An unintentional mistake or omission in the programming code of an application that causes undesirable results. This tag will be used in discussions identifying potential bugs and seeking ways to circumvent or correct them.
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ALL interface icons are gone?
Here's an interesting one: ALL my interface icons have disappeared since my rebooting my MacBook from safe sleep (the battery had died). Any ideas on what's going on?
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How do I remove black rectangles on the desktop screen in os x 10.8?
Shown to the left of the screen, on the middle.
Moving a window over it does not remove it, however restarting does. But then they reappear after a while.
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Apple mail saves IMAP Attachments Locally, even with the omit option is enabled, and account rebuilds
Apple Mail 10.8x - (Version 6.3 (1503)
Apple mail is saving attachments for all of my accounts in:
/Users/james/Library/Mail/V2
It does this even though each account has offline viewing options set ...
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What process is in charge of the background image on Mac OS?
I have a problem that occurs seemingly randomly on my Macbook Pro, 13" 2010, running 10.7. The background on the secondary screen (which is actually the laptop screen itself, the primary screen is a ...
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iMovie Missing QuickTime Component
I think that after migration to other mac, when i launch iMovie, I get:
Missing QuickTime Component
The QuickTime component necessary to view, edit, import, and export high-definition movies ...
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Have I found a bug in the sync process between Mac OS X Calendar and Google Calendar?
I use Mountain Lion and sync my Mac OS X Calendar with Google Calendar using a Gmail CalDAV account in the Preferences panel of the Mac OS X Calendar app.
The problem is, when creating a new event in ...
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Cut two pages by Preview at once
When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner:
The application Preview allows selecting the area in a row along the ...
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Coming out of screen-lock, sometimes my machine will sleep/lock 30 seconds after
I haven't pinpointed any potential triggers yet, but sometimes when I come out of sleep or from having a locked screen, after typing my password in and re-entering the OS, about 20 or 30 seconds ...
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Edit System Dictionary on Mac OS 10.8
So, I think I've found a misspelled word in the Mac OS 10.8 dictionary. This is not a word that I've added. I double checked in \Library\Spelling and don't have it added to any user dictionaries. ...
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Sometimes Safari opens with blank/empty tabs with window titles of the previous session
I don’t dare to quit Safari if I want to keep the tabs opened, because this happens quite often on my MacBook, running OSX 10.8.2 and Safari 6.0.2. Is this a known problem?
It is strange because ...
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Various graphics-related corruption/errors/misrendering with Mountain Lion
Since the November 2012 update to Moutain Lion, I keep getting these weird graphical issues.
The list of woes:
OpenCL crashes during application startup
Sometimes after the laptop wakes up from a ...
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Keystrokes getting eaten randomly
I have a weird problem on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running OS X 10.8.2.
Every now and then - say every two days - the system starts to ignore most of the keys I press for 2-3 minutes. It's like ...
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Why does File:/// crash my app?
Whenever I type File:/// into the URL bar in Chrome, into Text Edit, and more, it crashes the app. I found out about this after reading this blog post.
How can I avoid this crash and make it ...
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Inconsistent results when getting folder size in AppleScript
I'm using this line to get the size of a folder:
set thesize to physical size of folder x
The problem is that sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, and it's very annoying because there ...
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Stop flagged messages in inactive accounts from contributing to Flagged counter
I have two accounts set up in Mail 6.2. Most of the time I disable one of them (my personal account) to avoid being distracted at work.
Strangely, the number of "Flagged" messages includes messages ...
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Finder doesn't starts on Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
It happens almost every time after startup. When I click on the Finder it tries to start it, the menubar starts, then the desktop icons disappear for a few seconds then they come back, but the finder ...
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Partial “close” buttons appearing on hover filling up screen
I'm seeing strange partial iOS-style "close" buttons when I hover over the area where Notification Center alerts appear. It seems there is one created per notification shown, which means over the ...
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Insect inside the display of the iPad Retina [closed]
Yesterday I found a bug inside my iPad display. I mean, literally a bug. My wife was reading some magazine and noticed something moving inside the screen. I thought it was some kind of animation, took ...
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Macbook pro making clicking noise
I'm not sure when it has been started to make clicking sounds randomly, but it has been bugging me a while. Any idea that what could be cause this problem?
I'm using MAC OS X 10.8.2 and late 2009 13 ...
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Why “Do not disturb” bug will fix itself on Jan 7th? [closed]
Just pure curiosity! Last year, the bug is fixed on Jan 2nd too. Both are those days are Monday. Is this just coincidence?
What kind of programming mistake that lead to this bug?
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Finder View-->Show Path Bar doesn't work
I have a MacBook Pro retina running Mountain Lion. Finder View-->Show Path Bar doesn't work. When I toggle it, it just changes the size of the Finder window, without showing the path bar.
Another ...
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Sudden flash of gray in the background
In the last few days I've had a sudden flash of gray in the background. I'm on MacOS 10.7.5. I'm not able to provide a screenshot because it only happens for a split second, but here is a more or less ...
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Bug with iPhone data usage counter
I know that I can see the data usage of my iPhone 4(iOS 6.0.1) under: Settings → General → Usage → Cellular, Usage , but the counter has a bug - now it's showing over 16GB(for 2-3 hours tethering). ...
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SD CARD saying read only after I tried to delete files from the card
I have a 1 GB SD card that I have been using with my zoom H4n recorder. I literally recorded onto the card, inserted it into my Mac OS x computer, pulled the recordings, and when I tried to delete the ...
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Incorrect Terminal.app output for long lines with tabs
When I run the following command in Terminal.app:
echo -e "a\tb\tc\td\te\tf\tg\tyo"
I should get the following output (using a 40-column window so that lines don't wrap here, and replacing tabs ...
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Birthdays a day early in Calendar on Mountain Lion
On my Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) all the birthdays from the "Birthdays" calendar are showing a day early in Calendar. E.g. When I browse to contact Joe Bloggs in Contacts it ...
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Individual terminal tabs running emacs become buggy/corrupted over time
I generally work with a terminal window with a half-dozen tabs open, and that window lives for a week or so. Every once in a while, tabs (running emacs) become corrupted or something [every other ...
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Clocks due to change and sleep prompt goes into infinite loop
Tonight the clocks change in the UK from BST to GMT. Officially at 2am BST going back to 1am GMT.
At 00:00 my Mountain Lion macbook pro asks me if I want it to sleep. Usually there's never a ...
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Disabling MBP display with external monitor connected in Clamshell Mode
I have a very similar problem to mikekmcguire's question about clamshell mode.
When connecting my MacBook Pro (Mid 2009 | 5,3) running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) to an external display in clamshell mode, ...
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Why can I sometimes not enter my password on my iPad?
I have an iPad 3 (16GB, no 3G), running iOS 6. Three times recently it's got into a state where when I've turned it on (from sleep, not from completely off), and I haven't been able to enter my ...
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iPhone autolock feature doesn't work
My iPhone 4 doesn't lock automaticaly anymore. It seems that it is since iOS 6 update.
Is it a known bug? someone has noticed this problem? or is there a parameter or something that might be the ...
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Why is the number of unread messages in Messages negative?
Occasionally, and with no apparent correlation with what is going on on other devices where I have Messages enabled, I get a negative count for my unread messages in Messages on OS X:
What could be ...
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PDF printing bug in OS X
On a PDF created with Office for Windows, special characters are not displaying and not printing correctly in OS X. The rendering is correct on Chrome.
The issue is the same as this one: Some PDFs ...
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How to fix missing icons and labels in System Preferences -> Spotlight?
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro and I started noticing a weird bug in my Spotlight system preferences.
It looks like every time I open preferences -> Spotlight an assortment of icons and labels are ...
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Changing desktop background in OS X 10.8 only changes it for the current desktop space
I'm experiencing a bug in Mountain Lion. I have 2 desktop spaces open. When I change the desktop background picture, it only changes for one of the spaces and not the other. Rebooting solved the ...
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Cant fully slide to answer call IPhone 4
As the title describes, sometimes, but not too rarely, when I have an incoming call I cannot fully slide the lock to answer. It will get to like 20-30% and then jump at the start. Sometimes after many ...
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Mission Control bug on Mountain Lion: Dragging Windows to Desktops Fails Regularly
When I activate Mission Control and try to drag drag, say, two windows to another desktop, the first drag works fine. I can drag the window to the other desktop's thumbnail, which darkens, and then ...
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Disable two week view in the Mountain Lion Calendar App
In Lion I enabled the "Top sekret" debug menu and checked the box to show 14 days in the weekview. In Lion it worked quite nice.
Now I upgraded to Mountain Lion it doesn't work as nice as it was and ...
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Lion's “sort by” view bug (Finder and Time Machine)
I'm having trouble with an issue that I've had for a year now: the new sorting view that Lion introduces (with the non-selectable columns) acts really weird sometimes (randomly, more often in Time ...
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'Find text' in document occasionally doesn't work in Word 2011 for Mac
It's a problem I saw on a friend's computer (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard). Occasionally (in about 1 of 10-20 cases) Word 2011 doesn't find a text which is in the document. Then, changing the to other ...
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Strange failure with Spaces?
Over the course of my ownership of a MacBook Pro running Lion, I've had an extremely odd bug occur somewhat sporadically. It rarely occurs, but when it does, the following effects become apparent:
I ...
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Kernel panic after using Android Emulator for Mac OS X Lion
I experienced a kernel panic.
When I run Android emulator on a MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini, I sometimes get a grey screen for unexpected shut down and instructions to press and hold the power button ...
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Finder not expanding folders anymore after OSX Lion re-installation
I've just reinstalled Lion after having replaced the stock HDD with an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and everything is fine apart from the Finder, which does not expand folders anymore..see the following ...
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move to trash on ~/.Trash folder [closed]
Why finder application is showing move to trash on ~/.Trash folder? If you will click on move to trash it will show an indefinite progress indicator that will never ends.
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OSX Lion freeze after sleep
Sometimes, after I wake up my MBP from sleep I get the screen shown in picture. Once I click somewhere in the middle of the screen I get the log in window. When I log in all the windows/apps that were ...
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Is this a potential symptom of a hardware issue? Button visual data is behaving buggy?
Recently, I opened my Gmail application on my (brand new) iPhone 4S. I've been using the phone for a couple of weeks, and I downloaded the Gmail application a couple of days ago.
As you can see from ...
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Installing foursquare on my iPhone 4S wirelessly in iTunes and it acts weird
iTunes syncs an app twice in a row. "Copying 1 of 1" happens two syncs in a row.
This is happening specifically with the new foursquare app.
Steps to Reproduce:
Add an app to sync in the iPhone --> ...
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FileVault 2 Login Issues on OpenLDAP Network with Admin, Managed, Mobile Account on Lion 10.7.4
This issue occurs on any machine with Lion in my environment. I install Lion and connect to OpenLDAP for authentication. I enable FileVault.
Some users were reporting that when they'd wake their ...
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iTunes in Album List view doesn't select all songs in selected albums
iTunes will not select all songs in multiple albums that I select by clicking the album covers while holding CMD. When I drag and drop them, only the number of songs that are in the very album I used ...
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PDF rendering bug in OS X and iOS
I received a PDF by e-mail which is unreadable on my Mac (Lion 10.7.3) and on my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1) but the same PDF renders perfectly on Windows. If I use Chrome on my Mac, (which has its own built ...
