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10.8.3 has not solved 2 key issues

I have posted several issues concerning Mountain Lion since I first installed it a few weeks after it came out in July 2012.

These issues have still NOT been addressed in the latest Mac OS X 10.8.3 update:

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. Have to click on another box or note or something to get the cursor to reappear. Over 6 months like this… Have you experienced this? Try to do it and see what you get.
The Finder windows don't retain settings in icon view: Icon size, background color or picture, sorting (reverts to none) and icon /item view all change back to "32x32, white, none and no item preview or icon view checked" Again, please let me know if you see this-- you need to put some pictures as window backgrounds, color them, view in Icon view- set the icon size for something other than 32x32…
A new problem: Never had this issue until 10.8.3: The icons of .webloc which one drags to the Desktop from Safari or otherwise store in folders no longer have an icon picture - they are just a plain white icon with a tab fold-down upper right. Sometimes they appear as before, mostly not.

#2 above is clearly the most annoying and makes icon view almost worthless to use. Constantly resetting key windows-- and funny that it mainly affects the same windows but can happen to any window I open. Often upon a restart, but can happen at anytime.

Comments welcome.

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Monday 18 March 2013

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Also a Mac SE running 6.0.4 - not upgrading that!

Posted on Mar 18, 2013 3:43 AM

36 replies

Barney-15E

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Jul 12, 2013 7:48 AM in response to Scottish Crossbill

Is there some way to get a completely new/clean “.DS_Store” file?

Yes. Delte the one that is there.

Jul 19, 2013 9:48 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks for this - it seems to have worked for two folders but not the main one, which stayed stable for a few days and then reverted to its favoured aphabetical order position, depsite my wishes.

Jul 29, 2013 6:24 AM in response to Scottish Crossbill

Tried various fixes e.g. creating an alias for the docs folder so it wasn't sitting on the desktop etc. but nothing seems to work - it just reverts to its favoured setting after a day or two. Two other subsidiary folders that use the same technicque of icon view are however now stable. Baffled.

Aug 27, 2013 9:23 AM in response to Scottish Crossbill

Not fixed. All the folders slowly degrade to whatever default they think is appropriate. Today the main folder reverted to its alphabetical list when all I had done was open it and then opened a single document within it. Very frustrating.

Oct 3, 2013 5:00 AM in response to Scottish Crossbill

Tried rebuilding the 'Appearance of folders' contents' using OnyX three times, starting at three different folders. Acheived nothing at all. The swaps to deafault are usually associated with putting files into the folders, but not always. Wondering if this is hardware fault or a system sofware problem - worth re-installing the latter?

Oct 3, 2013 6:00 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

As a follow-up of my June 3 post and after months of testing:

-Using file-"save as" and selecting a folder from a list will abolish its view settings and set them to default almost all the time.

-Click and drag into a folder retain its settings all the time.

So I "save as" on the desktop and then click-drag into folders.

It is a waste of time but pretty avoid avoid this issue at least for me.

Thanks,

10.8.3 has not solved 2 key issues