mavericks cursor disappears

maschmi5503100,

My guess is that changing the sleep timing refreshed the power management settings and may have removed old settings (that were OK in te eariler OS). It's a weird way to fix this 🙂.

PegM_4 you could use the 'reset to defaults' button in Energy saver preferences to see if that makes a difference.

Reboot after making the change - I think parts of the power manager settings need to be stored at a very low level.

FWIW I think the problem is that Mail loses track of which window has focus, and consequently does not redraw the insertion bar in the message window.

A workaround is to switch from the active message window to the message viewer, then switch back to the message window.

This workaround works in Mavericks Mail and in Mountain Lion Mail.

To automate the above steps, here is an AppleScript that opens a new message viewer window, switches to it, then closes it, and switches back to the message window. The script hides these actions while they happen.

After copy-pasting this script to Script Editor, you can either save it as a script file in one of the Script Menu's folders in the user account's Library>Scripts folder and access the script from the Script Menu while in Mail, or you can save it as an application and assign a keyboard shortcut to it in Keyboard System Preference.

Hope this helps.

tell application "Mail"

set visible to false

makenewmessage viewer

activatemessage viewer 2

closewindow 1

set visible to true

end tell

I have the same issue after upgrading to Mavericks

Retina, Mid 2012

OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)

Having same issue guys so I'm bumping. For example I'm watching a video on Safari and trying to code (learning) on X Code, mouse cursor vanishes and then it comes back when I "Command+Tab" out of the app...doesn't just happen in XCode, Notes as well for example

There is a cursor problem with Mavericks. I write and to other things all day professionally, two iMac 27" and a 13" MacBook Air. The cursor is fine for me in a document, but it often disappears when I navigate between different documents or programs--all of them Mac programs, such as Pages, Safari, Mail. To get it back, I push as far as possible to the left until it triggers my dock, when I can see it again and move it where I need it. It's a flaw that hasn't been there in earlier OS X versions.

Still no solution eh?

Apple don't have the courtesy to reply, only to remove what they refer to as "rants." No, there is no solution. There are multiple problems with Mavericks, which is otherwise great. Pages is a big one. We need the ability to link text boxes from page to page and we need the ability to move pages around in the sidebar--they are essential for anyone who does magazines.

I watched the movie JOBS today, and I am disappointed with the lack of dealing with this issues in the definitive way Steve did. Calling them rants and removing them solves nothing. These are technical issues that ought to have been fixed weeks--months--ago.

Fully agreed Yorkmin and I feel the same way, if they had 10% of the people that monitor forums for rants monitor them for ideas/bugs - we wouldn't have any rants lol - problems would be solved.

You and I should get some sort of prize for pointing this out to Apple 😀

N0 ONE could be a bigger Apple supporter than me. I turned our whole company over to Apple. In our home, we run 9 Apple devices. Steve was someone who RANTED. I don't rant. But I am tired of being ignored. Pages was brilliant in its 09 edition--and they updated it WITHOUT WARNING US THAT WE WOULD LOSE KEY FEATURES. i applaud the effort to move to iCloud with this. But for heaven's sake, don't remove what's good!

kurolap wrote:

Still no solution eh?

This thread is resolved - so yes there is a solution posted 4 months ago - for the original poster.

If you want to resolve this you all need to start comparing systems. Eventually Apple may 'magic up' a bug fix but if it is not caused by Apple software it may not be on their radar. Have you reported it to Apple?

I'd suggest you all compare EtreCheck reports. I personally haven't seen this issue, but from a troubleshooting perspective you need to see what is common between systems.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Start with the steps that fixed it for maschmi5503100, then see if anything matches with maschmi5503100'sreport?

It's unclear if PegM_4 was experiencing the issue when the report was posted so that may not be relevant.

I'd also go through all the regular troubleshooting steps like verify/repair the disk from Recovery mode

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Reset the PRAM

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Reset the SMC

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Boot into Safe mode - does it happen there? (Safe mode is a stripped down OS, so it's normal if wifi doesn't work or if scrolling is laggy etc - you just need to see if the issue occurs in this mode - test thoroughly).

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

Also logout, log back in holding the shift key - it disables ALL login items - does the issue reappear in this mode?

Until YOU start looking at this you shouldn't go blaming Apple (or Apple's ghosts!?) - it's entirely possible it is because of some software you installed and forgot about. Until you work together I doubt nothing will change, 10.9.2 didn't help did it?

It may also get more attention if you create a new thread, hijacking a resolved issue gets you into this predicament.

P.S. It's not Apple who moderate post's, it's admin's. There is a terms of use that is used to highlight the reason for deletion. Keep ranting if it is cathartic for you, just don't complain when it remains the same.

yorkmin wrote:

N0 ONE could be a bigger Apple supporter than me. I turned our whole company over to Apple. In our home, we run 9 Apple devices. Steve was someone who RANTED. I don't rant. But I am tired of being ignored. Pages was brilliant in its 09 edition--and they updated it WITHOUT WARNING US THAT WE WOULD LOSE KEY FEATURES. i applaud the effort to move to iCloud with this. But for heaven's sake, don't remove what's good!

Apple also left the old version of iWork inside your Applications folder - they new it was a big change & they didn't force you to do anything. See if you can grab them from the store if you don't have them on the Mac or an a backup.

You know what? Your kind of comment infuriates me. We have a whole company using Apple products. We know Apple stuff. And the fact is, though 09 is still in the Applications, every time you try to open another document...oh, why bother. You obviously don't work professionally with Pages as an editor five days a week, 9 hours a day.

So is the one common denominator is that you installed something on all these Macs that causes this issue?

You should look at reports for all of them & see what is common across systems.

If you hate the latest Pages so much just delete it, documents will then open in the older version. An even better idea is to stash it in a disk image & eject that. When you need the new Pages open the disk image & it will work.

Same Issue.

Mac Mini 2.5 Ghz, 4 GB ram, Wacom Graphire.

Mavericks 10.9.3