Assign to This Desktop / All Desktops broken for some apps

Thanks for this. This is happening to my Mom's machine and it was driving me nuts. Installed Handbrake and VLC yesterday and launching the app normallly, she doesn't get the Assign To option.....but launching via LaunchPad works.

BTW....trashing the Spaces pref didn't help in this case.

Hopefully this is just a bug.

-Kevin

Just where is the Spaces app? How do I invoke it? I upgraded to 10.8.2 last night from Snow Leopard and I need my Spaces! I tried the procedure in the thread at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4139762?tstart=0 without any luck whatsoever. I have three monitors... maybe that has something to do with it.

Is there no menu somewhere? Apple Help has no answer. It mentions Spaces only in passing, as if everyone should know by instinct what to do.

Worst. Upgrade. Ever.

Yes

we want spaces !!!!

The fix using terminal and the removal of the plist worked for me (ML 10.8.2).

I previously had the problem with Mail; I have launched it several times since the fix,

and it is always launched into the desktop (#3) to which I constrained it.

Running 10.8.2 and can confirm the issue is still present. I even submitted a bug report through the propper channels, however I'm assuming it slid through a crack since I never got a response.

RE: rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist; killall Dock;

You don't need to remove the .plist file, you can just type killall Dock; in the terminal and you should get the option back (temporarly that is).

Back when I was running Snow Leopard, I held off upgrading to Lion because of all the nonsense features and bugs. Now that I'm running ML, I wonder how Mission Control and Launchpad ever made it here. These, along with not being able to use my second screen in Full Screen Mode are my most hated features in the Apple OS.

Mission Control and Launchpad are utterly useless and a waste of Development resources.

While Spaces could have used a little updating, it still worked flawlessly, and intuitivley.

I mean, seriously:

• Why the **** can't I drag another window into my current space without leaving my space anymore??????
• Why can't I create a clear list of Apps I want running in my Space of preference????? Even if the current issue is resolved (setting prefs. from the Dock), there's no way in **** to remember what apps you've assigned to run anywhere.
• Why hasn't Apple even fixed this obvious bug of assigning apps to desktops from the Dock??? seems like a relatively simple fix.

sebasll wrote:

Running 10.8.2 and can confirm the issue is still present. I even submitted a bug report through the propper channels, however I'm assuming it slid through a crack since I never got a response.

RE: rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist; killall Dock;

You don't need to remove the .plist file, you can just type killall Dock; in the terminal and you should get the option back (temporarly that is).

Back when I was running Snow Leopard, I held off upgrading to Lion because of all the nonsense features and bugs. Now that I'm running ML, I wonder how Mission Control and Launchpad ever made it here. These, along with not being able to use my second screen in Full Screen Mode are my most hated features in the Apple OS.

Mission Control and Launchpad are utterly useless and a waste of Development resources.

While Spaces could have used a little updating, it still worked flawlessly, and intuitivley.

I mean, seriously:

• Why the **** can't I drag another window into my current space without leaving my space anymore??????
• Why can't I create a clear list of Apps I want running in my Space of preference????? Even if the current issue is resolved (setting prefs. from the Dock), there's no way in **** to remember what apps you've assigned to run anywhere.
• Why hasn't Apple even fixed this obvious bug of assigning apps to desktops from the Dock??? seems like a relatively simple fix.

Why? Lack of Quality Control. They are too busy push new features to notice the impact of the old and to test the old. Disk Utility is prime example: cant even backup the system with Apple's own utility designed for that purpose.

I also had this problem and the solution in the first post worked for me. OSX 10.8.2, fresh install and had a problem with chrome.

Thanks.

This worked for me, launching from LaunchPad instead of Spotlight.
Thanks!

This worked for me too.

thanks, it worked! i just renamed the file to "com.apple.spaces.plist(backup)".

Remember: You use LaunchPad once to set the desired Desktop; from then on, OSX remembers the setting. Unless you wish to change the setting, then LaunchPad comes out of the useless category

What the effing ef? I've been trying to figure out why the 'Assign to...' option was not appearing on some of my apps having recently created a fresh installation and moving apps, and documents back in, but this works. Launch it from LaunchPad, right click on the icon in the dock, and there it is.

>_<

Thanks to the poster.

I found a workaround a somewhat different way -

I noticed that the all the running apps that wouldn't show an Option->Assign To were apps not permanently istalled in the dock.

If I opened an app that wasn't installed in the dock, it's dock icon didn't give the option.
If I opened an app that WAS installed in the dock, it's dock icon gave the option - both when it was running and closed.

So for the apps I wanted to make space assignments for, I

1. dragged their (non-running) icons to a dock position,
2. assigned the space,
3. verified by clicking the dock icon that the app opened in the correct space.
4. quit the app and dragged its icon back out of the dock
5. the space assignment was retained on next execution.

My problem is with MS Excel. It is assigned to desktop 1. It is permanently in the dock.

If it is not running, and gets launched from another desktop, the display automatically switches to

desktop 1. However, if Excel is already running, and then a sheet is opened from another desktop,

no switching takes place. I have to manually switch to desktop 1, where I then see the recently opened

sheet displayed in the foreground. I do use other MS Office products much, so have not experimented with

their behavior.

Steve_in_SB wrote:

However, if Excel is already running, and then a sheet is opened from another desktop,

no switching takes place. I have to manually switch to desktop 1, where I then see the recently opened

sheet displayed in the foreground.

I have seen other apps exhibit this behavior - like the Finder! I have the Finder assigned to a specific space and if I double click a folder on the desktop when that space is not current no switching takes place - even though the folder has been opened in the correct space.