how to get a lowercase 'i' to change to uppercase 'I'

Try deleting the cache associated with Mail ..

Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Copy or paste the following:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit and relaunch Mail to test.

Yes, I'm having the same problem. I have not found a workaround yet. I have no idea why they eliminated very helpful functionality in Keyboard>Text and now will not permit "I" to be subtituted for "i". Annoying.

If anyone discovers a way to get that functionality back, I'd love to hear about it. Unfortunately, the more little things I notice, the more I'm regretting installing Mavericks.

Cheers,

Erik

I honestly don't remember Lion or Mt Lion automatically changing a lone lower case "i" into an upper case. I know it does it in iOS, but not Mac OS X. Heck, even double tapping the space bar does nothing special. Whereas in iOS it'll leave a period and capitalize the next letter.

But I could be wrong. I'm use to using the shift key to capitalize a letter.

KOT

I don't think that OSX has ever given you a capital 'I' by default. This does happen in the iOS as stated elsewhere.

What you can do is go into System Preferences / Language & Region / Keyboard Preferences / Text and set up a lowercase 'i' to change to an uppercase 'I' when typed.

It might be what you want.

Erik Singer wrote:

Yes, I'm having the same problem. I have not found a workaround yet. I have no idea why they eliminated very helpful functionality in Keyboard>Text and now will not permit "I" to be subtituted for "i".

I don't think this functionality ever existed for Mail or OS X in general, it was part of Pages 4 and earlier. It still works for that app, but has been omitted from Pages 5.

I believe there are 3rd party utilities which can handle this, but am not familiar with them.

Thanks, dpx. This is exactly what vegasgator and I want.

What you can do is go into System Preferences / Language & Region / Keyboard Preferences / Text and set up a lowercase 'i' to change to an uppercase 'I' when typed.

It might be what you want.

Unforutnately, Mavericks no longer supports this. Previous versions of OS X did. The functionality has been removed. If one attempts to create this substitution, one gets the following error message:

"The original text must contain at least two characters

Please provide a valid original text."

And the rule is disallowed.

I also tried it with a space - in order to utilize two characters - but spaces are not allowed either.

It's too bad because it was really helpful for me - and I imagine others.

Thanks for your response.

HI all if you who have the question with the i to I problem that Mavericks gives you.

I used to have snow leopard it stopped with Mountain Lion and then I used the i to I rule in keyboard preferences. Because iOS devices do this on auto and mac's don't so I was upset then I made the rule same with a"m"d with and i just typed quick and I like it. When I upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks the rule vanished, I had a problem when I upgraded to Mountain Lion when I would use the letter "i" It would auto move my text around and I know that sounds odd but I called Apple Care and told them what was going wrong and they wanted a video of it so I took a video of it and wow it was sent off to apple.

There response to this was long I still have all the emails this is what was told to me

"That is funny. I started having the same problem on my workstation after we
talked last week and I was thinking, 'how crazy, I now have the issue I was
troubleshooting!" Well, guess what? When you mentioned the i -> I text
expansion, I thought it was a good idea and added it to my preferences. Good
job catching that, I will report this to Engineering."

The Follow up to this issue was,

"I believe the 10.8.3 update (available now) resolves this issue. I have
installed it and cannot reproduce the original behaviour. Let me know if it
does so for you as well."

In 10.8.3 they removed that bug that was causing text to jump around when you would type "i" instead if "I".

So I hope that this answers your questions and yes I still wish we had an i -> I text replacement option just like ALL iOS devices.

How to get a lower case 'i' to change to a upper case 'I'.

Double click or highlight the 'i'.

Press shift-i.

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