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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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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How to contact Apple about connection issue on bugreport.apple.com?
I have been trying to log into their bug reporter system (bugreport.apple.com) for about a month.
Every time I log in, I get redirected to an error page, which tell me to report the problem. The ...
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Mac does not sleep automatically in Lion!
My Macbook Pro will not sleep even though it is set in System Preferences → Energy Saver.
I do not have any sharing options enabled (System Preferences → Sharing).
I do not have "Wake ...
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Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice — why? How do I fix it?
Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice. It's been acting like this for a while but if I remember correctly I think it first started when I let Skype auto-update itself a while back.
Any ideas why ...
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Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor
I'm using a MBP with a second (external) monitor and since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, I encountered some display issues that appear in the Application Switcher, and sometimes in the ...
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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 ...
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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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Why is FAT16 limited to read-only with TrueCrypt on Snow Leopard?
I'm experiencing a problem with TrueCrypt. The problem is described elsewhere but not resolved for me.
When attempting to mount encrypted containers, the following error is generated:
hdiutil: ...
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How do I kill the Application Switcher?
All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:
Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it?
UPDATE: Logging off fixed this.
UPDATE 2: I came to a ...
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Lion: Arrange Bug?
I have arrange by kind turned on at all times, yet sometimes I see a strange bug:
As you can see, the arrange headers: "Folders", "PDF Documents" and "Documents" do not show up properly. They are ...
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Auto logout results in severe login screen bug
With auto logout enabled, I experience severe display errors at the login screen. These errors do not occur at the login screen right after boot. They appear only when the auto logout is triggered.
I ...
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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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iOS5 split keyboard not playing well with some apps, including Apple ones
I have noticed some issues with the new split keyboard feature of iOS 5.
First, the when in split-keyboard mode, the screen content is not moved up despite the keyboard covering the content.
As you ...
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Why does OS X Mail fail to recognize that an e-mail address belongs to an existing contact?
In OS X Mail, when I enter the name of a person to whom I have sent a previous e-mail, I'm often presented with a suggested e-mail address, corresponding (roughly) to the most recent frequently ...
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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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Did the calculator widget break in Lion?
I seem unable to send a "clear" button press from the number pad on my standard apple extended keyboard (aluminum) to the calculator widget in Dashboard on Lion. The regular calculator app works as ...
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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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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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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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Long command in terminal.app cause a bug
If I am in the last line of Terminal.app and enter a long command, it does not create new line, but instead overwrites the same line.
How can I solve this bug?
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Safari freezes on pinch-to-zoom in Lion
I have noticed this since upgrading to Lion.
Many times I accidentally use the pinch to zoom feature on the trackpad for Safari. Safari will zoom in a bit, but then the entire tab becomes frozen. No ...
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Tweets in my Tweetbot timeline are occasionally marked as a favorite when I see them for the first time. Is that a bug or a feature?
While looking through my timeline in Tweetbot, occasionally a tweet will be marked as a favorite even though I'm sure I'm seeing it for the first time. (I can't resist taking the time to unfavorite ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Messages beta hangs. How to remove it or at least its accounts?
I've received a huge iMessage and now the App hangs. I can't remove the App, because it's only possible via the menu item which is not responding. Removing ~/Documents/iChat/* and ~/Library/Messages/* ...
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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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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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In Lion, the “Open File” dialog doesn't refresh until 30 to 60 seconds after the window appears
I'm running Lion (10.7.3). In any application, when I bring up the "Open File" dialog, it shows an outdated list of files — files I deleted hours ago still show up; files I recently created don't ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Migrating from Time Machine without Migration Assistant
I want to change my mid-2010 iMac with the latest iMac of my parents. Because we both use Time Machine, well, the easiest way would be to restore both of them from the backups.
However, there is a bug ...
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Will reinstalling Lion erase all my documents and applications?
I am planning to reinstall my operating system because it has many glitches. However, I am totally new to this and I would like to ask you what actually happens when you reinstall Lion? Do all your ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Can't click anything in Mac OS Lion (mouse movement works, no hand cursor for clickables)
I have Mac OS Lion, version 10.7, and after my screensaver activates, sometimes I can no longer click anything successfully.
I'm using a Magic Mouse with almost full battery.
These things still ...
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Bug with square screen capture in Lion OS X
I have noticed an annoying bug in OS X Lion that happens if you try to take a screen cap with cmd+shift+4. It works fine with every rectangular selection, but if you take a square shot (for example ...
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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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Can't format SD Card after OS X Lion update to 10.7.4
Today I tried to format my SD cards with no success. The only thing different that I did was updating to 10.7.4 this weekend. What can I do to re-enable this function?
The can't format part means I ...
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Quicktime: Grey background upon resume in fullscreen mode
A clip that was played in fullscreen mode will not appear in fullscreen mode.
Instead, it's slightly shifted, resized and has a grey background.
I've removed the Quicktime plug-in Perian, but this ...
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Is there an efficient way to recover un-synced Photo Stream images?
I'm experiencing a vexing bug with Photo Stream (that at least some others seem to share), in which about 10% of the photos I take on my iOS devices just don't show up in the stream. I understand that ...
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MacBook is sleeping despite being set to “never” sleep
My 13" MacBook (late 2006) is set to never sleep but after about 3 hours the whole computer still goes to sleep.
Lid is always UP.
Power Adapter is plugged in and indicator light is green when ...
