What's so hard about the file system?

I've heard that the file system is hard to understand/navigate recently. I heard Jobs mention it yesterday in the keynote.
I just don't get it. Since OS X they've made a home folder. That's pretty simple. Is this a case of catering to people
who are very new to computers?
I made a folder called Art. In it are all my works in folders with appropriate names. When I save a file from Illustrator
and put it in the art folder the next time I save it goes in that same folder unless I change the path. That's pretty
straight forward, no?
Thanks for any insights.

> Is this a case of catering to people who are very new to computers?
My guess is yes. Apple has been getting a lot of new Mac users via the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and iPod Touch devices which do not expose the file system to the user.
It is my guess that based on support calls, they figured if they minimize the need to understand and navigate the file system, they will have happier customers, where that is an over all average and not necessarily specific cases of experienced users.
One area where new users get confused is where should I put something? There are different existing folders, but they can create their own. Should they use an existing folder, or create their own. Documents sometimes becomes a dumping ground until it becomes difficult to find things. Should the user create a new home level folders or subfolders in Documents?
There are 3 Library folders (assuming you know where to look), what goes where. home folder -> Library is not used consistently by all applications which can confuse users that figure out how to find something for application X, only to have application Y store it differently.
Besides you cannot argue with the success of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and Apple does look at its bottom line and everything there is telling them "Less is More".

Similar Messages

What do I do about the file with a question mark when it starts up?

I have a MacBook Pro, had it for 2 years now. It has been good, up until just now... It was on, perfect as normal until I plugged in my iPad mini and my iPod touch. It started freezing up, and so I turned it off, but when I turned it back on, the file with the question mark just shows up. What am I supposed to do now? I have never had this problem before, and I don't wanna lose everything inside it as I have 2 years worth of pictures and videos. Any suggestions? Is there any steps I can take?
P.s I'm not sure which operating system it is, so I just chose one that might be close to it, as I updated my Mac just a couples weeks ago.

A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported".

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported". What does that mean? I am trying to drag libraries (with metadata) to external HD...wondering what the best way to do that is?

Kirby Krieger wrote:
Hi Shane. Not much in the way of thoughts - - but fwiw:
How is the drive attached?
Can you open large files on the drive with other programs?
Are you running any drive compression or acceleration programs (some drives arrive with these installed)?
Can you reformat the drive and try again?
Hi Kirby,
I attached the UltraMax Plus with a USB cable. The UltraMax powers the cable so power is not an issue. I can open other files. Also, there is 500GB of files on the drive so I cannot re-format it. Although, I noted I could import the entire Aperture Library. However, I do not want to create a duplicate on my machine because that would be defeating the purpose of the external drive.
Thanks,
Shane

Trying to make a iPhoto Library on my external hard drive but I get "the library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported.

Trying to make a iPhoto Library on my external hard drive but I get "the library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported." I reformatted my hard drive to ExFAT because I want to be able to use it on PC and MAC.
iOS: 10.10.1
Mac Book Air
External: WD 500 GB recently reformatted (no files on it currently)

The iPhoto library must only be on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - it can not be on any other format drive
LN

Crystal Report failed scheduling onto the File System

Hi,
We have set up a Crystal report file for scheduling via file system. This report has been running fine with regards to generation all through last few months, but has started failing to generate the report at the scheduled time onto the file system from the last few days. When I checked the logs of the Instance Manager, it shows an error like this 'Unable to connect: incorrect log on parameters. Details: [Database Vendor Code: 1017 ]'.
Please note, I was able to run the report from InfoView without any issue, so I don't believe there is any issue with stored procedure/report/database connection but something else.
Can someone please provide some insights on this.
Thanks.

Hello Satish,
Is this issue specific to FileSystem location? What about default enterprise location?
When you view the reprt in InfoView, click on Refresh button to get current data. If the repot was published with Saved Data option, then you would see data in the report but it would be old one.
Above step would confirm that there is no issues with database user credentials specified with the report.
Also, open the report in Crystal Reports 2011, refresh it and publish without saved data in BI 4 repository and schedule it.
Regards,
Mahesh

What is so "Pro" about the MacBook Pro?

"Pro" is short for professional and the Apple brand has been synonymous with creative professionals for at least 20 years... I know, asI am one of them.
Now, the MAC PRO (tower) is no doubt, a professional grade machine. With 4 hard drives, 2 DVD drives, 4 expansion bays, 5 USB ports and 4 Firewire ports, and a whopping 128GB RAM, I'd say it lives up to the name "Pro". This machine IS the industry standard in film editing, recording studios, graphic design, ect... The one catch, is that it's not portable...
In come the MAC BOOK PRO. It's lightweight and has excellent battery life which is ideal for portability.
Now here's what I'm getting at: When you're on the road, at a meeting, or working in the field, you're probably not going to need all of the hardware of the Mac Pro, but only 2 USB ports? That sounds like a joke to me!
Say you meet someone at a cafe and you decide to transferring some files from your USB drive to his... That's it, you're done for USB ports. You can't even can't grab a charge for your phone, your ipad, plug in a digital camera or whatever because it only has 2 USB ports. And it really annoys me when I see these PC guys with laptops half the price of a MacBook and they're sitting there with all kinds of stuff plugged in. Notebooks like the Inspiron's and ASUS have 5 USB ports... FIVE!!!
So I ask you, "what's so pro about the MacBook Pro?" Having to constantly plug and unplug peripherals is quite amateur to me.

Melophage wrote:
rick268,
the “Pro” in MacBook Pro was in comparison to the “Pro-less” MacBook. If the two USB ports on a MacBook Pro don’t suffice for your needs, then you can either bring along a powered USB hub, or you can simply not get a MacBook Pro — get one of its competitors instead, which has the number of USB ports which you need.
I know I can get a USB hub, or better yet, I've been looking into a thunderbolt hub- I just wish I didn't have to sacrifice ports in Apple's conquest to make the thinnest laptop in existance.

Setting the file system size for the emulator

Hi,
I am trying to set the file system size of the emulator so I can test what happens when the system is full and I try to write to the file system. I am using WTK 2.5.1 and I went into preferences -> storage and set Storage size to 10KB. But when I run the emulator and check the available size of the root directories using:
try {
         Enumeration roots = FileSystemRegistry.listRoots();
         while (roots.hasMoreElements()) {
            String dir = (String) roots.nextElement();
            FileConnection fc = (FileConnection) Connector.open( "file:///" + dir );
            System.out.println( "Available Size on " + dir + " : "+ fc.availableSize());
            fc.close();
      } catch ( IOException ex ) {
         ex.printStackTrace();
}I get the remaining size of my pc's hard drive, not what is remaining from the 10KB I set.
Can you tell me the correct way to do this? I don't want to fill up my pc's hard drive in order to test this!!

Has anyone got an answer to this?

CSS '%% The File System is not mounted.' error.

While I first thought that this was a hardware problem, I've had it happen to 3 of my CSS 11503s in the last 2 weeks. I logged into the CSS and found that the prompt had gone back to the default prompt. Upon further investigation, I was not able to do a write mem - it would just return the following error:
%% The File System is not mounted.
Has anyone seen this before? I went to reboot the unit, but I've lost access to it. I'm actually going to the datacenter today to check it further, but I was hoping someone might be able to tell me if this is a bug or software issue I might need to worry about. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Additional info:
CSS 11503 - failover pair running in one-armed mode.
Version: sg0730203 (07.30.2.03)
Flash (Locked): 07.30.2.03
Flash (Operational): 07.30.2.03
Type: PRIMARY
Licensed Cmd Set(s): Standard Feature Set
Jason

Looks like you have a hard disk failure.
Reboot the CSS and let it go through a full diagnostic.
If it does not work after reboot, you will need to replace the unit.
If it works, this could be a one-time error.
If the error comes back, definitely replace the box.
Gilles.

Error: Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.

when trying to download new messages into Thunderbird, I keep getting the error message:
Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.
what does this mean and how do I correct it???
thanks

I have this problem too, but my Inbox is empty. There are 125 emails waiting on the server, including one i just sent from another address.
The site you recommended is "having difficulties".
May 4
I have now accessed the KB article above. None of the recommended actions made a difference. I deleted about half the 130 emails awaiting download from web-mail, but still got the same error. I can't clean out the inbox because I can't download emails yo it :-( I have 3 other addresses operating under the same server satisfactorily.

Disappointed - Where did the file system go ?

Am I just missing the obvious ? My old HTC TouchPro 2 had an accessible and complete Windows 6.5 file system - Documents, Music, etc. Has that file system access been disabled on these Tropy's ? I have PDF fioles (maps, etc) and other files from the old phone that I want to use. Am I going to reactivate my TouchPro 2 - or is there a way to get to the file system on the Trophys ? Looks like Verizon needs to get more serious about Windows power users (read: BUSINESS clients) - TouchPro's were good but there is no meaningful replacement. Any advice ?

chw wrote:
Am I just missing the obvious ? My old HTC TouchPro 2 had an accessible and complete Windows 6.5 file system - Documents, Music, etc. Has that file system access been disabled on these Tropy's ? I have PDF fioles (maps, etc) and other files from the old phone that I want to use. Am I going to reactivate my TouchPro 2 - or is there a way to get to the file system on the Trophys ? Looks like Verizon needs to get more serious about Windows power users (read: BUSINESS clients) - TouchPro's were good but there is no meaningful replacement. Any advice ?
There is no file system. One way you can get PDFs from the old phone to the new phone is to send the PDFs by email to yourself again. Another way is you could access your SkyDrive (skydrive.live.com) and upload the PDF's there (you'd then go into the Office app and move to the 'locations' pivot. In either case, once you open the file in the Adobe Reader app, the PDFs will be stored on the phone until you delete the file yourself. I don't know what other file types you're trying to access, but I have yet to find a file type that won't open (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, TXT files work, MP3, WMA should work, ZIP files will redirect to Internet Explorer but they will be opened).
As far as Windows power users, that wouldn't be on Verizon, that would be Microsoft, and probably chances are it won't change.

Storing Documents on the File System

Can anyone tell me how to store the documents on the files system?
Probably, I need some kind of pointer records on the SharePoint content DB that point to the document locations on that file system.
I need the detailed info on how to implement this approach to reduce the size of the contentDB on SQL.
The goal is to reduce the size of the content DB and we know the option of splitting it into the multiple site collections/content DBs but wanted to know the different options.

if you're storing the files on the SQL servers' file system, you're not reducing the disk capacity requirements, just moving them from the MDF's to standalone files.
Additionally, backups become more complicated since you need to grab not just the database, but the files.
what you're talking about is remote blob storage. There are also lots of settings that control when RBS is used and when it is not, which, combined with SP2013's file sharding, can be confusing to configure for the results you desire.
Given what you've stated, I would strongly recommend looking at alternatives.
Scott Brickey
MCTS, MCPD, MCITP
www.sbrickey.com
Strategic Data Systems - for all your SharePoint needs

I am trying to resize disk space on parallels 6 for windows XP under configure Hardrive and I get the error resizing failed unable to resize last volume the file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported? I am on a Mac using Parallels 6

I have been trying to increase my disk space for windows xp on my Imac and I am running parallels 6. before opening windows I go into configure in parallels and open the hard drive and try to move the allotted disk space from 32 gig to 64 or any other increased gig and then apply and I get the error message: resizing failed unable to resize last volume. The file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported. How do I increase the size?? I just also did a disk repair utility with Apple on the Apple side of my IMAC. Please Help!! I had uninstalled SQL server on the windows side and needed to uncompress files to install this and then I ran short on disk space.

This sounds to me that your Parallels XP file system is corrupted and not the OSX file system.
Have you checked the XP file system while running the Parallels XP yet ?
However, it would be better to ask such question in the Parallels Forum http://forum.parallels.com/
Stefan

How to create a record based on the name of a file in the file-system?

Hi,
With a lot of pictures I want to have a database to gather some information about these pictures.
First question is how to generate a record based on a file in the file system?
e.g. the pictures are "c:\fotos\2009\01\disc_001.jpg" to "c:\foto\2009\01\dis_98.jpg" .
now i want to create records with as one of the attributes the name of the picture (not the picture itself). how to create these records (based on the information of the file-ssytem). i.e. the number of records should be the same as the number of pictures.
any suggestions?
any reaction will be appreciated.
Leo

Link to Create directory
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/create_directory.html
You can create a list of files in the directory and read the list files from that directory.
[UTL_FILE Documentation |http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/appdev.101/b10802/u_file.htm#996728]
[Solution using Java|http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:439619916584]
SS

[SOLVED] ERROR: Unable to determine the file system type of /dev/root:

:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...done
Root device '804' doesn't exist.
Creating root device /dev/root with major 8 and minor 4.
error: /dev/root: No such device or address
ERROR: Unable to determine the file system type of /dev/root:
Either it contains no filesystem, an unknown filesystem,
or more than one valid file system signature was found.
Try adding
rootfstype=your_filesystem_type
to the kernelcommand line.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[ramfs /]# [ 1.376738] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3013.000 MHz.
[ 1.376775] Switching to clocksource tsc
That's what I get when I boot my Arch system. It worked fine for quite a while, but suddenly it ran into an error where the SCSI driver module was corrupt. I fixed it by reinstalling util-linux-ng and kernel26, however, I run into this issue now. http://www.pastie.org/2163181 < Link to /var/log/pacman.log for the month of July, just in case. Yes, I bought a new ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5450 this Saturday, but it seemed to work fine till this broke and it works fine on Ubuntu too, so I suppose we can rule it out.
Last edited by SgrA (2011-07-05 20:45:36)

Autodetection failed on your first image, in both your previous kernel installs:
[2011-07-04 16:14] find: `/sys/devices': No such file or directory
Which means that sysfs was not mounted. You should be able to boot from the fallback image, which does not use autodetect. Figure out why /sys isn't mounted, as well, and fix that.
This is also a somewhat crappy bug in mkinitcpio that lets you create an autodetect image that's useless. It'll be fixed in the next version of mkinitcpio that makes it to core.
Last edited by falconindy (2011-07-04 17:41:19)

The Em Key is not configured properly or is corrupted in the file system and doe s not exist in the Management Repository.

I'm getting this error and is there any way to resolve this without re-creating the service/s again, etc. Just curious if there are any suggestions/steps I may have missed, if not, I'll drop and recreate the services again
Anyway, I have a backup of the emkey.ora and put it in the sysman/config directory, but still doesn't work... please see below...
C:\Documents and Settings\abigail>emctl status emkey
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Please enter repository password:
The Em Key is not configured properly or is corrupted in the file system and doe
s not exist in the Management Repository. To correct the problem:
1) Copy the emkey.ora file from another OMS or backup machine to the OH/sysman/c
onfig directory.
2) Configure the emkey.ora file by running "emctl config emkey -emkeyfile <emkey
.ora file location>".
C:\Documents and Settings\abigail>emctl config emkey -emkeyfile E:\app\abigail\p
roduct\11.2.0\dbhome_1\sysman\config
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Please enter repository password:
The Em Key is already configured. To override the current configuration, run "em
ctl config emkey <options> -force".
C:\Documents and Settings\abigail>emctl config emkey -emkeyfile E:\app\abigail\p
roduct\11.2.0\dbhome_1\sysman\config -force -sysman_pwd ********
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Em Key could not be configured. Unable to access file E:\app\abigail\product
\11.2.0\dbhome_1\sysman\config.
C:\Documents and Settings\abigail>emctl secure dbconsole -sysman_pwd ********
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
http://ABIGAIL:5501/em/console/aboutApplication
DBCONSOLE already stopped...   Done.
Agent is already stopped...   Done.
Securing dbconsole...   Started.
Please enter repository schema password:
Securing dbconsole...   Failed.
EMKey is misconfigured.

Sorry but I'll have to ignore your suggestion, and don't worry about how I spend my time
AND OHMYGODD IT WORKSS!!! For future reference, this is how I solved it based on my searches, actually based on one particular search:
http://franjv.blogspot.com/2013/08/emkey-problems-in-oracle-rac-11gr2.html
Thank youuu whoever wrote that and... is it the same "Fran" who helped me the last time?!? Coincidence??
ANyway, thank youuuu

What's so hard about the file system?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for