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i have not been able to replay older Garage Band productions I have done. I got one to play and then when I edited and saved said did i want to save to newer version. I said ok...But getting repeated error that disc too slow and then starts playing in timeline but no audio then says Garage Band not responding.
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Just some thoughts: You have an older Mac, so that could be part of the problem. You may have processes running in the background, or perhaps your disk is too full. Look in the Apple Knowlege Base for things like Startup Items, Launch Daemons, etc and see if you have any that you can get rid of. Also check your HD available space. If it's too full, your files are probably fragmented and spread all over the disk, which might make it respond too slowly.

What is wrong with my setup? FCP 6 slow as snail.

I have been going nuts trying to troubleshoot what's going on with my system for a while without understanding what's wrong.
I am editing some HDV footage and all is well the first hour of editing. After that the system becomes so slow that clicking anywhere in the timeline takes the slider 10 to 30 seconds to react, not to mention playback just halts. I do not have the spinning ball, I can move the mouse but I cannot do anything with it (nor acess dock or finder when this happens). The system goes so slow that it basically is impossible to continue working on it. Not even a full reboot of the Imac gets the speed up.
About a month ago I bought myself an Imac 2.8 extreme, 3 gigs Ram and 500 gb internal disc, to be able to edit HDV footage (as my old Imac g5 was getting too slow for this task). It's not a macpro but it should be fine. I am working off an external 640 firewire 800 disc (newly formatted, 500 go free). I know HDV isn't the best codec to edit in so I even tried reencoding the media to apples intermediate codec but had same result with system slowing down.
I am getting worried that this may be an issue caused by the new iMac's graphicscard (as many new iMacusers are having problems with freezes) but apart from this I have never had a single real freeze of the system.
if you have any idea what might be going on I really appreciate any, ANY, feedback.

Be sure you're using the latest drivers for your Decklink...
If you didn't perform a totally clean install of the studio 2 when you got it, that might help. It's always been my habit to rebuild my startup disk any time a new OS comes out (i.e. Panther to Tiger) and when a new studio is released... I just have a very stable system as are the ones I watch after. I'm totally convinced this needs to be done periodically. At the school I teach at part time, there are about 65 FCP bays. They do this totally clean install every single semester. I'm convinced that this is the reason they are so stable in general, even being used by many user accounts etc...and by novice users to boot.
Also keep in mind that as drives get fuller, they get slower... so need to keep at least 10% free... they actually start slowing down at 70% capacity. As a side note, CalDigit's new HD PRO unit is stripped in such a manner that it doesn't slow down as it fills up... Apparently they stripe it so that every other drive is using the fastest part of the platters and the others start by using the slowest part of the platters or some such...
Jerry

IR Report found 1 million record with blob files performance is too slow!

we are using
oracle apex 4.2.x
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
mod_plsql with Apache
Hardware: HP proliant ML350P
OS: WINDOWS 2008 R2
customized content management system developed in apex.when open the IR report have 1 ml rows found and each rows have blob(<5MB as pdf/tiff/bmp/jpg) it will be raising rows in future! but the searching performance is very slow!
how can increasing the performance?
how can showing progressing status to user while searching progress going on IR report itself?
Thanx,
Ram

It's impossible to make definitive recommendations on performance improvement based on the limited information provided (in particular the absence of APEX debug traces and SQL execution plans), and lacking knowledge of the application requirements and access to real data.
As noted above, this is mainly a matter of data model and application design rather than a problem with APEX.
Based on what has been made available on apex.oracle.com, taking action on the following points may improve performance.
I have concerns about the data model. The multiple DMS_TOPMGT_MASTER.NWM_DOC_LVL_0x_COD_NUM columns are indications of incomplete normalization, and the use of the DMS_TOPMGT_DETAILS table hints at an EAV model. Look at normalizing the model so that the WM_DOC_LVL_0x_COD_NUM relationship data can be retrieved using a single join rather than multiple scalar subqueries. Store 1:1 document attributes as column values in DMS_TOPMGT_MASTER rather than rows in DMS_TOPMGT_DETAILS.
There are no statistics on any of the application tables. Make sure statistics are gathered and kept up to date to enable the optimizer to determine correct execution plans.
There are no indexes on any of the FK columns or search columns. Create indexes on FK columns to improve join performance, and on searched columns to improve search performance.
More than 50% of the columns in the report query are hidden and not apparently used anywhere in the report. Why is this? A number of these columns are retrieved using scalar subqueries, which will adversely impact performance in a query processing 1 million+ rows. Remove any unnecessary columns from the report query.
A number of functions are applied to columns in the report query. These will incur processing time for the functions themselves and context switching overhead in the case of the non-kernel dbms_lob.get_length calls. Remove these function calls from the query and replace them with alternative processing that will not impact query performance, particularly the use of APEX column attributes that will only apply transformations to values that are actually displayed, rather than to all rows processed in the query.
Remove to_char calls from date columns and format them using date format masks in column attributes.
Remove decode/case switches. Replace this logic using Display as Text (based on LOV, escape special characters) display types based on appropriate LOVs.
Remove the dbms_lob.get_length calls. Instead add a file length column to the table, compute the file size when files are added/modified using your application or a trigger, and use this as the BLOB column in the query.
Searching using the Search Field text box in the APEX interactive report Search Bar generates query like:
select
from
(select
from
(...your report query...)
) r
where ((instr(upper("NWM_DOC_REF_NO"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("NWM_DOC_DESC"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("SECTION_NAME"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("CODE_TYPE"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("REF_NUMBER_INDEX"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("DATE_INDEX"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("SUBJECT_INDEX"), upper(:apxws_search_string_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("NWM_DOC_SERIEL"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("NWM_DOC_DESCRIPTION"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("NWM_DOC_STATUS"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("MIME_TYPE"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0
or instr(upper("NWM_DOC_FILE_BINARY"), upper(:APXWS_SEARCH_STRING_1)) > 0 ))
) r
where
rownum <= to_number(:APXWS_MAX_ROW_CNT)
This will clearly never make use of any available indexes on your table. If you only want users to be able to search using values from 3 columns then remove the Search Field from the Search Bar and only allow users to create explicit filters on those columns. It may then be possible for the optimizer to push the resulting simple predicates down into the inlined report query to make use of indexes on the searched column.
I have created a copy of your search page on page 33 of your app and created an After Regions page process that will create Debug entries containing the complete IR query and bind variables used so they can be extracted for easier performance analysis and tuning outside of APEX. You can copy this to your local app and modify the page and region ID parameters as required.

I am having trouble with lightroom and photoshop being too slow.

Currently I am using LR 5.6 64bit andCS5 64 bit. Is the programs are running too slow because I am using 64 bit? If so, how do I get the other versions. I just started having this problem with the new upgrades.
Please if anyone knows what to do please answer right away. I have jobs that I need to get out.

Thank you both for replying. My processor is 3.2 Ghz. Ram 8gig 64 bit operating. Size of files are 29.6m
available Ram is set to 7170 range in MB i have set to 5019. I have the sync set to sync everything.
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MacPro 3.1 with GTX285 freezes during playback- too slow?

I´m having issues with my MacPro 3.1 (2008, 10GB RAM, GTX 285 card) and FCPX which always freezes only during playback.
I can edit the whole day without any freezing as long as I do not play back the edit for longer than 1 minute. After about 1.15 of continuos playback the computer will freeze for 45 seconds. The audio keeps playing though but the video will freeze and I cant do anything on the computer. Then video comes back for another minute before it will freeze again. So I can never see the whole edit...
When working with Adobe Premiere CS6 or any other program I do not have the slightest issues and the MacPro is working fine the whole day. I only have this issue with FCPX (10.0.6 and 10.0.7)
I have tried the following so far:
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Tom,
thanks a lot for taking the time to reply. Now I´m even more puzzled knowing that it should work fine on my machine.
I also got the impression that the GTX285 should handle FCPX without any issues and it does on my machine until it freezes. Its quite snappy during editing and can play quite a few effects that need rendering in real time. Strange thing also is that I do not get a dropped frame warning after the freeze.
Regarding your questions:
1) I tried all kind of formats ranging from DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, XDCAM and ProRes. Even tried transcoding and proxy. No matter what format I bring in, the freezing will occur
2) tried transcoding and the original file formats
3) Cuda drivers are up to date. I also tried various older drivers and not installing Cuda at all. Same result all the time unfortunately.
I no longer know what I should do... I´m already thinking about buying a ATI 5770 but I´m also using Premiere a lot which works great with the Cuda cards and I do not want to invest into this old machine - still hoping that a new MacPro will arrive eventually later this year...
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Upgrade to GB11 to get rid of that disk too slow error?

I record 4 mics (voice only) into a m-audio fast track ultra, via USB, into the below macbook on Garage Band '09
Or at least, I would, except at 5 minutes in, I get "disk too slow" and it stops recording (although it appears to continue).
Does GB11 resolve this issue? If not...can I at all?
Thanks,
Dan
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Harddrive: 200 gig
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB

chg2winter wrote:
Does GB11 resolve this issue?
that would be highly doubtful
...can I at all?
the best suggestion would be to get an external FireWire hard drive on which tio record, instead of the laptop's slow internal drive

Circle with a slash that goes away after restart?

Hello there!
I have an old mid-2007 imac 24 7.1 Few weeks ago i installed an SSD drive inside and OS Mavericks.
Everything is/was fine but recently i'm getting this circle with a slash. I've read that its an os files problem that people can bypass by going into safe mode and totally remedied by reinstall. However in my case right after I restart my computer, everything is back to normal, except for a small, almost unnoticeable delay during start up (loading under apple on startup white screen)
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Startup in OS X Recovery, go to Disk Utility and Repair your Startup Volume.

What's wrong with my Powerbook?

Hi.
My PB used to work just fine. There has only been one significant change. I had my hard drive fail several months ago, and got the stock 80 GB one replaced with a 100 GB drive (and even upgraded it to 7200 RPM). The work was done by a licensed service center, and the drive is of good quality. The computer starts and restarts with no problem, back-ups proceed with no problem, and my computer works fine in every other respect.
The problem: The pinwheel. All the time. Every other task.
Why is my computer operating so slow? I just ran several bandwidth tests, and my average was around 1 Mbps. Last night, i was scoring above 2 Mbps. I can run Disk Warrior, but only 3 or 4 percent of my drive will be out-of-order, and the pinwheeling will continue.
I'm running OSX 10.3.9, and need to continue for awhile for ProTools reasons.
Any idea of what's wrong here?
Thanks,
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But is the RAM working? Are both modules being recognized?
Disk space isn't an issue here, then.
I think it would be a good idea to work with an Activity Monitor window open to try and see if you can recognize which process(es) is (are) causing your system to hang.
I would suggest that you boot from your Install & Restore DVD, and run Disk Utility's Repair Disk task.
Reboot into your internal drive and repair permissions from Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
Download, install and run a Panther-friendly version of MacJanitor.
Download, install and run a Panther-friendly version of either Cocktail or OnyX or yasu to clean all of your caches (user, system, fonts, etc.), then restart your machine.
I might also suggest that if this regimen doesn't help, you boot into your Install & Restore DVD again, this time holding down the Option key, and choose Apple Hardware Test from the options. Run the extended suite of tests and see if any hardware errors are reported.
If, after all of this, you are still experiencing the same problem without being able to attribute it to a particular process or application, or to RAM or other hardware issues, to cache corruption, etc., then you should consider reinstalling your software onto a freshly formatted, zeroed HD.
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Occasionally it works to open as a copy.
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What to do with G5 iMac that can't boot

I have a G5 iMac running MacOS 10.5.8, with 1.5GB of RAM. When I turned on the iMac after one week of its being powered down (via Shut Down), it did not reboot, stopping part of the way through the boot sequence. I have since run the Apple Hardware Tests (on the original MacOS 10.4) install DVD, and all hardware tests passed. The iMac came with 10.4 and has since been updated to 10.5.8. I also ran applejack, the hardware tests from DiskWarrior (loaded on the iMac) and TechTool Deluxe, and the iMac passed all hardware tests. However, I can only boot up the iMac in Safe Boot mode. I have tried to boot up from DiskWarrior but get a spinning ball. I have been backing up the iMac with a LaCie external hard drive controlled by Time Machine.
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What do you recommend as a way to clean up the problem that is limiting my ability to do a normal start?

Appologies ... I wasn't aware of the 'answering' of posts. (I can now see that stars and other symbols have meaning and noticed the wording at the top of the post).
As there was no response to your sugguestion I assumed that the problem persisted... and it seemed to me to be a suitable place to ask a 'what if that doesn't work' question.
I have previously posted about my problem but didn't really get anywhere (although I have tried a number of things). I have a back injury at the moment that unfortunately regularly limits my mobility and my ability to use a computer... therefore the momentum of my previous post on the subject was lost.

Can someone help me with an error thats going with my app store on my mac. I got my mac and i used a friends account because i didnt have an apple ID. But once i finally made my own i switched users. But for some reason why i try to updatetheaccountappear

So i got a MAC and im trying to update my apps imovie and iphoto but the old account i started with still appears and i cant erase it or delete it. Is it a glitch or something can some really help its a irritating problem. Plzzz respnd some one.
The story:
i got my Mac didnt have an apple id so i used my cousins but now i made me own like ac ouple months ago but when i try to update soem apps my cousins account still appears and i want to get rid of that. Hope someone can help really.

Only the Apple ID that bought the apps can update the apps. That Apple ID is permanently encoded in the apps.
Your only option is to delete your cousin's apps* and buy them with your own Apple ID.
*Your cousin's apps on your Mac is software piracy.

What's wrong with this program that about socket

package example;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Server implements Runnable{
    Thread t;
    ServerSocket sSocket;
    int sPort=6633;
    public Server(){
        try{
            sSocket=new ServerSocket(sPort);
            System.out.println("server start....");
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            e.printStackTrace();
        t=new Thread(this);
        t.start();
    public void run(){
        try{
            while(true){
                Socket cSocket=sSocket.accept();
                ClientThread cThread=new ClientThread(cSocket);
                cThread.start();
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
   public static void main(String[] args){
        new Server();
package example;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ClientThread extends Thread{
    Socket cSocket;
    PrintStream writer;
    BufferedReader reader;
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        cSocket=s;
        try{
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            reader=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(cSocket.getInputStream()));
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
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        try{
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                System.out.println("Server get:"+message);
        }catch(IOException e){
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package example;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Client{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        String ipaddr="localhost";
        PrintStream writer;
        try{
            Socket cSocket=new Socket(ipaddr,6633);
            System.out.println(cSocket);
            writer=new PrintStream(cSocket.getOutputStream());
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            writer.print("hello");
        catch(Exception e){
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}first,I run Server,and then I run Client,
output at Server:
server start....
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:168)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:90)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.implRead(StreamDecoder.java:285)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:182)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:167)
at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:136)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:299)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:362)
at example.ClientThread.run(ClientThread.java:20)
what' wrong??????

In your Client class, after doing writer.print("hello"); you should flush
the output stream. As it is now, you attempt to write something (without actually
sending something to your server) and main simply terminates. The server,
still waiting for some input (you didn't flush on the client side), is confronted with
a closed client socket (main on the client side terminated and implicitly closed
the client socket), hence the 'connection reset' exception on the server side.
kind regards,
Jos

Problem with the table that goes on next page

Hi all,
In my template there is a table that stores detail information. The table property is set to display in box format meaning only the border and not grid. Also I have used <?if:position() mod 10 =0?><xsl:attribute name="break-before">page</xsl:attribute> to display only 10 rows per page. now if there are say 15 rows for detail then the remaining 5 lines are correctly printed in next page, but the table in first page is not displayed in box format.
If needed I can provide you with the xml and template.
Thanks in advance.
Suresh

quick work around
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give the box format for outer table,none for inner.

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