iTunes sharing

[Christopher Phillips]

So...

Our mini is connected to the stereo, but I'm usually sitting at my laptop, with 
my iPhone to hand.  Is there a saner way to be able to browse/play tracks from 
my laptop's iTunes library than just cloning it across the network via 
HomeShare, and using the iPhone Remote app to control the mini?

I used to have an airport express hooked up to the stereo, so I just played 
tracks from my macbook via AirPlay, but the express died, and besides which it 
was frequently fairly glitchy.




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Re: .MTS files and iMovie

[Ronda Brown]

Hi again John,

As I mentioned before about importing into iMovie … File > Import > "Camera 
Archive". 
I know your Camera is a Canon FS200 HD video camera, but this might be relative 
to your issue. I found it on a Panasonic website in my searching but can't find 
it again.

"Remove the SD card from the camera, insert into the card slot, then in 
iMovie->File->import->Camera Archive... (the "No Name" SD card will already be 
selected, with the status "Camera Archive detected")->Import.

Do not browse down into the card! - The status will say "Archive Detected - 
..." at the root level of the SD card (where you see DCIM/MISC/PRIVATE/). If 
you click on one of those folders, iMovie will no longer detect the camera 
archive and will "grey out" the IMPORT button."  

Cheers,
Ronni


On 15/11/2010, at 3:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> One reason that a Mac may not read an SDHC card is that it may be plugged 
> into a SD reader, not SDHC (as James has mentioned).
> But, that doesn't explain why the SDHC card in the Camera is not recognised 
> by iMovie'09.
> 
> I'm sure you are trying to import correctly by opening iMovie > Import from 
> Camera or Import Camera Archive.
> 
> 
> On 15/11/2010, at 3:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
> 
>> Yes Ronnie this has been an on-going issue and I have tried every 
>> combination of connection. John c
>>  
>> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf 
>> Of Ronda Brown
>> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:59 PM
>> To: WAMUG Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie
>>  
>> Hi John,
>>  
>> Just a thought … Have you tried opening iMovie first BEFORE you connect the 
>> Camera.
>> Then connect the Camera, are the files stilled greyed out?
>>  
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>  
>> On 15/11/2010, at 1:49 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  
>>  
>> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf 
>> Of Ronda Brown
>> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:29 PM
>> To: WAMUG Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie
>>  
>> Hi Ronni I’m very pleased to see you giving it some thought for me, although 
>> it would have been better if it had been” Oh yes, all you need to do is...”
>> No the .MTS files on the HD VIDEO AVCHD SD card are greyed out as they are 
>> with the card reader.
>> Regards John C
>> On 15/11/2010, at 1:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>>  
>>  
>> On 15/11/2010, at 12:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
>>  
>> I have been tearing what little hair I have left, out for a few weeks now.
>> I am using a pretty new card reader to transfer .MTS files from an AVCHD SD 
>> card onto iMovie – video shot using Cannon FS200 HD video camera.
>> When I use an ordinary AVCHD SD card, (not a HD VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD 
>> card) iMovie recognises the files straight away opens the Import window and 
>> allows me to select the .MTS files I wish to import.
>> The HD  VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card will display the .MTS files within the 
>> ‘stream folder’ but they are greyed out and apparently not recognised by 
>> iMovie as importable.
>> I can use a video converter that turns the files into a .MOV that iMovie 
>> recognises and can be imported. This is a slow and unwelcome addition to the 
>> work-flow.
>> Trying to import files to (Intel) iMac with iMovie ’09. FCE does not 
>> recognise the files from the HD VIDEO card either. Cannot get files straight 
>> from the camera.
>> Do I need a special card reader for HD VIDEO AVCHD SD cards? Is there a 
>> setting (staring at me)somewhere that I haven’t changed?
>> Anybody able to help? Regards John c
>>  
>> Hi John,
>>  
>> What version of are you using iMovie'08, '09, '11?
>>  
>> Sorry John you have already mentioned you are using iMovie'09 :-(
>> 
>>  
>> Do the MTS files import directly from the camera? No!
>>  
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Can anyone be specific about the plist?   Which one?


Bill
On 15/11/2010, at 3:13 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:



80GB  free on a 300GB boot disk, Rob
I have looked at Activity Monitor before but will give it another  
try.  Many thanks

Severin

On 15/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:



Hi Severin

How much free disk space do you have? <20% can be an issue...

Can you use Activity monitor to see what's happening?

The article in last week's MacTalk forum may be helpful. 
http://www.mactalk.com.au/2010/11/04/using-activity-monitor-to-diagnose-poor-performance/

Rob

On 15/11/10 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I am running 10.5.8 on a G5 1.8SP and Office 2008.  Recently I  
have found that Word is behaving "snitchy" for want of a better  
description.  Slow and hesitant, spinning ball, closing with  
apology!, hanging and needing forced close.  Everything else seems  
normal though I would say that iPhoto, with large libraries, is  
rather slow.
I have done all the obvious things like cleaning caches, running  
Disk Warrior, repairing permissions, running maintenance scripts,  
reinstalling 10.5.8 combo update with no change evident.
I see a list as long as your arm of Microsoft .plists in  
Preferences and am tempted to trash them all.   Removing and  
reinstalling Office is another option that is available.
Additionally I have a bootable clone and am thinking to erase the  
disk and then reinstall the clone, or erase the disk, and do a  
clean system install.

I await comments or suggestions before attacking any of these.
No, iWork is not an option, unfortunately!
Severin Crisp



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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Ronda Brown]

I guess Bill if its Word having the problem.

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

The  ~ (Tilde) represents your 'User Account'

Cheers,
Ronni


On 15/11/2010, at 4:28 PM, Bill Parker wrote:

> 
> Can anyone be specific about the plist?   Which one?
> 
> 
> Bill
> On 15/11/2010, at 3:13 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 80GB  free on a 300GB boot disk, Rob
>> I have looked at Activity Monitor before but will give it another try.  Many 
>> thanks
>> Severin
>> 
>> On 15/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Severin
>>> 
>>> How much free disk space do you have? <20% can be an issue...
>>> 
>>> Can you use Activity monitor to see what's happening?
>>> 
>>> The article in last week's MacTalk forum may be helpful. 
>>> http://www.mactalk.com.au/2010/11/04/using-activity-monitor-to-diagnose-poor-performance/
>>> 
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>> On 15/11/10 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
 I am running 10.5.8 on a G5 1.8SP and Office 2008.  Recently I have found 
 that Word is behaving "snitchy" for want of a better description.  Slow 
 and hesitant, spinning ball, closing with apology!, hanging and needing 
 forced close.  Everything else seems normal though I would say that 
 iPhoto, with large libraries, is rather slow.
 I have done all the obvious things like cleaning caches, running Disk 
 Warrior, repairing permissions, running maintenance scripts, reinstalling 
 10.5.8 combo update with no change evident.
 I see a list as long as your arm of Microsoft .plists in Preferences and 
 am tempted to trash them all.   Removing and reinstalling Office is 
 another option that is available.
 Additionally I have a bootable clone and am thinking to erase the disk and 
 then reinstall the clone, or erase the disk, and do a clean system install.
 I await comments or suggestions before attacking any of these.
 No, iWork is not an option, unfortunately!
 Severin Crisp
 
 
 
 *Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP*
 
 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
 
 Phone(08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
 
 emailmailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
 
 
 
 
 
 




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Re: MacGraPhoto 2 - a bundle of great graphics applications is here!

[Marlene Oostryck]

Hi Daniel

This looks interesting! Do I just click on the address(63519 etc)  
below to use your link?

Wish I had more time to play with all these fascinating new toys!

Regards

Marlene Oostryck

On 08/11/2010, at 9:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:



Hi All

For those interested in some cool little graphics App's here is a good
bundle!
The programs included are:-
ImageFramer, Layers, Posterino, AtomicView, Snapshot, Sketch, Hydra,  
Swift

Publisher.
It also includes the Sandvox program Peter H has demoed a few times.
(And a bonus app of DVD Library).
All for USD$39.99 (instead of about $444)

If you are interested in please use my link as it helps me out with  
the

affiliate program, and is greatly appreciated.


Enjoy

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[Daniel Kerr]

Hi Marlene

That is correct, thanks.

Kind Regards
Daniel

(Who had to edit this simple post three times to take out the extra letters
that Andrew felt needed to be included. Hard to type with a 22month old
pressing extra keys for you,...lol) :o)


On 15/11/10 7:00 PM, "Marlene Oostryck"  wrote:

> Hi Daniel
> 
> This looks interesting! Do I just click on the address(63519 etc)
> below to use your link?
> Wish I had more time to play with all these fascinating new toys!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marlene Oostryck
> 
> On 08/11/2010, at 9:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> For those interested in some cool little graphics App's here is a good
>> bundle!
>> The programs included are:-
>> ImageFramer, Layers, Posterino, AtomicView, Snapshot, Sketch, Hydra,
>> Swift
>> Publisher.
>> It also includes the Sandvox program Peter H has demoed a few times.
>> (And a bonus app of DVD Library).
>> All for USD$39.99 (instead of about $444)
>> 
>> If you are interested in please use my link as it helps me out with
>> the
>> affiliate program, and is greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> 
>> Enjoy
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> Daniel
>> ---
>> Daniel Kerr
>> MacWizardry
>> 
>> Phone: 0414 795 960
>> Email: 
>> Web:   
>> 
>> 
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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Daniel Kerr]

Just to add to Ronni's post.
If you're using Office 2008 it also stores settings in this locations:-
Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library/Prferences/Microsoft/Office 2008
(or as Ronni posted I could have left off the first 3 parts and used ~).
You can just move the whole folder out to the Desktop and it will recreate
it.

The other folder to "kill off" is:-
Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library/Caches/Microsoft Office.
Move the OP Cache folder out and let it recreate a new one.

Hope that helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel


On 15/11/10 5:35 PM, "Ronda Brown"  wrote:

> 
> I guess Bill if its Word having the problem.
> 
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist
> 
> The  ~ (Tilde) represents your 'User Account'
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 
> On 15/11/2010, at 4:28 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Can anyone be specific about the plist?   Which one?
>> 
>> 
>> Bill
>> On 15/11/2010, at 3:13 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 80GB  free on a 300GB boot disk, Rob
>>> I have looked at Activity Monitor before but will give it another try.  Many
>>> thanks
>>> Severin
>>> 
>>> On 15/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:
>>> 
 
 Hi Severin
 
 How much free disk space do you have? <20% can be an issue...
 
 Can you use Activity monitor to see what's happening?
 
 The article in last week's MacTalk forum may be helpful.
 http://www.mactalk.com.au/2010/11/04/using-activity-monitor-to-diagnose-poo
 r-performance/
 
 Rob
 
 On 15/11/10 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
> I am running 10.5.8 on a G5 1.8SP and Office 2008.  Recently I have found
> that Word is behaving "snitchy" for want of a better description.  Slow
> and hesitant, spinning ball, closing with apology!, hanging and needing
> forced close.  Everything else seems normal though I would say that
> iPhoto, with large libraries, is rather slow.
> I have done all the obvious things like cleaning caches, running Disk
> Warrior, repairing permissions, running maintenance scripts, reinstalling
> 10.5.8 combo update with no change evident.
> I see a list as long as your arm of Microsoft .plists in Preferences and
> am tempted to trash them all.   Removing and reinstalling Office is
> another option that is available.
> Additionally I have a bootable clone and am thinking to erase the disk and
> then reinstall the clone, or erase the disk, and do a clean system
> install.
> I await comments or suggestions before attacking any of these.
> No, iWork is not an option, unfortunately!
> Severin Crisp
> 
> 
> 
> *Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP*
> 
> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
> 
> Phone(08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
> 
> emailmailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Severin Crisp]

Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this  
one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will  
assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive free  
space and speed is intriguing and obvious when you think about it.  In  
any case I may update to a bigger boot drive accompanied by a general  
cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



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[Ronda Brown]

Hi Severin,

The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred to a 5400-rpm. 
I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro ;-) 
I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB Available Space, I 
like more than 30% Available Space.

If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all you were 
doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum of 50 GB free unused 
space available, this allows the operating system vital unused space to write 
its swap files, virtual memory scratch disk.

Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and greatly slow 
disk access down, too. 

Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the entire install 
until the hard drive literally won't mount or the computer won't boot or run 
without constant crashing.

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:

> 
> Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this one.  For 
> the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will assess the outcome 
> in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive free space and speed is 
> intriguing and obvious when you think about it.  In any case I may update to 
> a bigger boot drive accompanied by a general cleanup.
> Enjoy the sunny day!
> Severin
> 
> 
> 
>   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
>   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
>Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Bill Parker]

Had me doing some spring cleaning as well when I saw bits of software  
using memory when I thought I had chucked them out two years ago.


Activity monitor is a great way to see things, even if you do not know  
what they all are!


Bill
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this  
one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will  
assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive  
free space and speed is intriguing and obvious when you think about  
it.  In any case I may update to a bigger boot drive accompanied by  
a general cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



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[Paul Burke]

Anyone know what this means? 

 

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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Rob Phillips]

I posted something in early September which may be useful. On the other 
hand, Ronni posted something in response which implied this whole disk 
fragmentation 'story' may be a furphy, because Snow Leopard does this 
already.  In any case, one of my problems resolved itself after running 
idefrag, but I can't claim it was because of idefrag.


Cheers
Rob

I did some searching on the web and found Mac OSX Routine Maintenance 
by Randy B. Singer http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html. One part of 
that article was about disk defragmentation. The standard OSX 'wisdom' 
is that OSX automatically defragments disks.  It is true that OSX 
handles /file/ fragmentation, where parts of files are on different 
parts of the disk.  It doesn't handle /drive/ fragmentation, where 
files are spread all over the disk, and there isn't enough contiguous 
space left for swap files, etc.  This was the cause of my CPU 
thrashing.  When I installed Snow Leopard and Office 2008 they filled 
up the free contiguous space, and the removed old Leopard files left 
various gaps.


I used iDefrag (http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php - GBP 20) 
and this fixed up my CPU thrashing problems.



On 16/11/10 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:


Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this 
one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will 
assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive free 
space and speed is intriguing and obvious when you think about it.  In 
any case I may update to a bigger boot drive accompanied by a general 
cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



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I think you may be right reading that article, though hopefully it's a
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[Severin Crisp]

Ronni,
	thanks, as always, for your perceptive and valuable summing up  
comments on this one.
After Mail and Safari my main work is with Photoshop, Word, iPhoto,  
iMovie, Mpegstreamclip, CinematizePro and FinalCut Express(learning!)  
so there is lots of call for extra scratch space and the like.  I have  
been aware of a perceptible but difficult to quantify slow down in  
recent times.  My 300GB internal boot disk now has 80GB "free", slowly  
diminishing, and I have been looking to a bigger one anyway, as well  
as a possible increase from my 3GB RAM.   Hiving off stuff to an  
external drive, of which I have several, is feasible but clumsy, and  
disk GBs are no longer seriously expensive.

No, I would not consider a 5400rpm drive!
Enjoy this lovely sunny day!
Severin

On 16/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Severin,

The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred to a  
5400-rpm. I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro ;-)
I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB Available  
Space, I like more than 30% Available Space.


If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all  
you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum  
of 50 GB free unused space available, this allows the operating  
system vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory  
scratch disk.


Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and  
greatly slow disk access down, too.


Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the  
entire install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the  
computer won't boot or run without constant crashing.


Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this  
one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and  
will assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real"  
drive free space and speed is intriguing and obvious when you think  
about it.  In any case I may update to a bigger boot drive  
accompanied by a general cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



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 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
  Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Rob and others who 'might' still be in the "Need to Defrag" Group,

I don't wish to start a "For Defrag - Against Defrag" discussion, just point 
out a couple of things ;-)
Using a free frag disk has great potential to wreck your Mac.
Have you noticed that there is no Apple de-frag application?

Amit Singh has written some comprehensive books on Mac Operating Systems. 
I purchased his book  “Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach” quite a few 
years ago.

I have managed to find this article online taken from his book for anyone 
interested in reading it.
Although it was written in the days of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, the article 
certainly applies to today. 



If you don’t want to read all the complex article …the Conclusion is this:

/Quote:
“Defragmentation on HFS+ volumes should not be necessary at all, or worthwhile, 
in most cases, because the system seems to do a very good job of 
avoiding/countering fragmentation.

It is risky to defragment anyway: What if there's a power glitch? What if the 
system crashes? What if the defragmenting tool has a bug? What if you 
inadvertently reboot? In some cases, you could make the situation worse by 
defragmenting.”
/End Quote

Cheers,
Ronni

On 16/11/2010, at 10:24 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:

> 
> I posted something in early September which may be useful. On the other hand, 
> Ronni posted something in response which implied this whole disk 
> fragmentation 'story' may be a furphy, because Snow Leopard does this 
> already.  In any case, one of my problems resolved itself after running 
> idefrag, but I can't claim it was because of idefrag.
> 
> Cheers
> Rob
> 
>> I did some searching on the web and found Mac OSX Routine Maintenance by 
>> Randy B. Singer http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html. One part of that article 
>> was about disk defragmentation. The standard OSX 'wisdom' is that OSX 
>> automatically defragments disks.  It is true that OSX handles /file/ 
>> fragmentation, where parts of files are on different parts of the disk.  It 
>> doesn't handle /drive/ fragmentation, where files are spread all over the 
>> disk, and there isn't enough contiguous space left for swap files, etc.  
>> This was the cause of my CPU thrashing.  When I installed Snow Leopard and 
>> Office 2008 they filled up the free contiguous space, and the removed old 
>> Leopard files left various gaps.
>> 
>> I used iDefrag (http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php - GBP 20) and 
>> this fixed up my CPU thrashing problems.
> 
> 
> On 16/11/10 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this one.  
>> For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will assess the 
>> outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive free space and speed 
>> is intriguing and obvious when you think about it.  In any case I may update 
>> to a bigger boot drive accompanied by a general cleanup.
>> Enjoy the sunny day!
>> Severin
>> 




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RE: .MTS files and iMovie

[CARLSON John]

Hi Ronnie and other wamuggers,
Ok have bought a new expensive (relatively)card reader - no luck, I was really 
hoping this would do the trick.
Tried your camera method Ronnie and again disappointed, it keeps telling me the 
folder is not a camera archive.
A difference in  the cards I noticed today is that the HD Video SDHC card is a 
class 4 card and the standard SDHC card is a class 6, not sure if this would 
make any difference!
Log and transfer in FCE does not recognise any files on the HD VIDEO card.
Advice about going to Sandisk for help might be the go.
From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of 
Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 4:12 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi again John,

As I mentioned before about importing into iMovie ... File > Import > "Camera 
Archive".
I know your Camera is a Canon FS200 HD video camera, but this might be relative 
to your issue. I found it on a Panasonic website in my searching but can't find 
it again.

"Remove the SD card from the camera, insert into the card slot, then in 
iMovie->File->import->Camera Archive... (the "No Name" SD card will already be 
selected, with the status "Camera Archive detected")->Import.
Do not browse down into the card! - The status will say "Archive Detected - 
..." at the root level of the SD card (where you see DCIM/MISC/PRIVATE/). If 
you click on one of those folders, iMovie will no longer detect the camera 
archive and will "grey out" the IMPORT button." Did not detect archive at the 
root level for HD VIDEO card. Picked up and mounted files immediately I swapped 
the card to the Standard SDHC card. iMovie and FCE both read from card reader 
and camera when the standard card is inserted in either.

Cheers,
Ronni


On 15/11/2010, at 3:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:


One reason that a Mac may not read an SDHC card is that it may be plugged into 
a SD reader, not SDHC (as James has mentioned).
But, that doesn't explain why the SDHC card in the Camera is not recognised by 
iMovie'09.

I'm sure you are trying to import correctly by opening iMovie > Import from 
Camera or Import Camera Archive.

On 15/11/2010, at 3:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:


Yes Ronnie this has been an on-going issue and I have tried every combination 
of connection. John c

From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au 
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:59 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi John,

Just a thought ... Have you tried opening iMovie first BEFORE you connect the 
Camera.
Then connect the Camera, are the files stilled greyed out?

Cheers,
Ronni

On 15/11/2010, at 1:49 PM, CARLSON John wrote:



From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au 
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:29 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi Ronni I'm very pleased to see you giving it some thought for me, although it 
would have been better if it had been" Oh yes, all you need to do is..."
No the .MTS files on the HD VIDEO AVCHD SD card are greyed out as they are with 
the card reader.
Regards John C
On 15/11/2010, at 1:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:


On 15/11/2010, at 12:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:

I have been tearing what little hair I have left, out for a few weeks now.
I am using a pretty new card reader to transfer .MTS files from an AVCHD SD 
card onto iMovie - video shot using Cannon FS200 HD video camera.
When I use an ordinary AVCHD SD card, (not a HD VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card) 
iMovie recognises the files straight away opens the Import window and allows me 
to select the .MTS files I wish to import.
The HD  VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card will display the .MTS files within the 
'stream folder' but they are greyed out and apparently not recognised by iMovie 
as importable.
I can use a video converter that turns the files into a .MOV that iMovie 
recognises and can be imported. This is a slow and unwelcome addition to the 
work-flow.
Trying to import files to (Intel) iMac with iMovie '09. FCE does not recognise 
the files from the HD VIDEO card either. Cannot get files straight from the 
camera.
Do I need a special card reader for HD VIDEO AVCHD SD cards? Is there a setting 
(staring at me)somewhere that I haven't changed?
Anybody able to help? Regards John c

Hi John,

What version of are you using iMovie'08, '09, '11?

Sorry John you have already mentioned you are using iMovie'09 :-(

Do the MTS files import directly from the camera? No!






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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[mince and pud]

Hi Ronni / Severin

Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also  
read that PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea if  
this makes a significant difference? I was considering getting an  
extra drive but it would be disappointing if I didn't see a benefit/


best
alastair

105gb free and diminishing



powermac G5
dual 2ghz
3.5g ram
10.5.8

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On 16/11/2010, at 3:23 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Ronni,
	thanks, as always, for your perceptive and valuable summing up  
comments on this one.
After Mail and Safari my main work is with Photoshop, Word, iPhoto,  
iMovie, Mpegstreamclip, CinematizePro and FinalCut  
Express(learning!) so there is lots of call for extra scratch space  
and the like.  I have been aware of a perceptible but difficult to  
quantify slow down in recent times.  My 300GB internal boot disk now  
has 80GB "free", slowly diminishing, and I have been looking to a  
bigger one anyway, as well as a possible increase from my 3GB RAM.
Hiving off stuff to an external drive, of which I have several, is  
feasible but clumsy, and disk GBs are no longer seriously expensive.

No, I would not consider a 5400rpm drive!
Enjoy this lovely sunny day!
Severin

On 16/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Severin,

The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred to  
a 5400-rpm. I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook  
Pro ;-)
I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB Available  
Space, I like more than 30% Available Space.


If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all  
you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum  
of 50 GB free unused space available, this allows the operating  
system vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory  
scratch disk.


Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and  
greatly slow disk access down, too.


Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the  
entire install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the  
computer won't boot or run without constant crashing.


Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on  
this one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences  
and will assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on  
"real" drive free space and speed is intriguing and obvious when  
you think about it.  In any case I may update to a bigger boot  
drive accompanied by a general cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
 Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
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Re: .MTS files and iMovie

[Ronda Brown]

On 16/11/2010, at 11:51 AM, CARLSON John wrote:

> Hi Ronnie and other wamuggers,
> Ok have bought a new expensive (relatively)card reader - no luck, I was 
> really hoping this would do the trick.
> Tried your camera method Ronnie and again disappointed, it keeps telling me 
> the folder is not a camera archive.
> A difference in  the cards I noticed today is that the HD Video SDHC card is 
> a class 4 card and the standard SDHC card is a class 6, not sure if this 
> would make any difference!

Oh yes for sure John.
/Quote:
To help you find the right speed, SD/SDHC cards are broken down into four 
classes: Class 2, Class 4, Class 6 and Class 10. Class 2 cards offer a minimum 
sustained data rate of 2 megabytes per second (MBps), Class 4 of 4MBps and 
Class 6 of 6MBps and Class 10 of 10MBps. Depending on which manufacturer is 
selling the card, the speed class will either be prominently displayed or 
buried in the specs. Either way, look for it.

For standard definition camcorders, an SD/SDHC card with a Class 2 speed is all 
you would need. It’s fast enough to handle the highest quality standard 
definition video you can record. For high definition camcorders, you’re safest 
going with a Class 6 card. While you may be tempted to spring for a Class 10 
card, you'll be paying for performance you don't need in a digital camcorder.
/End Quote



Cheers,
Ronni

> Log and transfer in FCE does not recognise any files on the HD VIDEO card.
> Advice about going to Sandisk for help might be the go.
> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of 
> Ronda Brown
> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 4:12 PM
> To: WAMUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie
>  
> Hi again John,
>  
> As I mentioned before about importing into iMovie … File > Import > "Camera 
> Archive". 
> I know your Camera is a Canon FS200 HD video camera, but this might be 
> relative to your issue. I found it on a Panasonic website in my searching but 
> can't find it again.
>  
> "Remove the SD card from the camera, insert into the card slot, then in 
> iMovie->File->import->Camera Archive... (the "No Name" SD card will already 
> be selected, with the status "Camera Archive detected")->Import.
> 
> Do not browse down into the card! - The status will say "Archive Detected - 
> ..." at the root level of the SD card (where you see DCIM/MISC/PRIVATE/). If 
> you click on one of those folders, iMovie will no longer detect the camera 
> archive and will "grey out" the IMPORT button." Did not detect archive at the 
> root level for HD VIDEO card. Picked up and mounted files immediately I 
> swapped the card to the Standard SDHC card. iMovie and FCE both read from 
> card reader and camera when the standard card is inserted in either. 
>  
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>  
>  
> On 15/11/2010, at 3:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
> 
> 
> One reason that a Mac may not read an SDHC card is that it may be plugged 
> into a SD reader, not SDHC (as James has mentioned).
> But, that doesn't explain why the SDHC card in the Camera is not recognised 
> by iMovie'09.
>  
> I'm sure you are trying to import correctly by opening iMovie > Import from 
> Camera or Import Camera Archive.
>  
> On 15/11/2010, at 3:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes Ronnie this has been an on-going issue and I have tried every combination 
> of connection. John c
>  
> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of 
> Ronda Brown
> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:59 PM
> To: WAMUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie
>  
> Hi John,
>  
> Just a thought … Have you tried opening iMovie first BEFORE you connect the 
> Camera.
> Then connect the Camera, are the files stilled greyed out?
>  
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>  
> On 15/11/2010, at 1:49 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
>  
>  
>  
> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of 
> Ronda Brown
> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:29 PM
> To: WAMUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie
>  
> Hi Ronni I’m very pleased to see you giving it some thought for me, although 
> it would have been better if it had been” Oh yes, all you need to do is...”
> No the .MTS files on the HD VIDEO AVCHD SD card are greyed out as they are 
> with the card reader.
> Regards John C
> On 15/11/2010, at 1:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>  
>  
> On 15/11/2010, at 12:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:
>  
> I have been tearing what little hair I have left, out for a few weeks now.
> I am using a pretty new card reader to transfer .MTS files from an AVCHD SD 
> card onto iMovie – video shot using Cannon FS200 HD video camera.
> When I use an ordinary AVCHD SD card, (not a HD VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card) 
> iMovie recognises the files straight away opens the Import window and allows 
> me to select the .MTS files I wish to import.
> The HD  VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card will display the .MTS files 

Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Alastair,

I would increase your RAM for a start, more RAM helps speed things up, 8GB is 
good ;-)

PS & PS Elements use 'scratch disk'. If you had another internal drive on your 
computer you could designate a separate disk as the scratch disk.
Your scratch disk needs to be as fast as the drive PS or PS Elements is 
installed on or there's no point in setting up a special scratch disk.

If you had a USB External Drive, for example, forget it  USB isn't fast 
enough, even USB 2.0, so leave your main drive as your scratch disk.
A Firewire 800 External Drive would be fast enough I would imagine, but perhaps 
not a Firewire 400 because the transfer limitations don't allow much 
performance improvement. 

I can perhaps see a problem with using an external drive, if say PS crashed 
while writing to the 'scratch disk' … hmmm, I would need to do some research on 
this before I could comment further.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 16/11/2010, at 11:53 AM, mince and pud wrote:

> 
> Hi Ronni / Severin
> 
> Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also read that 
> PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea if this makes a 
> significant difference? I was considering getting an extra drive but it would 
> be disappointing if I didn't see a benefit/
> 
> best
> alastair
> 
> 105gb free and diminishing
> 
> 
> 
> powermac G5
> dual 2ghz
> 3.5g ram
> 10.5.8
> 
> iMac
> 2.1ghz
> 2.5mb
> 10.5.8
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/11/2010, at 3:23 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ronni,
>>  thanks, as always, for your perceptive and valuable summing up comments 
>> on this one.
>> After Mail and Safari my main work is with Photoshop, Word, iPhoto, iMovie, 
>> Mpegstreamclip, CinematizePro and FinalCut Express(learning!) so there is 
>> lots of call for extra scratch space and the like.  I have been aware of a 
>> perceptible but difficult to quantify slow down in recent times.  My 300GB 
>> internal boot disk now has 80GB "free", slowly diminishing, and I have been 
>> looking to a bigger one anyway, as well as a possible increase from my 3GB 
>> RAM.   Hiving off stuff to an external drive, of which I have several, is 
>> feasible but clumsy, and disk GBs are no longer seriously expensive.
>> No, I would not consider a 5400rpm drive!
>> Enjoy this lovely sunny day!
>> Severin
>> 
>> On 16/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Severin,
>>> 
>>> The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred to a 
>>> 5400-rpm. I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro ;-)
>>> I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB Available Space, I 
>>> like more than 30% Available Space.
>>> 
>>> If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all you 
>>> were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum of 50 GB 
>>> free unused space available, this allows the operating system vital unused 
>>> space to write its swap files, virtual memory scratch disk.
>>> 
>>> Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and greatly 
>>> slow disk access down, too.
>>> 
>>> Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the entire 
>>> install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the computer won't 
>>> boot or run without constant crashing.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> 
>>> 17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
>>> 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm
>>> 
>>> OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
>>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
>>> On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
>>> 
 
 Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this one.  
 For the moment I have trashed the various preferences and will assess the 
 outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on "real" drive free space and 
 speed is intriguing and obvious when you think about it.  In any case I 
 may update to a bigger boot drive accompanied by a general cleanup.
 Enjoy the sunny day!
 Severin
 
 
 
Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
 Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
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RE: .MTS files and iMovie

[CARLSON John]

Hi Wamuggers
I have bitten the bullet and emailed SanDisk, I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks for all the support so far.
John C

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Ronda Brown
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 12:02 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie


On 16/11/2010, at 11:51 AM, CARLSON John wrote:


Hi Ronnie and other wamuggers,
Ok have bought a new expensive (relatively)card reader - no luck, I was really 
hoping this would do the trick.
Tried your camera method Ronnie and again disappointed, it keeps telling me the 
folder is not a camera archive.
A difference in  the cards I noticed today is that the HD Video SDHC card is a 
class 4 card and the standard SDHC card is a class 6, not sure if this would 
make any difference!

Oh yes for sure John.
/Quote:
To help you find the right speed, SD/SDHC cards are broken down into four 
classes: Class 2, Class 4, Class 6 and Class 10. Class 2 cards offer a minimum 
sustained data rate of 2 megabytes per second (MBps), Class 4 of 4MBps and 
Class 6 of 6MBps and Class 10 of 10MBps. Depending on which manufacturer is 
selling the card, the speed class will either be prominently displayed or 
buried in the specs. Either way, look for it.

For standard definition camcorders, an SD/SDHC card with a Class 2 speed is all 
you would need. It's fast enough to handle the highest quality standard 
definition video you can record. For high definition camcorders, you're safest 
going with a Class 6 card. While you may be tempted to spring for a Class 10 
card, you'll be paying for performance you don't need in a digital camcorder.
/End Quote



Cheers,
Ronni


Log and transfer in FCE does not recognise any files on the HD VIDEO card.
Advice about going to Sandisk for help might be the go.
From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au 
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 4:12 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi again John,

As I mentioned before about importing into iMovie ... File > Import > "Camera 
Archive".
I know your Camera is a Canon FS200 HD video camera, but this might be relative 
to your issue. I found it on a Panasonic website in my searching but can't find 
it again.

"Remove the SD card from the camera, insert into the card slot, then in 
iMovie->File->import->Camera Archive... (the "No Name" SD card will already be 
selected, with the status "Camera Archive detected")->Import.
Do not browse down into the card! - The status will say "Archive Detected - 
..." at the root level of the SD card (where you see DCIM/MISC/PRIVATE/). If 
you click on one of those folders, iMovie will no longer detect the camera 
archive and will "grey out" the IMPORT button." Did not detect archive at the 
root level for HD VIDEO card. Picked up and mounted files immediately I swapped 
the card to the Standard SDHC card. iMovie and FCE both read from card reader 
and camera when the standard card is inserted in either.

Cheers,
Ronni


On 15/11/2010, at 3:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

One reason that a Mac may not read an SDHC card is that it may be plugged into 
a SD reader, not SDHC (as James has mentioned).
But, that doesn't explain why the SDHC card in the Camera is not recognised by 
iMovie'09.

I'm sure you are trying to import correctly by opening iMovie > Import from 
Camera or Import Camera Archive.

On 15/11/2010, at 3:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:

Yes Ronnie this has been an on-going issue and I have tried every combination 
of connection. John c

From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au 
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:59 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi John,

Just a thought ... Have you tried opening iMovie first BEFORE you connect the 
Camera.
Then connect the Camera, are the files stilled greyed out?

Cheers,
Ronni

On 15/11/2010, at 1:49 PM, CARLSON John wrote:



From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au 
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 1:29 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: .MTS files and iMovie

Hi Ronni I'm very pleased to see you giving it some thought for me, although it 
would have been better if it had been" Oh yes, all you need to do is..."
No the .MTS files on the HD VIDEO AVCHD SD card are greyed out as they are with 
the card reader.
Regards John C
On 15/11/2010, at 1:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:


On 15/11/2010, at 12:01 PM, CARLSON John wrote:

I have been tearing what little hair I have left, out for a few weeks now.
I am using a pretty new card reader to transfer .MTS files from an AVCHD SD 
card onto iMovie - video shot using Cannon FS200 HD video camera.
When I use an ordinary AVCHD SD card, (not a HD VIDEO labelle

Re: Fragmentation

[Rob Phillips]

Hi

I don't want to start any 'flame wars' about this, but a quick skim of 
Amit's article seemed to be about file fragmentation, as distinct from 
the drive fragmentation that the macattorney article refers to.  When I 
ran the free version of idefrag, it certainly showed that I had a great 
deal of fragmentation on my drive.  That's when I paid my dollars for 
the real version and fixed it.


However, I would strongly support Ronni's claim about the need for care 
when doing this.  Things can really mess up. Backup, backup, backup 
first! Similarly, you would only want to run something like this if your 
system performance was degraded and there were no other logical 
explanations.


I'd be interested in some feedback from others with 'crowded' disks 
about what idfrag reports - especially people who have done multiple 
system and software reinstalls - this causes the drive fragmentation.


Cheers
Rob

On 16/11/10 11:32 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hi Rob and others who 'might' still be in the "Need to Defrag" Group,

I don't wish to start a "For Defrag - Against Defrag" discussion, just point 
out a couple of things ;-)
Using a free frag disk has great potential to wreck your Mac.
Have you noticed that there is no Apple de-frag application?

Amit Singh has written some comprehensive books on Mac Operating Systems.
I purchased his book  “Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach” quite a few 
years ago.

I have managed to find this article online taken from his book for anyone 
interested in reading it.
Although it was written in the days of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, the article 
certainly applies to today.



If you don’t want to read all the complex article …the Conclusion is this:

/Quote:
“Defragmentation on HFS+ volumes should not be necessary at all, or worthwhile, 
in most cases, because the system seems to do a very good job of 
avoiding/countering fragmentation.

It is risky to defragment anyway: What if there's a power glitch? What if the 
system crashes? What if the defragmenting tool has a bug? What if you 
inadvertently reboot? In some cases, you could make the situation worse by 
defragmenting.”
/End Quote

Cheers,
Ronni

On 16/11/2010, at 10:24 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:


I posted something in early September which may be useful. On the other hand, 
Ronni posted something in response which implied this whole disk fragmentation 
'story' may be a furphy, because Snow Leopard does this already.  In any case, 
one of my problems resolved itself after running idefrag, but I can't claim it 
was because of idefrag.

Cheers
Rob


I did some searching on the web and found Mac OSX Routine Maintenance by Randy 
B. Singer http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html. One part of that article was 
about disk defragmentation. The standard OSX 'wisdom' is that OSX automatically 
defragments disks.  It is true that OSX handles /file/ fragmentation, where 
parts of files are on different parts of the disk.  It doesn't handle /drive/ 
fragmentation, where files are spread all over the disk, and there isn't enough 
contiguous space left for swap files, etc.  This was the cause of my CPU 
thrashing.  When I installed Snow Leopard and Office 2008 they filled up the 
free contiguous space, and the removed old Leopard files left various gaps.

I used iDefrag (http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php - GBP 20) and this 
fixed up my CPU thrashing problems.


On 16/11/10 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:

Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on this one.  For the moment 
I have trashed the various preferences and will assess the outcome in due course.  
Robert's piece on "real" drive free space and speed is intriguing and obvious 
when you think about it.  In any case I may update to a bigger boot drive accompanied by 
a general cleanup.
Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin





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Re: Word 2008 snitchy

[mince and pud]

Hi Ronni

Please don't research that on my account - if I did try another drive  
it would be an internal one. Ram comments noted.


best
alastair

(the ram/hdd argument is a specious one in the current cashflow  
climate. Anyone out there need illustrations?)



www.goatpix.com.au




On 16/11/2010, at 4:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Alastair,

I would increase your RAM for a start, more RAM helps speed things  
up, 8GB is good ;-)


PS & PS Elements use 'scratch disk'. If you had another internal  
drive on your computer you could designate a separate disk as the  
scratch disk.
Your scratch disk needs to be as fast as the drive PS or PS Elements  
is installed on or there's no point in setting up a special scratch  
disk.


If you had a USB External Drive, for example, forget it  USB  
isn't fast enough, even USB 2.0, so leave your main drive as your  
scratch disk.
A Firewire 800 External Drive would be fast enough I would imagine,  
but perhaps not a Firewire 400 because the transfer limitations  
don't allow much performance improvement.


I can perhaps see a problem with using an external drive, if say PS  
crashed while writing to the 'scratch disk' … hmmm, I would need to  
do some research on this before I could comment further.


Cheers,
Ronni

On 16/11/2010, at 11:53 AM, mince and pud wrote:



Hi Ronni / Severin

Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also  
read that PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea if  
this makes a significant difference? I was considering getting an  
extra drive but it would be disappointing if I didn't see a benefit/


best
alastair

105gb free and diminishing



powermac G5
dual 2ghz
3.5g ram
10.5.8

iMac
2.1ghz
2.5mb
10.5.8




On 16/11/2010, at 3:23 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Ronni,
	thanks, as always, for your perceptive and valuable summing up  
comments on this one.
After Mail and Safari my main work is with Photoshop, Word,  
iPhoto, iMovie, Mpegstreamclip, CinematizePro and FinalCut  
Express(learning!) so there is lots of call for extra scratch  
space and the like.  I have been aware of a perceptible but  
difficult to quantify slow down in recent times.  My 300GB  
internal boot disk now has 80GB "free", slowly diminishing, and I  
have been looking to a bigger one anyway, as well as a possible  
increase from my 3GB RAM.   Hiving off stuff to an external drive,  
of which I have several, is feasible but clumsy, and disk GBs are  
no longer seriously expensive.

No, I would not consider a 5400rpm drive!
Enjoy this lovely sunny day!
Severin

On 16/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



Hi Severin,

The bigger the Hard Drive the better, also a 7200-rpm preferred  
to a 5400-rpm. I would like a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive in my MacBook  
Pro ;-)
I get really worried if a 500GB Hard Drive gets to 100GB  
Available Space, I like more than 30% Available Space.


If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If  
all you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a  
minimum of 50 GB free unused space available, this allows the  
operating system vital unused space to write its swap files,  
virtual memory scratch disk.


Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and  
greatly slow disk access down, too.


Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the  
entire install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the  
computer won't boot or run without constant crashing.


Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 16/11/2010, at 9:36 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:



Thanks to Ronni, Daniel, Robert and others for useful input on  
this one.  For the moment I have trashed the various preferences  
and will assess the outcome in due course.  Robert's piece on  
"real" drive free space and speed is intriguing and obvious when  
you think about it.  In any case I may update to a bigger boot  
drive accompanied by a general cleanup.

Enjoy the sunny day!
Severin



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Mac Mini Server

[Brian Risbey]

Hi WAMUG 
As my MacBook Pro is extremely unwell I purchased MacMini Server, can I use my 
Time Machine external drive to migrate Applications, music, document to the 
Mini? 

Brian
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remote location of iMovie folder

[Crisp, Peter]

Hi Wamuggers, I have a couple of questions regarding my 2009 Macbook
(SL). I find that my iMovie library is used only VERY infrequently and
so I felt that it would be better placed in an external Hard Disc and
connect it in only when I wish to view it or edit or update, etc. The
agenda behind this is to free up space on the Macbook, currently I only
have 33GB of free space. It has the 250GB HD on board and it is made up
of 135GB of iMovie library, 50GB of Photos and the rest is collection of
smaller stuff and the system files of course. I'd like to move the
iMovie off the HD and onto an externally mounted HD. 

 

Question 1: is a USB mounted external drive good enough for video
playback or do I need Firewire - which the Macbook doesn't have.

 

Question 2: If the answer to question 1 is yes, then how do I do it and
keep the mapping in iMovie to the external drive?

 

Regards

 

Peter.


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