Space.bar.problems!
my.spacebar.just.stopped.working.for.no.apparent.reason.today.I.opened.up.my.lap top.and.found.I.could.no.longer.put.in.any.spaces.
the.illumination.of.the.keyboard.in.the.top.row.also.is.not.working.Although.it. comes.up.on.the.screen.when.I.press.it.There.is.a.circle.with.a.line.through.it. at.
the.bottom.of.the.little.box.
PLEASE.HELP.
I know this is an old question, but it seems like there are still a million threads on here asking the same question and most people still haven't found a good solution.
I have been having this happen to me off and on for the past few months and after scouring this website I have found two helpful tips:
-It seems to be related to battery life. It usually happens to me when I have less than 45 minutes left on my battery. When I plug it in, it sometimes takes care of the problem.
-When that doesn't work, I can usually get it working by toggling Num Lock (fn + F6), which usually takes care of the situation!
Good luck!
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Hi, Ive just bought the C-3 ,So far I'm happy with it. My only problem with it is the Space Bar,Its very hard to press,Does anyone else have this problem?
Hi, the spacebar shoudn't be "very hard to press" as you've explained. You should get the similar feel of the other standard keys when pressing the spacebar - I mean the amount of pressure you need to input.
In comparison to other keys there should not be any significant difference felt.
You may take it to the nearest Nokia centre to get it rechecked.
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Is this a common problem of some Power/MacBooks? I have the first revision of MacBook Pros.
Kinda disappointed - had it repaired twice for heat, whining issues, motherboard problems and now it has this space bar problem and also a really loud optical drive (it clicks a lot when it loads) that they put in when my old one couldn't burn DVD+Rs.
Any similar experiences? This is starting to get on my nerves as I need my laptop frequently for school and I need to code! (Computer Engineer here).
I really should have gotten a regular old notebook - I bought a MBP for OS X but now I guess I could have put up with XP (I have a Windows desktop, advid gamer).I also have a first generation MBP which I now use as a hot plate. It gets so insanely hot my wife burnt her fingertip on the strip just above the function keys.
Apple replaced the logic board but it still gets hot - Apple states its well within specifications. Huge loads of polka-dotted poppy-**** there.
Apple won't do a thing, although one of the "product specialists" told me to sell the MBP on eBay then buy another laptop. Moron.
Now the MBP is too hot so it doesn't work all the time. I can no longer take it anywhere, because it gets to hot. I can't keep any data on it. The optical drive no longer works, the airport is spotty at best.
Apple still won't do a thing. Unless, of course, I buy another laptop. At $2500 USD ... they should hope I don't speak badly about them.
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How to fix problem of bypassing the submit button validation by pressing the space bar in the required fields. This occurs in the internet explorer and chrome browse but not in foxfire
How to fix problem of bypassing the submit button validation by pressing the space bar in the required fields. This occurs in the internet explorer and chrome browse but not in foxfire
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Mail 2.0 Problems Reply doesn't work, hitting space bar takes cursor away,
Just upgraded to Tiger today, boy I wished I hadn't! Major mail problems. The 'Reply' only works when it feels like.
Also, I am not able to type in the main body of the message. Typing is intermittent - it allows me to type a few characters, but as soon as you hit the space bar, the cursor disappears. You then have to click back in the main body of the message to make the cursor reappear again.
I've tried removing the plist and Mail folder but doesn't help. Any suggestions?
This has been brought up in this topic, though with no answer posted:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1202184
Thanks,This particular problem in Mail is usually caused by some LaunchServices cache corruption. The following article describes how to manually reset LaunchServices. The notes at the bottom of the article also provide information about the side effects of deleting each of the files involved.
Resetting Launch Services
The following article also describes the side effects of cache cleaning:
Side effects of System cache cleaning
The following article provides links to some utilities that can be used for troubleshooting and cache cleaning:
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption
It seems that the most appropriate utility for solving this particular problem is Tiger Cache Cleaner.
In addition to the utilities mentioned above, you may also consider OnyX, if for no other reason, because it's free. If you want to try OnyX, after installing it, do this (be sure to read the articles about the side effects of cache cleaning first):
1. Quit all applications.
2. Launch OnyX and enter your administrator password.
3. Click Maintenance. In the Reset section, check LaunchServices database.
4. You may uncheck any other pre-checked options if you've already done them using other utilities.
5. Click the Execute button.
If that doesn't solve the problem, you may try again checking the Links between documents and applications option in step 3 instead.
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When typing, if I hit the space bar, it sometimes moves the cursor back a space - seems to mainly happen with "e" so for example, I type "I've" and hit space bar, & I end up with the cursor between the "I'v" and the "e".
Any suggestions?
ThanksHmmm…have you tried using Disk Utility to Repair Permissions, then testing Safari for that issue?
Were you aware that you can change the default search engine in Inquisitor to the German version of Google? Also, I don't understand how you could have installed Safari from the Apple download, since it won't work, no matter what you do. The installer will refuse to install it, per Apple's intent.
Try my suggestion, then put those Input Managers back and test Safari. If that doesn't resolve the issue, then quit Safari, and try deleting the Cache from Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari, then restart Safari again to see if the problem still persists.
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Both my boss and I have the iPhone 5C for Verizon. When I text, I have the little microphone next to the space bar, allowing me to use the speech to text function. He does not. How do you turn this on or remedy this problem?
Does your boss have Siri turned ON? See Settings > General > Siri.
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Space bar vs scrubbing problem
not sure what the problem is. imported an after effects file directly into premiere CS4 pro. but the comp on the timeline. when i hit the space bar to play, it plays, though stuttering quite a bit. when i hit space bar again to stop or try to scrub timeline with mouse, you cannot see anything in monitor - it's like the comp disappears. then i stop doing this, hit space bar to play again, and you can see the comp playing in monitor again.
please advise.How about some details?
Your computer hardware... the file/codec you are using... your project settings... is there a red line above the timeline... all those things that are needed for someone to do something other than make a guess
More information needed for someone to help http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416679
Some specific information that is needed...
Brand/Model Computer (or Brand/Model Motherboard if self-built)
How much system memory you have installed, such as 2Gig or ???
Operating System version, such as Win7 64bit Pro... or whatevevr
-including your security settings, such as are YOU the Administrator
-and have you tried to RIGHT click the program Icon and then select
-the Run as Administrator option (for Windows, not sure about Mac)
Your Firewall settings and brand of anti-virus are you running
Brand/Model graphics card, sush as ATI "xxxx" or nVidia "xxxx"
-or the brand/model graphics chip if on the motherboard
-and the exact driver version for the above graphics card/chip
-and how much video memory you have on your graphics card
Brand/Model sound card, or sound "chip" name on Motherboard
-and the exact driver version for the above sound card/chip
Size(s) and configuration of your hard drive(s)... example below
-and how much FREE space is available on each drive (in Windows
-you RIGHT click the drive letter while using Windows Explorer
-and then select the Properties option to see used/free space)
Windows Indexing is BAD http://forums.adobe.com/thread/676303
While in Properties, be sure you have drive indexing set OFF
-for the drive, and for all directories, to improve performance
Some/Much of the above are available by going to the Windows
Control Panel and then the Hardware option (Win7 option name)
OR Control Panel--System--Hardware Tab--Device Manager for WinXP
And the EXACT type and size of file that is causing you problems
-for pictures, that includes the camera used and the pixel dimensions
Plus Video-Specific Information http://forums.adobe.com/thread/459220?tstart=0
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811?tstart=0
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below
For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
For Mac http://mediainfo.massanti.com/
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The word just doesn't show up unless I press space bar or enter. This just happens on script window in final draft 9 and title window in Premiere Pro.
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, PCIe, 512 MB
That card is under-powered for the hardware-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine. If you've tried to get it working with hardware MPE, then that's a likely cause of the crashing. Pr needs at least 1 GB of VRAM for hardware MPE. Stick to software MPE and things may improve.
Jeff
PS - thanks for self-editing the crash log. Too many times users will post the entire log, which makes the discusssion unreadable for anyone but a software engineer. -
I just upgraded to the new snow leopard, now my Safari is acting loopy. At times, the page will scroll down when I hit the space bar. As I type this discussion the screen isn't paging down, but if I go to the tab where I have facebook loaded and hit the space bar, it acts as a page down key. I've had safari crash about 5 times tonight for no apparent reason. The delete key sometimes will act as a page back key. I really have no idea whats going on.
I've had keyboards go wacko on me before due to something being spilled on them or a wireless problem, but this keyboard is a wired keyboard and nothing was spilled on it. It's rather new and I'm quite certain it's not a keyboard issue.
No settings have been changed on the computer. The only thing different today from yesterday, is the fact that I upgraded to snow leopard.
Help would be pretty sweet.
Thanks,
JasonI just upgraded to the new snow leopard, now my Safari is acting loopy. At times, the page will scroll down when I hit the space bar. As I type this discussion the screen isn't paging down, but if I go to the tab where I have facebook loaded and hit the space bar, it acts as a page down key. I've had safari crash about 5 times tonight for no apparent reason. The delete key sometimes will act as a page back key. I really have no idea whats going on.
I've had keyboards go wacko on me before due to something being spilled on them or a wireless problem, but this keyboard is a wired keyboard and nothing was spilled on it. It's rather new and I'm quite certain it's not a keyboard issue.
No settings have been changed on the computer. The only thing different today from yesterday, is the fact that I upgraded to snow leopard.
Help would be pretty sweet.
Thanks,
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Previously, when I typed my email address in an outgoing email or cut and pasted a link from my browser bar the link would become 'live' when I hit the space bar or 'enter' key. The link would turn blue and underline itself and the person receiving the email could just click on that live link and be taken to the site. Now the link does not turn blue or underline itself and the receiver must cut and paste the link into their browser bar to use it.
Why? I did not change anything in Yahoo or Mozilla.
I have deleted and reinstalled Java to no effect. I am using html in Yahoo.As it turns out, many others have been having similar issues on other browsers. It seems that maybe Yahoo! is taking a much longer time to load or something like that. Either way, its been working on and off all week, and the same issue even showed up yesterday with IE 8 instead of FF. It still loads faster than IE 8, but again is spotty. Some people think the issue may be with mail.yimg.com or s.yimg.com, which I could see was the loading url in the left corner whenever Yahoo! Mail was refusing to work. A couple of people said blocking it caused the issue. Alternatively, some people suggested blocking it to solve the problem. Does anyone have any information on that? Again, I have no add-ons that would be blocking any urls, and my firewall hasn't any records of it. I really don't want to do anything to mess up my browsers more than they may have already been. Thanks for all of your help so far!
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I want to always be able to page down using space bar, but some web pages seem to disable this.
I often use the space bar to page down in web pages rather than scrolling with the mouse or arrow keys, but in the last few months I've encountered a number of pages that don't seem to allow this browser feature to work. For instance, space bar doesn't page down on https://medium.com/about-work/65d4740f7a2f, although it works fine on mozilla.org and nearly all other sites. The problem is specific to particular pages, so I think it's unlikely to be an add-on problem, and it's certainly not that I've turned on caret browsing. As far as I've tested, the arrow keys still work to scroll such pages, and the mouse always works, so it seems as if space bar has been specifically disabled. (Generally the pages on which space doesn't work seem to be specialized for phones, judging by layout and font size.) Is it possible to reject whatever code is disabling my browser so that my space bar always works?
Another possibility would be a userscript. A userscript is generally written to work on a particular site, although it also can be made to work globally on all pages.
To run a userscript, you require either the Greasemonkey extension or the Scriptish extension.
And somebody to write the script! You can propose a new userscript to the community and see whether anyone is willing to create it for you.
Ideas and Script Requests forum: http://userscripts.org/forums/2
(I searched briefly on userscripts.org but didn't see a script for this purpose posted there. Please be careful in testing scripts from the site as many recently posted scripts mess with your Facebook account when you visit FB.) -
I can edit on Premiere Pro 6 files, but after a dozen keystrokes, the space bar and cursor keys stop working while the save function, render workspace function, export file are still operational. How can I fix it so I may complete my assignment?
Besides DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Creative Suite 6 is the only software on the machine. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Operating System on AMD FX 6100 six-Core Processor at 3.31gHz and 32 GB RAM memory. There are two SLI-bridged GTX680 NVidia cards.
The software was very stable for the last six months, working with 720P proxy files from 2.5K masters (Blackmagic Design Camera). I am working on a feature-length project that exceeds 1000 edits. I have broken the file into 2 one hour segments.
I have deactivated the software before reinstalling the entire OS from scratch. PP6 was very stable for 48 hours. Then the freezing space bar returns. After a dozen strokes into the project, same problem. I have made cache files store next to originals, I have deleted preview files if they were corrupted and causing instability. Am I missing something?
I have Microsoft Security Essentials for virus protection. I double checked the memory for damage/defect. Nothing says that the motherboard or other components are damaged.
I am in film competition overseas and need to have deliverables in less than a month's time. I lost the last two weeks troubleshooting and this crisis came at an inopportune moment of the project.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.Still getting software freezes but found a way to mitigate for the mean time.
Upon launching Adobe Premiere Pro, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to launch TaskManager as well.
You will want to highlight Adobe QT32 Server.exe
Right click and select "End Process Tree"
You will get considerable stability in the program, long enough to get timing of cuts done. Be sure to save often.
If the program freezes, do not hit Save. You definitely want to avoid saving the corruption into your TimeLine
CTRL-ALT-DEL to relaunch the TaskManager and highlight Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Right-click to "End Process"
No need to reboot the whole system; just launch Premiere Pro again and continue with the session. Note that your work reverted to Last Save.
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ITunes 10.6.1 space calculation problems?
I recently upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1. and since then I've had a lot of problems. Most of the issues such as missing album artwork and missing playlists I've been able to fix but there's now one of the major problem I don't know how to solve. I synced my iPod the day before the update and everything went just fine like always. Since the update when I try to sync my iPod Touch it says I need an additional 25GB of space for something; I have no idea what. I have not added anything new to my library whatsoever since my last sync. The only difference is the update. While messing around trying to solve the problem on my own I synced my iPod and in the process erased all of my music from it. I really want to have my music back on my iPod but iTunes is still saying I need 25GB of free space.
Hello, Chris.
Thank you for your reply.
It seemed to me that the issue was that iTunes defaulted to the Search field when not minimized, which prevented the Space Bar from being able to automatically function as a means to stop a song from playing. & I understood that as the issue, which seems still to be unresolved.
Note: I do not know if iTunes had/has always defaulted to the Search field, as I never had cause to notice until I began to seek a solution to the problem [ bug ]—subsequent to recent updates—which caused the Space Bar to no longer function as a consistent means to stop playing.
Perhaps, I am still misunderstanding something, but, again, the problem seems to be illogical that a non-minimized window in iTunes should disable the Space Bar from functioning properly as a keyboard shortcut. That is the solution I continue to search for. -
Since purchase of my macmini (2011 model) I have been able to wake it from sleep by hitting the (wired) keyboard space bar.
However, I recently updated the OS to 10.7.4 using the combo (1.4Gb) update, since when I cannot wake the macmini in that way.
Now, after putting the macmini to sleep, pressing the spacebar causes it to shut down.
I then have to switch mains power off and on again at the wall socket, after which the macmini starts up from shutdown condition.
I am by no means an expert, and have not been fiddling with settings, so I am in need of advice on what could need resetting to allow me to return to the previous simple 'wake up' approach!
Thanks.Reset the SMC > Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Unplug the computer's power cord.
3. Wait fifteen seconds.
4. Attach the computer's power cord.
5. Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.
Followed by resetting the PRAM > Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
Then if those do not fix the problem, you may need to reset your Energy Saver and Keyboard Preferences by readjusting them.
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