Q: Mavericks resizes application windows and moves them around

Hi jarchca,

Thanks for your interesting info. Did you just try the SafeMode Boot for BOTH users?

During SafeMode Boot it lets you choose accounts...

It just seems to me you have conflicting cache files in both user accounts.

I am not quite sure if it´s Mavericks´ fault "alone" as at the beginning of this thread someone reported the exact same windows issue after upgrading to ML (10.8).

I wonder, though, why Apple does not simply delete those inflicting files after the upgrade is complete...

Hi MattiasGermany, yep, I sure did.  When in safe mode, I logged in as myself, then logged in as my wife, then restarted back to normal mode.

Hi jarchca,

I´m not quite sure if this is the appropriate procedure to delete those cache files. I THINK they will only be deleted when you choose ONE specific user DURING the SafeMode Boot process, i. e., they will be deleted immediately upon logging in to that one specific user.

So, please try the following: perform SafeMode Boot once again and then simply choose your wife´s account.

I think this might provide some very valuable info for all of us...

Regards, Matthias

Ok, here is what I did:

1. reboot mac into safe mode (red indicator at top right of screen confirms this)
2. logged into wife's non-admin account
3. rebooted system back to normal mode
4. logged into wife's non-admin account
5. started outlook 2011 for her profile
6. everything looks fine (normal Outlook window size, it is resizeable, etc).
7. forced mac to sleep mode, waiting for disk to spin down
8. awakened from sleep mode, logged back into wife's account
9. everything looks fine (as per #6)
10. switched user to me (admin account) and logged in
11. switched back to my wife's account, and everything looks good (per #6)
12. switched back to my account, started outlook 2011 with my profile; everything looks fine
13. switched back to my wife's account, looks fine
14. switched back to my account, and Outlook window returned to stuck frozen in upper left corner, not-resizable
15. switched back to my wife's account, and same thing now occurs for her account as in #14 (ugh)

Okay, this seems weird now...

Perhaps you would want to repair permissions as corrupted file permission very often are the case for such weird behavior.

And perhaps you would want to do a very "deep" and thorough cleanup of your Mac. Please also see JohnMacDonald´s post on the previous page.

I suggest you try and use Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php

Onyx is a very safe and proven app for these tasks. And, best of all, it´s free.

Install it, run it, and then just use the "Automation" tab. Here you should check almost everything except "Verifying" (this was already done after startup of the app), "Appearance of folder´s content" - please be very cautious here. If you check this item, your complete desktop order will be erased. Not the desktop itself but your individual positioning of icons which will be placed in random order in the right corner of your desktop.

Okay, back to unchecking items: You should not check "Spotlight Index" (unless you WANT it to be deleted and rebuilt), "Mail´s mailboxes", and "Web browser cache and history" (unless, again, you want this to be erased).

You might also think about unchecking "Automatically saved versions of the documents".

Then click "Execute".

And be patient, please. It might take about 30 minutes for one cycle, especially when you choose "Repair Permissions". As Onyx closes ALL other apps you will not be able to use your Mac during Onyx´ work.

I do not know if you have to do this separately for each user account.

Here again we will have to try...

Best of luck, Matthias

Yeah, wierd, and again, this wierdness only started after upgrading to Mavericks.  I have been keeping my wife's iMac well updated since it was purchased back in 2008.

The easiest thing for me (and I am sure similar users experiencing this headache) - have it all fixed in an update from Apple!  Yeah, I know I am stating the obvious...

MatthiasGermany, I may or may not do the suggestions above (but thanks for your suggestions ); I'll read up on this tool, and figure out if it is worth hassling with or not.  This problem does not seem to me to be a permissions problem, as why would the problem come and go as I described in my earlier post?  But anyway, much thanks for your kind efforts to try and help!

One thing I found on the GMAIL issue (not synching in Apple MAIL app and separate from the main topic in this thread), I now keep both Outlook 2011 and MAIL running at the same time and all of the time.  This way I can see when (or if) MAIL drifts out of sync (both of course are setup to use IMAP services). 

Thanks - John

You are welcome, John!

I still think you might give Onyx a try. During my years with Apple I encountered a lot of weird problems many of which had an easy solution. And Onyx always helped me a lot.

Of course Apple should address this serious issue but as long as they don´t we may still try helping ourselves.

I can only hope that Apple will thoroughly investigate this discussion and they will stop publishing buggy OSes one fine day

I mean: why DO we use Macs in the first place?

Regards, Matthias

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Booting into safe mode, as one of the other posts suggested, seems to have fixed the problem for me.  Thanks to the person who posted that suggestion.

The same issue on:

Macbook Air 13 mid 2012,

OS X 10.9.1 (13B42).

I spoke too soon.  It's back, and worse than ever.

I have same problem on Late 2009 iMac

Come on Apple this problem has been around for way too long.

I have been patiabtly waiting hoping it would be fixed in the various updates, but no.

XZR1 wrote:

 

Come on Apple this problem has been around for way too long.

 

Contact Apple here

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Cheers

Pete

Not sure if this will solve everyone's issue, but I was able to fix the resizing and window jumping by restarting Dock.

Open "Activity Monitor", sort by Process Name, click "Dock", then click the stop sign "X" button on the top left of Activity Monitor.