I just started to use Mavericks and find that in iPhoto and in the Apple Maps app itself the maps show for a brief moment the appropriate map then it goes blank - actually a yellow-cream color. In iPhoto I see drop pins but no map content. Anyone help? I was really excited about Mavericks but finding issues quicly...
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)
In the same boat as most.
Working in full screen, not in the normal window.
13" MBP Retina (early 2013) - 3 GHz i7.
I've been having the same problem. It started when I was signed into the App Store to download an update. Now the update is installed and I have signed out of the App Store, maps are working fine instandard screen.
Same here. While I was downloading xcode, Maps was blank in windowed mode and ok in fullscreen mode. After xcode finished downloading Maps started working well again. Weird.
Go to
~/Library/Containers/
and delete "com.apple.Maps"
I have the same problem, 2013 Mac Pro
I tried deleting com.apple.Maps and it didn't work long-term. If Maps is the only app open, it renders a blank map in standard view. I noticed that if I have a Safari window behind the Maps window, all the maps will render in standard view (if the maps disappear again, they pop up again if I put the cursor over the Maps dock icon). Now if I minimize the Safari window, the standard view map eventually goes blank again. Put the Safari window back on the desktop, and maps reappear.
i used activity monitor and find the map process, then i force quit it. After that i reopen the map app, problem solved
This problem had been plaguing me for months, and none of the suggestions I tried online helped. I finally tried looking in the console, and found lots of lines like this:
9/3/14 10:58:57.512 xpcd[206]: com.apple.geod[733]: registration request failed: (0x11, 0x0) Could not obtain real path to the container root (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.geod/Data): The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory
9/3/14 10:58:57.703 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.geod[733]) Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction: 4
9/3/14 10:58:57.703 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.geod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
I tried rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.geod and then re-launched Maps, and much to my delight, I was finally seeing actual maps!
The console showed my map tiles being recreated, and fixing permissions on the com.apple.Maps container (which directory I had earlier tried deleting, based on other online suggestions):
9/3/14 11:03:34.284 com.apple.geod[800]: /SourceCache/GeoServices/GeoServices-702.15.12/GEOTileDBWriter.mm:203 recreating tile database because manifest URL changed
9/3/14 11:03:34.284 com.apple.geod[800]: /SourceCache/GeoServices/GeoServices-702.15.12/GEOTileDBWriter.mm:406 Recreating tile database
9/3/14 11:03:50.311 xpcd[206]: restored permissions (100600 -> 100700) on /Users/jim/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/Container.plist
It seems that removing both of those got rid of whatever corruption had been causing this long-standing problem. I hope this might help someone else.
Deleting the file based on the youtube video above worked for me. I have Yosemite
mavericks maps problem - why do they go blank?
