Unable to toggle Snapping, Skimming etc

Russ - I was so excited when I read your suggestion - Revert sometimes cures odd things like this.

I was about to send you an eKiss (or maybe a white tick on a green background instead) - but sadly it didn't work.

(What's the opposite of an eKiss)?

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, but no luck I'm afraid.

Andy

Thanks Russ,

Same in another project - I'll check some others later (have to go out for an hour now).

Trashed FCP X and because the App Store shows it as installed - even with trash emptied, all external HDs, Time Machine and a networked iMac powered off, I couldn't re-download it. So I restored the App from June (from TM)still the same issue.

Repaired permissions - still no toggle.

Short of a new user acount and all the delights that entails, I'm out of ideas now.

Andy

Tom,

Thanks for your help.

The OS is stated below the question - FCP X version is 10.0.9.

Can you be more specific about the Terminal suggestion?

Is this a temporary thing so that the App Store doesn't see FCP X as installed?

Do I need to delete it from Terminal to allow FCP X to work again - I know very litte about Terminal - and usually try to avoid it if I can (but in this case, I'm willing to have a go).

Lastly, it occurred to me I'm using a few FX Factory plugins, so I disabled all of them - but it had no effect on the problem.

Andy

I ran the string (defaults delete com.apple.FinalCut) in Terminal but it made no difference.

Should I have trashed the application first?

Next, I created a new user on my Mac and the problem went away instantly.

Guess I must do something drastic or plod along with skimming and snapping permanently on.

Interestingly, when I restored the application from Time Machine, of course the version was 10.0.8 - but it was still showing as 10.0.9 when the app was launching.

When I created the new user and logged into that, the version was 10.0.8 and I got an update notice from the App Store.

Andy

Tom Wolsky wrote:

I assume the application was closed.

Of course, Tom.

If making a new user fixed it the problem is likely in the OS, a system setting that's effecting the application behavior, maybe a system keyboard preference.

Will check this.

Russ H wrote:

I don't know how you feel about running a housekeeping app like OnyX,

Thanks Russ - I don't have much faith in those apps (maybe they've improved of late though).

Personally, I prefer to do a fresh reinstall - although it's tedious in the extreme.

My problem now is that I apparently have no HD Recovery Drive - and for some reason, the Mountain Lion download from the App Store is hanging at 425 MB!

Never mind, it's clearly a test of my patience...

There's a new post on this (snapping issue) so maybe it's a bug?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5438588?tstart=0

Andy