Mission control shows no documents just icons

I'm finding Lion unstable. Safari can beachball at the drop of a hat. It did it three times trying to get to this support.
Mission Control today is

... Mission control today is only showing icons- not documents.

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  • Mission control.. there are 4 icon for game welder  how do i get rid of them, mission control.. there are 4 icon for game welder  how do i get rid of them

    when I go to mission control    above are some blank icon  when you click on them   I get a blank screen     then I have to reboot to get out of that screen
    not sure how they got there,  but would like to delete them.   has anyone ran into this ?

    Erase the internal drive and install a fresh OS.
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  • Why is Mission control showing me icons instead of smaller representations of active apps?

    Why is Mission Control looking like this? If I put away Mission Control and reopen it things change a little, the tiny white window in the middle dissapears. I've updated, restarted etc etc.. Any ideas?

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
    I have never seen this before. which MBP are you on???
    This could be an issue with a widget in you dashboard or a plugin in safari. 
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3251015?start=0&tstart=0
    this link (the poor chum no one replied to him) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3251015?start=0&tstart=0 would suggest a safari plugin you may have on. turn off all your extensions in safari>preferences>extensions for a second and restart or just close safari and reopen (restart if this doesn't do anything)
    here's a wild idea, and not sure if it'll do anything, have you tried to relaunch finder? hold option and then right click the finder icon and hit relaunch.
    have you tried reseting safari?
    either way send this to apple.
    You may have to reinstall lion.

  • Mission Control - assign a document to a desktop?

    I'm enjoying mission control and using it more and more.  I have stumbled across a feature that I can't tell if it is real or a bug.  I understand the process of assigning an application to a specific desktop or all.  However, I seem to have adhered a pages document to a desktop, while keeping other pages documents available in all desktops.
    Situation - document1.pages is available exclusively in Desktop 1.  Documents 2.pages, 3.pages and 4.pages are available in all desktops.  So if I go to desktop 1 I see document1, 2, 3, 4.  If I go to desktop 2 I only see documents 2, 3 and 4.  Is this a glitch?  If not, how did I do it?  I work on multiple tasks throughout the day and would love to group documents and files into a single desktop and not have it based on the app.  IE I'd like to have files 1.numbers and 1.pages in Desktop 1 and files 2.numbers & 2.pages in Desktop 2.  This way I can focus on the task that the documents are associated with, not the app.
    Let me know if this needs clarification.
    Thanks in advance!
    Dylan

    This only seems to be a temporary state. If you quit the app you're back to square one - it will not relaunch in the same desktop so you have to go to mission control and reorganise again. In spaces on 10.6 one could assign apps to a certain space and they'd stay there.
    It's the same with full screen apps. By default full screen apps get their own desktop but if you are in Safari (full screen) and open a new window it goes to a new desktop. This is extremly annoying.
    Used to using command ~ to cycle through open app windows but this doesn't work when they're on separate desktops.

  • How can app show up in all mission control windows

    Is there a way  to have apps show up on all mission control windows and not just the window it was launched in?   And how do  you assign a window to a specific screen?

    Right click the icon in the the dock, in the menu that pops up go to options and you can assign windows to all spaces or just the current one.

  • Customize mission control to show only windows from current desktop Space

    Finder in Mission Control is a mess, a mega super huge mess, when you are a multitask user, and have 2, 3... differents desktops doing different task, usually there are at least one common app, Finder, with multiple windows (thanx God, thanx! for bring Finder tabs in Mavericks, You rocks...), and when you brow just "app windows" Mission control shows you the hundred and so windows you has been opened arround all the desktops!!!
    SO, whats the point here??? why in **** anyone would to want all the Finder windows opened in the "photography deticated desktop" messed with the windows at the "videogames desktop" and the "receipts/budget" desktop?
    please, anyone, tell me that I'm a complete fool and this can be easly fixed with a few clics...

    You can open Mission Control, which will show your main space at first, and 4-finger swipe right (on Macbook Pro, I don't know the keys without a trackpad) to switch to the next. You will only see the active windows in the other space then.

  • 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.

  • Creative Cloud has Hijacked Mission Control.

    I'm running OSX 10.9.4 and have the latest Adobe Creative Cloud software installed. I recently noticed that Mission Control shows no open applications in the desktops displayed there. The current desktop (the largest one shown) says Creative Cloud on it. It's as though Creative Cloud has hijacked Mission Control. Perhaps a preference file has become corrupted. I removed "com.apple.spaces" to no effect.
    Any ideas?

    Unfortunately, it doesn't. The Creative Cloud label does disappear from the larger desktop in Mission Control. After posting this problem, I installed the 10.9.4 Combo updater but that didn't help.

  • Mission Control not loading

    Since upgrading to Yosemite, I can't load mission control:
    - The fingers up move on the track pad doesn't do anything.
    - The hot corners do not work.
    - When I select an app in the dock, it doesn't go to the right space anymore.
    - I can't add / remove spaces, the icons for it do not appear.
    When I try to load mission control nothing happens, it quits instantly: no error, no console output, etc.
    I have attached a trace of the app, in case it can help find what is wrong: http://pastebin.com/0FRFf3Q8
    I have no idea where to look!

    Can anyone run a trace of "Mission Control" for me? I want to see what it does as mine is not working at all.
    The steps are as follow:
    1) kill mission control so it's not running
    sudo killall "Mission Control"
    2) open a shell and type:
    sudo dtruss -afs -n "Mission Control" > ~/Desktop/trussoutput.txt
    3) load mission control
    by clicking on the icon..
    The output of the shell will go to a file called 'trussoutput.txt' on your desktop; if you could send me that file, or put the contents on pastebin.com, it would help be greatly in trying to figure out what is happening. Mine seems to be stopping abruptly after loading the GSS library...
    thanks!

  • Mission Control Only Showing App Icons, NOT Windows

    I just purchased a new MacBook Pro Retina and am noticing a bug with Mission Control.  When I go to Mission Control to see all of the different windows I have open, it's showing just the app icons, NOT the actual app windows.  This occurs sporadically; sometimes it works properly, and sometimes it doesn't.  I actually realzied the same issue on my MacBook Pro (2009) after upgrading to Mountain Lion a few weeks ago, therefore it seems to be an OS issue and not a HW issue. 
    Here is a screen shot of what I see when Mission Control is not working properly:
    Instead of those icons, it should be showing the actually windows within those apps that I have open. 
    Any ideas?

    I have this problem too and would love a solution...when it happens to me it only seems to be on one of my spaces, if I use gestures to get to another space Mission Control" works fine on a different space, but if I go back to the original space it stops working..I have found a fix, which is just move the active window slightly, yep, that actually works, and then Mission Control starts working again...it's weird...would still love to know what causes it, even though the fix is an easy one...
    Just on the safari comments above, I have noticed this happens when one of the tab has "reader" activated...turning of 'reader' seems to fix the issue with safari...

  • My mission control isn't mission controlling.  It was showing all apps open, but now it just shows the dashboard and not all the open programs.  Is there something I can do so it shows all the open programs again?

    All of a sudden my mission control stopped showing all of the open applications.  is there a button i hit by mistake?  It only shows dashboard and the home screen.

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  • Apps not showing up in Mission Control

    that is, when I launch such apps as ones of iWork and iLife suites simultaneously. Some  of them are launching very sluggishly (as I posted this in other thread, though related to a different issue), with considerable delay or quitting, I noticed that though an active app indicator shows up, I don't see its main window etc. More recently I noticed that when iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band are launched simultaneously (with iWork apps), then Mission control displays just iPhoto and iMovie.
    I repaired all possible permissions, corrected bad font, reset SMS and PRAM. True, I have 45 GB of free disk space, 4GB of RAM. Maybe it's not enough of memory? But Activity Monitor never showed lack of it. What would you suggest?

    Try a restart.
    Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
    Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
    Isolating an issue by using another user account
    Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account.  Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear and again when you log in. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don’t do them all at once.
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  • IMac does not show open windows in Mission Control

    Ever since I installed Mountain Lion on my 2008 iMac 24", I've had a problem in Mission Control where the Desktop that the OS boots into will not show a preview of any windows open in that desktop. I have a new 2012 MacBook Air that does not have this problem. I thought the 10.8.1 update might fix it but no luck. Originally, I upgraded from Snow Leopard but eventually did a clean install and manually restored documents so that all the preferences/system files would be fresh, but still no luck.
    A screenshot of what I mean is attached. I have FF open in desktop 1, but it does not show at the top, whereas all other desktops show window previews.
    Has anyone else had this problem and have you managed to fix it?

    I dont use the Trackpad, just a mouse. Moments after I typed it, the answer was suggested already:
    CTRL+Mission Control button does exactly what I want.
    Is it possible to reconfigure this shortcut to the Snow Leopard way? (Pushing and holding the mouse button on an app in the dock for the same results)
    Thanks,

  • When I hit mission control can I have the document names put under each document?

    This is what my mission control currently looks like
    I want to have the names of the each peice of work. Because it would just make it a bit clearer to work out what I have got open.

    Go to System Preferences > Mission Control and turn on Group windows by application. Also, if you have a trackpad, you can make a gesture to show the application windows and the most recent used documents. To do it, open System Preferences > More Gestures and look Exposé; then, take the cursor to the program you want to check the files and make the gesture

  • IMovie shows up in Mission Control, but doesn't open when clicked.

    Can't open iMovie. iMovie shows up in Mission Control, but doesn't open when clicked. It just disappears up in the top left corner of the screen. The controls on the top of the screen (like; iMovie, File, Edit, View, Text, Share, etc) are al there, and they seem to work, but the window just won't show up.
    It happened after installing Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro.
    Any ideas?

    Disable screen saver. Restart.

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