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What annoyed you today?

Started by greypoint, August 13, 2009, 07:52:26 AM

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spinner

Adobe, I have Elements 8. I'm going to buy an iMac with my final check from work. I contacted their customer service to see if I could deactivate my Windows version and get a Mac version and use the same licence. Nope. I can switch from one Windows machine to another and swap the licence but not from Windows to Mac.
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Quote from: spinner on August 23, 2010, 10:45:08 PM
Adobe, I have Elements 8. I'm going to buy an iMac with my final check from work. I contacted their customer service to see if I could deactivate my Windows version and get a Mac version and use the same licence. Nope. I can switch from one Windows machine to another and swap the licence but not from Windows to Mac.

Yet they swapped my CS4 licence from Windows to Mac...

That said, i do not think Elements runs exactly the same between Windows & Mac - i think they have different version numbers etc...
But you can certainly ask them why they swap CS4 licences, and LR comes with Windows & Mac versions on the same disk but not Elements...

Jonathan

Quote from: picsfor on August 24, 2010, 06:46:58 AM
But you can certainly ask them why they swap CS4 licences, and LR comes with Windows & Mac versions on the same disk but not Elements...

It's possible they will say they offer that as a courtesy to professional users who spend hundreds of pounds on their software and choose not to extend it to the consumer market where very similar software sells for less than 10% of the cost.
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spinner

Quote from: Jonathan on August 24, 2010, 07:56:53 AM
Quote from: picsfor on August 24, 2010, 06:46:58 AM
But you can certainly ask them why they swap CS4 licences, and LR comes with Windows & Mac versions on the same disk but not Elements...

It's possible they will say they offer that as a courtesy to professional users who spend hundreds of pounds on their software and choose not to extend it to the consumer market where very similar software sells for less than 10% of the cost.

It does seem the focus is on the Pro, the Apple store here doesn't even offer Elements 8 for Mac. I guess the paltry $80 charge doesn't carry enough cache for them.
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Alfonso_Frisk

Quote from: Jonathan on August 24, 2010, 07:56:53 AM
It's possible they will say they offer that as a courtesy to professional users who spend hundreds of pounds on their software and choose not to extend it to the consumer market where very similar software sells for less than 10% of the cost.

Which has always puzzled me why so many "non pros" see the CS (insert number) as a MUST have on their pc.
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Quote from: Alfonso_Frisk on August 24, 2010, 03:09:50 PM
Quote from: Jonathan on August 24, 2010, 07:56:53 AM
It's possible they will say they offer that as a courtesy to professional users who spend hundreds of pounds on their software and choose not to extend it to the consumer market where very similar software sells for less than 10% of the cost.

Which has always puzzled me why so many "non pros" see the CS (insert number) as a MUST have on their pc.

I came by mine as a gift many moons back - so the extortionate cost was some thing i never had to fork out for.
I find that nearly every thing i do now, is done with Adobe Lightroom - a little over twice the cost of Elements and does almost everything i need it to do...
Which is why i get soooo annoyed when it doesn't seemt o work properly  >:(

anglefire

Quote from: Alfonso_Frisk on August 24, 2010, 03:09:50 PM
Quote from: Jonathan on August 24, 2010, 07:56:53 AM
It's possible they will say they offer that as a courtesy to professional users who spend hundreds of pounds on their software and choose not to extend it to the consumer market where very similar software sells for less than 10% of the cost.

Which has always puzzled me why so many "non pros" see the CS (insert number) as a MUST have on their pc.

One reason is possibly batch processing - you can record actions in CSx, but not in elements - which can only run them (Well most bits as long as the commands are available :tup:)

I use actions an enormous amount - get the images right in ACR - then load into CS5 to do the final processing and saving, the final bit as a batch.
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Just got home from a long weekend away at what is generally referred to here, as Cottage Country where the wife and I stayed at a small inn on the Trent/Severen canal system. Was exploring small towns to relocate to. What's annoying me currently is the memory card I used all weekend, for my photos keeps locking up my PC when I try to download them. I've tried Lightroom, Bridge, even Win7's own explorer. I think the cards gone bad.  >:( :(
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Quote from: spinner on September 06, 2010, 11:49:33 PM
Just got home from a long weekend away at what is generally referred to here, as Cottage Country where the wife and I stayed at a small inn on the Trent/Severen canal system. Was exploring small towns to relocate to. What's annoying me currently is the memory card I used all weekend, for my photos keeps locking up my PC when I try to download them. I've tried Lightroom, Bridge, even Win7's own explorer. I think the cards gone bad.  >:( :(

Use a image recovery program, as my guess is the Fat file on your card is corrupt. Try Zero Assumption as it will rebuild it.  ;D

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

spinner

Tried it, and a piece of software that came with one of my memory cards called PC Inspector file recovery. Same problem as with the other software. PC Inspector hung at 'scanning drive' and ZAR hung at 50% of drive scan.  :(
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Oldboy

Quote from: spinner on September 07, 2010, 02:57:47 AM
Tried it, and a piece of software that came with one of my memory cards called PC Inspector file recovery. Same problem as with the other software. PC Inspector hung at 'scanning drive' and ZAR hung at 50% of drive scan.  :(

Format the card in your camera then try Zero Assumption again. If it still hangs then do a low level format in your PC and try Zero Assumption again. It may mean you lose a couple of pictures but you should recover the rest. I still think it's the fat file that's causing both programs to hang, but it could also mean that the card has a fault in some of it's memory areas.  ???

spinner

Did that, left it running all night, 7 hrs. and 32 mins. It remained hung at 50 %. Tried 2 other programs, Recuva and PhotoRec same hang. Even tried a different card reader.  :(
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picsfor

What about shoving it in a Mac or Linux based machine?

Yeah, i know i'll get all the comments about what's the difference and brand etc - but this is a computer file you're talking about.
You have to apply the Sherlock Holmes approach - when you've tried the probable, try the improbable - no matter how improbable it sounds.

What have you got to lose?

spinner

Quote from: picsfor on September 07, 2010, 11:41:31 AM
What about shoving it in a Mac or Linux based machine?

Yeah, i know i'll get all the comments about what's the difference and brand etc - but this is a computer file you're talking about.
You have to apply the Sherlock Holmes approach - when you've tried the probable, try the improbable - no matter how improbable it sounds.

What have you got to lose?

Tried that too. Ubuntu studio. It had 100 shots on it. Both machines would list them, both machines would identify their file names, file size and show me thumbnails but neither machine would open up files 63 through 73.
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
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spinner

I guess, I'll have to be satisfied with getting 90 of the shots processed. I ran a command line program called Testdisk in Ubuntu and it basically says the disk is corrupted beyond recovery. Something about MBR, headers and cylinders not matching.
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Ol' blue eyes

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/spin498/

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