I got this error on iCloud Calendar for Outlook on Windows 8 and Office 2013.
The set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened
The solution for me was quite simple. I went to Control Panel –> Add/Remove Programs. Choose “iCloud” and click Change. Then, choose the “Repair” option (make sure Outlook is closed).
After doing the repair, my iCloud came back!
First off, I want to give a shout-out to a very helpful post. Thank you to Bryan for posting these tremendously helpful posts on how to get CrashPlan up-and-running on headless Linux server (aka: pretty much any Linux Web Server).
Installing CrashPlan on a Headless Linux Server
Using the Windows CrashPlan Client to manage a headless Linux server
Also there is more on CrashPlan’s own site about this here.
Anyways, so the rest of this article assumes that you have successfully gotten CrashPlan installed on your Linux server, and that you are able to manage it via a remote client and select folders for backup.
So, what happened to me was, I got everything configured correctly, but still could not get the backup going. These are the symptoms I faced:
1. The folders were successfully selected; I could see them on CrashPlan’s web interface as selected
2. CrashPlan PRO Online (CrashPlan Central) was selected as the destination
3. No matter what I tried, it would just sit there saying “Waiting for Backup” or “Connecting to Backup Desitnation” and would say 0 files completed.
These are the troubleshooting steps I performed:
1. I verified that ports 443, 4242 and 4243 were allowed for outbound connections
2. I tried restarting the CrashPlan Engine multiple times
3. I even uninstalled and re-installed CrashPlan completely
4. There were various posts online about versions of Java and changing things with the Java install. I didn’t think this was the problem for me…so I would suggest you skip those steps if you see them.
I eventually started looking at the logs, and found this Java error in one of the log files:
Exception in thread "W30145090_ScanWrkr" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.code42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager at com.code42.jna.inotify.JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.<init>(JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.java:21) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.initFileWatcherDriver(BackupSetsManager.java:393) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.startScheduledFileQueue(BackupSetsManager.java:331) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.access$1600(BackupSetsManager.java:66) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager$ScanWorker.delay(BackupSetsManager.java:1073) at com.code42.utils.AWorker.run(AWorker.java:158) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Now, as far as I understand it, inotify is only needed if you want to do scanning for real-time file changes. I actually didn’t even want to do this, so I disabled that, but it still didn’t find my problem.
I finally came across this post on CrashPlan’s own site that has a viable answer! Unfortunately the title of the post doesn’t say anything about “Waiting for Backup” so it is hard to connect it as the solution for this particular issue. Thank you to Renee S from CrashPlan for posting a viable solution that works on that forum!
Basically, the short of it is, CrashPlan doesn’t have the right parameter on the /tmp/ folder it needs to perform the backups.
Here are the instructions to get it to work again.
1. You will need to create a new tmp folder for CrashPlan on your Linux server. Here are the specifications for that folder
– They recommend putting the directory in a user’s home directory (not root’s)
– The user CrashPlan was installed under must have write permissions on the directory you create
– IMPORTANT: The directory must be without the noexec restriction.
– So, for example, your directory might be: /home/myname/crashplan-temp
2. Once you have your temp folder created, you need to edit the run.conf file which is located here: /usr/local/crashplan/bin/run.conf
3. Open up this file, and look for this line:
SRV_JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapp=CrashPlanService -DappBaseName=CrashPlan -Xms20m -Xmx512m -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=300 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=300 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.negative.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=0"
4. We need to add an additional paramater specifying the new temp directory. This is done using this form:
-Djava.io.tmpdir=<path>
where <path> is a pointer to the directory you created in step 1. This can be added to the BEGINNING of the line, right after the quotes, so using the theoretical directory listed in step 1, it might look something like this
SRV_JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/myname/crashplan-temp -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapp=CrashPlanService -DappBaseName=CrashPlan -Xms20m -Xmx512m -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=300 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=300 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.negative.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=0"
5. Once you have that saved, restart CrashPlan on the Linux server for good measure, then it should work!
A couple tips if it still isn’t working:
– Make sure you have appropriate permissions on the directory you specified
– a few people had success changing the ownership to nobody:nobody (chown nobody:nobody). I didn’t have to do this, but it might work for you
I hope this fix works for you!
Have you ever found one of those little programs that is incredibly simple, but you find incredibly useful and it works just the way you want it to? Oh, and that’s free? I have found Input Director to be just such a program for me.
What this program allows you to do is control a second computer (or more than two) with the keyboard and mouse from your primary computer. My primary system is a laptop, and I also have a desktop attached to the monitor on the side (so that I can always leave the desktop on and connect to it remotely if needed). I wanted to be able to control that desktop with my main computer as if was attached as a third monitor. This does exactly that. Your mouse will continue over to the other computer as another screen, and you can also control the computer with your keyboard. (I don’t even have a KB & mouse attached to that secondary computer). It works just the way you’d want it to as well. It is a wonderful program and I highly recommend it.
The only recommendation I would have if you do use it is, make sure you are using static IP addresses in your networking, and use the IP addresses as the computer names. I’ve found this gives the best seamless & problem-free operation.
Oh, and did I mention that it’s free? Check it out today.
***NOTICE*** It seems every new version of iTunes breaks this fix. If this fix has worked for you, then I recommend you stay on the iTunes version you have and don’t upgrade. You can see the Release Notes of each version of iTunes and see if there is a feature that you need. Typically I have found the upgrades aren’t all that needed (except major versions like 11 to 12, of course).
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After searching the net and lots of forums and trying lots of things, I thought I’d post the solution that actually worked for me. I owe a great deal of thanks to Chris123nt for this post (link removed, blog post no longer exists) for pointing me in the right direction.
First off, you will know if the solution below will work for you if you have the following set-up and symptoms:
The problem is, for some reason, iTunes won’t install the Apple Mobile Device software or service. Even if you extract out the AMDS installation files, it still fails. The SOLUTION is to take the software and service from a working machine for AMDS and manually install it. Then, it will work!
Luckily for you, I have provided the files you will need and installation instructions. This is a bit technical, but obviously worth it to get your iPhone, iTouch or iPad working on Windows. These instructions are for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, 8 or 10 and the latest version of iTunes 12. Depending on whether you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, make sure you select the appropriate files and follow the right instructions, otherwise it won’t work.
If you don’t know whether you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, right-click on “Computer”, click Properties, then look under “System type”.
Good luck!
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***NOTICE*** It seems every new version of iTunes breaks this fix. If this fix has worked for you, then I recommend you stay on the iTunes version you have and don’t upgrade. You can see the Release Notes of each version of iTunes and see if there is a feature that you need. Typically I have found the upgrades aren’t all that needed (except major versions like 10 to 11, of course).
Please write in the comments and let me know if this worked for you.
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I saw many posts online about changing the location of your iTunes Library (Edit–>Preferences–>Advanced–>iTunes Music Folder Location). This is really quite simple. However, what’s annoying is, even if you change the location of your music, iTunes keeps the .xml and .itl library files in the original location (Windows “My Music” folder). I wanted the library stored in the same spot as my music–mainly for backup purposes. Seems logical, right? Well, in a Google search, it took me a while to find the answer.
The answer turned out to be incredibly simple. Simply hold down “Shift” when you launch iTunes and it will ask you to locate the libary file. I solved my problem in 2 steps. First, close iTunes, then:
1. Move the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml files wherever you want them
2. Do the Shift-Start trick, and tell iTunes where the files are now located.
Random Windows Tips & Fixes 