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

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Well, it all really depends on the custom program and how it was written. Does it have an ActiveX interface? If it does, than that's the easiest way to go. If you put an automation refnum on the fron panel, you can right click and it and choose Select ActiveX Class>Browse. The browser will list all of the ActiveX type libraries that are registered on your system. If you can find one that refers to your custom program, then you should be able to use it's methods and properties to control. If it does not have an ActiveX interface, then things get much more difficult.

How can I get Mission Control to Unstack all of my Applications?

When I have multiple applications open in the same desktop and I swipe 4 up to access my different applications mission control always stacks my applications on top of each other, this occurs usually when i have 3 or different applications open, Is there is setting where i can get it so it used to be like snow leopard and all my applications are seperated and not stacked on top of each other?
here's a pic of what it looks like. Any help will be appreciated

you mean something like this (see below)?
Now you may have to implement code to check if the destination folder exists and to create it, etc. But if you use the Front Panel Control to select the destination folder, it should be okay.
Not the best implementation, mind you but you'll get the idea..
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Mission control problem

I have a Cinema monitor connected to a MacBookPro (early 2011) with Mountain Lion; when I lauch the Mission Control I have this behavior
A "copy" of the background appears covering the other screens icons. Any idea of the problem ?
Thank you,
Paolo

I had this as well. Fixed it by removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist then restarting my computer. Now I have default background images but I can use mission control.

Could you please add to the smaller windows in mission control the icons to the open applications

Please Apple add this feature. I loved spaces and could see in the open windows better to know where I'm going. Just add the icons to the small windows and that should take care of the problem. I'm getting lost because I'm not sure which the application is in what window.

Apple don't read these forums, they're for user-to-user only. You want:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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'?
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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).

Assign a Set Order with Mission Control to Full Screen Apps (On Startup)

Mission Control is great (not as good as Spaces as I enjoyed being able to go down as well as side to side to switch apps).
For me, I like to have all my apps arranged in a particular order so I can know how far I need to go to get back to whatever app I'm looking for. However, when I start up my computer, Mountain Lion seems to arrange it in its own order, the same everyday but not what I had arranged the previous day. I arrange it back to the way I like it, and all is good until I restart when Mountain Lion rearranges it back to this other order.
I turned off the "arrange as I use" feature.
I know you can assign desktops to apps - but it doesn't seem like full screen apps can be assigned an order. Is this just something I gotta deal with? Is there anyway for Mountain Lion to just restart my computer as I had it? Why does it choose their order over mine? What's informing the order?

I have this too and have looked for a fix without any luck. I do have a workaround though.
On the remote machine open System Preferences > Mission Control
Select a hot corner from the list to activate mission control.
When you mouse over that corner on the local machine Mission Control will pop up.
Also the keyboard shortcuts will enable you to enter Mission Control if they are assigned differently on the two machine. For example I have ^↑ (Control Up Arrow) assigned on the remote machine to enable mission control but I use the mousepad on the local machine.
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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.
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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.
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Can't See All Windows in Mission Control

My favorite feature on the mac has always been the ability to see all open windows with a simple click (F3 on my keyboard). I often have multiple word documents and multiple pdf files open, as well as two or three different browser windows, several image files, and who knows what else. It is very common for me to have 10-20 open windows and it was always a huge help to be able to see them all at once, with filenames that would pop up when hovering with the mouse. This feature made it incredibly easy to move from file to file and truly see everything on the desktop at once.
As far as I can tell, this is no longer possible with Lion and Mission Control. Now if I have multiple windows open in a single application and enter Mission Control I see them tiled over one another, without filenames displayed for any. Sure, I can see all the applications I have open, but what good is that if I can't see which files I have? It's making it very difficult to work effectively-- basically I have to minimize each window one by one until I find the one I want.
Am I missing something? Can anyone using Lion tell me how to see a graphic representation of ALL open windows, with filenames? Like I could in the good old days? Or is there something like a "see all open files" ability in Finder?
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I know what you mean - it was nice to see all the windows.
Tell Apple here: Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback
To mitigate this problem there is "App expose" which lets you see all open windows for any given application.
And, in Mission Control you can spread a given application's windows a little further apart or you can preview any given window within Mission Control.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4689
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Mission Control Bug

Hi,
I found a bug on Mission Control.
I think i will explain good.. sorry about my language.
I have two applications:
- Adobe Flash
- Cornerstone
I assign "Desktop 2" to Adobe Flash.
I assign "Desktop 3" to Cornerstone (SVN Client)
When i go to "Desktop 3 - Cornerstone" and inside of the application i double click on *.fla, Lion goes to the Desktop 2 and returns to Desktop 3...
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And Mission Control "Desktop 3" shows the two applications like this:
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I really a bug, or im doing something wrong? thanks i report the bug.. i hope they fix fast
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Hi!
Okay, so this is a little bit strange.
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, if I'm in Mission Control and I want to organize applications to different desktops Mission Control only allows me to do so every second time.
First Time - I drag and drop a random program to a new Desktop ( The plus sign pops up on top of the new Desktop image, and creates a new desktop with the chosen app assigned to it)
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I feel like Mission Control is teasing me. And it is consequently every second time. It never fails, every second time.
I think it is strange...

Thanks!
Guess I just have to look at this bug for a little while longer..

Maintaining Mission Control Configuration

Greetings,
Possibly a simple question, yet I haven't found a solution online so far:
I set up my Mission Control settings with destops containing fullscreen applications. I have five of them. I like these desktops arranged in a particular order. Whenever I reboot the computer the desktops reopen but in a seemingly random order. At least its not the order I left them in.
The other thing is, the last one of these desktops to open is always the "active" desktop and not generally the one I want to use first. I know it's a detail, but is it possible to just set things up so that all desktops open in the order they were left in while leaving THE desktop (original desktop) as the active screen?
Hope that was decipherable. Many thanks for any tips.
GL

Sorry. Forgot to mention I'm using Mountain Lion on an iMac. I had had "automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" checked off in Mission Control Settings but it made no difference to the problem described above.
GL

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Go to Mission Control and click on an open application's dock icon: Lion acts very erratically. It might switch the right app. It might switch to some other app.
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Assigning an application to different sound outputs

Question: Is there a way to assign an application to use a sound output options in the mixer or another Win7 application?
I have installed Win7 RC 32bit. I have headphones and speaker outputs on my system. Both are detected and both can be assigned to a working default sound choice. I am unable to assign an applications sound output to a certain outputs or change them.
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