Questions tagged [bug]
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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Finder on Yosemite misbehaves: doubled text, blank windows, lack of updates
Since updating to Yosemite, Finder has been acting strangely. I can usually get it to show a normal-looking and -behaving window for a few operations, and then the window will either:
Be blank, ...
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Messages is unusable due to unresponsiveness!
Messages on High Sierra has become increasingly unusable for me. I get frequent (every dozen words or so, at least once per message) long (5-20s) lags when typing — which seem to occur most often when ...
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After High Sierra, weird colours appear when waking up MacBook Pro
I'm coming from reddit where they suggested me to post here. There seems to be many users with the same issue. Using a 13" MBP Early 2015.
After updating to macOS High Sierra I see weird colours for ...
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AppleSpell error: Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
My macOS High Sierra system is increasingly slowing to a crawl and having huge spikes in CPU usage, notably in Messages, but even when it not running.
The logs that seem to be most closely associated ...
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Excel: how to change Default file option to UTF-8 away from Macintosh file option?
When I double-click and open a csv file in Excel, the OSX Excel always opens it in Macintosh format destroying the visualisation of UTF-8 files with malformatted umlaut characters such as ö and ä. I ...
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What would make my mac lock
I leave my Mac running overnight. Several times over the past month, I've come down and the screen saver is dead and the background of the screen is white. When I provide my password to unlock the ...
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How to force iphone to free space when storage is full?
My phone (ios 13.5.1) was running out of storage, so I freed up a few Gbs of space by removing whatsapp album, photos (also clearing the recently deleted album) and a few app. On the next day the ...
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Catalina upgrade leads to permanent “system has run out of application memory”
After upgrading to Catalina I get a permanent error message stating
"Your system has run out of application memory"
which appears in a dialog that obscures my active windows.
This appears when I ...
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Big bug: why does iCloud Keychain remember the wrong expiration month for all of my credit cards?
I've been adding credit cards to my iCloud Keychain for years, and after a few months, I notice that my payments receive errors when I use the autofill from iCloud.
The bug:
I've realized that ...
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Icons on menu bar redraw at each monitor change
I have an issue with my setup that drives me nuts and is more and more annoying.
I have a 4 displays setup and each time I change of monitor most of the icons in the menu redraw and introduce lag ...
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Mouse pointer twitchy since high sierra update
Since I updated to High Sierra, me and my colleagues at work have the same problem with our mouse pointer. It appears to be twitchy when switching from the standard arrow to another image (pointer/...
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iOS8.1 Can't stay logged in to Stack Exchange or Stack Exchange chat
So everything was wonderful before iOS8.1. Now I can no longer log in to Stack Exchange via Facebook on Safari (diagnostics say it's an HTML 5 issue), but can log in via Facebook on Chrome or via ...
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Keychain Access not revealing passwords
I was able to fix the problem by restarting my computer, but I wanted to see if anyone else had this issue.
If I right click on a keychain item and select "Copy Password to Clipboard" the usual ...
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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 later,...
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systemd is using >150% CPU
I'm not sure what's causing it, but suddenly the systemd process just started using about 150% CPU (according to my iStat menu). I checked in Activity Monitor and it said the same. I checked the CPU ...
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Dock glitch when closing apps
When I'm closing an app, and the dock is about to refresh the app icon (from opened to closed), and the cursor is in the area of the dock, a splitting glitch happens as show in the picture below. For ...
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Weird Safari pixelating issue
The issue started after updating to macOS high Sierra. The problem can't be shown when a screenshot is taken or if the cursor is hovered at those areas. So below is image captured from my phone and ...
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Bug: System Services Remain In Context Menu, Despite Being Disabled
I have found that if one disables the built-in "Search With Google" and "Look Up in Dictionary" systemwide "Searching" Services, they are not actually disabled.
In this post, I focus on the "Search ...
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Safari tools symbols missing
I just started using Safari and I notice the tools have no symbols to indicate their role. Is it normal or a bug? How do I fix it?
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iTunes for Windows won't un-pause
I am running iTunes on Windows 10 to play my personal music collection.
Oftentimes if I pause the music it won't un-pause. I click the button, which changes to the "playing" icon, but the progress ...
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Finder search of string erroneously returns no results yet substring correctly returns results
Encountering a really bizarre error on a new iMac (5K, Late 2015) that is running Sierra.
There is a folder called "Job applications" in my Documents folder that shows up in a Finder search of This ...
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Command+Tab between apps does not work in Sierra
Since updating to macOS Sierra, many apps fail to respond correctly to Command+Tab switching.
For example, if the three most recent apps are any two other apps A and B and C, in the order A B C, ...
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Preview hangs no matter what I do
This question is a sequel of Preview hangs when I try to change a PDF but unfortunately it's getting bigger and bigger.
Each time I open a PDF I get the spinning wait cursor instead of the normal ...
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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 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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App store is completely blank on MacOS catalina
The macOS app store completely hangs after opening i've googled for a while but nothing works
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On MacOS 10.15.5, “About This Mac --> Storage” is not recognizing my RAID-1 drive correctly
I upgraded from El Capitan to Catalina 10.15.5 on a MacbookPro mid-2012 , the oldest HW that Catalina will run on. Then, I created a RAID-1 drive using 2 USB disks. "About This Mac --> Storage" is not ...
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Apps randomly opening upon login on Catalina
As the title says, after "upgrading" to Catalina, every once in a while an app would open automatically after login. These apps are not in Login Items and are not set as Open at Login. It doesn't ...
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How to completely reset iMessage on MacOS X Catalina 10.15.4?
I have an iMac with two user accounts. After updating to MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 one of the two users cannot use iMessage anymore. iMessage just wont start. Starting it results in
iMessage ...
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How to browse var/log directories in console app as could be done in OS versions prior to Catalina?
In Mac OS prior to Catalina, the left sidebar in the console app would show a directory tree for the /var/log directory and a few other log directories. These could be expanded to navigate logs for ...
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How to reenable accessibility options?
For some unknown reason NONE of my accessibility options seem to work. I'm trying to enable Invert Color Display for example but checking or unchecking the box in system preferences has no effect ...
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AppleScript and Mail: Weird selection behaviour?
I) Intro
In AppleScript, when - for example - I do
tell application "Mail"
set mselection to selection as list
tell application "System Events"
tell application "Mail"
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Chrome 76 text highlight bug
I am running Google Chrome 76+ on macOS Mojave 10.14.6.
I have come across an issue where highlighting text in the browser will fail randomly. I ran into it enough times that I started trying to ...
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MacBook Air — Cursor gets stuck as arrow/finger
When I am using my MacBook Air, my cursor sometimes gets stuck and remains as either the default pointer (black arrow), or as the link-clicking finger. I generally have to quit the application and go ...
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Mojave dark mode not reflected properly on search bar
As you can see in the picture, there's black text in search bar. I saw some pictures online but all of them shows white text in search bar when using Dark Mode. Is it some kind of color profile issue? ...
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Macbook Pro not playing any chrome sounds, youtube videos not working, system audio is working
On my MacbookPro, no sites can play audio on either chrome or safari, and youtube and vimeo do not load. However, I can still play my itunes music with or without headphones, so I don't understand ...
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Mac OSX Command-R Recovery Mode - “rm” is ineffective even in read/write mode?
I have a mac with low disk space, that failed to update, and displays an OSX install error on boot. How can I delete some files, so the update can complete?
I can boot this in recovery mode with ...
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I can't manage my iTunes subscriptions
When I try to upgrade or otherwise manage my iTunes subscriptions, I'm told I need to verify my payment information and am taken to my account screen, an when I then attempt to submit that screen (...
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What is stored in the NVRAM that could cause my Macbook Pro to fail to detect sound output devices?
My Macbook Pro (2016, 4 thunderbolt 3 ports) has this very annoying problem where something breaks in the audio system, and it stops playing sounds and being able to detect any output devices. It's ...
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Deleted file taking up space
A few months ago I deleted a game that was taking up a lot of space on my Mac (all files from the game were removed).
It was a game I downloaded through the Steam application, which I have since moved ...
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Graphical bug during the logging after installing Mojave
I recently installed Mojave on my MacBook Pro 2017, and I encounter a graphical bug which is, if not hindering, still annoying.
When I boot the Mac and enter my password at the login screen, the usual ...
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How do I fix Launchpad not saving icon order settings?
I'm on High Sierra 10.13.6, and Launchpad is not saving my icon order when I log out. Only happens on my account, it works fine for other users in the same machine.
Some webpages say I should delete ...
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Flickering white lines
I have a Mac Pro (Late 2013, OS X 10.13.1) and a 4k monitor from Sharp that was back then sold as the standard display. I'm using a scaled resolution on the monitor since otherwise, the font would be ...
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Finder QuickLookUIService blank windows
After upgrading to "macOS High Sierra 10.13" "Finder Preview" (QuickLookUIService? the space bar feature) will sometimes show a blank window when navigating with the arrow keys. I used to use this ...
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Emoji and symbols input panel weird behavior
I am talking about the text input panel Emoji and symbols that could be opened thorough ctrl+⌘+Space.
It could be opened as a bubble:
or as a window:
The problem is only in the bubble mode: when I ...
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can not open download folder mac os sierra
when I drag and drop files from my dock download folder it crashes randomly. When I try to open the folder it does not respond or there comes a empty blank folder.
Sometimes the dock is crashing ...
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Odd UI glitch in Mail.app's Archive Mailbox
This was occurring in Mail.app 10.1 (3251)
and is still occurring in Version 10.2 (3259)
and is still occuring in Version 12.2 (3445.102.3)
When I view messages in the Archive mailbox, The entire ...
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iOS iPhone Safari freezes and is unresponsive
Safari on my iPhone is completely unusable. It opens fine but when I try to visit an address it freezes. The loading bar sticks at maybe 10%.
This happens with any address I type or any search query ...
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iOS 8.3 Keyboard (3rd party) hidden/missing in messages
This happened to me on older iOS 8.x versions, but stopped for a while and came back when I upgraded to a newer iphone (from 5s to 6, with 8.3).
Seemingly randomly, certain times the keyboard just ...
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Window-shadow causes weird bugs in Google Chrome
I'm coding a website, just with a text editor and my browser. I use Sublime Text 3 and Google Chrome. When I hover my text editor over my browser, the background color of my site gets a bit darker in ...
