking on sites in my favorites list. That's gone, but the trumpets remain. Can you help me get rid of these?

Type "Change system sounds" into the Start Menu's search box and hit ENTER. Use that utility to change Windows sounds.
- Peter

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Iphotos Package Contents: What are all these folders for? Is it too large to back up in the cloud?

Dear experts, I am quite a newbie when it comes to understanding the Mac filing system, as I originally came from the PC world. There's lots of things I dont understand in the iMac file viewer and how to organise and backup my photos is an important issue for me.
I know that if I want to look at the original photo files on my iMac, I can right-click on users/myname/pictures and select "Show Package Contents".
Question 1 - What are all these folders for?
Please can someone explain what is the difference between all the folders I see? Some of them seem to be exact duplicates of the others e.g. Masters, Modified and Originals all seem to have the same content. So here is a list of folders that I see. What is in them?, or what is their purpose?
Data
Data.noindex
Modified
Originals
Apple TV Photo Cache
Attachments
Auto Import
Backup
Caches
Contents
Database
iLifeShared
iPod Photo Cache
Masters
Previews
ProjectCache
Thumbnails
Question 2 - Which photo folder should I back-up?
If I want to keep a physical backup of my photos, which of the above folders should I copy to an external hard drive? (I use Get Backup to automatically copy all important new or changed files to an external drive)
Question 3 - Using the cloud: What is the best way to backup my large photo library in the cloud safely?
I would like to have some kind of safe backup in the cloud for my photos. However the size of the iphoto library is huge at 165GB. Even the Masters folder is huge. It is 130GB. Is it possible to back up files of this size in the cloud? I have a couple of services called photo streaming and Dropbox, but they don't seem to be able to handle this kind of size. Photo streaming only works with 1000 photos (as far as I can tell), and my Dropbox probably has a limit too. I guess it's about 5GB. I am already using about 3GB of my Dropbox space for other files. I would consider both paid and free solutions.
Many thanks to all the experts for your help!

know that if I want to look at the original photo files on my iMac, I can right-click on users/myname/pictures and select "Show Package Contents".
Don't do that. That's like opening the hood of your car and trying to figure out what all the different bits and peices are and which you can yank out and dispose of. Simply, there are no user-serviceable parts in here.
So, your Question 2:
You back up the iPhoto Library as a single unit.
Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store
Your question 3:
There is no good back up to the Cloud. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the datasets are so large and the cloud services shapre their download speeds. This means restoring can take days to complete. Then, and this is the big problem, the iPhoto Library needs to sit on a disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Bluntly, no servers online are formatted appropriately, and if the Library is written to - by an incremental back up, for instance - there is a very high likelihood that the library will be corrupted.
Your Question 1:
The Library you're describing there sounds like one that has been updated a few times. Not everything you list there is a folder. Some will be aliases.
The Data folders hold thumbnails.
The Masters and Originals folders hold the files as imported from the camera
The Previews hold the versions of the edited photos that are accessed via the Sharing mechanism.
I think if you look losely that you'll notice that one of the Data folders and one of either the Masters or the Originals folders is actually an alias.
Everything else is a database or cache file of some form. All are required for iPhoto to work.
As an FYI:
For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491

What are all these strange .plist's I'm seeing?

Just took a look in my HD > USER > LIBRARY > PREFERENCES FOLDER ... and I see a lot of strange "repetitive" plists.
These are SOME of the strange listings:
... and this kind of "duplicate" .plist occurs with many other preferences in the "Preference Folder" as well.
Some are fine, others have one or more duplicates with strange numbers and characters after them.
I can see that the top .plist icons are using the "textwrangler" icon, and that all others that follow, don't have the "textwrangler" icon ... but are instead "blank" white page icon.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT"S GOING ON HERE ... and why ALL these "duplicate" .plists are being created
AND HOW TO FIX THIS ISSUE?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I know this is not normal OSX behavior

This is the basic explanation for these "strange .plists:
(Read the CNET link in the above discussion window above)
Temporary plist files
Part of the way the system manages preferences files is a protection method for preventing corruption from happening if an error occurs when the system is writing preference files. For instance, if you are saving settings for a program and the system suddenly loses power, then the preferences file being written to may get corrupted and won't open properly when the system is restarted, which would result in all your settings being lost. To combat this, the system creates a temporary file to save the new settings, and when the file is properly saved, it then replaces the old file with the new one.
In OS X 10.6 or earlier, if you look in the preferences folder you may see a number of property list files with a string of eight characters after their names, such as the following:
com.apple.iTunes.plist
com.apple.iTunes.plist.3847EH45
com.apple.iTunes.plist.2GDH17DJ
com.apple.iTunes.plist.37D6JH25
...etc.
All of the files with eight-character strings appended to their names will be 0KB in size, and are the temporary files that were used for a specific preference saving instance. The temporary file should be deleted automatically, but sometimes odd problems may result in them sticking around. The accumulation of these temporary preference files may have been corrected in Lion, but if you are running Snow Leopard or Leopard, then you will likely see them appear after a while of using your system. You can safely remove them from your system if they begin to accumulate over time.

Activity monitor - what are all these processes and how do i stop them?

hi.
i have a laptop that i use completely for live music performance and i want to disable everything on the mac that could be taking up RAM and CPU power.
i firstly notice airport base station agent and spotlight. can i disable these?
i also notice itunes helper... whats that?
i also have lots of others such as - ATSServer, launchd, loginwindow, mdworker, pboard, syncserver, systemUIServer and UserEventAgent... what are these and do i need them running?
many thanks....

hi.
thanks for coming back with an answer so quickly.
in activity monitor i can see spotlight is taking up about 25mb.
i have a 6GB music session to run with a huge CPU load so every bit of my 4GB RAM is taken up.
i do use spotlight a lot but could do without if it meant freeing up a little bit of space... it all helps!
i can see no page outs and it says 0 bytes but even though im running nothing on my computer i only have 3.3GB of my 4 available. 260MB is active and 420MB is wired.
im sure ableton live (my live music app) would appreciate even a little bit more RAM...
i know the maximum RAM my mac can have is 4GB but i think thats the limit for the application anyway so buying a new mac and more RAM wouldnt help i dont think....
any ideas?

What are all these folders

This has been bugging me for some time. On my main harddrive I keep seeing all these weird folders at the root level appearing.
a9bd328f37ba10f3344acc82923cfdcd
229be893aa16e739ef54566134bd6439
5cd82101b1aa18e731f76319b14b411a
b55e7d903f1cc8e1c9dbcf6e08827733
etc....
What are these things and can I delete them?
There located on the same leve as the
Users
Library
Developer
System
Applications
Can I delete these weirdo ones?
Thanks

What's in 'em? Can you view any of them with textedit? Also what's their file size?

What are all these duplicates in iTunes 11?

Why am I seeing all these duplicates in an album in iTunes 11? How can I get rid of them? Why do some have download from iCloud buttons?
I don't want to think.
What's going on here. What has Apple done to a nice simple interface?
doug

Anything you purchased from the iTunes store is now in iCloud, even if you have not used iCloud yourself. It is there to redownload, in case you've accidentally deleted or corrupted your library. In iTunes 11, Apple made the decision for you that if you bought it, and the version you bought from them is not currently on your computer, they were going to give it back to you. So, for example, if you added a CD version of a song or album at a higher bit rate than the one from the Store, they can only see you don't have their version and want you to take it back.
Try going to Preferences, Store, and unclick "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases"

What are all these badges/flags I see in my files?

I am new to Lightroom and find that there are badges or flags overlaid on all my thumbnails in Windows 7 photo files.
I have no clue to what they are. Some are a rectangle with green color and a large white check and some are red rectangles with two right facing
"arrows " (or chevrons) on them. I can't discern what their purpose is other than to block the view of my thumbnails almost completely.
Sure would like to know how to get rid of them.
There is nothing in the Lightroom User Guide on them that I can find ... there isn't even any section "B" in the index! How can I look up badges??

There is nothing in the Lightroom User Guide on them that I can find
You can go to the online help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html
and search for "badge", and you'll get some useful information about what they are and how to control them.
Many people prefer to download the entire Help as a PDF file (see the link in the upper-right corner). When I search the PDF for "badge", I get a few more useful hits.

What are all these light blue lines?

...and how do I get rid of them? I'm working in AICS6. I have a number of paths with images placed inside (called "clipped groups" in the Layers Palette). Running across my entire space are these light blue lines that go on and off with the "clipped group" visibility button in the Layers Palette. They serve no purpose for me and are really annoying as they are cluttering up my drawing area. How do I turn them off, preferably permanently? Thanks in advance.
MH

I hope you can see this. They extend to infinity (or at least AI's version of infinity) in both directions. If they are "smart guides" I don't see what is so smart about them nor what they are guiding. I'm sure I'm missing something useful, but I need to get this project done and right now they are just making a mess of my illustration. Thanks for your help! MH

What are all these files?

Since upgrading my Powerbook to 10.5 I noticed that I am seeing all the system files at the top level of the hard drive, these include bin cores etc sbin usr var volumes. Even after upgrading to 10.5.2 they are still there. Is there an easy way to make them invisible again?

I've had this happen on a few machines, here's how to solve:
Open TextEdit
Create a documnet and put each visible item name you want to stay hidden on a line ie.:
bin
cores
etc
sbin
usr
var
volumes
Then go to the Format menu and select "Make Plain Text".
Now save the file as ".hidden" in the root (make sure you don't have the .txt extension & also uncheck "If no extension is provided, use .txt")
Now restart and those files will be hidden. Note: if you notice any items left out upon restart, you can reopen the ".hidden" file by recent documents.

WHAT are all these printer drivers?

does anyone know if (in the vein of monolingual) there's a utility (or just a way) to remove the gratuitous printer drivers present in OSX? is this advisable? i really don't think i'll be printing directly from this machine in the next few years any time.

IIRC there have been standard OS updates (point) that contain updated printer drivers. I think it was epson. You'll probably get them anyways. I wouldn't advise removing them. Sure, it's 2gigs or something like that, but it's a really useful 2 gigs (might be a little less). You may find yourself printing wirelessly and being really glad you kept all those drivers. The thing about Mac OS X just working is exactly what you're thinking about gutting.
In the vein of monolingual how bout gutting everything but C? I mean...who needs java right.
Calm down....it's not that much space... get a cup, stand outside a supermarket, and soon enough you too can get a larger hard drive.
But..yeah...I would advise against it as being 1) more trouble than it's worth, 2) unreliable, and 3) something you might regret.
You may not need a certain language input menu, but you just may need to print something out. Kinda a higher probability there.
Anyways it IS your Mac. Do what you want with it
Good Luck,
-j

Just downloaded FF 4 beta 1 and... what the hell am I looking at? What are all these multi-colored buttons all over the top of my screen?

What is this? I just downloaded FF 4 beta 1, and I make figure out what all of this at the top of my screen is for. I wish I could send you a screen shot! The actual window is cut in half...what the hell?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== As soon as it was downloaded and installed

That's Page Saver, and it's great for taking a snap shot of a webpage. It doesn't capture any of the browser tool bars and such, though, and that's where my problem is. I've got a great splat of toolbar and many many many colored buttons and other random things eating up the top four or more inches of the screen when I open FF4b1, and I can't get rid of it. A screen capture shows the problem well, but something made with Page Saver only shows the web content and none of the browser.
This is turning out to be far more trouble than it's worth.

I just purchased and downloaded Logic 9. I had Logic 8 previously installed. What the **** happened to my Logic 8. It's gone along with the sounds and my my G4 mastering Folder. And... where are all these sounds stored on my computer I can't find them?...

I just purchased and downloaded Logic 9. I had Logic 8 previously installed. What the **** happened to my Logic 8. It's gone along with the sounds and my my G4 mastering Folder. And... where are all these sounds stored on my computer I can't find them?...

Very many thanks Niel. My problem solved in less than five minutes. I've never had to use that command before. I found the folder and copied it - but I'm still no clearer as to where it was!
Thanks again

FAQ: How do I get started with Photoshop Elements Editor, or What do all these tools do?

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Hi Christoph and WarriorAnt,
Thank you both for the replies.
I don't know anything about GarageBand because I've never used it. I've never used any music software before, (other than iTunes, Ha!)
I don't have GarageBand on my Mac because it wasn't stock on the old Powerbook G4, so I would have to buy it. I'm happy to do that if I can figure out that it does what I want ... but I'm overwhelmed by the info at Apple's site. Too much for a beginner like me. Even the wikipedia.com entry for GB uses too many terms I don't know, so I'm easily lost.
I just want to be able to set up drum loops and play along with them. The main thing is that I'm able to use third party loops. There are so many really amazing loop products out there ... jungle drums, acoustic jazz drums, lounge, etc. I don't want to get caught up in anything proprietary (like Band-In-A-Box) because the selection is limited. I'm sure GarageBands loops are great, but I want access to all these other third party loops as well ... loops that were not specifically made for GarageBand.
Will GarageBand let me drop in any and all drum loops from these other companies?
And does GarageBand work like a basic sequencer, where I can program up an intro, X number of measures of a loop, then a turnaround, then a variation loop, then an ending, etc?
I know the high-end stuff like Native Instruments Kontakt does this, but unfortunately it also does a kazillion other professional-level things I will never need and don't want to pay for (and which make the software more complex and daunting).
Thank you again, both of you, for responding and helping me with this project.
Just a little more advice on those two questions would really go a long way.
-JOHN

How to identify what are all the events are created in background jobs?

Hi all,
how to identify what are all the events are created for background jobs. And what events gets triggered for a particular job.
thanxs
haritha

Hi Haritha,
JOB is a program which starts to a determined point of time and executes some standard programs in the system. JOBs can be planed to a determined point of time on the regular basis (every night, for example) or to some discret time moments. So, the JOB can be planed and then will be started automatically without the manual start.
Realtime programs are understood in the most cases as actual program execution which is started by somebody to the actual moment of time.
Typically per JOBs some special processes will be started that should be executed automatically and regularly: for example, IDOC application, some correction reports, statistic updates etc.
Standard jobs are those background jobs that should be run regularly in a production SAP System These jobs are usually jobs that clean up parts of the system, such as by deleting old spool requests.
Use
As of Release 4.6C, the Job Definition transaction ( sm36 ) provides a list of important standard jobs, which you can schedule, monitor, and edit.
Standard jobs are those background jobs that should be run regularly in a production SAP System. These jobs are usually jobs that clean up parts of the system, such as by deleting old spool requests.
for more information you can go thru the following thread:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/24/b884388b81ea55e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
About Events:
Events have meaning only in the background processing system. You can use events only to start background jobs.
Triggering an event notifies the background processing system that a named condition has been reached. The background processing system reacts by starting any jobs that were waiting for the event.
Types of Events:
There are two types of events:
1.)System events are defined by SAP. These events are triggered automatically when such system changes as the activation of a new operation mode take place.
2.)User events are events that you define yourself. You must trigger these events yourself from ABAP or from external programs. You could, for example, signal the arrival of external data to be read into the SAP system by using an external program to trigger a background processing event.The event scheduler processes an event if the event is defined in the system.
For example, if a system (System 1) receives an event from another system (System 2), the event scheduler of System 1 processes the event only if it is defined in System 1. That event does not need to be defined in System 2 (the sending system).
You define an event by assigning a name (EVENTID) to it. When defining an event, you do not define the event arguments.
for more information you can go thru the following thread:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/fa/096e2a543b11d1898e0000e8322d00/frameset.htm
When you schedule the process chain or infopackages the jobs associated with it run in the background mode. In case you want to create a job for a specific activity you can do so in SM36. You would be creating jobs that would get executed in any one of the options:
1. Immediate
2. Date & Time
3. After event.
4. After job.
5. At Operation mode.
In case you want to view the job logs go to sm37.
Also Pls check DB02 for database performance and ST03 for workload .
Analyse u will have an idea ,
*pls assign points,if info is useful**
Regards
CSM reddy
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How to identify what are all the errors appears in process chain,

Hi all,
i have a process chain running, but i want to find out what are all the errors that the process chain has thrown
thanks
pooja

Hi Pooja,
Errors in monitoring:
SID error
Reason: If the corresponding master data is missing for the particular transaction data.
         1. Check for the load timing for the respective master data, if it less than an hour then make the request red and repeat the ip.
         2. If the data is loaded to PSA then you have to delete the request from target and manually push the data to from PSA.
         3. If we are required for selective update then note down the info source from header and find it in RSA1,select the one with Single as postfix.
         4. Goto data selection tab and change the range.
Tip: change the last 4 digits for from to 0000and the last 4 digit for to     9999.
        5. Repeat the ip.
         6. In case only of failure in one target goto RSA1 find the PSA, put he request no. and reschedule it.
Note: IF PSA is present never make the request red rather delete it.
Replication error
Reason: Data source replication Failed.
         1. In order to handle this error you should be known to IP, info source and source system.
         2. Goto RSA1, find the data source in the source sys tab.
         3. Right click on the data source and replicate it.
         4. Since all the transformation rules pertaining to this data source need to be reactivated so go to SE38 and execute rs_transtru_activat_all, data source and sys name.
         5. Delete the red request from the target.
Update R not supported
Reason: The corresponding initialization flag for the ip is lost.
         1. Goto header click on the ip and goto schedule tab and click initialize in the source system, whatever screen appears delete the only request present(the initialization flag).
         2. Goto RSA1, find the ip in the info source (one with the Adhoc initialize flag).
         3. Goto update tab and select Initialize delta process try going for with data transfer.
         4. Reschedule the IP.
Duplicate Record Error
Reason: Duplicate error records for the loaded master data.
         1. Goto info package via header or via RSA1.
         2. Goto processing tab and change the ip setting, selecting only PSA and ignore duplicate records and re run the ip.
         3. Do remember to change the ip settings back to the original once after the second step.
ODS activation failure
Reason: Prerequisites for ODs activation not satisfied i.e. unique key.
         1. Goto maintain variant.
         2. Check for the QM status of the requests in the target they should be green.
         3. Then click the ODS activation tab.
         4. In the screen which appears put the requests for which ODS activation failed.
         5. Activate these and keep on refreshing them until status reverts from green,
Remember to refresh these requests one at a time.
         6. If requests are red then delete them from target.
         7. Reschedule the IP.
Note: Never Try activating ODS manually if it is Y1.
Aggregate Rollup error
Reason: No aggregate found for the respective rollup.
         1. Click on the variant in which the error occurred.
         2. Goto chain tab and copy the variant and instance.
         3. Run the nestle provided program YBW05.
         4. Put in info in there and put the status as g green.
         5. Execute and refresh the status.
Lock issue
Reason: The same ip is been locked by other user or may be used by other process chain.
         1. We can see the locked entries and in the transaction SM12.
         2. Wait for the other process to get complete once the ip loads to target in that process then there is no need for running it for the process.
         3. In other case make the request red, when PSA is present then goto environment tab ->schedule->initiate update.
         4. In the box appears select update in the background.
         5. And the manually update the failed IPs by selecting manual update in the context menu.
Alfa confirming value error, Time conversion error, Chain didnt start, Delay due to long running job, Poor system performance,Heirarchy node exist in duplicate.
Reasons:
Alfa confirming error: Data format mismatch.
Time conversion error: Date, time format mismatch.
Chain didnt start: A scheduled chain didnt triggered at the prescribed timing.
-For all the above error we have to raise a ticket.
Idoc or TRFC error
Reason: An Idoc is been stuck somewhere.
         1. Reload the Master Data manually again from Info-package at RSA1.
         2. Release the Idoc.
         3. In the source system level got environment->transaction->Transaction RFC or Data ware housing level.
         4. In the Screen if the status is Transaction Recorded it means its stuck goto edit and click Execute LUW or press F6.
         5. If status is Transaction executing then it means its fine wait.
         6. Or raise ticket.
Error Due to short Dump
Reason: Error due to Short dump could be due to many reasons i.e. memory, table space, lock, error record, page allocation, failed change run.
Process terminated in the Source system.
           Reason: Sometimes we face that a load has failed due to job Termination at Source System.
      This happens due to unavailability of the source system or some connectivity problem between source and target systems.
1.      Make the request red.
2.      Delete the request from the data target.
3.      Reschedule the ip.
4.      If still the job fails raise the ticket.
And also check in following links:
Process Chain Errors
/people/mona.kapur/blog/2008/01/14/process-chain-errors
Common Process chain errors
For Data Load Errors check this blog:
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2005/07/28/data-load-errors--basic-checks
Pls assign points if it helps u,
Thanks & Regards,
Madhu

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