Recently (since installing Mavericks?) I am finding that drop-down menus disappear within a few seconds, or sometimes instantly.
This does NOT happen when I log on as a guest user.
It happens with both both mouse and trackpad.
I have tried a safeboot.
I have tried repairing permissions.
Any ideas please?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
If you move everything in the original account's Preferences folder to a Desktop folder, log out and back in, then all your prefs will be at their default settings and you shouldn't experience the problem.
Step one is to log into a newly created admin user account and see if the problem persists. If not, then examine the items in /new user/Library/Preferences/ and the ByHost subfolder. One of those is corrupted in the original account. Step one would be to make a list of them, log back into the original account, move those out of those folders to a newly created Desktop folder, and restart. If the problem's fixed, reset the prefs for the move apps/processes, and then delete the moved files.
Thank for this. The problem does not happen if I log in as another admin user.
I tried moving all the items in preferences to my desktop (I couldn't find anything called ByHost) but this didn't help.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
I'm having this problem with the drop downs in Adobe Lightroom (5 and 6), and I tried everything that you suggested baltwo, but to no avail! The menus don't disappear in a different user, and they actually don't disappear if I use a physical mouse. But with the trackpad on my rMBP, they disappear within a second.
Any other preferences I could try deleting?
Thanks!
Drop-down menus disappear within seconds
