Mission Control - mail attachments

Ok, another problem with Mission Control - open an attachment from Mail in fullscreen (an Excel attachment anyway), and you get an Excel window in the Mail Space, but you can't get the menu bar for Excel. You also can't move the Excel window into another space, so there's no way to do a lot of editing tasks. This is the second major flaw I've found with the way Lion handles windows. 'Early adopter' or 'beta tester'?
Can anyone offer a solution?

Bug report would be what I would do.
My wife is also experiencing issues with iTunes running in full screen and watching movies in her iTunes library. I cant quite pinpoint or replicate the the bug. But it also screws up her Safari running full screen. She is using OSX version 10.7.1 (Whatever is the most up to date as of today).
I'm guessing it has something to do with fullscreen iTunes, movies, Safari, and sleep mode (like closing the lid of laptop and later opening it).

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Mission Control & Mail Problem

Until yesterday, I wasn't even aware of "Misision Control" until I somehow made my mail window fill the entire screen. Now I have to use F3 to get back to my applications since there is no Dock at the bottom of the mail window. This is inconvenient, and I don't like the mail window filling the large screen. I can't figure out how to return the window to normal because the arrows that should be in the upper right corner are not there anymore.
While I'm here, I may as well ask about my Firefox Bookmark window. Until about six months ago the window was narrow. I don't know how I did it, but one day I touched something that made the window quite large (it doesn't fill the screen). There are no visible places at the corners to resize the window. How can I fix that as well?
Thanks.

Just found this post that addressed my issue, thanks.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15948670#15948670

Since upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite Mail, Spotlight,Mission Control and App-Store don´t work correctly. Is it possible to return to Mavericks?

Since upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite Mail, Spotlight, Mission Control and App-Store don´t work correctly. Is it possible to return to Mavericks?

If you have an external drive with an OS X Time Machine backup, then do restore of your last backup. If you have an external drive with a bootable clone of your previous system, you can boot to that clone and re-clone the OS X on your external drive back to your Mac's internal drive.
If you do not have either of these available, then the reverting/restoring process becomes much more complicated and involves purchasing an external drive and backing up your current system to that drive, then erasing, reformatting your hard drive and now your only options to installng an OS X version is doing a clean install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, then upgrading, again, to either OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion. OS X 10.9 Mavericks is no longer available for download and Apple has not made OS X 10.9 Mavericks available in any other form to be able to redownload and install.
Maybe it would be better to explain in detail your issues with Yosemite to see if any of us here can help you with your difficulties.
I am not running or using Yosemite, so I cannot help you with your Yosemite issues,
There are others here who can help you with Yosemite.
Good Luck.

Does mission control interfere with mail?

I was experimenting with mission control. I had 2 desktops declared. I tried to use mail but it hung. I had to force-quit. Is there some incompatibility between multiple desktops and mail, or was it just a coincidence?
By hanging, I mean that messages were listed on the left side but did not appear on the right; the application did not respond when I clicked anything. It started when I clicked "get mail" and it took forever; no messages appeared. I quit from the menu. I could not get back in successfully (my memory is fading now); I must have gotten back in to observe the frozen state. I tried to shut down, but the system complained that I had to quit mail first; could not quit; had to force-quit.
After force-quitting I was able to shut down. Fired the system back up; got back in; activated mail; it paused for a long time (2-3 minutes), then proceeded to act normally.

This does not appear to be a question, so please send your feedback to apple.com/feedback and go back to snow leopard if you must

Mission Control Problem: Unable to Assign Mail Application

I have used Mountain LIon since release with no problem. Today I restarded my computer after it died of battery and now I am unable to assign my mail application to a desktop as I had previously been able todo. I am able to full screen the application which then keeps it in one pane but I do not like to use it that way as I like to have multiple emails open at once. Once I drag the application in mission control to a new desktop it does not get the dark hilight and pops back into palce. The mail application appears on every desktop that is not an application in full screen mode. See pictures, please help!
This is me trying to move the mail app into a desktop.
This is the same attempt with system prefrences.

Just found this post that addressed my issue, thanks.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15948670#15948670

Mission Control vs Spaces. Was this an upgrade?

In spaces, I could see which space that I was in by looking at menu bar. Apparently this does not happen with Mission Control. I work most of the time with two monitors and with spaces I could move any window to the space on either monitor. With Mission control, I cannot move a window to the other monitor. This is improtant because I move Finder windows to where I have Mail so I can drag and drop onto an E-mail. I use this for e-mails with multiple attachments.
I have yet to see an advantage of Mission Control over spaces.

Wasn't a upgrade, it was a arbitrary decision to mess with the UI and people's heads.
I agree it should have both MC and Spaces, let the best UI interface win.

How can I fix Dock/Mission Control/Launchpad? (Glitch)

General Description
Mission Control and Launchpad glitch when invoked (whether by using the mouse or trackpad gesture). They seems to crash or quit, and then relaunch themselves (/itself - all the same app?), I know this because:
they both, as well as Dock, become unresponsive;
the desktop background images disappear temporarily (being replaced by blank light or dark grey);
the Mission Control animation stops/freezes and does not execute properly (the windows stay still);
Dock becomes unresponsive as well as Launchpad.
This happens a lot (every other invokation) and seems to be random; it's annoying and is ruining my workflow, since I am a heavy user of multiple desktops.
Behaviour
I usually have over ten desktops, all with active apps open at one time; when it glitches I can't even open or switch applications, though I can use the ones that are on the current desktop (if was trying to use Mission Control).
There is no correlation with the glitch and the amount of applications open, or how much RAM or CPU is active (still happens with only a few light apps open and a few desktops).
It does not matter whether I am using more than one monitor, the glitch still occurs.
It does not happen due to a particular open application, as I have tested with nothing open at all straight after a restart.
Possible and tested causes
An application might be corrupting the glitchy app(s), since the disk breaks after being repaired in Safe Boot mode. Once the disk has been repaired, the glitch doesn't seem to occur until a few applications have been opened, though I haven't tested this much. (I am suspecting TheBrain, but not sure. Other potential culprits: Chrome, Mail, Firefox, Spotify, Skype, Dictionary, Activity Monitor, Finder).
It isn't the operating system itself because I have reinstalled it from Safe Boot mode, and yet the glitch persists.
The application(s) affected by the glitch may be corrupted, and need reinstalled - that is, if they weren't already by reinstalling the operating system (they are in the '/System/CoreServices' folder).
Not-so-possible:
I doubt it is a virus - it would be a pretty pointless glitch for one to cause.
I have Time Machine running most of the time, but I have no reason to believe that is the cause.
I am using a NEET mini display port to HDMI adapter for my second monitor (no idea how that could be causing the issue).
Help
Any ideas on what I could do to fix this?
And does anyone know how to reinstall Mission Control, Dock and Launchpad (I think they are all part of '/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app')? This might be worth a try.
Specifications (just in case)
2010 Macbook Pro
2.8 GHz Intel i7
8 GB memory
500 GB HD (two thirds full)
Thanks for any help!

One thing I'd like for you to try: Create a new user account. Log into the new account and see if the same problems persist.
Many times such crashes are the result of corrupted preference or cache files. The above will eliminate these in the user account but not at the system level. So, I suggest you use a utility such as Lion Cache Cleaner 6.0.11 or Purity 1.10 to clear out cache files at the system level. I've never used the latter software but I, personally, use the former one on my computers.

What is the point of Mission Control?

I have been a Mac user since 1987, when I got my first SE/30. I understand a LOT about the Mac OS, and I consider myself and expert. For the life of me, however, I cannot figure out the point of Mission Control (or Exposé or Spaces, for that matter). Let me explain, and ask if anyone here can clear this up for me.
As I understand it, the point of Mission Control is to make it easy to access various open applications in an uncluttered workspace/desktop. If this is the case, then how is this better than, say, Quickeys, which I have used forever?
In other words, I typically use the following applications, all open at the same time: Word, Mail, Safari, my office accounting program, iTunes, iChat, and maybe one or two more. I use Quickeys and have assigned a keyboard shortcut for each - for example, control-E for mail; control-s for Safari; control-W for Word, etc. It is second nature for me to immediately go to, say, Mail by pressing control-E. Bringing the app to the front is literally instantaneous.
I "get it" that, say, Safari can show below Mail, or iTunes can show behind Word, but that (multiple windows partially overlappiong each other) has never bothered me - indeed, I've never even considered it something worthy of worry.
Thus, my question is, how does Mission Control do this - navigation of open applications - better than Quickeys? Is it simply and only to avoid the "behind the window clutter"? If so, is the contortion needed to activate Mission Control - removing fingers from keyboard, clicking mouse, navigating mouse to proper desktop, and returning keys to keyboard - worth it? If so, how? There has to be something else to this Mission Control that I am just missing.
Could one of you enlighten me?
Thanks!

Different people have different ways of working and long ago I discovered the joys of virtual desktops (think mission control). Since System 7 (when the multi-finder stopped being optional) I've been keeping lots of programs open at the same time. The problem with that is the desktop gets very cluttered very fast and getting to the right window of the right program can be challenging. Thankfully between 3rd party tools and Apple's own built in tools we have many ways of dealing with this. Mission Control (virtual desktops) is one of them.
I have assigned related programs to a single desktop. I have the Programming Desktop where the terminal, BBedit, Racket, and Xcode tools live. I have the Writing Desktop where Pages, Word, and InDesign live. And so on. This cuts down on the clutter of my display since only a couple programs appear on a single virtual desktop. Where Mission Control itself comes into play is when I need to get a resource from one Desktop to another. Say I'm writing an email and need to refer back to a document in Word. I might open the document in Word (which would move me into the Writing Desktop) then I'd shift to Mission Control and drag that Word document's window into my Internet Desktop so it would temporarily reside along with Mail so I could look at both the Word document and my email.
It isn't the only way to work but I've found it very convenient and indispensible on my notebook. On my work desktop where I have two displays my workflow is a little different since I have lots of REAL window space.

How do I add multiple photos to mission control for my desktop?

How do I add multiple photos to my desktop thru mission control. I have a 5 year old 23" iMac.

Of course you can add multiple photos from then Mail app but you can select multiple photos at once in the Photos app

MISSION CONTROL, LAUNCHPAD, and FULL SCREEN APPS (one month later)

I'm pretty good embracing a new thing when it comes along. I downloaded LION the day it come out, which was over a month ago at this point. On that day, I immediately found MISSION CONTROL and LAUNCHPAD both uninituitve and pointless. Unhandy iCandy. And of FULL SCREEN APPS? Not necessary on an iMac anyway.
So I quickly sought out quick solutions to 'fix' these new features. Launchpad and full screen apps have the advantage that they can be simply ignored. This is a good thing. Mission Control, on the other hand, got in the way of a beloved feature for me: what was once SPACES and EXPOSE. That is, I couldn't simply ignore MC because I still needed the previous helpful features in Snow Leopard.
My solution was kind of surprising and eye-opening. It's complicated to explain but I thought I'd share. This conclusion is likely best suited for someone not using a small screened Mac. It turns out that most users (with big enough screens) don't really need Mission Control, Launchpad, Spaces, or Full Screen apps.
At all.
Let's go through that conclusion, one by one:
FULL SCREEN APPS
If you have a relatively big screen (20 iMac for instance), why do you need Safari full screen? Unless you intend to sit across the room from the computer, no reason. And there's lots of bright empty space when you do this. Do you need the Mail app full screen? If you need reading glasses, maybe, but otherwise, nope. I find it's easier just to stretch out an app pretty big and leave it at that.
Full screen apps DO offer a nice feature which is making your desktop, menubar, and dock go BYE BYE. I can see where sometimes this is a useful feature, but typically -- NOPE. Typically I want access to my dock (to switch between open apps without the added step of cancelling full screen first), and typically I want access to my menubar so that I can glance up and see what time it is or find an app menu quickly.
The only feature I find worthy of praise with full screen apps is that they hide the clutter on your desktop. But there's an app in the Mac App Store which makes your desktop icons vanish with the touch of a button (CAMOUFLAGE). I mean, what's the point of a wallpaper if you bury it with desktop clutter or eliminate it with full screen apps? If it's a busy and distracting wallpaper, umm... you picked bad wallpaper.
LAUNCH PAD
LAUNCH PAD offers an iOS experience inside OS X. At first I thought it was completely silly. After a month now, I kinda get why it's there. Kinda.
You see, before LP, to duplicate it's functionality, you'd have to organize folders yourself. Put folders of various apps together. Place them somewhere in the finder heirarchy. Then drag those folders into the part of the dock with the trashcan. Then you could click them open and have access to similarly themed folders of apps. The problem here, of course, is that unless you're a power user, you'll never do this.
So Apple thought, AH-HA, we'll just drag into OS X a paradigm that users already get from iOS. Clumping apps together any way you like them. The misfire, if you ask me, is not allowing users to drag the new iOS folders straight into the dock when finished. That is to say: copies of said organized folders. It's as if Apple's software people have complete contempt for the dock -- and are desperate to have users abandon it.
My problem is that I like having folders in my dock of stuff I need. It just works, as Steve says. Going to the same EXACT place every time I need anything is more intuitive and graceful than ADDING an app called Launchpad that launches you into a different finder altogether. Makes zero sense and THIS is why I say, like FULL SCREEN APPS, LP can basically be abandoned.
By the way: need proof that Apple has complete contempt for the Dock?
MISSION CONTROL/SPACES
A month has passed since MC was introduced and SPACES was eliminated. I dare anyone to tell me why either is needed at all. Before you get iMiffed, humor me for a moment and hear me out.
The notion of SPACES was that it's a neat way to keep like minded open apps together. I totally bought into this, back in the day. So much so that I was iMiffed when it was gone in Lion. But let's look at this closer.
The REASON why we needed SPACES was that we could have WAY too many windows open at once on a Mac. Right? A big mess of windows covering each other up. Suppose you're surfing in Safari but need iTunes? But iTunes is hidden. So what did you do? You went to Spaces as step one, moused over to your iTunes space as move two, and then clicked it as move three. Seems like a great solution until the day you discover that you could simply click on iTunes in the dock as move one and arrive at iTunes. As one step. Period. Really simple, right?
Why have Spaces and apps dance around when you can just click the app you want and be done with it? That's the critical observation to make in order to follow my entire line of reasoning. Sure, it may look really cool and make Windows machines look like junk, but at the end of the day, why add two steps to something you might do 100 times a day -- switching between apps.
So why OH why did Apple add Spaces? Simple: because too many apps were visible at once in one 'desktop' window. So if you can build many new desktops, there might only be one or two in each. Great solution. Right?
Wrong, as it turns out. Because we still have the two extra steps. It's a weak solution. And it's in complete contempt of the Dock, which as it turns out, offers the strongest solution.
The strong solution would be that only one app is visible in your Mac's window at all times. Say you're in Safari. Despite having 12 other apps open, you only see Safari. Your dock tells you that you have other apps open, but nothing else sits in your window BUT the app you're using. So you want to go to iTunes? So click on it in the dock and Safari vanishes and iTunes emerges by itself. No other windows. What could be simpler? (This app is freeware known as ISOLATOR.)
If you download and try ISOLATOR, you'll say, umm, okay, but wait: sometimes I do want more than one window in view. Okay, fine, turn it off then. From the handy menu bar menu. I find that 98% of the time I need ISOLATOR on. Mileage may vary.
So let's recap. One third party software removes distracting desktop clutter, the other removes distracting app windows. Both can be toggled on and off from the menu bar. One is free, one costs $2. These two solutions remove the only real feature of FULL SCREEN APPS and make SPACES and it's newfangled cousin MISSION CONTROL pointless.
Need that last one explained? Well, what's Mission Control but a variant of spaces? To invoke MC and switch to the needed window are those same two annoying steps Spaces added into the mix. Nothing was fixed. Plus, like spaces, you must invest time and energy organizing such spaces.
Why bother? And so I ask again: can somebody who's read and tried the above carefully explain to me why Mission Control, Launchpad, and Full Screen Apps are really needed at all? (Outside of small screened Macs.) Doesn't the dock and these two sharewares together solve most problems?
Am I missing something?

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

Indesign cs6 menu and tool bar disappear between windows using mission control in mountain lion

heres 2 screen grabs before and after. while navigating between 'spaces' using mission control in mountain lion. issue - the menu and tools bars disappear - not all of them just parts of them. to get back i hit 'tab' button twice which hides and shows tools. very annoying - does anyone know of a fix or is this another bug which i have to live with. im using a macpro june 2012/running 10.8.4 and 2 screens - left for artboard - right for all tool windows.

thanks steve - yes that works as does using the tab key - all well....until i move to another 'space' and then come back again.
for example: my setup is like this - no2 space has indesign project. no3 space has photoshop. so im working on a page within indesign and i need to edit an image- i double click the pic and it opens in photoshop on the other 'space' save the file and go back to indesign to update pic and find menu/tools all over the place - so hit tab twice back to normal - until i 'move' out of that space into another - photoshop/ mail/ whatever - as i toggle between spaces the indesign menu will always be 'corrupt' for a better word. hope that makes sense.

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I can't drag selected items in to mission control using the 3 finger swipe in 10.7.2

After upgrading to 10.7.2 I cannot drag items from the finder to mission control anymore. I used to select the items I wanted, click to drag and then swipe three fingers to show Mission Control and then drop the items in to the selected app/folder.
Now I can't. And it's irritating.

Made the same post. No one responded, it seems that there are not many users interested in this change for the worse. I'm braking my fingers here trying to move files from mail to desktop... Lousy move Apple, but considering the fact that people are not making a fuss about it it could be that there's something wrong with us .

Mission Control Lion 10.7.3 assigning apps to desktops

How do I get an app to stick in a desktop.
I have the mission control desktop and then desktops 1 through 7.
I have them all opening up various applicaitons, but even though I move the app to the desktop I want, and I shut down with the app open in that desktop, on restart it opens up in the wrong desktop...always the same one, but always the wrong one.
iTunes - I put it in Desktop 7, its there when I shut down. It always opens up in Desktop 1. I don't have trouble with calendar, mail, addressbook.
Also, sometimes 'finder' folders that I have left open in a specific window when I shut down do not open up on restart. They do sometimes, but most of the time not.
Thanks!

If you are running the program ctrl+click on its dock's icon.
Choose Options -> This Desktop
If you also want to always keep in sequence all spaces, in System Preferences uncheck

Trying to stay organised with Mission Control Grrrrrrr.....

I currently have Safari open in full screen mode and 8 windows = 8 spaces.
I have Preview in full screen mode and 3 docs = 3 spaces
I have iTunes, iPhoto, Reeder and iCal in full screen mode = 4 spaces
i have Finder on one desktop and Path Finder on another = 2 spaces
Therefore I have 17 spaces for 7 apps in total and its a complete mess
I want all windows for a specific app to be in the SAME destop space (you know, like Spaces in 10.6). I like to flick through all my open web pages using the old command ~ but it doesn't work.
Spend so much time going to mission control and hunting for the page or doc I want. This is ridiculus. I consider myself a power user and this is wasting so much time.
It's not that I'm resistant to change but it seems that Mission control is poorly thought out and implemented.
Am I doing something drastically wrong or is this what we're stuck with?

I like Snow better as well and YOUD of THUNK it that they could have given you the option to KEEP the other or not, why is it not a preference you can remove or add and let the user able to switch the settings on or off. They look similar and each has a unique gift, but I still choose Snow's... and MissionCritical would probably be better for me if Swipe actually worked... NOPE SWIPE does not work like a lot of other nifty stuff on my laptop.
I love when I need the full screen to use it, and perhaps if I had 4G instead of 2G it would be better to transition in and out but wait a second I'm sounding like a WINDOWS user --- is APPLE secretly planting ideas in our minds, or do they have the impression that there are so many new windows users the transition backwards won't hurt so BAD... SORRY I miss the day when a MAC just worked and a MAC you could PUSH and PUSH and PUSH and LOAD IT TO THE GILLLS and she'd still deliver that 25# baby. That's right, I'd have 4 browsers open with 20-50 tabs each and sometimes 70-100 tabs in one, usually always had 2-3 browsers with 40-100 open tabs and in and out of excel and word and pages, preview always open it seemed, mail open and closed many times with an occasional iMovie and a quicktime player open, yeah sure it bogged once and ahwile and it had a spinning wheel sometimes but I could see why --- Not with LION - Sorry - No Excuse.

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