10.11.3 iMac
Using the MAIL APP Whilst typing in the address field ..started to type my daughters name expecting her email to pop up.. instead a whole list of passwords beginning with her first four letters of her name ...she confirmed they were her passwords..
Alarming ...please advise where these passwords have come from and why would they pop up there in the Mail app..
The spelling checker may be falsely correcting the entry. Please select the incorrect entry and right-click or control-click. From the popup menu, select
Spelling and Grammar ▹ Show Spelling and Grammar
A small window will open. In the text box at the top, enter the incorrect text, then click Change.
Thank you,
but everytime I click change the app quits ....
Can you tell me where these passwords are being pulled from?
Please back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash. Log out or restart the computer and empty the Trash.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Mail app disclosing passwords in address field?
