Tag: mac

How to fix a Mac Launchpad icon stuck on screen

Posted on September 19, 2016August 20, 2018 by Ellen

Mac’s Launchpad has a bug where when you try to click an application icon, instead of opening the app, it moves as if you were dragging it, not clicking it, then remains on the Desktop

OSX Migration Assistant doesn’t see all Time Machine backups

Posted on January 11, 2014January 30, 2014 by ellen

When reverting a new Mac from Mavericks to Mountain Leopard, I wiped the drive, installed Mountain Lion, then updated it with all the current updates. Then I backed it up to Time Machine, in case

BBEdit 10.5.x ignores font size changes and other settings.

Posted on January 2, 2014January 19, 2014 by ellen

I was setting up my new computer, and trying to adjust font-sizes and other settings in BBEdit. BBEdit relies on the font-palette for all the font settings, but didn’t seem to notice any changes I

Fixing slow performance on OSX 10.9, Mavericks

Posted on December 24, 2013January 30, 2014 by ellen

I have an early-2008 iMac which has served me pretty well for home use, but the hard drive finally died. Since replacing the drive on those machines is quite a chore, I brought it

Mac: The document “filename.pdf” could not be exported as filename.pdf

Posted on March 7, 2013November 20, 2013 by ellen

The error “The document “filename.pdf” could not be exported as filename.pdf” started appearing in Safari on attempting to save PDFs from the browser.

The problem appears to be update-related: apparently a recent Acrobat update left an old file in the plugins directory that needs to be deleted.

Speed up Mail.app

Posted on March 13, 2010 by ellen

Mail.app has been misbehaving lately on my iMac. It seems to be slowing down in general. I see way too much of the spinning beachball, so I’ve been trying all sorts of fixes, most of

Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta

Posted on August 6, 2009 by ellen

Good news for those who are interested in creating interactive learning content on the Mac: Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta testing. You can volunteer to test the pre-release versions here: Prerelease Interest Form

Can’t import movies shot on Canon PowerShot into Adobe Media Encoder

Posted on January 3, 2009 by ellen

After installing Adobe Web Premium CS4, I tried to import a video clip that was shot on a little Canon PowerShot camera into Adobe Media Encoder. It immediately responded with the error: The file “CIMG1324.AVI”

iTunes garbles playback on all songs

Posted on November 5, 2008 by ellen

I’ve been having a lot of authorization issues with iTunes since a recent upgrade, so when this morning, iTunes started garbling playback on ALL my music, I panicked thinking it was another bug. It sounded

Preview images crash Finder

Posted on December 28, 2007 by ellen

When viewing items in column view, you have the option to display a Preview column, where a preview image of your image or movie will be displayed, along with some file info. Sometimes, viewing that