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09-21-2016 07:20 AM
I loaded about 150 print jobs into my printer and when I went to print the next day (today), they were all gone. My error console says 'aborting job because it has no files' and 'Bad file number 1 on line whatever, (2160, 2170 etc.)
Any idea what's going on and more importantly is there anyway to get the jobs back. Please?
Thanks in advance for your kind support, This is the second time this has happened. Actually the third. First my computer crashed with all the print info in it. I had to buy a new one and I entered the print info and shazamm! it disappeared. Today, after forgetting what happened the first time, I did it again. It takes hours to get the jobs I'm trying to print and I'm way behind on my work.
BonnieJW
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09-21-2016 09:56 AM
It looks like the "aborting jobs because it has no files" error is from the CUPS (Apple) printing system and is related to connection issues.
Quite possibly because the printer was not connected.
Unfortunately I am unable to chat live.
Is the printer printing correvtly now that it is connected?
09-21-2016 08:57 AM
Hello BonnieJW,
From your post it is difficult to tell exactly what happened. But it sounds like you queued up 150 jobs to your M1212 in Mac OS 10.6, but waited till this morning to actually print them. Is that correct? Or did they start printing and then during the night the error occurred?
I guess in the end it probably does not matter. If the Mac purged the print jobs from the queue it is very unlikely you can retrieve them. Especially if the Mac was rebooted.
I am unsure exactly what would cause that particular error, but it sounds as though something being printed was corrupted.
Is the printer working now?
09-21-2016 09:19 AM
No, it isn't. As I said, when I looked at the error log on my mac it said 'bad file number 1 on line ____ and it was repeated for differtn lines 150 times. it also said 'aborting jobs because it has no files.' They were there yesterday, I didn't check before I hooked my computer up to the printer, but I assume they were. I"m guessing they disappeared when i hit print.
Any ideas you can come up woth would be very appreciated. I'm going to have to re-enter the print info, so maybe I can chat with you before I hit print? Or we can do a test?
Bonniejw
09-21-2016 09:56 AM
It looks like the "aborting jobs because it has no files" error is from the CUPS (Apple) printing system and is related to connection issues.
Quite possibly because the printer was not connected.
Unfortunately I am unable to chat live.
Is the printer printing correvtly now that it is connected?
09-24-2016 08:04 AM
Hi, thanks for the advice. I think you're correct. My computer said printer not connected even though it was. I went ahead and hit print. I guess that's where I made my mistake. I'll make sure it doesn't say not connected next time I hit print.
Thanks so much for getting back to me!!
Bonnie
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