Templates!! Yes! (but where)

sigh. I don't seem to have anything. I clearly have iDVD, because I'm using it. I clearly have movies I've made. But I don't see any place that iDVD is listed. I've even done a search through the finder.

Is it possible my system is somehow corrupted?

Thanks!

susan

Simplistic answer but have you used finder to locate iDVD.

The favorites folder could be in one of two places, either in the system library folder or in your user folder. If you have a single user system like me you sometimes can lose items like this as they can be in either location.

Susan:

If you'll open iDVD, while in a menu click on the Customize button and then the Setting button. Now click on the Save As Favorite button at the bottom of that pane. Now close iDVD and go to your User/Library and you'll find an iDVD folder. If it's not there, try the HD/Library folder and see if it was created there. When you find it you can drop the new theme packages into the Favorites folder.

OT

Thanks! I'll give it a try. Right now, my 1 hour 15 minute movie has been stuck on stage 3 for hours and I don't want to stop it till morning (it's night here 🙂 ) -- If it hasn't encoded by morning, I don't know what I'll do, sigh, but in any event, I'll stop it and do as you suggest.

Thanks again!

susan

Yes, I did try that, but got nowhere.

I'm thinking that now is the time to upgrade to 10.4 -- I have it but have been reluctant to install it because I heard there are problems. But I think I'll install it over the weekend and reload iLife and see if things go better.

Thanks!

You shouldn't have to reinstall iLife. Use the Archive and Install option for Tiger and select the preserve internet setting option. This will give you an new system with a folder containing some preferences and other files you may or may not need from your old system. For applications that you have to enter a serial number to activate you can find the preference file for that application in the old system folder that got created and move it into your new User/Library/Preferences folder. That will save some work for you.

Be sure to immediately update to 10.4.2 using the 10.4.2 COMBO updater. You can download it before you run the Tiger installation and place on your desktop for running.

Here is what I do before and after a major system update:

1 - run the File System Check (fsck) while booted into the Single User Mode (see end of post).
2 - repair disk permissions with Disk Utility
3 - run installer and all appropriate combo updaters.
4 - repair disk permissions again.

That should help you achieve a successful update to Tiger.

FSCK - File System Check
To start up in single-user mode
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the startup sound, press and hold both the Command (Apple) and "s" keys on your keyboard. The computer will display a series of text messages, at which time you may release these keys.
When the computer has started up, it will display a command line prompt (#). The computer is now in single-user mode.
How to Run the File System Check from the Command Line
Once you have reached a command line, follow these steps to use fsck:
1. At the prompt, type: fsck -fy (NOTE, there is a space between the k and the “-”)
The fsck utility will go through five "phases" and then return information about the disk's utilization and fragmentation. Once the check is finished, if no issue is found, you should see "** The volume <name of volume> appears to be OK."
If fsck alters, repairs, or fixes anything, it will display the message:
**** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***
IMPORTANT: If this message appears, repeat the "fsck -fy" command until this message no longer appears. It is not unusual for your computer to require several "passes" of fsck, because first-pass repairs may uncover additional errors. Run it until you get two consecutive times with an "OK" result.
3. When fsck reports that no problems were found, type: reboot
4. Press Return.

Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.

OT

All I can say is . . . Thank you! I really appreciate the help.

susan

Could you now post the first 6 plus the 2 you have yet to post? I only got the second group of 6 but want all 14.

I have a website I can host these on too as long as that isn't illegal or something.

I downloaded all twelve but have only just got round to trying them. They look excellent and so easy to include.

In experimenting I found to my surprise that it is possible to have different themes on sub menus. I' never thought to try that.

Many thanks again.

Hallelujah!

Thank you ever so much. I followed your instructions, and voila, it appeared. Now I can, I hope, drop the new themes in!

Thanks again --

susan

I don't seem to be able to download the last two themes, they simply fill the screen with machine code. I am using firefox.

Control click on the link and select Downloaded Linked File. Then delete the html extension off the file so you'll be able to unstuff it.

PT - thanks for those themes. Think I'll be using one or two of them in my next project.

Control click on the link and select Downloaded Linked File

Control click on the link(from the hosting page) does not give a Downloaded Linked File.

Perhaps I'll try later in safari or explorer