10.8.3 has not solved 2 key issues

Stephen Schulte1 wrote:

Hide others (hide all other open applications) still means that when returning to an eMail in Apple Mail or a note in Apple's Notes program, the cursor is gone, disappeared, and the highlighting is strange too – a weird brown/grey and not the default highlight color. THIS PROBLEM STILL EXISTS - NO SOLUTION YET.

It doesn't happen in Apple Mail. The cursor disappears in Note.

Just tried to reproduce in Note. Still can't reproduce.

There used to be a springy icon with an @ symbol on it for .webloc files.

The Safari icon is just the generic icon for something that opens with Safari, but that file should be openable by any browser, so the Safari icon is not exactly correct, but is sufficient.

However, when you create a .webloc file, it should be openable by the default browser, not a specific one, hence the generic "springy @"

CT wrote:

Can't confirm.

Can't convirm what?

Webloc file icon, and what do you get?

Insertion Point in Mail message disappears when you switch back to Mail after use "Hide Others" in another app?

I can imagine you haven't seen windows not retaining changed settings as it is common, but not wide-spread.

"10.8.3 has not solved 2 key issues"

I see other issues, on my MacBookPro, that are also not solved by 10.8.3

They may be like your issues, that are specific to your style of working and the range of aplications that you use.

My issues seem to be to do with memory management. The famous "spinning beach ball".
Yet I have 16 GB of RAM. Particularly related to the Address Book (Contacts) and Mail.
I just installed 10.8.4, wondering if the new version of Mail (6.4) will be better with respect to this memory management.

My "feeling" (I say feeling, because I use my Mac so much that I know how it behaves, how it should be, and how it is) is that it is related to iCloud.

I think that there should be a contact point at Apple, for power-users like you and me, to provide this feedback and input, and to get resolutions, but I am unaware of one.

company_doctor wrote:

I just installed 10.8.4, wondering if the new version of Mail (6.4) will be better with respect to this memory management.

What part of the non-disclosure agreement did you find confusing?

I have the same issue. Windows keep forgetting settings (background color, size, ordering, etc.) in icon view at revery retart and sometime out of the blue. Extremelly annoying. Tried to erase DS-Store: not helping.

10.8.3

Thanks,

Frederic

Can't confirm.

for issue 2: i set the wallpaper in a normal way as going into settings, after that i closed all the app and windows, then relaunch folder, then i restart the system. Seems like the problem solved. the wallpaper didn't change back again.

Hello,

This is how I circumvent issues #2 (The Finder windows don't retain settings in icon view):

A:

1. - For example using Path Finder, copy a “.DS_Store” file from a folder which seems to keep its windows setting into the main HD (at the root of the HD). This will replace the corrupt “.DS_Store” file there with a new one.
2. - Repair disk permission
3. - RESULT: Windows setting should stay most of the time after each reboot.

B:

1. - I have found that windows setting goes back to default when, using a software, I save a document through the save window (in which is folder are shown as a list) after selecting “save” or “save as”. If I select a folder and I later open it, I usually find that its windows setting are gone. This is obviously another major bug in Mountain Lion.
2. - They only way I have found to circumvent this issue is to save my document on the desktop and then click and drag it into the right folder. It is a bad solution but the only one that works consistently.

Many thanks,

Fred

Thanks for this. I am running 10.8.4 with the same 'Folder in icon view' problem and this fix does seem to work and yes, saving a file into a folder with icons sets it back to a useless 'default' with tiny icons all scrunched up.

The only things I have to add are that:

a) changing the folder name seems to have the same effect i.e. it sets the view back to the 'default' and

b) a folder that was working perfectly well in icon view has now come up with a new gremlin after the 'repair disk permission' was completed. Here, the 'show view options' for the folder doesn't include the option for a background colour for no good reason. Copying a “.DS_Store” file from a functioning folder and running Repair disk permission again did not fix it. I can live with this but it suggests that the bug has several undocumented features.

Ah - I see this second problem is a second 'feature' per https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

and apparently not related to the 'Folder in icon view' problem.

Well, this fix worked for about 48 hours, then it crashed.

The only differences from before are that:

the icons are scrunched up, but in the right order rather than in alphabetical order;

'Snap to grid' doesn't work - it just sends the icons to random positions;

Show View Options claims the background colour is white, but it isn't.

It seems very odd that Apple would allow something as basic as a fault with icon views to go uncorrected.

I have found a way to keep the relevant folder stable in icon view. For the record this is:

Always Open in icon view

Don't browse in icon view

Arrange by None

Snap to Grid

Colour, but just use the default colour

The only problems are that:

Snap to grid is just random, so if I want to move icons I have to switch it off, move them, then switch it back on

Show icon preview - I want it off, but it just reinstates itself very time.

Both are a nuisance but I can live with them. Is there some way to get a completely new/clean “.DS_Store” file?