CS 4 Mac Bug? Pallette opens outside screen

Hey!
I'm stuck with this problem:
When I try to render a file from the queue and chose an output format which opens another dialogue-pallette (eg Adobe Clip Notes), this palette somehow opens outside my screen, so that i cant either access the dialogue, nor continue working in AE because I cant click anywhere else. When I switch between Spaces, the pallette shows up for the blink of an eye while switching. I'm working with my MacBook and a second screen so I thought its a multi monitor issue. But when I try all the suggested actions which are availble on the net, i still cant move the palette to my screen. Even when I turn off Spaces the pallette wont show up.
Plase help, I totally lost ont this one!
Thanx in advance,
Simon

Hey Rick,
thanks for your suggestion, it's highly appreciated!
I allready tried those actions, they didnt work for me. Meanwhile I found a solution. When I have my second screen connected, turn off Spaces and then run a script to bring all windows to the screen... then the pallette comes back to the screen!
That was a tough one, best regards, Simon

Similar Messages

Preview app opens outside screen border

Hi, The Preview App opens outside the screen border.
Can't grab it with cursor.
What to do?

Hi BDAqua, No luck still.
Used the detect display option in display prefs and all seemed solved.
Connecting the second monitor again and 'voila', all looked ok.
I use the second display only when editing in Final Cut as a main video screen.
When I want to use only one monitor for a while the Preview App keeps opening halfway the not in use and disconnected second display.
So I think I'll just hit the detect display button the rest of my life.
Things could be much worse...

Open quicktime file to play movie and mac hangs and leaves artifacts (screen smear) on screen mac slows down

I recently completed a clean install of snow leopard and added some RAM to my MAC
when I open a QuickTime file... my MAC slows down, I get the rainbow pin wheel and screens and menus that I try to access start to "smear"... leave behind artifacts
ultimately the movies flutter and don't play properly, and I have to restart my MAC to reset my desktop
I suspect it may be related to my RAM because I've never had this issue previously although it only seems to occur when I use QuickTime
... also I installed "flip for mac"
I purchased the RAM from OWC
thoughts?

The codec info should have been listed before the comma that precedes 640x360. Seems to be a bug in the recent versions of QT 7. If you have QT Pro you can still find the codec name by opening Movie Properties and checking the video format that way. Anyway, since Perian cant play it I suspect you are out of luck in MacOS x. Not all avi decompressors have been ported to OS X. It may be that the compressor is one of the old Indeo codecs and those definitely will not work in X. They will work in the Classic environment but a lot of you folks have given up on Classic. Just in case here is a link to the Indeo codecs for Classic: Indeo codecs for Classic
Have you tried playing it in VLC. If it is not an Indeo file VLC may play it.
The Mac version of WMP doesn't play avi or mpeg files -- mostly it plays wmv or asf files and not even the most recent versions of those formats.

I bought garage band from the app store and downloaded it to my mac mini. When i try to open a screen comes up explaining i need to down load missing files. I do this but when try to open GB again the same thing keeps happening! Can anyone help.

I bought garage band from the app store and downloaded it to my mac mini. When i try to open a screen comes up explaining i need to down load missing files. I do this but when try to open GB again the same thing keeps happening! Can anyone help.
Thanks
Hugh Lockwood

Hi, Hugo,
In similar cases it helped to remove the GarageBand "Preferences" file from the User Library.
Open the folder
your home folder > Library > Preferences
and move the file "com.apple.garageband.plist" to the Desktop.
Then try again to launch GarageBand.
Regards
Léonie

MAC MINI BLOCKED AND PASS OUT THE OPENING SESSION SCREEN

Hi, i hope someone can help me.
(i'm a french user, so i'll try to write a good english)
I've a mac MINI (2006) Intel Core Solo
Mac OSX 10.4.11 Tiger
I've no problem since some days.
I'm not the usual user.
Is the problem description :
• I start my Mac mini by pressing the button.
• "dong"
• I see the apple on the screen with spiral progression, all right.
• after around 15 sec. normally, at this moment, the opening session screen must appear… (there are 2 users, one administrator [with password] and one guest without password) but it don't.
• After a brief flash between two different screens (blue-gray),
the gray screen with the apple and the spiral progression re-appear but BLOCKED.
• There are some pixels lost in disorder at the top-left of the screen (the place of the starting mouse-arrow).
• After some minutes, or when i click away (i really don't now exactly when…)
The session of the guest starting normally (with some slownesses)
• I've a AirPort connexion with an iMac (Leopard 10.5.5).
• I've noted that someday, my usual network connexion have been changed (on the mac mini only), and my Mini tryed to connect with the connection of a neighbor.
As if this connexion have been selected by default.
•• I've tryed to restart, close the session etc.
•• I've lunched the disc utility to verify the HD…
•• And finally, I've passed out the problem with changing the account parameters :
Open the session automaticaly as a guest. Passed out but not resolved !!
••• THE PROBLEM STILL HERE, but for a few seconds only
(blocking lasts only two seconds).
So, can someone help me ?
What type of problem can it be ?
I hope someone has allready resolved it !
Thanks for reading.

Hi you, i love your post…
So, i suggest you :
- In the account parameters (in préf. sys.)
- Delete the guest account created.
- Specify start automatically as "your Admin. name"
- Restart your computer.
- Go one more time in the Account param. pane
- Create a new guest account and modify some settings (such as display of the file for users in opening session screen etc.)
- Specify automatic start with guest
- Restart you Mac Mini.
Of course you have note that i've solved (for the moment only ?) the problem.
But i must say it for others, if someone has the same pb.
When my Mac Mini was Blocked, in fact, the computer seems all right but the display not. As the opening session screen was behind this static grey-apple-screen.
In addition, i've forgotten that there is an other screen with
"Démarrage de Mac OS X en cours…"
So, when i've unplugged my screen during the blocked screen,
and re-plugged it, all returns right : i can see my opening session screen…
So, if some one can tell me what is the problem exactly…
I'm curious.
So, at this moment, i've started my Mini once time only.
I hope all stay right in future…
Thanks so munch to me for my response.
:]

OPEN FIRM WARE SCREEN, ENTER MAC-BOOT COMMAND, GETS WEIRD SCREEN, ......

HELP- HELP- HELP-..."OPEN FIRMWARE/WON'T START-UP".....( IT WAS RUNNING, BUT DIED LIKE THE CORD WAS CUT )....G3 B&W 400MHZ OS 9.2.2, BATTERY GOOD, STARTS UP TO "OPEN FIRMWARE" SCREEN, ENTER "MAC-BOOT" COMMAND, GOES TO A BLUE-ISH/PURPLE TOP 1/2, YELLOW BOTTOM 1/2 SCREEN W/SMALL-ISH (APPROX. 2") MAC FACE THAT THEN GETS ABOUT 5 FOLDERS (STACKED FRT. TO BACK) COVERING MOST OF THE MAC FACE, WON'T GO BEYOND THIS WEIRD SCREEN, HAVE FOUND IMAC OPEN FIRMWARE COMMANDS I'M GOING TO TRY BUT DOUBT WILL WORK BEING THEIR FOR AN IMAC, I HAVE ALREADY DONE A TAP DANCE ON THE KEYBOARD HOPING TO STUMBLE ON TO AN UNKNOWN MYSTERY FIX COMMAND, ALSO DONE PRAM, CUDA, PROGRAMMER RESETS IN ORDER / OUT OF ORDER...AND SPOKE TO LOCAL MAC EXPERT REPAIRMAN, SAID HE'S NEVER SEEN SUCH A SCREEN...ANY IDEAS ANYONE ????..THANKS.. I WONDER IF IT'S BEYOND FIXING, IT'S NOT MY PRIMARY MACHINE & IT WAS NEAR FREE, BUT I HATE TO BE DEFEATED & TOSS IT TO RECYCLING. ....THANKS AGAIN...I'M AN EX-PORSCHE MECHANIC AND HAVE BEEN SELF TEACHING MYSELF ABOUT JUST OPERATING A MAC FOR 4 YRS., SO I'M NOT ALL THAT SHARP IN THE GEEK AREA......WAYNE146

Sorry about the "CAPS", old eyes & tired brain, + in hunt & peck typing method I forget to cap at start of new sentence.....I don't have camera capability at this time. I re-read my discription of the screen and it is worded very accurately, as I close my eye's and imagine the words I see this weird screen as described. When this first occured I tried booting from cd (holding c key down) 5+ minutes and nothing (x5). I pulled the battery a week ago to clear cache, also disconnected power sup. from mother board, hoping for a magical self healing effect from complete discharge of residual currents in board or cache. I'm going to try bring life back to it today. and try the Imac boot commands just for fun (?). I may have lacked the patience needed when doing CUDA, programmers resets, so I will approach with a more zen like mind set this time. Do you think I should re-type my original question in lower case, to get more responces ??....Thank you, All, And Thank you, Allen Jones, for the first responce.

When opening Powerpoint, the file opens outside of the screen, and I cannot use it, nor can I open a new ppt. How do I rectify this?

When opening Powerpoint, the file opens outside of the screen, and I cannot use it, nor can I open a new ppt. How do I rectify this?

Usually the Window menu allows you to adjust window placement in Microsoft Office products.
If not, connect an external display or projector and change the resolution to the maximum.
Save the document with the window residing on the main screen with the Dock.
That will force it to open on the main screen in the future.

My apple mac pro won't get past opening grey screen with revolving circle

when I turn on the apple mac there is the blue screen with apple logo and revolving circle - nothing else happens

Hi johnjak,
In order to troubleshoot this issue where your Mac Pro is getting stuck on a gray screen with a spinning gear, please follow the steps in the article linked to below.
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup - Apple Support
Happy Holidays!
Alex H.;

IMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."

Question, asked professionally
When will iMovie for Mac be able to open iMovie for iOS projects?
Question, asked snarkily
Any reasonable expectation that we will ever be able to edit projects--created in iMovie on our fancy new expensive phones--in iMovie on our fancy new expensive laptops?
Specs
iPhone 6 Plus (contract-free, 128 GB)
iOS 8.1.2
iMovie for IOS 2.1.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014)
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
iMovie for Mac 10.0.6
Error Messages
iMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."
iMovie for iOS: "An error occurred during export."
Frustration
Manufacturer: Apple (a multibillion dollar company)
The year: 2015
Hours lost: Three Weeks
Total costs for both devices: $4,000
Background Details
I just wasted thousands of dollars on these two hardware devices by making the rookie mistake of assuming projects were compatible across iMovie applications. However, the exported .iMovieMobile project files are in an incompatible iMovie for iOS Project format that iMovie for Mac cannot import. So I am stuck with a 15 GB .iMovieMobile project file--for an hour-long+ video--that I created and I was editing on my iPhone for weeks that I can no longer edit on my iPhone due to an error, nor potentially rescue the lost hours on my Mac, the sole reason I purchased it one day ago. The reason I can no longer edit the project on the iPhone is because iMovie for iOS suddenly stopped displaying the video of the project in preview, external display, etc. The clip snapshots remain visible and the audio remains audible, but the video appears fully black. Any attempt to export the video at any resolution generates an error message. (This error applies only to this project; other projects export without issue.) I can save to and from iTunes or iCloud without issue, but import into iMovie for Mac is unavailable for this latest version. Deleting and reinstalling the app does not resolve the issue. Nothing has resolved this issue; so I purchased the Mac as a last attempt, and it appears that I will have to begin the meticulously painful process of recreating the video from scratch with all the titling, sound effects, precise edits, transitions, organization, etc. This video was to surprise my mother for her birthday with "this is your life" footage, including my late father. It may seem like a small first-world problem, but such things carry big emotional impacts. What began as such a wonderfully intuitive and joyful experience has descended into a soul-suffering nightmare of catastrophic proportions. This software grinch stole christmas.
Likely Suspect
I believe this originated from Apple's confusingly designed iTunes client that removed videos used by iMovie for IOS during a sync, which I successfully restored back to the iPhone. This apparently resulted in iOS seeking and then claiming to find all of the videos, but somehow a bug in the coding causes the audio to play but not display video, and no way to resolve the bug from an enduser standpoint. I was hoping that iMovie for Mac would allow me a workaround, but I'll never know because the iOS and Mac formats are currently and dishearteningly incompatible.
Suggestions
I never performed a full backup of the iPhone, but I don't believe any of the iCloud nor local backups actually backup iMovie projects themselves anyway. (That's a fail.) So one must back them up manually to iTunes or iCloud.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS DAILY, IF NOT HOURLY.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING OR SYNCING FROM ITUNES.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING VIDEO CREATED OUTSIDE OF YOUR IOS DEVICE.
Resolutions
Hope Apple fixes this problem soon? Perhaps.
Return the Mac to Apple, if they allow? Perhaps.
Someone in this community will provide a magical workaround--that I haven't already attempted? Perhaps.
As unlikely these options may be, I shudder to imagine that I may be forced to suffer no resolution and $3,000+ completely down the drain, because if iMovie for IOS worked as intended, I wouldn't have ever purchased the Mac as a last ditch effort to rescue the project. It meant that much to me to surprise my mother by attempting to retrieve this project file from oblivion--but to no avail.

I appreciate you taking the time to copy and paste boilerplate responses to increase your points in this forum, but I've already read all those support articles in depth; but you have barely read my post at all. Please don't guess a fix. Only someone with the latest versions of iMovie, iOS, iPhone, Yosemite, and MacBook Pro is qualified to troubleshoot this, because anyone would immediately see that the following option no longer exists:
Open iMovie on your Mac, and choose File > Import > iMovie for iOS Project.
Read my post before you reply: It clearly says in the title and within my post that I can neither export nor import through iTunes without receiving an error message. So your response neither solved my question nor helped me whatsoever.

Pages App on Mac won't open documents created on iPad

My pages app on my mac wouldn't open documents created on my iPad, it said that I needed to down load the newest version which I belive I had. So I put it in the trash hoping I could re install but now I can't open it at all :-(

You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.
Pages 5.2 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.2 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Older versions of Pages 5 can not open files from later versions of Pages 5.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Anything that is saved to iCloud and opened in a newer version of Pages is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed almost 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Peter

How can you use AirPlay Mirroring to always show one of your open desktop screens?

I have Mountain Lion on a 2011 Mac, and have a number of desktop screens which I use regularly.
My question is, how do I choose only one of those open desktop screens to beam to Apple TV via mirroring? For example, so that I can show a presentation on the projector screen (via Apple TV) and read the slide notes directly from a word document on the Mac screen (which the audience cannot see) or for example, to beam a full screen DVD to my TV so that the family can watch it, whilst I continue to actually work on the Mac on a different desktop screen?
Hope that makes sense...
Thanks
Jonathan

I understand your problem but don't think it's possible:( My only solution is to play my tutorials from the networked drive to my ATV2 while following along with the exercise materials. If you've found a solution please let me know? I thought it'd be possible to assign mirroring to one desktop, like I think you said in the original post, with some type of terminal command but no luck yet. Thanks

What is better Mac Mini or Mac Pro and 4K 40" screen or iMac 5K for work with Exel

I am working on Macbook pro retina for around 16 hours a day, it is ok but the screen is to small. I am opening about 25 - 30 EXCEL windows, 20 - 25 safari windows at the same time. Excel windows are small, they only show 40 rows and S column Now I am considering buying iMac 5k ( but the screen is only 27", however a very high resolution but I think that fonts and digits displayed may be too small ). I am also considering Mac Mini or Pro with 40" 4K TV ( 4k computer monitors are 27 - 31" , so better idea would be purchasing iMac 5k ) . The problem is that 40 - 42" TV don't have Display Port ( I can't find it anywhere )
Please help me to choose what would suit my needs better. I need large screen to work comfortably with an Excel sheets. What is better? Mac Mini or Mac Pro and 4K 40" screen or iMac 5K for work with Excel ?. The other problem I have is that when I spend 16 hours at work with retina macbook , my eyes are ok. Using the 30'' Dell screen 2560/1440 my eyes are tired after 2 hours.
Thanks for your help on advance
Best regards
David

Currently you can only get 4 K at 30 Hz via HDMI. Some users have reported jerky curser movement because of the 30 Hz.
I would go for the 5K iMac. You can add a second screen at 4K.
FaceTime HD camera
Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840 by 2160 pixels on an external display
Support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
The Mac Mini supports:
Support for up to two displays at 2560 by 1600 pixels, both at millions of colors
Thunderbolt digital video output
Native Mini DisplayPort output
DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)
HDMI video output
Support for 1080p resolution at up to 60Hz
Support for 3840-by-2160 resolution at 30Hz
Support for 4096-by-2160 resolution at 24Hz
The 2013 Mac Pro can use three and more displays:
Mac Pro (Late 2013): Using multiple displays - Apple Support
I would go for multiple screens

Opening multiple screens in safari

how do i open multiple screens using safari???

Cmd-N on the keyboard opens a new window.
Also, +File -> New Window+ from the menu bar does the same thing.
You can also open a new tab in an existing window (click the plus sign or Cmd-T). Then click-hold on the tab and drag it outside the current window. A new window will open from the tab.

Word docs don't open full screen on iBook

My brother, up in Maine, I'm in NY, has an iBook with Word X on it. (I don't know the version of OSX he has but he probably hasn't updated it since he bought it... I am not sure of the model of his iBook either. I can find out.) His main complaint is that Word documents don't open full-screen (once he drags the window to fill the screen) upon reopening or with new blank documents.
I am wondering if Word doesn't like certain screen resolutions. I don't know what he is using now but I have suggested he try some others. Does anyone know if Word docs won't act right under certain screen resolutions? Or if it is something else, what can we do so that docs open fully.
He bought the Mac thinking it was easier to use but this one thing has kept him from using it at all! He is using this for his business, a used book shop, and would use Word to list books. I hope to fix this so he can see the value of the Mac.
Cheers,
John
(who's been using Macs for years.)

We really need to know which version of the OS he is using, and the iBook model would be good to know, too.
You may want to poke around on Microsoft's Mactopia and see if there are some hints for him there.

Iweb and frames,want to create a link to open outside the frame set

Iweb is using Frames and I need to create a link that opens outside the frame set. Can this be done?
IMAC Mac OS X (10.3.9)

iWeb does not use frames. Can you explain a little further?

CS 4 Mac Bug? Pallette opens outside screen

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for