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CamberleyDaz Author

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Mavericks resizes application windows and moves them around

This problem has started since I installed Mavericks. Typically I have Firefox and Outlook loaded most of the time, occasionally other applications such as Spotify. My wife also has an account on the iMac, so she logs in, leaving me logged in. When I switch back to my account, the applications have resized themselves to odd small sizes, and Outlook is sometimes half-way off-screen and can't be moved (if I drag it back on-screen it just snaps back to the off-screen position).

I have found a way to prevent this, and this is to ensure my wife minimises the applications first. Strangely none of her applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes) move or resize.

Certainly a bug that's arrived with Mavericks, so Apple if you're reading this please fix it.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 2, 2013 3:25 AM

156 replies

Nov 11, 2013 5:38 AM in response to CamberleyDaz

Yup, same here.

Have reported it to Apple and they have sent it to their engineers with a copy of a system dump they asked me to make.

Incedentaly, I created an external partition with a new instal of Mav on it and it still heppened.

Also... It happened when booting from a Mac USB instal image....

I have a copy of MLion on another external HDD and that's fine.

MDA4

Level 1

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Nov 11, 2013 8:13 AM in response to CamberleyDaz

I am having the same issue as well. Every time my mac falls asleep, windows are moved partially off the screen when my computer wakes.

The most annoying part is that the window will snap back to the partially-of-the-screen position when I attempt to move it back.

Nov 11, 2013 8:43 AM in response to MDA4

I change refresh rate to cure each time.... right pain though.

Eric Root

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Nov 11, 2013 10:21 AM in response to CamberleyDaz

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Nov 12, 2013 1:08 AM in response to Eric Root

Great Idea.

Done.

I suggest everyone else haveing this issue does the same.

Thanks Eric.

CamberleyDaz Author

Level 1

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Nov 12, 2013 1:15 AM in response to Eric Root

What's the best way to send Apple this feedback? Clearly it's an issue as there's a number of people here experiencing the problem, but I've actually never had cause to interact with Apple in 4 years as a Mac user... which isn't a bad track record to be honest 😉

Nov 12, 2013 1:57 AM in response to CamberleyDaz

Not bad at all CamberleyDaz!

I used the link that Eric has put in his post.

Lets hope this gets sorted asap.

medawn

Level 1

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Nov 12, 2013 8:12 AM in response to CamberleyDaz

Same issue here. iMac 27" 2011. Colleague of mine also is affected, Macbook Pro 2012. We are both using external displays as well as the native display, if that is of any significance.

EDIT: found another thread describing the same issue here - also providing a possible solution: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5515610?answerId=23632225022#23632225022

medawn

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Nov 12, 2013 8:57 AM in response to medawn

PS: i tried booting in safe mode (see link above). for me it didnt help, actually now its worse, since I just had multiple windows/applications affected by the resizing snapping. as of before, only 1 window went crazy.

Nov 13, 2013 6:06 AM in response to medawn

Apple now have this reported as a bug!

Success, now for a patch....

Nov 14, 2013 1:57 PM in response to CamberleyDaz

I have a MBA and an iMac both doing it now. It's a bug and needs to be fixed.

On another topic, at least Mavericks fixed the bug where Safari would forget the previous window state.

Nov 22, 2013 5:29 AM in response to dfclark68

Had the same problem. Fixed it as follows:-

Use Alt 'on' to enter restore mode.

Use disk utilitities to repair permissions

Use terminal to 'resetpassword'

Use reset password dialogue box to reset permissions (at bottom).

Works as used to now.

Nov 22, 2013 5:59 AM in response to geewizzpip

Hi Geewizzpip.

Thanks for the suggestion - for me this did not work though.

The fact that this symptom occurred whilst I was booted from a Mavericks installation USB thumb-drive, and not the internal fusion, tells me that it can only be something fundamental inside the Mavericks display drivers. Thay have definitely changed as there are 1/2 as many resolutions available.

Now to chase down that Apple repair case...

Nov 26, 2013 7:55 PM in response to CamberleyDaz

This happens on my MBP every time the display sleeps. I wake it up to find my windows resized and often jammed into positions where I can not grab the drag bar to reposition them.

thbi

Level 1

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Nov 27, 2013 12:38 PM in response to CamberleyDaz

Same here with a MacBook Air 13 and a iMac 27.

The problem occurs with any App (even Finder!) since i have updated to Mavericks.

Mavericks resizes application windows and moves them around