What's the point of updates - if..

Why do the upgrades tend to mess up my other applications? DVD Studio Pro - Bluetooth. I just feel what's the point of getting upgrades now. I did the Pro Application Support application which did take care of my DVD SP - however shouldn't upgrades be exactly that - UPGRADING - not have causes more problems. Taking time away from the work that needs to be done. Sorry - just had to rant a bit.

If you do a search on these forums it would probably boil down to doing these things.
Permissions Repair
Whenever a program that's installed places items into the /Library folder and Applications folder, it often has to amend permissions in order to do so which is why authenticating as an 'Admin' user is required so that it's able to carry out these amendments and place files where they should be and have their correct permissions assigned. Sometimes this change is not always corrected and may affect other programs operation. To help reduce side affects like normal User account being able to change and delete programs in the 'Applications' folder. Disk Utility located in /Applications/Utilities has a 'Permissions Repair' routine which ensures that the proper permissions are assigned based on their package rules.
Cron Scripts
These are scripts which the OS usually initiates itself, but performing them manually by using the Terminal can be beneficial.
Good programs worth looking into are, Onyx available at www.macupdate.com
Running it's maintenance scripts means you don't have to go into the Terminal manually and it does it's stuff very well, I've used it since 10.2 and never had a problem with it, it's updated regular, it's free and better than similar programs doing the same both free and those that charge.
Safe Boot
Starting up the computer after the chime and holding the 'Shift' key down, runs the fsck command, which verifies and fixes any problems with a startup volume, though not all, it also deletes the font cach and databases, so some issues with fonts can be helped by doing this, also if you seem to be getting conflicts in software, this can help to make sure the Apple components are working fine as it only loads the minimum 'kexts' and drivers so the computer operates, almost the equivalent in OS9 but not exactly.
There's lots more but doing these few things can help keep a system in shape, especially if no time was spent doing it beforehand. A note though, doing Permissions repair is not part of a 'Regular' maintenance routine, if you see message like 'Do not have permission' then it's worth doing it then.
Mark

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What Is The Point Of The Login & Keychain Update?

I installed Leopard on Friday.
It did not and still does not recognise my Username and/or Password.
I note that a Login & Keychain Update has appeared in Software Update, its purpose being to address login & password issues "where the password is 8 or more characters".
(1) I cannot install the Update because Leopard does not recognise my password.
(2) My password is only 7 digits long yet I'm still unable to access my iMac properly.
What's the point of issuing an Update for people who are unable to install it?

Hopefull you will have already seen other posts explaining how to get past the login problem. This worked for me:
1 Boot up from the install disc (hold down C key when restarting).
2 Launch the installer as if you are going to install.
3 From the Utilities menu, select reset Passwords
4 In the username field type: System Administrator (root)
5 In the password field type the password you want to use
6 Quit the change passwords app
7 From utilities, select Start Up Disk. Choose you HD as the start up disc and restart
8 Once restarted, select accounts from the System Preferences menu
9 Click the lock at the bottom left
10 When asked for username and password, enter System Administrator as the username and the password you changed earlier as the password
11 Click the enable user to administer computer check box for your account. Your account should now change from Standard to Admin.
After I did that I could log in and download the software update. I was connecting via Ethernet. However, once thte update was installed my PB G4 stated that I do not have an airport card installed (which I obviously do). I still haven't found anything that works for me to fix that. I have given up for the moment.
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Backed up ipod to the cloud (12/25 11am) and then updated. Music is gone and the back up is not restoring?! why? What's the point of the cloud if nothing is there?

Ipod has been playing music in my car the past two years. new computer this year and new email address. Backed up to cloud. change ID on itunes. Music on my ipod disappeared. Shouldn't it be on the cloud somewhere?! What's the point of this cloud? And is it b/c I can't seem to change my icloud ID to the new one on my ipod settings?

Music is not stored in your personal iCloud account, or in your device backup. Music purchased from the iTunes store is in available for redownload as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519. Music from other sources such as your CDs should be in your iTunes library on your computer and can be synced back to your iPod from there.
To change the iCloud account on your device you have to delete the exsting account, then sign back into the new ID.

What's the point of buying apps from the BBWorld?

What's the point of purchasing apps from the BlackBerry world for playbook if I don't even know if they will work after the BB10 update?

thestepiens wrote:
Mama told me 'son, do NOT Gamble' - I will not with my own money. I would advice everyone else the same.
...but you bought a tablet. Not exactly a dead cert.

What is the POINT of the Creative Cloud App?

This is a bug report and a rant:
Every time the CC app updates, one or more of my Installed Apps disappear from it. With the last update, all but two disappeared.
The apps themselves (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Muse, etc.)are all still there on my system, and run fine, they are just gone from the CC app.
So my question is not facetious - WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE CC APP?
Do we need it?
Do we want it?
Please - don't sing me the "uninstall and reinstall" song, I've done it over and over and it won't play.
Fix it or lose it!
Thanks

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What's the point of recovery partition when I have to DL the whole thing anyway?

Well I was supposed to sell my Macbook Air today.
I tried booting CMD-R into the recovery partition and instead it went to some online thing.
So then I booted Option, into the recovery partition and clicked on Reinstall Mountain Lion.
Next thing ya know its got me logging into the Apple Store and now it has a 7 hour download.
So what is the point of the recovery partition if it can't do a fresh copy of Mountain Lion? What exactly is it to help me recover from? What if I was in the hills of Indonesia and tried to do this?
Any now I can't sell this thing until tomorrow as I have a seven hour download wait ahead of me. Had I knows, I would have let that be the new owners problem. Or somehow made a backup of ML previously.
Silly Apple. Always advertising something so great that turns out to be useless.

The silly part is not alerting the user that when you download and install that the .ESD installer package will be deleted and to make a copy of it.
The system you download - guesstimates can be way off - check with speedtest.net - is associated with YOU and your Apple ID and the best thing to do is any OEM material and a blank hard drive - and printout of ML Recovery Mode tech article on doing an internet based install.
Yes you could have setup a 4GB installer flash drive or on your hard drive. Yes they could maintain that 4GB on a larger Recovery partition (it is less than 1GB).
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What's the point of a 3rd Gen?

I read that the 3rd Gen Touch has lower battery by 6 hours from the 2nd Gen Touch. That true?
If so, what's the point?
Just the update? O_o
Oh, and another quick question.
(Off topic a little) Can you buy the 3rd Gen...(Or any iPod Touch)...at an Apple Store?

David. wrote:
I think only newbies would buy the new touch.
If, by "newbies" you mean people who don't already own a Touch, well, that sounds like a pretty good market. Most people don't buy a new iPod every year. (Okay, some of us do. I do. But that's not the point.) Seems like the biggest market share to capture would be people who don't already have one. I don't really see where there's a problem here. Come to think of it, the 2nd gen wasn't a huge revolution from the 1st gen.
We all know you're not going to buy one. We're all okay with that.
And yes, I'll probably buy the 64 gig in a month or so. I may buy the new Nano, too. Silly, I know, but it keeps me too busy to complain about things.

What's the point of redo logs?

Why does Oracle bother writing everything to redo logs? If it's going to write data changes to the disk, why not just write them once to the data files and be done with it? What's the point of doing it twice? And if it's a redundancy thing, why not mirror the data disks?

Hemant K Chitale wrote:
How would you backup a database while it is in use ? You can't lock all the datafiles to prevent writes to them. Yet, transactions may be updating different blocks in different datafiles even as the backup is in progress. Say your backup starts with datafile 1 (or even datafiles 1,2,3,4 in parallel) at time t0. By time t5, it has copied 20% of the datafile to tape or alternate disk backup location. Along comes a transaction that updates the 100th block (somewhere within the 10-11% range) of datafile 1 and also the 60th block of datafile 5. Meanwhile, the backup continues running, already having taken a prior image of the 100th block and not being aware that the block has been changed. At time t25 it completes datafile 1 (or datafiles 1,2,3,4) and starts backing up datafile 5. Now, when it copies the 60th block of datafile 5, it (the backup utility) doesn't know that this block is inconsistent with the backup image of the 100th block of datafile 1.
Instead of 1 transaction imagine 100 or 1000 transactions occurring while the backup is running.
Surely, Oracle must be able to regenerate a consistent image of the whole database when it is restored ?
That is what the Redo stream provides. The Redo stream is written to Archivelogs so that it can be backed up -- no Archivelog file is "in flux" (particularly if you use RMAN to backup the Archivelogs as well !).
Had Oracle been merely writing to the datafiles alone, without a Redo stream, there is no way it could recreate a consistent database -- whether after Crash Recovery OR after Media Recovery.Interesting point about how redo logs facilitate backups. So what you're saying is that the redo logs help keep the data in the actual data files in a consistent state by only writing full transactions to them at a time. Presumably Oracle will either write out the redo log data to the data files before a backup or will at least prevent the redo logs from writing to the data files during a backup. I always wondered how databases got around that problem of keeping the system available for writing during a backup. I wonder how SQL Server does it.
Hemant K Chitale wrote:
Now, approach this from another angle. A database consists of 10 or 100 or 500 datafiles. You have 10 or 100 or 1000 sessions issuing COMMITs to complete their transactions, which could be of 1 row or 100 rows or 1million rows, each transaction of a different size. Should the 1000 sessions be forced to wait while Oracle writes all those updated blocks to disk in different datafiles -- how many blocks can it write in "an instant" ?
But what if Oracle manages to write much less information -- the bare minimum (called "change vectors") to re-play every transaction to a single file serially ? That would be much faster. Imagine writing to 500 datafiles concurrently, having to open the file, progess to the required block address and update the block, for each block changed in each file VERSUS writing much lesser information serially to a single file -- if the file is full, switch to another file, but keep writing serially.As to your second point, I don't really have a good enough understanding about the format of redo logs vs. the data files to follow you totally. Are you saying that it takes more time to write to the data files because you have to find the proper place in the B-Tree before you can write to it? And that doing that is slower than just opening the redo log and always appending new information to the very end? Maybe so, but it seems like all transactions having to write to a single redo log in serial would slow things down since there would be a ton of contention for one file. Whereas with the data files, you could potentially have several transactions writing to different files simultaneously (provided you hardware would support doing that). And it seems to me like a change vector would contain a lot more information than a field value, but, like I said, I'm not really familiar with the format.

What's the point of FileVault?

Of the many recent changes and updates that Lion offers, FileVault has me a little baffled. What's the point of it? Does it allow me to encrypt my files and folders with a password? If so, I haven't seen that option yet. After turning on FileVault, Lion started the process of encrypting my files (so it says) but without the option to enable a password for folders and programs, I'm not sure I understand what purpose it serves.

I use FileVault on all of my systems, which include two MacBook Pro systems (one with dual hard drives), a Mac Mini, and an XServe, and have enabled it on numerous other Macs that colleagues have used, and also enable encryption on most of my external hard drives.
You can clone your encrypted drive, though you might have troubles doing block-level clones. Once the drive is unlocked and mounted the system treats it as any other drive, and you can use Carbon Copy Cloner or another cloning tool to file-level clone your drive. The problem with cloning Lion drives with file-level cloning is you will not copy the hidden Recovery HD partiton, but this hurdle is present regardless of whether or not you have FileVault 2 enabled. However, it only takes a few more steps to restore the Recovery HD partition when cloning or restoring your system from backup (it just takes remembering to do so, since cloning is not officially supported by Apple as a backup/recovery routine).
Installing new applications and managing documents is seamless, and is the same as if you install them on any other OS X system. The encryption happens underneath the OS, so OS X, documents, and applications you use are unaware of it and work as they would on any system.
Your concerns about losing the password are good ones, but if you already set your system to use the login window instead of automatic login then there is no difference (the regular use of the login window ensures you remember your password). The same password is used to unlock the drive and then log into your account once the system is booted. The difference with login is that you will need to specify the users who are able to unlock the drive (done in the FileVault system preferences). If a user is not, then the initial login window will not show that user account, and to get to that account another user will have to log in, and then log out so the unauthorized user can access his account.
In terms of performance problems, I've not seen any in my uses (primarily office and computational analysis with programs such as Igor Pro, Matlab); however, I use SSDs in my systems so this greatly increases overall performance and results will likely be different if you are using the slower classic HDD technology.

What's the point of To Do's?

What's the point of the To Do list syncing if the iPod is going to show all To Dos, even completed ones, in an alphabetical list? Shouldn't it only show the current non-completed ones?

I had created a youtube video to show how the bluetooth in control center should work, let's hope apple make it in the next update!
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What is the point of having a smartphone if nothing ever works?

Before my GS3 updated to kitkat my apps would crash all the time. My phone updated last week and now the apps work but in what used to be areas with strong steady 4g coverage I have no data. So annoyed. I can turn my data on and without touching it I'll have 4g for a minute and then none before coming back for 5 seconds only to go out again. What am I paying for? My office doesn't have wifi and I have a large data allowance but what is the point if I can never use it? I do a lot of travelling and use my phone as a GPS but as I have no no longer have reliable service anywhere even in Philadelphia where it was a constant 4g. Not to mention the GPS is unreliable as well. Waze is an amazing GPS but to have a phone that doesn't work half the time is frustrating. I should just go back to my old flip phone that lasted me 2 days on a single charge. My phone is due for an upgrade in a few months. Maybe I'll save some money and get something that isn't a smartphone and I won't have to worry about paying for the data and everything else that comes with having a smartphone.

I can understand that Verizon did not make the phone. My satellite provider did not make the dish nor the receiver I use either, but if they malfunction and make it to where I cannot receive their service (the satellite signal) then the satellite provider assists in getting equipment that works. If it is a software issue, they have more sway with the provider of said software, as the representative and mass user of the software, than individual customers do. So if Verizon is receiving multiple complaints from their customers, complaints that their customers are unable to use the service that they are being paid to provide, then they can go to manufacturer to request the fix. Who do you think Google or Samsung is going to listen to more, an individual who received a phone from a 3rd party (Verizon) or the entire company who purchases those items (phones and software) en-masse and thus can more affect their bottom line? As another example... when you purchase a car and the seatbelt malfunctions, do you go to the seatbelt manufacturer or back to the car maker? Should each person who has a seatbelt malfunction go to the seatbelt maker or should the car maker issue a recall on all affected vehicles and offer a fix, provided from the seatbelt maker? When I go back to Samsung or Google, and IF they listen to me and initiate a fix, what priority is Verizon going to make it to get it out to their customers? Or is Verizon relying upon each disgruntled user to go find their own fix without it affecting them (Verizon) at all? Other service providers have already started issuing fixes according to my research... and if Verizon delayed pushing this update out for so long (as I've seen complaints that it was), why did they push it with these known issues and not insist before they pushed it out that Google or Samsung fix it first so as not to get these complaints? Sorry, but Verizon is at least partially responsible for my inability to use their service, as the provider of the equipment and software that I need to be able to utilize their services. I didn't go out on the black market and purchase this phone, I bought it at a Verizon store. I have not rooted the phone or in any way done anything other than add about 6 apps to the phone from the way it was provided to me by the store, and their required update - pushed across their cellular and data service - is what has resulted in my phone no longer being functioning. So yes, while Verizon may not manufacture the phone or the software, they are in fact the provider of said items to me and thus are responsible, and should be pushing back to Google or Samsung to get a fix for their customers. I was hoping to hear that Verizon was doing just that, but it does not appear to be the case.... Yes, other providers may be having the same issue, but I've seen them working with their customers to get a solution, providing CUSTOMER SERVICE to their customers, and that is all that I and others like me, have been looking for from Verizon in this kitkat fiasco and which they have been failing at.

What is the point of a back-up?

After updating my 4s from os 6.1 to 7 I lost all my apps and my music, why are music and apps not included in a full phone backup? What is the point of a backup if everything will be wiped and cannot be recovered?

There IS "warning" or information about what is stored in a backup. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946.
Apple does make the assumption that you will keep your music in iTunes on your computer, because if you don't the next time you connect the phone to your computer and sync the music will be erased. Or if you don't that you will take advantage of iTunes Match for music not from the iTunes store.
The point is why didn't you keep the music in iTunes? It can't be because it takes up too much space, because if your music was in your backup it would take up just as much space.

What is the point of syncing apps with iTunes?

I have an iPad & iPhone.
In older itunes the updates on one device would sync to itunes. but now what is the point of apps in itunes other than to waste space? if i backup a device, all apps seem to come from the internet. if i update then don't sync to itunes on pc so i end up download all updates 3 times (ipad/iphone/itunes).
Should I just delete all apps from itunes and same space both on hdd and on network (since i backup my itunes folder).
note that I have 300mbps unlimited internet.

Is the device backing up to iTunes on the computer or iCloud?
If backing up to iTunes on the computer, any content purchased from iTunes (apps, media, podcast, etc) will transfer during the backup/sync process.
If backing up to iCloud, content does not transfer automatically.
The purpose is to have a local backup of content. This is beneficial in the event that content is removed from iTunes and the user wants to reinstall or restore the device.

TS1702 what is the point of the Ipod touch(2nd generation)?Every single app Is not compatible with it.Seems like a complete ripoff to me.My phone was alot cheaper and does way more.Very frustrated with this device.

what is the point of the Ipod Touch(2nd generation)?Every single app is not compatible with it.Am I missing something?My cell phone cost 1/2 as much and does way more.This is why I don't normally purchase any apple products.Overpriced flashlight,that's about all it does.

There are still some apps compatible, with the 2G. Also, since September, Apple has now allowed download the last version of apps that were compatible with the 2G but have been updated to no longer be compatibles
To more easily find compatible apps:
iOSSearch - search the iTunes store for compatible apps.
Apple Club - filter apps by iOS version.
App Store: Downloading Older Versions of Apps on iOS - Apple Club
App Store: Install the latest compatible version of an app

What are the tables will update while loading Master data ?

Hello Experts,
What are the tables will update while loading Master data ? And requesting you to provide more information about Master data loading and its related settings in the beginning of creation infoobjects.

It depends upon the type of Master data u r loading....
In all the master data loadings, for every new value of master data an SID will be created in the SID table /BI*/S<INFOOBJECT NAME> irrespective of the type of master data.
But the exceptional tables that get updated depending on the type of master data are.....
If it is a time Independent master data then the /BI*/P<INFOOBJECT NAME> table gets updated with the loaded data.
If it is a time dependent master data then the /BI*/Q<INFOOBJECT NAME> table gets updated with the loaded data.
If the master data is of time Independent Navigational attributes then for every data load the SID table will get updated first and then the /BI*/X<INFOOBJECT NAME> table gets updated with the SID's created in the SID table (NOT WITH THE MASTER DATA).
If the master data is of time dependent navigational attributes then for every data load the SID table will get updated first and then the /BI*/Y<INFOOBJECT NAME> table gets updated with the SID's created in the SID table (NOT WITH THE MASTER DATA).
NOTE: As said above, For all the data in P, Q, T, X, Y tables the SID's will be created in the S table /BI*/S<INFOOBJECT NAME>
NOTE: Irrespective of the time dependency or Independency the VIEW /BI*/M<INFOOBJECT NAME> defined on the top of /BI*/P<INFOOBJECT NAME> & /BI*/Q<INFOOBJECT NAME> tables gives the view of entire master data.
NOTE: it is just a View and it is not a Table. So it will not have any physical storage of data.
All the above tables are for ATTRIBUTES
But when it comes to TEXTS, irrespective of the Time dependency or Independency, the /BI*/T<INFOOBJECT NAME> table gets updated (and of course the S table also).
Naming Convention: /BIC/*<InfoObject Name> or /BI0/*<InfoObject Name>
C = Customer Defined Characteristic
0 = Standard or SAP defined Characteristic
* = P, Q, T, X,Y, S (depending on the above said conditions)
Thanks & regards
Sasidhar

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