Q: Command key shortcuts don't work anymore in Safari since upgrade to Yosemite!

Thanx! That did the Trick for me! And as a bonus it cleared another huge thing that bugged me. Illustrator CC 2014 and Acrobat Pro wouldn't start up either. After clearing the GlobalPreferences.plist file. They work as usual, at least for that half an hour i used em…

As i stated earlier i was able to go back to Normal with resetting the .plist file. But… i like that my mac's Interface can display some Menus in Swissgerman – actually not "German (Swiss)" – Schwiizertüütsch as we call it. This seams to bring back the Issues…

too bad, because it is that time of the Year, when i usually do my Tax-Thing and my favored Billing Software is made in Switzerland and is fully supported in Schwiizertüütsch, witch makes it just a little bit more fun doing taxes, u fell me? Just a little more fun doing Taxes… arrgh not this time!

I had the same issue with all browsers including Safari Mozilla and Firefox. Problem solved as stevendeluxe described, removed all preferred languages but english. I did spend 50 hours and did not find a solution.

Thanks for sharing your findings

Hello.

Huge question. None of of the shortcuts we can use when booting my MacBook Air 2014, work anymore.

Example: I can't access Safe Mode, Disc Diagnostics, etc. ...). Now, I'm Portuguese (obviously, Portuguese keyboard)... does that affect my keyboard functions?! Example: when I press 'D', nothing happens... OS X Yosemite simply boots...

Thanks for any help you may give me.

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Hello.

Huge question. None of of the shortcuts we can use when booting my MacBook Air 2014, work anymore.

Example: I can't access Safe Mode, Disc Diagnostics, etc. ...). Now, I'm Portuguese (obviously, Portuguese keyboard)... does that affect my keyboard functions?! Example: when I press 'D', nothing happens... OS X Yosemite simply boots...

Thanks for any help you may give me.

Your question isn't at all related to this issue at all, please create your own thread & someone may have help specific to your situation.

There is a list of startup shortcuts, try them all…

Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs - Apple Support

AHT (the D shortcut) requires Apple Hardware Test to be installed on the disk, on older Macs this only happens if you used the original system disks to install the OS and then migrated (without erasing the OS) to newer versions. There are steps to take to reinstall the AHT, but this isn't the correct place to discuss it.

You are my hero stevedeluxe. My primary language was set to Maori (New Zealand). Not only had it knocked out my keyboard shortcuts but also my Office 2008. I was having to use an alternative identity to access Office but couldn't work out what the difference was between the two. Argh. I could cheerfully throw my computer out the window after everything I've tried. Thank you... so much.

My problem was Command-Shift-Option-V (Paste and Match Style) which would just give me right-pointing double angle quotation mark ('»').

Per my experience there may be at least three (3) things that might have something to do with this apparent bug (2011 Early MBP w/ SSD and did a clean Yosemite install by the way if anyone's wondering).

1) You have only one system language selected (in my case a minor language like Finnish).

2) You only have created a single user account.

3) You log in automatically.

Merely adding and setting English as a primary system language didn't solve this issue.

It seems that only after I had created a new temporary user account, logged in with that user AND/OR optioned out to log in automatically, things finally went back to normal.

The bug didn't return after I had deleted English system language and switched back to Finnish. Nor when I deleted the temporary new user account. Or when I reverted back to automatic log in.

For future reference I think it may be a wise decision to hold on to the English system language (even if you will never use it)...

BTW. In my case the previous update to Mavericks resulted in a crash (but installed after a forced shutdown). In contrast updating from Mavericks to Yosemite went all **** (and may have had something to do with a program called StartNinja which silences the start-up chime; safe to say I'll never use that one again). After this latest ordeal I no longer have any trust left that updating to a newer OS in the future will "just work".

Bollocks to that.

My IT-specialist friend copied every single file I had to an external drive, and after successfully installing Yosemite, copied them back again to my SSD (with the original intention that I could then cherry-pick just the stuff that I wanted on my clean OSX and delete the rest or just leave them there hanging until further notice).

As it turned out back home the only application that was actually still residing in my old Applications -folder was Google Music. I checked whether my apps had been hidden there - for some mysterious reason - but no such luck. If anyone has any inkling of what might have caused Yosemite to ditch my apps in to the La-La-Land, I'd be interested in hearing such theories.

For me this really does feel like Windows in the 90s all over again. Something I had thought I'd never have to re-live again... Thanks, Apple. I needed that.

Just thought to add that everything's back to normal except for one exception: I still get a right-pointing double angle quotation mark ('»') when I try to Paste and Match Style (Command-Shift-Option-V) but ONLY if I use Safari browser with Google Drive documents. This key combination works as intended if I use Chrome browser instead.

So, for me it's real simple: it's Apple deliberately crippling a workflow to discourage people using Google products with Apple designed Safari browser. I'd love to be proven wrong of course...

THANK YOU! I feel so much better now. It was driving me crazy. Xcode was crashing left and right on me. Outlook wouldn't launch. Safari, Firefox, and Maps (and I'm sure others as well) wouldn't respond to keyboard commands. I was going crazy. But this simple fix solved all my problems and everything is once again right with my Yosemite world. Who would have known that upgrading from Mavericks with additional languages could cause so many problems.

Steven you are a star. I've had this issue since Mavericks and just couldn't work it out. Stopped with 10.10.2, but returned with 10.10.3. Out of frustration I googled it one more time and your post came up. How you discovered this is beyond me, as I've been trying everything for a couple of years now. I had created a custom keyboard based on the default keyboard with minor additions. Something must have clashed and caused the problem. Thank you for your great deduction. This goes into the hall of fame for me. Cheers, Andrew.

This worked for me also but I only had English. So since I love the movie Crocodile Dundee I added English - Australian and removed English. Then I added English and removed English - Australian and now it works perfectly.