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When I plug my IPhone (6 Plus) to my Windows computer, I see some "Local Storage" (named in Turkish "Yerel Disk") icons in DCIM folder. Any idea what are these, could it be viruses??
There might be a possible answer.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6585223?start=15&tstart=0
I have the same problem. And I didn't remember my photos were altered (cropped, photo filters applied, etc.) at all.
For the solution of removing those mystery files:
Disconnect IPhone with Windows machine
Settings --> Safari --> Clear History and Website Data
reconnect IPhone with Windows machine, double check DCIM and subfolders.
Then they disappear.
*** The above solution works for me. But the solution makes those files even more mystery. Why deleting Safari related Data (I assume "Clear History and Website Data" does the function as it described) could clean files inside DCIM ? ( Another assumption: files inside DCIM are photos related. Actually not sure)
The only technical details I find is a comment in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6585223?start=15&tstart=0
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Lawrence Finch
Mar 14, 2015 5:39 PM
Re: Windows explorer see's multiple "Local Disk" files in the iphone DCIM folders
in response to CrazyRoadBiker
CrazyRoadBiker wrote:
(PS - I managed to look inside of some of the "local disk" files and they seem to contain a modified XML structure. Why Apple doesn't just put an XML file in the folder that is standard and able to be recognized by Windows, I have no idea. . .)
The metatdata files are a standard image metadata format (.AAE), and Windows understands it. But you have to use the Camera and Scanner wizard to import the images. It understands those files, but Windows Explorer does not.
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So...
I have two PCs both with XE2. I thought that I had installed identically on both but have problems installing 3rd party packages on one while the other is just fine.
I want the same on both anyway. The easist would probably just to "migrate" the working set-up by moving in into my Dropbox folder. Can I do that? If so, how?
If not, can I (easilly) backup my registry settings on one machine and then import them on the other?
I suppose I could just sort out the problem on the one PC, but am not having much luck so far. I would rather invest the time in only having one Delphi setup. And since I am moving lots of other stuff to DropBox anyway ...
The tool for this is now built into Delphi XE8 and higher.
It's found here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\bin\migrationtool.exe
Online documentation:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Settings_Migration_Tool
Install CnPack wizards from http://www.cnpack.org
From the CnPack toolbar select IDE Config Backup/Restore (image below) and save this file somewhere safe
Copy the components to the second delphi machine . Keep the exact same directory structure.
I store my components as follows this helps backing up, moving etc., but you can use your own structure
D:\components_bds\DCU
D:\components_bds\BPL
D:\components_bds\ComponentsThemselves
Use the restore config file from CnPack to restore your components on the new machine
This is also useful if your testing components that you plan to remove later and keeping a backup of your installation incase something goes wrong you can save time with new delphi installation if hard drive dies. Keep a copy on flashdrive or somewhere safe
You may compare/diff the config file created by cnPack using a tool like Beyond Compare and see what the differences are to find out why third party components give problems on one of the machines. It may be a Delphi registry/installation problem or a problem in the paths of the thirdparty components. Components need to be installed in an order perhaps it did not find the needed dcu or dll it depends on.
I don't know of any way to do so with DropBox. Here's an old post I made (related to Delphi 7, but with correction of registry keys still applicable) in the CodeGear newsgroups; hopefully it will help.
(It probably goes without saying, but back up the existing registry settings on the destination machine before starting by using RegEdit and exporting them, just in case. You'll at least be able to get back to the point you're at now if something goes wrong by deleting the imported entries and then importing the saved ones.)
You can't, without some difficulty anyway. (Especially if you have
third party components installed, as they may have placed files in the
%SYSTEM% folder you may not know about.)
You may be able to (for going from the old computer to the new
computer running the same exact version of Windows!) by exporting the
registry keys under HKCU\Software\Embarcadero and
HKLM\Software\Embarcadero from the old machine, and then after
installing Delphi on the new machine (in the exact same folder
location) importing that registry file.
Many of the compiler, linker, and other settings are configured on a
per-project basis, and should transfer over when you move your source
code to the new machine.
Third-party components are a problem, as I mentioned above. You may be
able to get away with using the registry export/import if you copy
each third-party component set from the old computer into exactly
the same location on the new machine before importing the registry
file. You'll probably have to track down some .BPL files that end up
in the $(BDS)\Bin and possibly other folders under the $(BDS)
tree; the IDE will tell you about missing stuff when you try and start
it. Make sure you answer "Yes " when asked if you want to try and load
it again next time!
Most of my development is hobby stuff or wannabe releases. Instead of dying trying to move my XE2 Pro from my Dell Inspiron N7110 Win 7 machine to my new Win 10 SSD machine, I'm seriously thinking of switching to Lazarus. I've used Lazarus 2.x with Indy 10, ZeosLib, and Firebird and successfully created a working distributed internet system. I also created Lazarus version of my XE2 Blackjack program. When compared to XE2, Lazarus (IMO) has only two weakness and neither are deal breakers for me. BTW, I have successfully duplicated Lazarus (with all installed components) from one machine to another simply by copying and pasting the Lazarus directory and it works. Try that with Delphi.
Sam
I've installed JDK, Android SDK and Mono Android for Visual Studio 2010, I've created an empty solution and I got the emulator up and running with Android 2.3.3 - so far so good.
When I try to deploy (F5) the app to the emulator, it connects to the emulator, and all goes fine until it starts "Installing the platform framework". Then it loads for several minutes, and finally throws an exception that looks like this:
I have tried googlin' it, but the INSTALL_FAILED_MEDIA_UNAVAILABLE doesn't seem to be described anywhere else.
I don't know if this is an important detail, but on my PC I have remapped my home folders (Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc.) to folders like "D:\Mikkel\Dokumenter". It seemed to cause some problems when starting the emulator initially, but after adding the environment variable "ANDROID_SDK_HOME" pointing to "D:\Mikkel.android" the emulator started up with no problems.
Please advise.
Ensure that you have enough internal and external free space in your device. You can determine the free space available with the command:
$ adb shell df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 192M 32K 192M 4096
/mnt/asec 192M 0K 192M 4096
/mnt/obb 192M 0K 192M 4096
/system 145M 124M 20M 4096
/data 196M 167M 29M 4096
/cache 95M 32M 62M 4096
/mnt/sdcard 3G 177M 3G 32768
In the above output, /data (which is the default install location) has 29MB free, while /mnt/sdcard (the SD card, and the external install location) has 3GB free.
For Debug builds, you need to have ~40MB free (for the Runtime package, Platform package, and apps). Release builds are significantly smaller, but Release builds cannot be created with the Evaluation version.
It's plausible that if your emulator doesn't have an SD card, then Android would generate the INSTALL_FAILED_MEDIA_UNAVAILABLE error. (To add an SD card to your emulator, start the android app, go to Virtual devices, select a device, click Edit, and look at the SD Card section.)
A cursory grepping of Android suggests that DefaultContainerService.java is the controlling factor, specifically DefaultContainerService.recommendAppInstallLocation(), and that if you're out of internal space and the package specifies auto (as Mono for Android does) and the SD card is unavailable (status.equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED) is false), then RECOMMEND_MEDIA_UNAVAILABLE is returned, which is translated into INSTALL_FAILED_MEDIA_UNAVAILABLE. This still seems odd to me (wouldn't RECOMMEND_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE make more sense?), but this appears to be what's happening.
Possible Problems :
No Internal/ External space in the Drive(or sdcard).
Connection is lost during the installation (apk to device or emulator).
Solution :
Try to create some space( remove some apps).
Try to reconnect the phone/emulator restart (worked for me)
This can be caused by having insufficient space on the device. So it goes looking for an SD card to install on to instead. if that isn't there it will trigger this response.
I had this problem even with 1GB of free space and an .apk of 1,5Mb. What I did was building an .apk and moving it to data/app folder. This worked for me. The problem is that I think your device must be rooted in order to access this folder.
I've solved the problem - it seems that if you close the (weird) empty DOS prompt that opens when the emulator is started, the connection to the emulator is lost.
Leaving the DOS window open, everything works like a charm.
In my case, it helped me out to switch the usb connection mode. You have to "just load" the device by usb instead of providing the sd card to the pc file system.
INSTALL_FAILED_MEDIA_UNAVAILABLE
Because of low memory. Delete unnecessary files and apps.
This problem appeared for me when I installed Facabook app on my phone. so I uninstalled it and problem solved.
It is due to not enough space on the phone.
Check your build packaging In my case it was packiging all kinds of assets, psd, etc.. and the .apk file was huge and the phone did not have that much space
We bought Delphi XE to slowly upgrade from Delphi 6.
Delphi 6 is well working in Win7/X64.
I installed two virtual machines to test it (I planned three of them, but Virtual PC is not supports X64 guest OS).
1.) Sun VirtualBox 4.x
2.) VMWARE player latest
The guest OS is Win7/X64. Latest SP's, packs are installed.
I set local "area" settings to "english-usa".
I started the installer as admin.
The phenomenon is:
The InstallAware is starting, the progress bar is access the 100%.
After this a new InstallAware Window is starting, but later it disappeared.
Then nothing happens. Sometimes the Windows say (dialog) that setup is not working, will I reinstall it?
The event log is not containing information about the problem.
I tried to starting "setup.exe" directly with "as admin", but the result is same.
I tried to find the real setup files in "Local Settings/Temp", and starting it directly as admin, but I got same result.
So I'm very disappointment, and puzzled... We bought something that is not installable.
May I can install the XE into VPC/XP Mode; but I'm sure the somebody CAN install this software in Win7/X64... :-(
Can anybody help me, how to continue the installation?
How to "debug"?
Thanks for your help:
dd
It might be a problem with your virtual machine, i have myself issues with VirtualBox.
You also should double check if you dont have a corrupted Iso. Try to download it again to see it works.
I work in a software house that have at least 30 people working with Delphi XE on their Windows 7 machines. None of them ever reported a installation crash.
Another good question: are you executing the setup.exe as administrator?
The solution was if I copy the zip file directly into VM (not download it), and I must set ALL AREA FLAGS to USA.
The language, the area, the format settings - all things!
Then the installer simply working...
Thank you for your help!
Regards:
dd
When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it would expand in size (as do hard drives in VMWare as far as I can remember, isn't this true?).
In any case, I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010 beta on this Virtual Box XP image and it has run out of disk space.
Googling for an answer, I'm finding complicated tutorials like this which show you how to increase the size of a VirtualBox hard drive "in just a couple hours".
But I can't imagine it would be that hard to either:
increase the size of a virtual disk (after all, it is virtual)
create a new hard drive of, say, 20 GB and just attach it in the virtual machine as the D: or E: drive
How can I easily add storage space to a VirtualBox machine with XP installed?
I found this nugget at the link following. It worked perfect for me and only took 5 seconds.
As of VirtualBox 4 they added support for expansion.
VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi --resize 46080
That will resize a virtual disk image to 45GB.
https://superuser.com/questions/172651/increasing-disk-space-on-virtualbox
Note: This applies to pre-4 VirtualBox. In VB4, HDD expansion has been introduced.
According to the VirtualBox documentation:
When creating an image, its size needs to be specified,
which determines this fixed geometry. It is therefore not possible to change the size of
the virtual hard disk later.
So, the easiest way to add additional space to an existing VM is to attach a second hard disk. Go to the VM Settings > Hard Disks > Add New. Then, click the "Select Hard Drive" button and click on "New". Follow the wizard to create a new virtual hard disk. It will then show up as D: or E: in your guest OS.
For Windows users there's an additional user friendly option: CloneVDI Tool by mpack. It's a GUI front-end to VBoxManage that makes things a little easier to work with.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422
As Alexander M. mentioned, you'll still have to use GParted, Partition Magic or a similar partition editor to grow your partition to the newly allocated physical drive. To do this just download the GParted iso, mount it as a bootable drive in the VirtualBox and boot from it.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Newer versions of VirtualBox add an option for VBoxManage clonehd that allows you to clone to an existing (larger) virtual disk.
The process is detailed here: Expanding VirtualBox Dynamic VDIs
Step 1 :
create new virtual disk as per #mhaller instruction
Step 2 :
Open Run dialog box type diskmgmt.msc and enter
Step 3 :
Select uninitialized partition, right click->initialize
Step 4 :
Select the partition again, right click and create extended partition, again right click create logical drive (adjust the partition size if you need in wizard)
Thats all
For windows users:
cd “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox”
VBoxManage modifyhd “C:\Users\Chris\VirtualBox VMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vdi” --resize 81920
http://www.howtogeek.com/124622/how-to-enlarge-a-virtual-machines-disk-in-virtualbox-or-vmware/
Take a look at CloneVDI from the VirtualBox site... 100% painless!
I am glad you were able to get this done in this manner, but you can (and I did) use the GParted tool for my Windows XP host by following the helpful entry by Eric. To re-iterate/expand on his solution (don't be afraid of the # steps, I'm trying to help newbies here, so there are necessarily more detailed instructions!):
change the size of the virtual hard disk via the VBoxManage modifyhd command, which is well-documented here and in the VirtualBox documentation.
download the GParted-live (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/latest/download?source=dlp) or search the internet for GParted-live ISO. The important part is to get the live (.iso) verison, which is in the form of a bootable .ISO (CD) image.
Mount this new .ISO to the CD virtual drive in the host machine's Storage settings
If necessary/desired, change the boot order in the System settings for the host machine, to boot from CD before Hard Disk (alternatively, you can press F12 when it's booting up, and select the device)
start your VM; if you changed the boot order, it will boot to the GParted-live ISO; otherwise press F12 to do this.
do not be afraid or get too confused/wrapped up in the initial options you are presented; I selected all the defaults (booting to GParted default, default key mapping, language (assuming English - sorry for my non-English friends!), display, etc.). Read it, but just press enter at each prompt. With a Windows VM you should be fine with all the defaults, and if you're not, you're not going to break anything, and the instructions are pretty good about what to do if the defaults don't work.
it will boot to a GUI environment and start the GParted utility. Highlight the c: drive (assuming that's the drive you want to increase the size on) and select resize/move.
change to the new size you want in MB (they abbreviate MiB) - just add the new amount available (represented in the bottom number - MiB following) to the middle number. E.g: I changed mine from like 4000 MiB (e.g., 4GB - my initial size) to 15000 MiB (15 GB) because I'd added 10 GB to my virtual disk. Then click OK.
Click Apply. Once it's done you'll have to reboot - for whatever reason my mouse did not work on the desktop icons on the GUI (I could not click exit) so I just closed the VM window and selected reboot. I did not even have to unmount the ISO, it apparently did it automatically.
Let Windows go through the disk check - remember, you just changed the size outside of Windows, so it has no record of this. This will presumably allow it to update itself with the new info. Once it completes and you log in, you'll likely be told that Windows needs to reboot to use your 'new device' (at least in XP it did for me). Just reboot and you are done!
These steps worked for me to increase the space on my windows VM:
Clone the current VM and select "Full Clone" when prompted:
Resize the VDI:
VBoxManage modifyhd Cloned.vdi --resize 45000
Run your cloned VM, go to Disk Management and extend the volume.
Adding a second drive is probably easiest. That would only take a few minutes, and it wouldn't require any configuration, really.
Alternatively, you could create the second, bigger drive, then run a disk imaging utility to copy all data on disk1 to disk2. That certainly shouldn't take a few hours, but it would take longer than just living with two drives.
i used following instructions, its so easy to increase virtual box disk size
http://blog.bhupen.me/1/post/2011/09/increase-virtualbox-disk-size.html
The problem is that the file system on that disk was created when the disk had a certain geometry and you must modify it (while your OS is running on it).
So yes, making the virtual hard disk bigger is not a big issue. The issue is to make the new space available to your OS. To do that, you need tools like parted (Linux) or Partition Magic (Windows).
Taked from here => forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=41118#p41118
You could try something like this (see also Tutorial - All about VDIs: How can I resize the partitions inside my VDI?):
Create a new VDI of the desired size.
Boot GParted Live in a VM with both old and new VDIs attached.
Check in the partition editor (opened automatically after booting) what your old and new disk locations are. (It'll be something like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.)
Copy contents from old to new disk. This will take a fair amount of time. (Here /dev/hdX is your original disk and /dev/hdY the new one).
dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY
Warning: Make sure you do not mix up your input and output disks or you'll wipe all information from your original disk! (if= specifies the input and of= specifies the output.)
Reboot (again with GParted-Live). Now you should be able to increase the Windows partition size on the new disk.
Once you've verified the larger VDI boots Windows fine (and disk size is as you'd expect) you can of course delete the old smaller VDI.
Edit: Instead of rebooting before you resize the partition you should be able to run partprobe and the hit CTRL+R in GParted instead.
After resizing and not being able to view the resizing on my windows XP guest machine, I had to
clone it
resize it with
"VBoxManage modifyhd winxppro\ Clone.vdi --resize 30720"
and everything worked
I saw in other forums that snapshots can interfere for resizing and not being able to remove all snapshots for different errors I got, the only found solution for me was to clone it to remove the snapshots and then resize it, and everything worked. For resizing outside windows, a gparted boot cd that can be found here can help
If you want to resize a fixed size disk, or want to USE the resized disk
VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi --resize 99999
won't work. It supports only dynamic disks. Even for a dynamic disk, you'll have to resize the partitions.
Make a backup copy of your VM.
you have to go to VirtualBox manager, File-VirtualMediaManager.
There copy your virtual disk to another one. Make it dynamic while copying.
Go to your machine, Settings - Storage. Link to the new disk.
Return to VirtualMediaManager. Release the old disk.
NOW make resize with the new disk, as
VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi --resize 99999.
Resize partitions on the new disk:
download live Linux or live GParted iso.
In VirtualBox manager - settings - Storage - CD's add this iso.
VirtualBox manager - settings - system set loading from CD
launch VM, launch sudo gparted.
right click swap partition, UNSWAP it.
Move right border of the extended partition with swap up to the right.
Move swap to the right
Move left border of the extended partition up to the right
Move right border of YOUR partition up to the right.
Close VM
Remove CD from VM
check how it works
Close VM
remove the old disk in VirtualMediaManager.
Here you are!