HappyTexas

Q: How do I STOP auto-till tags when saving documents?

Please!  I'm asking again.  Please STOP auto-filling my tags as I try to save documents.  You can't spell.  You can't read my mind.  You don't know what you're doing.  You're unwanted.  You get in the way.  You aggravate.  You slow me down.  You make my typing inaccurate.  Correcting your stupid, invasive errors is maddening, a waste of time, and it's desperately NOT wanted.  I'm tired of FIGHTING with my beloved computer!!!

 

 

I know you can allow customers to intelligently and efficiently create their own relevant tags.  I've seen it done.  I've lived it.  I've worked.  I enjoyed it before the lunacy you call a Mavericks "UPgrade."  There's little about Mavericks that has upped your value, Apple.

 

 

I know how to type.   PLEASE, for God's sake, let me do it!!!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 22, 2014 8:25 AM

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  • by Tony T1,

    Tony T1 Tony T1 May 19, 2014 4:57 PM in response to Csound1
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    May 19, 2014 4:57 PM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    It's obvious why, we have a troll in our midst.

     

    Yes, but not sure why he's allowing keriah to do all this work.

    OP's way of having "fun" I guess.

  • by keriah,

    keriah keriah May 21, 2014 7:36 AM in response to HappyTexas
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    May 21, 2014 7:36 AM in response to HappyTexas

    HappyTexas wrote:

    Yes, keriah, I get exactly the results you've replicated. ...

    Hi, HappyTexas,

    Are you working on the "next step"?  If I made the narrative overly verbose, here's the short form:

    In a new Pages document (one without any Tag values), slowly type "catalystproof" (without the quotes) in the Tags: field and observe (a) what you see in the Tags field and (b) what you see in the Where: field.

     

    After you have typed all the letters, you should see none of your "gibberish" values -- either in the Tags: field or in the Where: field.  Is that right?

  • by HappyTexas,

    HappyTexas HappyTexas May 24, 2014 9:05 AM in response to keriah
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    May 24, 2014 9:05 AM in response to keriah

    Keriah, I definitely value your patience and appreciate the help you've been sending my way but I think you're leading me to a work-around solution that requires constant manipulation of a tags list that I don't want to maintain because I don't want to create it in the first place.

     

    My question was, and remains, is there a way to turn off the auto-complete annoyance.  It's abundantly clear to me that I was not missing something.  It's abundantly clear to me a turn-off switch for auto-complete simply does not exist.  There's simply no sane or supportive reason why we've accumulated 7 pages of commentary when a yes or no answer suffices.

     

    I don't want to waste any more of your time so I'm signing off on this conversation.  I would love to see it through to fruition if it leads to a way to stop auto-complete but it doesn't, does it?

     

    The abusive intrusions from so many hate-filled people on these posts makes a mockery of the mission of support but that seems to be where Apple is going -- to become a mockery of itself.  Reading the derisive comments from so many people posting here reveals to me these so-called support forums are nothing more than social networks for very sad, very ugly, very lonely people.  You don't deserve them.  You don't deserve to have your time wasted by them.  Neither do I.

     

    Thank you but good-bye.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 24, 2014 9:14 AM in response to HappyTexas
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    May 24, 2014 9:14 AM in response to HappyTexas

    HappyTexas wrote:

     

    There's simply no sane or supportive reason why we've accumulated 7 pages of commentary when a yes or no answer suffices.

    You received the answer to that question on May 10, since then you've been here for some other reason.

     

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  • by benwiggy,

    benwiggy benwiggy May 24, 2014 9:18 AM in response to HappyTexas
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    May 24, 2014 9:18 AM in response to HappyTexas

    Jebus. From the very beginning of this thread, I was trying to help you, because what you seemed to be describing (automatic addition of tags to files) is NOT NORMAL OS X BEHAVIOUR. But you dismissed my efforts to help you as irrelevant.

     

    But you weren't prepared to entertain any experimentation or investigation, as you have also done with Keriah. You were only interested in a response to one, blinkered question.

     

    As none of us, except for you, is sitting in front of your Mac, we only have what you tell us to go on. We therefore need to ask questions and we need you to tell us as much as you can. This may entail trying things out to gain facts, not just to magically fix things with a hand-wave.

     

    I firmly believe that your problems can be fixed. But you would rather be curmudgeonly than help yourself. If that isn't sad and lonely, I don't know what is.

     

    All the best

  • by Tony T1,

    Tony T1 Tony T1 May 24, 2014 9:32 AM in response to HappyTexas
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    May 24, 2014 9:32 AM in response to HappyTexas

    HappyTexas wrote:

     

    My question was, and remains, is there a way to turn off the auto-complete annoyance.

     

    No matter how many times you ask the same question, the answer remains

    the same: you can't

  • by keriah,

    keriah keriah May 24, 2014 10:57 AM in response to HappyTexas
    Level 1 (29 points)
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    May 24, 2014 10:57 AM in response to HappyTexas

    HappyTexas wrote:

    Keriah, I definitely value your patience and appreciate the help you've been sending my way but I think you're leading me to a work-around solution that ...

    Pity that you're guessing at reading my mind.  I gave you the courtesy of not guessing at what you were thinking (or seeing).  Sorry to hear that you could not return that courtesy.

     

    HappyTexas wrote:

    ...

    My question was, and remains, is there a way to turn off the auto-complete annoyance. ...

    Actually, that question was answered several pages back.  And then you posed a different question.  THAT is what we've been working on since.

     

    HappyTexas wrote:

    .. I would love to see it through to fruition if it leads to a way to stop auto-complete but it doesn't, does it?

    We were pretty close to an answer.  But now you've given up.

     

    I try hard to practice the dictum to not care more about someone's problem than they do.

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