Snow leopard specific keyboard language confusion

Hello. I use 10.6.3 with international english as system language. My keyboard has a german layout, and is set so in System Preferences / Language & Text / Input Sources. In System Preferences / Keyboard / Keyboard Shortcuts / Application Shortcuts / All Applications, the Cycle Through Windows command is cmd< (handy on a german keyboard). However, in fact the working shortcut is cmd-shift-´ (accent égu), or cmd-` (accent grave, obtained by shift-´), which is the shortcut named in <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343.
While 10.5 could handle the cohabitation of german keyboard/keyboard layout with an english system (the described problem being absent there), 10.6 apparently can't. Is there a workaround or a solution to this? Or is this a coding error that belongs in the feedback section?
Thanks a lot.

I just want to add my problem to the OP, since I think they are related.
I use English and Greek in my active keyboard input methods. Up until Leopard (10.5) it didn't matter what method was selected in the menulet on the top of the screen. All keyboard shortcuts, system or application, worked regardless.
Enter Snow Leopard. Now, some shortcuts work, but most require any input method except for English.
It's not killing me, but it's a big nuisance. I have to keep switching between input methods just to issue a command. Sometimes it's easier to just use the mouse, but then it's like not having the (supposedly faster route of) keyboard.
Have I ignored some big change in SL? Or should I be entering some feedback, like the OP is suggesting? Many thanks.

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Firstly, directly below the field where the search term is to be typed, is the word "Search:" with a row of only 2 buttons to the right. The first is labelled "This Mac" and the second is labelled with the name of the folder that I have set the "New Finder windows open:" preference to in Finder Preferences.
I can't find any way of adding any further locations to this row of only 2 buttons. For example, "Macintosh HD" is in my sidebar, but I can't drag it to the row of buttons to create a new "Macintosh HD" button, nor can I find any other way to make the search only look in specific places (such as only on the "Macintosh HD" disk). I'm stuck with either "This Mac" or with the folder that I've set the "New Finder windows open:" preference to.
How can I select where I want a search to take place? I could do this in Tiger with a couple of mouse clicks.
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Many thanks in advance for any input anyone has.

Diamond Dave wrote:
1. In the Finder, clicking Go -> Recent Folders gives the 10 most recently opened folders. Is there a way to change this number?
AFAIK, there's no default setting to change that. Take a look at defaults for Finder.
2. In the Finder, folders on the desktop often don't deselect the way they always did in Tiger. For example, if I double click a folder to open it, the folder's icon highlights. The folder often doesn't deselect / unhighlight though when I then click on the desktop or elsewhere. It often takes 2 or 3 additional clicks for the icon to deselect. Is this a known bug, and can it be fixed?
AFAIK, that's normal behavior. The folder opens and gets focus. To return to the Desktop requires a click to gain focus and the click the Desktop to deselect anything previously selected.
3. In the Finder, under Preferences, I have "Always open folders in a new window" checked, as I prefer. Often though, I like to hold down the "alt" key when double clicking on a folder to open it, so that the enclosing folder closes at the same time as the folder I'm double clicking on opens, thereby overriding the preference I've set.
Still works that way here in SL.
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Worse, the folder then seems to "remember" this incorrect size & position which it takes from its enclosing folder, wiping out its previous (correct) size & position. Is there any way to make things behave like they did in Tiger?
Nope. You're in the minority, so Apple changed it, since more wanted it that way than the old Tiger way.
4. In Safari (version 4.1.3) under Tiger, the "Command-`" keyboard shortcut (that's Command and the key to the left of the "z" key) cycles through each open Safari window in turn, before returning to the original window.
Can't help, since I normally only use one window and many tabs. Also, I don't see that shortcut. Enable the Debug menu option and peruse Debug->Keyboard & Mouse Shortcuts.
5. When I press "Command-f" in the Finder, a search window opens. I'm having 2 problems with the search window.
Firstly, directly below the field where the search term is to be typed, is the word "Search:" with a row of only 2 buttons to the right. The first is labelled "This Mac" and the second is labelled with the name of the folder that I have set the "New Finder windows open:" preference to in Finder Preferences.
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My macbook was purchased in Canada, meaning running English version of Snow Leopard.
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Greetings:
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Now everything except movie files (.mkv, .avi etc) can be moved from the apple computers to the PNY - but not what I need - the movies! I need the content on the PNY because this is what I stick in to my Toshiba to view content on my commute.
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(c) has this been addressed by Lion - have any Lion users had this issue too?
Apple support says that it's 10.6.8 update fixed error code -36 - but it surely didn't on mine!
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Emzelld wrote:
the dreaded error code -36 arrived
Error -36 is not a specific error or bug. It simply means input/output error, and nothing more. If it occurs when copying a file, it doesn't even tell you whether the issue is with the source or the target. It can be caused by any number of problems.
Apple support says that it's 10.6.8 update fixed error code -36
Where exactly does it say that? I can't find anything about an "error code -36" in the "about" doc
<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4561>
Until last night, I could happily transfer movies at whim
In that case, it's not likely you're dealing with a bug in the OS.
from either my iMac or my Macbook Air […] PC which works, but has a write-protection error message preventing me. […]
So, let me get this straight.
You get an I/O error when you try to copy from one Mac.
You get an I/O error when you try to copy from another Mac.
And you get some kind of error or unexpected issue when trying to copy from the PC.
What exactly do all these three have in common?
First, that there's an error; second, that it occurs with the same "PNY City USB Flash Drive".
So what's your conclusion? That you've encountered some bug in Mac OS X? Or that there's some problem with the drive?

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