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Here's today's annoyance: Adding a new network printer to Windows 7 failed to update the Windows registry properly. At work the other day I needed to add a new network printer. Pretty easy huh? After browsing for the network device, installing the correct driver and running of a test page I thought I was done. Apparently I was mistaken. Here's what happened after the printer was added: Applications such as Adobe Reader X fail to "see" the added printer. Applications such as Microsoft Word 2010 or Excel 2010 can "see" the printer (kinda) but will not let you select it. Could not set and/or change the default printer, fails with " Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000709). Double check the printer name and make sure that printer is connected to the network. ". Thinking there was something wrong with the network, printer driver and/or ports I (attempted to) uninstall/re-install the printer several times - ending up with severa...

Today's little hiccup: I'm extracting email attachments to a directory and I need to read the list of files that have been extracted. Here's where the Foundation FileUtils Find operation comes in. The documentation  states: " ... Regular Expression A string value that represents the regular expression used to match the file and directory names. The default is * which matches any file and directory name. (See Regular expressions syntax.) ... " Using the default value of " * " produces this result: ALC-FUT-001-007: Syntax error in the regular expression *. at com.adobe.livecycle.fileutils.FileUtilsService.list(FileUtilsService.java:809) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.adobe.id...