Prayers will be said for Debbie. Prayers for Paul's wife and children, and his mom. May they all find the strength and inner peace they need at this time of sorrow. A candle will be lit.
I Am Angry Today Because . . .
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Prayers will be said for Debbie. Prayers for Paul's wife and children, and his mom. May they all find the strength and inner peace they need at this time of sorrow. A candle will be lit.
Staro, Debbie and do1you9love -- prayers and thoughts with you all.
This is very sad with all the murders and people dropping dead! I was considerably shaken by the news the other day. A college student found dead in Utah not only looked like my niece's sister, she looked even more like my sister than my niece does! I can't imagine her family's devastation! Prayers to all.
Okay, here was my day. Day 8 (at least--however exactly long it's been--) iTunes wins again! Not only is iTunes continuing to kick my butt, and what I ever did to make it embark on this vendetta I do notknow, but it's now recruiting other machinery into its diabolical scheme!
So I followed directions exactly to import checked items from iTunes to my iPhone and the lying scoundrel said it worked. This morning I got ready to go out of town, planning to listen to audiobooks from the phone through the car speakers during the trip.
Last summer I bought one of those electric lawnmowers. You are supposed to bring the battery in and charge it during the winter and I would swear I had, but this time I couldn't see how to connect the charger cable to the battery. I sent pictures both to the company which made the mower and the store which sold me the battery (because of course the battery which came with the mower was no good). So I loaded the battery and cable into my car. When I took them to the company which sold me the battery, the guy there couldn't connect it either. Apparently when we were moving things a piece of the cable was misplaced and I have to find it.
Before leaving my town, I stopped at my mechanic's garage, because I figured if I did not have the oil and tires checked something was sure to go wrong. Well, the tires were fine and he said the car didn't have that many miles on since the oil change, but neither of us could budge the hood release even with a crowbar. So that is NOT okay and I must take my car into the garage next week.
I then went to start up my audiobook and COULD NOT FIND IT! It turned out iTunes had put the Overdrive audiobooks onto my phone but not those ripped from CD. They weren't under music or audiobooks--they weren't anywhere. After fighting with it for awhile, I texted my computer tech, since I was going to town anyway, and drove home to pick up my laptop so he could watch exactly what I did which would probably work with him watching. I thought, well, I'd just listen to my second choice book, but found that was missing Part 1! My third choice book had Part 1 only, and of the other two, one I didn't want to listen to now and the other, like the first one, was missing entirely!
Originally I was going to drive to another town, but by now it was over an hour later so I went to a closer town. There I found a huge rummage sale where of all things was a set of Childcraft--actually part of a 1950s set and part of a 1960s set, neither complete. I had been wanting to give a set for a baptismal gift, but the only extra set I had was my niece's, which she gave me back when she outgrew it, but she is getting it again when she has kids. She'll take it and she'll like it. So I was delighted to find this one! It's missing only one volume and finding one shouldn't be too huge of a problem. So that was good.
Meanwhile I have driven around for about a month with a car full of garden items this one guy is supposed to work on but every time we try to get together his car breaks down, he is robbed, or delayed in some other way. So this time he was delayed and I texted him to text me when he was really there. Then his phone died so he couldn't text me and by the time he did he had to leave. I had waited so long by then my computer tech also had to leave so I didn't see either of them.
I couldn't play the book off my laptop either, as the first external speaker I ordered was bad and neither the replacement nor the other I ordered as the replacement is bound to be bad too have arrived. I thought I could still do one more thing to force the wretched device to play the book in an audible manner, though. (The laptop speakers have to be played in a completely quiet room--in a moving car they would be inaudible.) So I drove to Radio Shack and the guys looked at the connectors on my car unit and the laptop and did have usable cables, but the cables cost almost as much as the speakers I'd already ordered which will probably arrive tomorrow so even if I don't get the wretched phone to work I can still play the books off the laptop. So I said bag it and ended up driving both ways not listening to anything and silently cursing technology.
I'll say this about cassette tapes--having to eject, turn over, and change tapes frequently while driving was a pain--but, I put them in the player, and they played, and quite audibly! *Sigh.* The guys at Radio Shack said to check the memory on my phone and I did--there is 8.6 GB available of an 11.8 GB capacity so I really don't see space as being the problem here! They also tried to sell me Sprint service for my phone instead of Verizon, so if it ends up saving me money it's all good. But still, Grrr!
Sending my thoughts and keeping his family and you in my prayers.
Arcadevere
Gentle Lady From Brady Hartsfield Defense Squad
Keeping Debbie, Her son and her family in my prayers.
Arcadevere
Gentle Lady From Brady Hartsfield Defense Squad
i'm so sorry but i really really want to express how angry i am today because of my classmates
this month is my Summer semester, "all" of us are in stress because of a single subject in my course named "Architectural Design"
because we requested to the administration office that the time should be like this like that because like some of my classmates, i will also get another subject, which is "Building Utilities : Plumbing and Sanitary" and we thought that the subject (ADesign) will not be approved because we lack two students for the subject to be approved and opened for enrollment this summer. and the schedule for this subject is still unofficial, unlike the BU : PAS is already official in the school database)
then in the day of deadline for enrollment, the petitioned summer was approved (and that makes me go in panic mode and angry because it was too late for us, why the administrator of my school did that to us?)
why i'm so angry of my classmates?
reasons
1. i was the only one who was moving to approved this subject and the two subjects will conflict on my schedule for summer semester, so i need to choose one, i was talking to them to encourage one of our professor to change it and they said "you do it". i felt like they leave me alone in the air after all that i did to approved that subject. i'm in limbo right now to choose between that subject because both of them are so important to me
2. some of them did not sign the petitioned letter and that was the reason why my enrollment got delayed for 4 days, my parents got angry, literally angry on me.
3. the professor was i think, trolling on me for the schedule and i hate it when someone is trolling on me when i'm already in serious mood, it makes me feel stupid.
that's why i locked myself a while ago at my room for an hour and scream and throw all my pillows to make myself felt better a little. after that, i played DOTA2 to make myself feel more better, but still has no effect.
i really want to throw all my things to the faces of my lazy classmates,
this month is my Summer semester, "all" of us are in stress because of a single subject in my course named "Architectural Design"
because we requested to the administration office that the time should be like this like that because like some of my classmates, i will also get another subject, which is "Building Utilities : Plumbing and Sanitary" and we thought that the subject (ADesign) will not be approved because we lack two students for the subject to be approved and opened for enrollment this summer. and the schedule for this subject is still unofficial, unlike the BU : PAS is already official in the school database)
then in the day of deadline for enrollment, the petitioned summer was approved (and that makes me go in panic mode and angry because it was too late for us, why the administrator of my school did that to us?)
why i'm so angry of my classmates?
reasons
1. i was the only one who was moving to approved this subject and the two subjects will conflict on my schedule for summer semester, so i need to choose one, i was talking to them to encourage one of our professor to change it and they said "you do it". i felt like they leave me alone in the air after all that i did to approved that subject. i'm in limbo right now to choose between that subject because both of them are so important to me
2. some of them did not sign the petitioned letter and that was the reason why my enrollment got delayed for 4 days, my parents got angry, literally angry on me.
3. the professor was i think, trolling on me for the schedule and i hate it when someone is trolling on me when i'm already in serious mood, it makes me feel stupid.
that's why i locked myself a while ago at my room for an hour and scream and throw all my pillows to make myself felt better a little. after that, i played DOTA2 to make myself feel more better, but still has no effect.
i really want to throw all my things to the faces of my lazy classmates,
Please help me, I am being held prisoner by iTunes 12.3.3.17. It hates me, it hates my iPhone 5s, it hates my audiobooks, it is torturing us and won't be happy until it has us all disintegrated. Here is what has happened so far after about the last ten days since I started trying to use it:
1. I had to remove all audiobooks from my iPhone 5s, which played fine up until then, because the new version of iTunes so completely fouled up everything I had to start all over.
2. After countless hours trying everything under the sun, I bit the bullet and called Support to have someone walk me through the steps to sync checked tunes only, which the lying weasel of an App indicated on the screen that it had done.
3. When the phone was disconnected from the computer (a MacBook Pro I recently acquired to which I moved everything), the following happened: audiobooks downloaded from Overdrive appeared, but none were playable as all were missing parts. Some had Part 1 but not the rest, others had most of the rest but not Part 1, some were missing sections from the middle.
Audiobooks ripped from CDs had COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. They were not to be found ANYWHERE on the phone, not under music, not under books, NOWHERE, though thankfully they are still in my iTunes library.
4. I thought maybe the Overdrive audiobooks had not completely gone into iTunes, so reimported the latest ones from the original downloads.
5. Some technical guys with whom I discussed this suggesting adding books one at a time, and since even the books which did make it to the phone were incomplete, I tried it. This time "Sync Checked Songs Only" would sync all files of ONE Overdrive book all right, but each time I added ANYTHING, it would DELETE what I had just added, leaving ONLY the latest one! I NEVER told it to remove ANYthing!
6. When I go to "Manage Music Manually," leaving "Sync Checked Songs Only" on, it won't show the albums in the format allowing them to be checked! When I go to uncheck "Manage Music Manually," it threatens to dump EVERYTHING from my iTunes library onto my phone, which is what it did the first 500 times I tried to add just the few I wanted! Meanwhile it is still not acknowledging audiobooks ripped from CD.
7. My question is, is there ANY App on a Mac or available for one, for managing audiobooks other than iTunes? Anything up to $100.00, I'll pay it, only please, PLEASE, if I can JUST get audio files onto my iPhone without dealing with this evil, horrible, abysmal soul-sucking monster anymore! I have wasted over a week of my life struggling with this. HELP! ME!! PLEASE!!!
P. S. Also what is an address where I can lodge a strong complaint with iTunes saying I HATE them and they have ruined my audiobook experience? Thank you.
1. I had to remove all audiobooks from my iPhone 5s, which played fine up until then, because the new version of iTunes so completely fouled up everything I had to start all over.
2. After countless hours trying everything under the sun, I bit the bullet and called Support to have someone walk me through the steps to sync checked tunes only, which the lying weasel of an App indicated on the screen that it had done.
3. When the phone was disconnected from the computer (a MacBook Pro I recently acquired to which I moved everything), the following happened: audiobooks downloaded from Overdrive appeared, but none were playable as all were missing parts. Some had Part 1 but not the rest, others had most of the rest but not Part 1, some were missing sections from the middle.
Audiobooks ripped from CDs had COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. They were not to be found ANYWHERE on the phone, not under music, not under books, NOWHERE, though thankfully they are still in my iTunes library.
4. I thought maybe the Overdrive audiobooks had not completely gone into iTunes, so reimported the latest ones from the original downloads.
5. Some technical guys with whom I discussed this suggesting adding books one at a time, and since even the books which did make it to the phone were incomplete, I tried it. This time "Sync Checked Songs Only" would sync all files of ONE Overdrive book all right, but each time I added ANYTHING, it would DELETE what I had just added, leaving ONLY the latest one! I NEVER told it to remove ANYthing!
6. When I go to "Manage Music Manually," leaving "Sync Checked Songs Only" on, it won't show the albums in the format allowing them to be checked! When I go to uncheck "Manage Music Manually," it threatens to dump EVERYTHING from my iTunes library onto my phone, which is what it did the first 500 times I tried to add just the few I wanted! Meanwhile it is still not acknowledging audiobooks ripped from CD.
7. My question is, is there ANY App on a Mac or available for one, for managing audiobooks other than iTunes? Anything up to $100.00, I'll pay it, only please, PLEASE, if I can JUST get audio files onto my iPhone without dealing with this evil, horrible, abysmal soul-sucking monster anymore! I have wasted over a week of my life struggling with this. HELP! ME!! PLEASE!!!
P. S. Also what is an address where I can lodge a strong complaint with iTunes saying I HATE them and they have ruined my audiobook experience? Thank you.
Backing slowly out of this thread....
It appears everyone else knew two years ago that iTunes 12 was a labyrinth devised by Kindergartners raised on video games and Disney cartoons to torture any adults who might actually want to use the app, but I only just "upgraded" so am just now finding it out. It also seems Apple has done nothing to fix it in all this time so I should just find another app, one with the capacity to actually transfer items ripped from CD onto an iPhone instead of just lying and saying it is, and I am open to suggestions. What was any adult in charge thinking when they let these tiny tots of terror wreak havoc? This is probably part of a foreign plot to bring down Western Civilization. Before, all I had to do to get music (from ANY source) onto my phone was select, drag, drop, end of story. I have now undergone more than ten days of consulting rocket scientists, wading through moats, hacking at thickets of six-inch thorns, fighting fire-breathing dragons, and have not in that time listened to ONE WORD of ONE AUDIO FILE! Thanks a lot for robbing me of countless hours and ruining EVERYTHING!
#itunessucks #itunesloons
iTunes 12 is Apple's Worst Software Ever, Should Be Withdrawn - The Mac Observer
#itunessucks #itunesloons
iTunes 12 is Apple's Worst Software Ever, Should Be Withdrawn - The Mac Observer
Think of it this way: If this is the worse thing that will ever happen to you in your whole life, you're pretty blessed.
Here is a thought: do you have a local HS nearby? There must be computer science classes and students who use iTunes. How about contacting the teacher and seeing if there is a "tech savvy" student who could help you with these issues?
You'd think so but I've been posting on Facebook for days and received only a few replies.
For thirty-one years now I have been a Mac user with mostly positive experiences and when problems arose, never have I undergone anything approaching this scale. Now I feel like telling them to take all their stuff and shove it.
Apple Support Forums removed my last post, but they sent a link for a Feedback form so I sent this:
After suffering eleven days of intense pain, aggravation, and grief, trying to transfer audio files to my iPhone, culminating in having to drag a laptop computer and a set of speakers outdoors after NOTHING WORKED, though I called support, used the help forums, and enlisted a professional, all I can say is this app seems deliberately devised to enrage, frustrate, and discourage the user. It cost me countless waking hours of distress, disturbed my sleep, and made rising dreary. It is among the worst things I have ever had to deal with in my life, including a broken leg. From numerous comments online it seems you have refused to fix it. I don't understand why a company would want to treat loyal customers so, and will be looking for an alternative app to manage my audio files.
Here is what I underwent today courtesy of iTunes. I could have played the audiobook I wanted on my iPhone (today, or at any time over the past eleven days), but the latest version of iTunes, for the malicious machinations of its own evil amusement, merely pretends to transfer tracks ripped from CD which then evaporate in the ether someplace. Had I succeeded in moving the particular book I wished to hear to my phone (where it was before I "upgraded" to the version of the app ruined by the idiot brigade) I could have listened using a small portable speaker, but iTunes simply wasn't having it. They decided I hadn't suffered enough, and would have to go one more day (this being day eleven of the ordeal) either without hearing my book, or be forced to drastic measures.
The pictures show an extension cord, plugged in inside, attached to a Mac laptop and a set of speakers which were a gift from my brother-in-law. As shown, I am still in a walking cast following a broken leg. Of course the speakers were downstairs, and I don't do either stairs or carrying things if I can help it, but I underwent this to listen to this book! Works fine, as long as I don't try to work further from the house than an extension cord will reach!
My porch needs painting. Seriously don't even.
Apple Support Forums removed my last post, but they sent a link for a Feedback form so I sent this:
After suffering eleven days of intense pain, aggravation, and grief, trying to transfer audio files to my iPhone, culminating in having to drag a laptop computer and a set of speakers outdoors after NOTHING WORKED, though I called support, used the help forums, and enlisted a professional, all I can say is this app seems deliberately devised to enrage, frustrate, and discourage the user. It cost me countless waking hours of distress, disturbed my sleep, and made rising dreary. It is among the worst things I have ever had to deal with in my life, including a broken leg. From numerous comments online it seems you have refused to fix it. I don't understand why a company would want to treat loyal customers so, and will be looking for an alternative app to manage my audio files.
Here is what I underwent today courtesy of iTunes. I could have played the audiobook I wanted on my iPhone (today, or at any time over the past eleven days), but the latest version of iTunes, for the malicious machinations of its own evil amusement, merely pretends to transfer tracks ripped from CD which then evaporate in the ether someplace. Had I succeeded in moving the particular book I wished to hear to my phone (where it was before I "upgraded" to the version of the app ruined by the idiot brigade) I could have listened using a small portable speaker, but iTunes simply wasn't having it. They decided I hadn't suffered enough, and would have to go one more day (this being day eleven of the ordeal) either without hearing my book, or be forced to drastic measures.
The pictures show an extension cord, plugged in inside, attached to a Mac laptop and a set of speakers which were a gift from my brother-in-law. As shown, I am still in a walking cast following a broken leg. Of course the speakers were downstairs, and I don't do either stairs or carrying things if I can help it, but I underwent this to listen to this book! Works fine, as long as I don't try to work further from the house than an extension cord will reach!
My porch needs painting. Seriously don't even.
I am unhappy because my computer keeps locking up and giving me the message that lock up due to "long-running script". Is anyone familiar with this snafu and is there a way to get rid of it?
Well, I listened to two books in the time I should have done about twelve and posted the following review at a site called P!$sed Consumer. (I had to alter its spelling but you get the idea.)
In my over 31 years with Macs, iTunes 12 is worse than all my other (mostly positive) Apple and Mac experiences combined, including the exasperating iPod, and one of the worst of my life. Formerly I easily transferred audiobooks both from Overdrive or ripped from CD to my iPhone 5s and they played ALL THE WAY THROUGH, IN ORDER, PERFECTLY. As soon as I "upgraded," it took me eleven days of pain, heartache, struggle, outrage, indignation, and frustration to load ONE set of books onto the phone! As for anything ripped from CD, it merely PRETENDS to load them but they never reach the phone. On the one that would, finally, play, first every track repeated, necessitating hitting the screen a dozen times an hour. Once that was fixed, individual tracks play in order, but instead of progressing to the next section of the book set, each section skips to a different part of a different book so must be reset every hour or so, when the old version played PERFECTLY for hours at a time! Over the past two weeks I have lost time, sleep, peace of mind, suffered physical pain and mental and emotional distress, not to mention lost money as even after contacting support I had to enlist a professional who is still working on this and no end in sight. Formerly I was able to put as many books on my phone as I liked, now I have ONE set and nothing has played properly YET--as if I didn't have other things to do in all this time. I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I WANT ANSWERS! This is not an upgrade, it's a hack, a hijacking, one step below a virus, practically an act of cyber terror! It seems deliberately designed as an attack on customers. I can envision a disgruntled employee doing such a thing to damage Apple, but WHY does the company not FIX it? WHY do they seem insistent on shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot? If consumer complaints would have been addressed when they started well over a year ago, I would have been spared all this. I asked the professional if I could just downgrade to the version that worked, but he advised against it. This gives me a bad feeling about Apple I previously never had. They do not have their own nor customers' best interests at heart. Thank you for providing this platform. I did fill out a Feedback form which of course they don't acknowledge.
In my over 31 years with Macs, iTunes 12 is worse than all my other (mostly positive) Apple and Mac experiences combined, including the exasperating iPod, and one of the worst of my life. Formerly I easily transferred audiobooks both from Overdrive or ripped from CD to my iPhone 5s and they played ALL THE WAY THROUGH, IN ORDER, PERFECTLY. As soon as I "upgraded," it took me eleven days of pain, heartache, struggle, outrage, indignation, and frustration to load ONE set of books onto the phone! As for anything ripped from CD, it merely PRETENDS to load them but they never reach the phone. On the one that would, finally, play, first every track repeated, necessitating hitting the screen a dozen times an hour. Once that was fixed, individual tracks play in order, but instead of progressing to the next section of the book set, each section skips to a different part of a different book so must be reset every hour or so, when the old version played PERFECTLY for hours at a time! Over the past two weeks I have lost time, sleep, peace of mind, suffered physical pain and mental and emotional distress, not to mention lost money as even after contacting support I had to enlist a professional who is still working on this and no end in sight. Formerly I was able to put as many books on my phone as I liked, now I have ONE set and nothing has played properly YET--as if I didn't have other things to do in all this time. I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I WANT ANSWERS! This is not an upgrade, it's a hack, a hijacking, one step below a virus, practically an act of cyber terror! It seems deliberately designed as an attack on customers. I can envision a disgruntled employee doing such a thing to damage Apple, but WHY does the company not FIX it? WHY do they seem insistent on shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot? If consumer complaints would have been addressed when they started well over a year ago, I would have been spared all this. I asked the professional if I could just downgrade to the version that worked, but he advised against it. This gives me a bad feeling about Apple I previously never had. They do not have their own nor customers' best interests at heart. Thank you for providing this platform. I did fill out a Feedback form which of course they don't acknowledge.
