Spaces behavior in 10.5.3

i noticed that if you click on safari then activate the spaces while safari is opening safari browser will overlap whatever tiles are in spaces. is that normal?

I tested some more, and it seems all apps are affected and it's a repeatable problem.
For example, if I click System Preferences on the Apple menu, then quickly move the mouse to an active screen corner (lower left, in my case) to launch Spaces, the System Preferences window will open over top of the Spaces matrix. The screen looks like the image posted earlier in this thread - there's a application window in the middle and all the shrunken Spaces in the background.
--Joe

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Erase disk space behavior

Hi! I've tried for the first time the "Erase free disk space" feature of Disk Utility.
However, I am puzzled... First it says "Erasing free disk space" and it proceeds. Next, it finishes (the progress bar reaches 100%), and begins again! After a while, it says "Creating sparse disk", and my hard drive goes to zero bytes available!
Is this normal? Or is it a weird behavior due to lack of disk space? I mean, if it copies all my files to a new sparse disk it won't fit, since I have a 120gb disk with only 40gb free.
Hope someone can explain me this!

However, note that you should never erase the free space on the current startup volume. the startup volume is constantly active with things like swap files, and this can cause disk utility to behave oddly. Start the computer up from the installation DVD and run disk utility from there.

Confusing Spaces behavior

Say I have two Safari windows open in different spaces, and I have a different application in front, either on the same space as one Safari window, or in a third space. When I cmd-tab back to Safari, what's the logic behind which Safari window it jumps back to?
Damned if I can figure it out. It's really frustrating.

As the original poster mentioned, moving to a specific space is not always the solution; often you (well, not you, as you stated, but others) want to go directly to an application. Avoiding Command-tab isn't the solution: Apple's fixing it to behave correctly is the solution. Even if you keep all your applications separate (which I can't, there aren't enough spaces for that), there are several that work better when assigned to Every Space, so you have some forced sharing anyway. The Finder, for instance, by default is in every space and Command-Tabbing to that becomes quite an issue in regard to which windows will show up based upon which space you were in when you opened them and which space you're in now - and you don't have the option of other keyboard switching methods when something's in Every Space.
There can be up to 16 Spaces. Are you really running more than 16 applications at one time? If so, run Activity Monitor and see how much CPU you are using in those applications. My guess would be that your computer is running slower than it would if you had fewer applications open at one time
The Finder is not in every Space by default. The Desktop is on every Space by default. You can assign the Finder to be in every Space, but you need to set that up in Spaces. And the Finder is not a regular application so you cannot select it as you normally would with other applications. The Finder.app is in Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices. I like having the Finder in every Space so I can open files from the Finder windows more easily, regardless of which Space I’m in.
Yes, it's sad we have to adapt to the software when it should be the other way around!
We always need to adapt to how applications are made. For example, you may want to have the menus on the side rather than on the top, but you cannot change it easily.
But Apple didn't think it out well enough even for you - have you noticed how, if you switch back to a space with multiple windows open, the one you left on top is not always on top? This drives me crazy in Mail - I'm composing a message, leave to check something in a Word document, say, or a PDF that I'm talking about - and going back to Mail puts the Viewer window on top, and my half-done msg window beneath it. I just used Ctrl-1 to leave this space I'm typing in (for Safari), and Ctrl-2 to come right back - and this message window was obscured by a Finder window - because the Finder lives in Space 2 also, so I wound up in the Finder!
I agree that sometimes when switching Spaces it will lose focus from the window you wanted to another window. This happens to me most often when switching to Safari. But enough people have informed Apple of the problem that it should be fixed in the next version update. It is annoying, but doesn’t drive me crazy. Perhaps because I was already crazy.

Strange / weird SPACES behavior

Guys,
I had something weird occurring (for a limited occurrence time) with spaces: I have 6 spaces activated on my MBP: yesterday, when I scrolled vertically the mouse pointer (bluetooth Magic Mouse) toward the bottom of the screen (hence making the dock automatically appear according to my preferences) spaces automatically activated and caused the passage to the space below the one currently active (i.e. if I was on space 1 it was going to space 4 or if I was on space 2 it went to space 5). I tried to see if something weird was in the space and or exposé preferences (in the general preferences) and I just unticked / ticked the automatic reversion to the space where an application is open, when clicking on this application (I hope to have been clear).
After some play with these preferences, the problem did not reoccur again.
Please:
- have you ever heard about something similar?
- Which .plist might I delete in order to be sure to have killed a latent corrupt configuration (I have already reset finder even after the problem was not reoccurring)
- do you confirm that it is stupid to think about a virus / malware?.... (I have full firewall activated and this happened only after updating via adobe site all the programs of my CS5 production premium programs..).
Thank you for your kind help / feedback
Cheers
Emanuele
P.S.: no application / program was open but finder alone
Message was edited by: califfo1975 (P.S. added)

Indeed I waited a bit before updating because I was scared of drawbacks...Here attached the link to the specific post I launched. thank you for your interest and help.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2577256&tstart=60
Cheers
Emanuele

Curious LAB space behavior

I can import and edit a TIFF file when it is in LAB space. This is Good Thing.
I cannot even view a PSD file when it is in LAB space. This is downright strange. I've reported this as a bug.

It has been reported before.

Odd storage space behavior for flash drive in USB port of E4200

Using Mac OS 10.6.8 on a MacPro 2x2.8 ghz quad core intel xeon with 20GB ram
I have a Linksys E4200 with Linksys Smart WiFi
I have an unknown brand USB Flash drive in the E4200 router. The USB Storage status tab reads I have used 68MB of 1.87GB of storage space. The Mac Finder window reads the drive as having 2.8MB available. I have refreshed, disconnected and reconnected many times.
I tried to copy a 49.5GB TIF file into the drive through the Finder and I get this error:
Then I tried to copy a 2.8MB PDF file and got the same error.
Keep in mind I was just able to copy this over yesterday--and delete it. Now I cannot copy it over. This same incident of the router changing it's mind happened with multiple folders and various files. First it doesn't take it. Then it takes it. Then it doesn't take it.
Here's a weird error I got when trying to copy a game emulator:
When I refresh in Linksys Smart Wifi, I am still told there is plenty of space.
Now I deleted everything in the drive and successfully copied over a bunch of tiny 233KB files. Smart Wifi shows over 1GB of space remaining.
Then I tried to copy a 160MB folder of small data files. Got the same not enough space error. So I tried a 7.5MB file. Same space error.
Does anyone have any clue why this is happening? I tried to searach the forum and did not find anything similar.

If that's the storage device then that's ok. From what you have posted this is just a 2GB usb flash stick. So if you cannot copy more files to it, it could either be the file format you are transferring is not supported or the disc space is not enough. Connect the flash drive directly to your computer and test it that way. If you still cannot copy any files then I suggest that you reformat the usb flash stick.

10.5.3 breaks Spaces

After updating to 10.5.3, Spaces now treats Finder as an application. So if you navigate to a page with no applications running and then back to a page that has applications running, Finder has the focus instead of the frontmost app.
Very annoying!

The new Spaces behavior is very annoying indeed. Spaces is one of the best features in Leopard and I use it _all the time_. However, as I mostly use applications where you input text (Safari, Word, Mail etc.), and are working on several documents in several spaces simultaneously, I need the text cursor to stay in each space where I left it. Now, as soon as you leave a space, and pass an empty space or a space with a finder window, the Finder grabs the focus.
I don't know what benefits Apple thinks the new behavior has, but for me, it makes Spaces useless. As the Finder grabs the focus most of the time when I leave a space, now I have to click with the mouse every time I return to a space to continue writing. I could also use Cmd+Tab, to get the focus of the application I want, but if I wanted to use Cmd+Tab, I wouldn't be using Spaces in the first place!
Apple, please make a checkbox in the Spaces preferences where we can turn this new feature on or off.
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GC suddenly halves size of Old space causing major GC thrashing

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Specifics:
JDK 1.5.05_05, running on 16cpu SunFire V890 with 16GB RAM.
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In short, we have a fixed New space size of 1G, and a roughly 9G Old space.
As you can see, we are not allowing adapative resizing. A "jstat -gccapacity" log shows that the minimum and maximum Old size (OGCMN and OGCMX) are 9G (which is what we expect and have always seen), but the current Old size (OGC) is now down to 4.6G, and is at 99.96% capacity. OGC has been at 9G for years until 11 days ago, when it started to steadily drop.
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It looks to us like the JVM/GC has suddenly decided to start resizing downward our Old space and is ignoring nearly 5GB of available space. We have detailed jstat logs available.

The drop in the old generation size is a combination of a bug
(6524727) and the 5 second pause time goal you used.
That bug talks about the young generation minimum size not being
honored but may also allow the old generation to shrink so that the overall
heap falls below the -Xms minimum.
The GC ergonomics is trying to get to the 5 second goal by
reducing the size of the old generation. I think in this case it
is just not achievable. In the jstat logs I saw full collections taking
in the 10's of seconds. The workaround is to turn off GC
ergonomics with -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy.

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every thing goes fine but suddenly the portal change its template to the default spaces template not my custom template
when i check the spaces configuration i found my custom template as default template
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regards

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It is also known to install a Windows emulator called "wine;" search for that.
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For Safari, on web pages, including this one, the use of ' (apostrophe) causes erratic behavior in text boxes. A contraction such as "I'v |e " has caused the cursor to backspace, displacing the e when the space bar is hit, or causes a juAsk your question.

For Safari, on web pages, the use of ‘ (apostrophe) causes erratic behavior in text boxes. A contraction such as “I’v |e “ has caused the cursor to backspace, displacing the e when the space bar is hit, or causes a jump out of the text box and a return to the top a a page when used for the first time right at the beginning of text.
Other browsers do not have this problem. When will Apple fix this problem?

From the menu bar, select
Edit ▹ Substitutions
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I am no longer able to triple-click to select a line separated by dash or spaces. Not all situations, but some. This is a new behavior.

At some point in the last few months, some update has changed the behavior of triple-clicking in web forms. I have been using this method to copy data from one screen to another for years. It doesn't happen in every field, but it consistently fails in many different scenarios.

I think that by default triple-clicking should select:
* the entire contents of a single-line control
* the current paragraph in a multi-line control
If you discover a pattern, could you post a sample text that causes the problem? We then can paste it into this compose box for testing. Or if this occurs in particular forms, you could post directions to that problem field on the form so we could investigate it (assuming no login is required).
Also, if you want everything in a one-line or multi-line form control, you can use Select All. Either:
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Strange behavior - added spaces to links

I recently built another server to add to my webfarm. The
servers in my farm are Microsoft 2000 Server and 2003 Web Server
edition. I currently have 10 servers working flawlessly. This new
installation however seems to have a problem when it reads the cfm
code - it adds forty (40) spaces to my img src links.
Example of code (view page source option in IE) of a
webserver that has no issues:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
width="100%"><tr><td colspan="3"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5/images/blank.gif"
height="1" width="10" hspace="0"
vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td width="1"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5/images/blank.gif"
height="10" width="1" hspace="0" vspace="0"></td><td
valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" width="100%"><tr><td><img
src="/sw/themes/5/images/window/jewel.gif"></td><td
background="/sw/themes/5/images/window/bg.gif"
width="100%"><span class="normal_bold_text">User
Options</span></td><td><img
src="/sw/themes/5/images/window/end.gif"></td></tr></table></td><td
width="1" id="List_Row_BG3"><img
src="/sw/themes/5/images/blank.gif" height="10" width="1"
hspace="0" vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="3" id="List_Row_BG3"><img
src="/sw/themes/5/images/blank.gif" height="1" width="10"
hspace="0" vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td
width="1" id="List_Row_BG3"><img
src="/sw/themes/5/images/blank.gif" height="10" width="1"
hspace="0" vspace="0"></td><td valign="top">
Example from the server with the problem
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
width="100%"><tr><td colspan="3"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5 /images/blank.gif"
height="1" width="10" hspace="0"
vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td width="1"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5 /images/blank.gif"
height="10" width="1" hspace="0" vspace="0"></td><td
valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" width="100%"><tr><td><img
src="/sw/themes/5 /images/window/jewel.gif"></td><td
background="/sw/themes/5 /images/window/bg.gif"
width="100%"><span class="normal_bold_text">User
Options</span></td><td><img src="/sw/themes/5
/images/window/end.gif"></td></tr></table></td><td
width="1" id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5
/images/blank.gif" height="10" width="1" hspace="0"
vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5 /images/blank.gif"
height="1" width="10" hspace="0"
vspace="0"></td></tr><tr><td width="1"
id="List_Row_BG3"><img src="/sw/themes/5 /images/blank.gif"
height="10" width="1" hspace="0" vspace="0"></td><td
valign="top">
It doesn't translate exactly when copy pasting to here, but
the link to a picture that doesn't work (from properties on the
failed image in IE):
http://64.14.55.136/sw/themes/5%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2 0%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20/images/window/jewel.gif
Obviously that makes the page not display images correctly.
Both servers are reading the same exact file from the same network
location. I am at my wits end trying to fix this, instead all I can
think of next is to reinstall the Operating System, and try this
again sans any Microsoft patches in case something there caused
this.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Sure thing, below are snippits from the application.cfm
application.cfm
==============================
<cfstoredproc
procedure="procs.GeProperties"
DATASOURCE="#Application.NativeDataSource#"
returncode="no"
blockfactor="100"
username="xxxxxx"
password="#Application.DataPassword#">
<cfprocparam
type="IN"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer"
value=#InternalSessionID#
variable="SessionINID">
<.... more variables...>
<cfprocparam
type="OUT"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer"
variable="iThemeID">
<link REL='stylesheet'
HREF='/#aThemeDir#/#iThemeID#/theme#iThemeID#.css'
TYPE='text/css'>
At this point iThemeID is already padded with spaces, when I
view the source in IE, I get:
<link REL='stylesheet'
HREF='/sw/themes/5%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20/theme5%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
%20.css' TYPE='text/css'>
I filled out the spaces from my copy paste with %20 to
illustrate it since they get truncated when I post.
Thanks for your replies guys.
-Roy

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I searched the forums for similar problems with applying the Slide Behaviour to elements through the DW CS5 interface and found a useful post titled "Problem with Applying Spry "Slide Effect" so now my slide effects works the way I want, except instead of sliding out a caption after clicking on an image, I slide out a list of text items when clicking on a section of text. This works, but there is a large gap when the webpage first loads. How can I remove/prevent this large white space from appearing?
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      - Item B<br />
      - Item C<br />
      - Item D<br />
      - Item E<br />
      - Item F<br />
      - Item G<br />
      - Item H<br />
      - Item I</div>
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<div id="ListTwo" onclick="MM_effectSlide('Countries', 1000, '0%', '100%', true)">
<p><strong >List Two + show </strong></p>
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<div id="Countries">
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      - Italy<br />
      - Japan<br />
      - China<br />
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<span style=' width:990px; height:21px'><img width=990 height=21
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The link to the html code can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_S-KEeOr-KhNzQwYzQ5MWQtNTVhYy00OTg1LWJjYTQtODIzOWUwM2ExM 2Yx&hl=en_US
but it needs to access the link SpryAssets/SpryEffects.js   (from DW)
When you open it in a browser you will see a large gap between the two lines:
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"Drop Down List Two + show"
clicking the mouse on "Drop Down List One +show" causes a hidden element to drop down. re-clicking causes it to shrink, and thus removing the large blank space between. I don't know how to initially present the two lines without the large initial blank gap between them.
I tried previewing in Chrome, Firefox, and IE - all look the same.
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