Q: Apple Support Communities Updates
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Sep 12, 2016 1:44 PMby ChitlinsCC,I think you mean email notices of some activity (posts)
I just had a look at your Profile pages - you are NOT following any People, Places (forums) or any significant number of threads
IF you truly are getting "many hundreds", this is NOT something that any action on your part will solve - it is a bug that a few others have experienced that requires action by our Hosts
VERIFY that this is TRUE, and we can notify the Hosts to contact you (via email is likely)
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Sep 12, 2016 4:31 PMby ChitlinsCC,Thank you, my friend, for posting "evidence" backing up my memory of the issue (though that thread is not one that formed the memory - I am pretty sure I would remember the image, I 'retain' that way = pictures!)
Methinks that there are squirrels in the mechanics - in more ways than one
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Sep 12, 2016 5:57 PMby ChitlinsCC,The date of fortes original issue to which you linked is also familiar = about the time of the Major Overhaul?
(If I were a seasoned user like fortes, I might have actually flipped the Prefs switch)
tt2 suggests - toggleOFF > Save > toggle ON > Save > toggleOFF > Save -- then wait for results as a way to "rewrite" the Pref in the database
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Sep 12, 2016 10:05 PMby fortes,In a word, yes.
It's a great thing, you guys responding -- very much appreciated. Let me add a bit more . . . .
In January I replaced a 6 year old Mac with my fifth in a long series and now find Retina a pleasure every day. The reason I got the new Mac was the old one did strange things — hardly a day I didn’t need to restart. And sometimes work was lost, a much worse interruption.
That no longer happens but there’s three small, dopey things that do, the first going back to my last Mac:
1. I’m typing in TextEdit or Mail and hit “shift” to use a capital letter, but then all the following letters I type go to caps too. This also happened in the past and continued with several keyboards (I’d thought the keyboard was at fault.) One response is to erase all the caps and retype, but what I usually do is alternately hit two keys, the letter key that I want in lower case and “shift” until the caps stop coming, then select and erase all the unwanted letters between the first wanted capital and the wanted lower case letter.
2. Sometimes the cursor/select action won’t work right: I try to enter the cursor/I-beam in text prior to making a change but instead get a tiny blue rectangle indicating, I guess, the space between the letters has been selected. Sometimes it’s a whole word or even sentence that gets selected instead.
When this starts, I’ve learnt not to keep trying because that can lead to blocks of text going missing. Seems all one can do is Save and put aside for another time.
3. And then there's the Apple Support Communities Updates that keep coming. Because they just go to Spam, I can be off-hand about them except I often need to check there for wanted items that may end up in Spam — then, instead of checking the most recent few items, I may have to go thru hundreds.
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Sep 13, 2016 7:39 AMby ChitlinsCC,Howdy fortes
- If this happens intermittently, there MAY be something that you do not realize the is the cause for the effect. When it happens, think back carefully to the last few actions that you took - then, keep those actions in mind while trying to reproduce the bad behavior - i.e., TRY to make it happen by doing them one at a time.
It also occurs to me that CapsLock key is VERY close-by to the left SHIFT key - I probably press it a couple of times a week - especially when not working at the desk - "Blue" highlight color is the Windows color and VERY difficult to change
- make sure that you do NOT have it set as your custom color Pref and let us know (last section here)
OS X El Capitan: Give your desktop a custom look
- I get quite a few ASC emails routed to my Junk/SPAM folder - I think I discovered why just yesterday - they contain LINKs that are a "text string" with the URL not readily apparent - just like the link in #2 above
EDITadded = it also appears that inline IMAGES inserted IN the body of the post are a trigger
Marking with the [Not Junk] does move them to the INBOX - but - my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird) OR my email provider (IMAP) persist in switching it BACK to Junk status
I am headed to my WebMail page to see if I can find a way to make it LEARN better after I post this! it will take a short period of test to see whether it works!
- If this happens intermittently, there MAY be something that you do not realize the is the cause for the effect. When it happens, think back carefully to the last few actions that you took - then, keep those actions in mind while trying to reproduce the bad behavior - i.e., TRY to make it happen by doing them one at a time.
