Aperture.app keyboard command problem

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the response.

See attached photo for the current keyboard setting. I sometimes switch to the Swiss German setting and other layouts too but this is the one I use the most. It never used to be a problem.

I had already deleted my personal command sets and I had checked where you suggest plus in the administrator accounts for the two Mac I use.

I'll try changing the keyboard language to english to see if that changes anything.

Emyr

Hmmm....

No it's not a new setting for me that's why I'm puzzled as to why it's happening especially as it occurs on both machines. Also, I don't understand why it would create two sets of commands for each action, there never used to be two of each. How many do you have in your comand set (I'm assuming you use your Mac in English only)? If I turn on four or five keyboard layouts there are still only two sets of commands.

Definitely a bug, or a layout corruption somewhere, maybe with the Swiss French keyboard config. Something to do with the keyboard layout as you suggested. If I turn off the other layouts, the commands work again but I have to activate the US English layout (see result). The English layout doesn't make it work.

Switched to the Swiss French layout and restarted Aperture – bingo! the problem is back. :-(

Oddly enough I disabled the Swiss French and enabled the Swiss Geman (along with the US one) layout and it works again.

Any ideas of anything I can do to reset the keyboard layouts to the "out-of-the-box" settings?

Brilliant, thanks for pointing that out to me. I have never noticed that before on any other application.

U have never altered the default command set, in fact it seems to be impossible to do so.

Previously I was not offered language options (it just said default with no arrow) from the default command menu but after I switched on the German it gave me this...

After turning on the US English in the International & Text prefs it gave me this (turning on British English doesn't).

But I still have two lots of commands!

My problem now is that it always defaults to the French commands when I start Aperture. there is no way to keep it as English and I have to re-set it every time I open Aperture.

Aaaarrrrggghhhhhh!

Bah! I have no idea which preferences to ditch to get this back to its "out-of-the-box" state short of doing a clean install which I've not done for about five years now despite keeping up-to-date with OS versions. My self esteem couldn't handle the shame of physically taking it to a genius bar (it feels like I was using a Mac before most of the ones in Geneva were eating solids)!

Any hints? I've tried the looking for the Language and text prefs and keyboard layouts but to no avail. The most frustrating thing is that it keeps jumping back to the French default commands.

Perhaps I'll have a trawl through the forums again...

Months down the line and the problem does not go away. I have instealled a new HD in my MbP and a clean install of Mavericks but the behaviour never changes. 😟

Despite setting the default command to English every time I restart Aperture, the setting is never remebered and I must do it again each time.

It's as if there is a basic fault in the commands/keyboard preferences. 😠

Hi Léonie,

Thanks but no that they were not activated & I use ⌘Space & ⌥⌘Space for a system-wide command in another app.

Actually the keyboard layout does not change my problem is that the Aperture Command Default Language does remain set to English. I have to set it to English every time I launch Aperture and it reverts backk to French each time. It seems to be inependent of what the Default language for the system is (which is English despite having a Swiss French/German keyboard layout).

All the other apps on my machines run in English which is the System Language.

Really really frustrating!

I'd actually like to report this as a bug to Apple but there is no obvious way of doing this...

Thanks for that, it's been a couple of years since I submitted any feedback and I just couldn't find it (showing my age I think...).

Currently I have duplicated the default English commands and have set that to be the Custom Command Set that is used. For the moment it seems to work but then again it worked previously too and stopped for some reason. I'll have to see if I can duplicate the functionality on the other Mac.

Not sure the Swiss French/German keyboard is much better! 😝