Since the last upgrade of safari (I think) I can't copy text in a preview document opened in Safari. Can I adjust anything in the preferences or is there any other solution to get the normal behaviour back?
Safari-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder as follows:
☞ If running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar.
☞ If running an older version of Mac OS X, select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar and enter “~/Library” (without the quotes) in the text box that opens.
Delete the following items from the Library folder:
Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
Preferences/QuickTime Preferences
Relaunch Safari and test.
thanks!
I tried twice - but had no success. Too bad.
Does that mean you couldn't delete the files, or you did delete them and there was no change?
I deleted them but there was no change.
It's not too long since I installed Click.to.app. I thought this app might be the reason, so I tried to uninstall the app but the recipe of acsonic did not work for me.
Please give more details of the problem. What kind of content are you having a problem with, and what exactly happens when you try to view it?
ok – here my recipe: I open a pdf document in safari,
example:. http://epaper.derbund.ch/pdf/2012_2_BVBU-002-1604.pdf
and then I want to copy a word. I get a beep and there is nothin in the clipboard.
In the mean time I uninstalled Acrobat Reader - result: opening pdf documents in Safari resulted in a black window.
Then i tried to reinstall a earlier version of Safari (first from Time capule, didn't work because you can't delete Safari or move it out of the programs folder. Then I tried to use an earlier version I had on my laptop. Did not work either.
Finally I reinstalled Lion - did not help any. And then I reinstalled Adobe Reader - did not help, but from inside of Adobe Reader I could upgrade to version 10.1.3. Now I can load the pdf-documents but I can still not copy text.
On my laptop I still have Safari 5.1.3 installed and there is no Adobe Reader and there everything works as expected.
I did not pursue the <Click.to.app> uninstallation.
Maybe I should try to make preview the default opener for pdf-documents in Safari, but I did not see how to do this.
In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder... from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Copy the line of text below into the box that opens, and press return:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
If a Finder window opens with that item selected, delete it, then quit and relaunch Safari. Otherwise post again.
Thanks!!!
That worked great.
Hi Linc. I've tried all of the above to no avail. I rely heavily on the ability to copy from a web-based database generated PDF into a separate web-based database.
When the (cfm) PDF opens in Safari, I can copy once, and paste, but then, once I paste, I am unable to copy new PDF info from a different report. It continues to paste from the first copy action. Whatever this new functionality is, it really has thrown my workflow into a tailspin. Copying and pasting from Safari PDFs used to be so painless.
Running Safari 6.0.3 on Mac OS 10.7.5
I also recently upgraded Adobe CS which included Acrobat X (10.1.6)
I completed all of the above suggestions. I would like to revert to a mode wherein Acrobat is not meddling in my Safari activity.
Any insights would be heeded. Thanks!
Oops - fixed it myself. Was looking in my personal applications file, instead of the system file. Thanks anyway!
I have the same problem.
But I couldn't find this file.
Kindly advise.
Can't copy text in a preview-document opened in Safari.
