Weird Trash behavior

This started only recently (past week), and it's only a minor inconvenience, really, but nonetheless...
My Trash mostly works normally, except for one thing:
I can only seem to empty it by using the context menu from the Dock icon or the Secure Empty Trash menu item.
The button in the Finder window does nothing and the keyboard shortcut (Cmd-Shift-Delete) also does nothing.
Any ideas on why this is?

I don't know when it happened, but somewhere along the line the issue seems to have resolved itself. I've updated OS X through each 10.5 iteration and 10.6, and I no longer have this problem. I have no idea which (if any) of these updates solved it, but at least it works properly again.

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IPhone 6 Plus weird screen behavior

I recently started noticing some erratic touch behavior on my screen, it's as if I have a possessed phone such as taps that I did not make, or swipes (up/down/left/right) as well. The spotlight randomly swipes down, or the notification center (it seems like a consistent swipe down behavior but at different locations). I couldn't swipe left yesterday to unlock my phone, and sometimes hangs and only locking/unlocking can fix the unresponsiveness.
Moreover, random tappings affect games and apps such as whatsapp, where it goes to the previous page due to a top left page tap, and then again on the edit button, then starts randomly scrolling up and down and tapping random parts of the screen.
This is quite frustrating, I tried formatting and starting the phone as a new one and only installed Whatsapp, but the problem persisted, albeit at fewer occurrences.
Now I noticed the problem again even though I'm on iOS 8.1, with only apps, music, and photos synced back from iTunes. What is happening ? How can I get this fixed ?
Summary
Issue :
Erratic touch behavior which cannot be produced on demand
Rare screen unresponsiveness following the weird touch behavior
What I've tried :
Reset and start phone as New
Reset all Settings
Hard Reset
Currently using a sketching app to see how the screen taps randomly (for proof as well).

Hello zazu90,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To troubleshoot this issue where your touchscreen is behaving erradically on your iPhone, please follow the steps below.
Restart your device
Hold the On/Off button until "slide to power off" appears. Slide to power off your device. When it is off, press the On/Off button to turn it back on.
If you can't restart your device, reset it by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for a least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Clean the screen with a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth.
Avoid using the device while wearing gloves, with wet hands, or immediately after applying hand lotion.
If you have a protective case, or if you are using a plastic sheet or film on the display, try removing them and testing the device without it.
If the steps above don't resolve your issue, please schedule a service appointment with an Apple Retail Store for evaluation. If an Apple Retail store is not an option, contact Apple to find out your best service option or see the Service FAQ for your product.
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Troubleshooting touchscreen response - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

Weird Trash Emptying Behavior, Need Help!

I've read the apple support article for emptying trash, changing file permissions, etc.; I've also tried searching the apple discussions... So I hope someone can help me here!
I recently deleted Adobe CS2 from my applications. A lot of files were dragged to the trash, and now there are two folders in the trash that won't delete.
They are:
1. a folder called "Adobe Illustrator CS2", containing a folder named "Legal", containing a file named "Tiếng Việt.html" (the name's characters seem to be from a different character set).
2. a folder called "Adobe Photoshop CS2", also containing a folder named "Legal", also containing a file named "Tiếng Việt.html" (same as above).
Here are the issues:
1. When I try to empty trash, nothing happens, these files just don't delete.
2. When I try to secure empty trash, I get the message: "The operation cannot be completed because the item 'legal' is in use."
3. I have permission to read and write the files and folders. Just to be sure, I tried "apply to enclosed items" in "get info", I get this error message: "The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -43). I can open the trash and look at the files. They are definitely there.
4. I read somewhere that because the names contain weird characters, they may not delete. When I try to rename the files, I get this error: "An unexpected error occurred (error code -43)."
5. I've tried "chflags -R nouchg " and "sudo chflags -R nouchg " in terminal, and I get errors saying the files do not exist (after I drag the folders into terminal.)
Help! What should I do to try and fix this? I have no idea what is going on!

The problem is the illegal characters in the file name. Try booting from your install disk, then go to the menu and select Disk Utility and run the First Aid-Repair Disk function. Restart, and you should be able to empty the Trash.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Weird window behavior after 10.10.3

I have an interesting issue with 10.10.3 finder window within Column view. In Illustrator and only Illustrator, when I go to Open or Place a file my finder window looks like this:
Look to the far right, I can’t view the files within the folder. And the grey scroll bar abruptly ends. I can't go any farther to view items in folder. I can resize columns but I have to do every time. To add to the weirdness, it is just the Open command this happens. If I do a Save As, it looks like this:
And I can view the files.
I have trashed Finder window prefs and Illustrator prefs and no luck.
Any thoughts???

I've got exactly the same issue with Illustrator CS6. Have tried updating Java with no luck. I'm also getting the same thing in the 'scroll view' (or whatever it's called) finder. Photoshop isn't affected. This only happened after I upgraded to 10.10.3. What I do know is that it's annoying

Weird keyboard behavior in MacBook Pro 13'

Hi guys, I have a MacBook Pro that's starting to show a strange keyboard behavior.
The problem is that the keys: e r t y u i o (curiously all belong to the same row) sometimes get unresponsive.
It's very annoying of course and it happened about 4 months after upgraded to Lion.
The geneal perfomance of the laptop was deteriorated and I've read that a clean install of Lion might help so I've did it thinking that it will also fix any OS weirdness about the keys too.
The machine works way better after the clean Lion install but the problem of those same keys persist.
What I did next was to reset the PRAM thinking it might be interference from some weird state there. But after the reset the problem persisted.
Curiously, I've figured out that when, for example the i key gets unresponsive, if I press AND hold the e key then the i key works totally fine (think of typing an "I" but using e instead of shift).
If, when pressing the unresponsive keys, I use different angles or quantity of force in the pressure of the keys or cornes of the key the behavior stays the same. The only thing that seems to affect is holding the e key down before pressing it. Every time it gets weird I do it and it kind of get normal for a while.
Also, sometimes, keeping some seconds the unresponsive key ends up getting responsive again (but not always).
This mac has about two years now and it's very well preserved.
Do this happen to anyone? ideas?
Is there some other thing than PRAM I could reset to see if it gets normal again?

You are making me dig into nightmare-ish memories here.
Ok, I'll share.
This is how turned out:
Needed to send my MBP to another town with an Apple authorized service provider and asked to change the keyboard for a new one.
It was ~20 days waiting until they got the new keyboard part from Apple and about ~3 more to get it fixed and ~2 more to get it again in town.
I received it very well packaged and all was fine after that but the whole thing was very expensive, ~40% of the price I paid for the whole MPB in the first place plus all that time without being able to use it.

Weird Battery Behavior in 7.1.1

Has anyone else noticed weird behavior after upgrading to 7.1.1 - on my 5s its not that the battery is draining quickly - in fact its showin 5 hours 40 minutes usage with 75% remaining - which i find hard to believe
whats weird is standby time equals the usage time but i have turnd off and aback on the iPhone - I even did a hard reset - i have a monitor program which is showing the cpu as mostly idling at 90% or more ( although the monitor probably doesnt know about the M7 chip - it probably doesnt even know about the A7 chip too)
The battery percentage is not going down quickly - it seems to be thr same rate as with 7.1 but i dont believe these numbers
Im going to let the battery drain completely and do a battery calibration - that some times helps after IOS upgrades
But i was wondering if anyone else was seeing this and had any suggestions

Grant Hiesterman wrote:
Out of curiousity, how were the issues fixed/resolved other the past? With IOS updates? Other?
The problem has always been an errant app that got stuck in a loop. It can happen any time, but is more likely to happen right after an update. My hypothesis is that the update process suspends running apps, and sometimes after the update they "lose their place" and spin their wheels trying to find it. (It's easier to say it that way then to talk about race conditions.) What will frequently fix it is to run the battery all the way down until the phone shuts off. This terminates all processes, even those that cannot be killed from the Quick Launch screen.
You can also try to find the app; if it's email turning off any Push email accounts, rebooting, and turning them back on will frequently fix it. If it's a 3rd party app killing all apps in the Quick Launch will frequently fix it.
Sometimes just turning off the phone for a few minutes will fix it.
Restoring the phone as new will usually fix it, but restoring from backup may not, because the app state may be preserved in the backup.
It really just a matter of trying things like these one at a time. One of them will work.
Do you or Trevor have a CPU monitoring app you believe is a quality application?
I've tried several, and haven't found any that I like. I like Trevor's answer.

Not a real problem anymore, but a weird Apache behavior wrt .php files

Hello everyone. Yesterday I was trying to set up an ordinary LAMP server in my VPS, running Arch (first time ever touching apache). After all was said and done, and apache and PHP were correctly configured following the Arch Wiki, I tried to get some things like phpmyadmin and ampache running, but I found out that my browser was asking me to download either a login.php file or an index.php file (to be more specific: I added a test.php file in /srv/http and that was interpreted correctly and I could see all the information as intented; if i pointed my browser to /phpmyadmin or /ampache though I would see the first page but after trying to, for example, logging in with phpmyadmin I'd get the download prompt). I googled around and yes, everything was configured as it should have, I had the AddHandler directive in the apache conf file and all that jazz. This morning, I log in, I start apache (since it wasn't working I figured that I might as well shut it down for the night and yes, while testing and setting up things yesterday I restarted the daemon every time) and everything works as it should: ampache lets me create my configuration, phpmyadmin lets me see my DBs and everything works. So, the problem apparently fixed itself, or at least the weird behavior I was witnessing is no more. Is there any specific reason for this? I wouldn't want to start from scratch (and I probably will, since I like to mess up a lot, that's how i learn!) to perhaps find myself in this spot again and not know what to do!
Last edited by mrz87 (2011-05-11 09:12:21)

This was a problem with apache-2.2.17-2. Don't worry, it's fixed for good.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24208

Change in Aperture Trash Behavior

Was there a change to Aperture Trash emptying to OS X trash in a recent Aperture update?
I put a new SSD (OWC Accelsior 240GB) in my MacPro and installed OS X and various applications, including Aperture 3 (now 3.4.4).
There is a change in the behavior of Aperture Trash.
Previously, I would delete images (Command + Delete) which would put them in Aperture Trash.
Then 'Empty Aperture Trash' would put them in OS X Trash can.
Then it would be necessary to empty the OS Trash can to completely eliminate the image files.
Now, after I 'Empty Aperture Trash', the images are gone (they do not appear in OS X Trash).
This behavior is fine by me as long as it is working as intended, but the fact that it is a change has me concerned. I've been having problems with this machine - so I'm trying to determine whether I've got things working properly or whether this is a hint at further fixes required.
My Aperture library exists on a software RAID 0 array (2 Western Digital 1TB drives).
OS X and Aperture boot from the SSD (which replaced an older SSD).

Now, after I 'Empty Aperture Trash', the images are gone (they do not appear in OS X Trash).
They should still be appearing in the Trash bin on your Desktop, if Aperture can write to the System trash.
What happens, when you create a small test Aperture library on your internal drive and import a test image, then trash it. Will this test image appear in the trash on your Desktop?
What happens, when you copy any file - a document, a photo file - to your external drive (My Aperture library exists on a software RAID 0 array (2 Western Digital 1TB drives). )and then delete it? Do these files appear in your trash or are they deleted immediately?
My Aperture library exists on a software RAID 0 array (2 Western Digital 1TB drives).
How is this drive connected and formatted?
Regards
Léonie

Strange Mail/Gmail trash behavior - syncing trash

I'm using Apple Mail (2.1.3) with Gmail (IMAP) with my Mailbox Behaviors set: Store drafts on server (checked) Store sent (unchecked) Store junk (checked) Move deleted messages to Trash (checked) Store deleted messages on server (unchecked).
I'd like to have my Trash in Mail synced with Trash in Gmail but I can't seem to make this happen. All that appears in my Gmail trash when I composed/send/receive/delete email in Mail is many iterations of any email I compose. What seems to be happening is when I compose email in Mail, a snapshot of the draft is placed in my Gmail Trash folder periodically. If I spend 30 minutes composing an email, I will end up with 10-15 snapshots of the draft taken periodically while I was writing the email.
I've tried a variety of combinations of Mail preferences with no change in this behavior. Anyone have any ideas? I don't really mind the snapshotting, but I would like to sync the two Trash folders if possible.
Also, what is the difference between the Trash folder and Deleted Messages folder in Mail? When I check "Store deleted messages on server" in Mail preferences, a Deleted Messages folder appears in Mail and acts like Trash used to (it receives deleted messages and the old Trash folder stays empty). Neither one is synced with the Gmail trash folder...
Thanks for any help!

I've been playing with this also lately and being new to both Gmail and Apple Mail I agree that it's a little tricky. My only comment is that with regards to Trash and Deleted Messages, "Deleted Messages" appears to be a Gmail label that Apple Mail assigns to messages when you delete them (which also creates a corresponding folder in Apple Mail) - whereas Trash is the official [Gmail]\Trash folder. Due to the redundancy Google recommends NOT checking the "Move deleted messages to Trash".
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&topic=12815

Weird keyboard behavior PS CS3

Hi all,
Every now and then it seems like my keyboard has gone nuts.
This always happens inside PS CS3. After doing some actions, especially when doing a 'Shift-Alt-Arrow key' action (duplicating a layer or group and moving), it looks as if the keyboard goes in some sort of 'Alt-Always-On' modus.
The annoying thing about this is, that regular keyboard-shortcuts for selecting a tool don't work (pressing 't' for the type tool does nothing) but far worse is the fact when you want to move a layer or group of layers they get unwantedly duplicated.
Sometimes this behavior seems to disappear, when I click around my desktop (outside of Photoshop), but sometimes it doesn't disappear. The only thing left to get rid of it is to quit and relaunch PS.
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This weird keyboard thing does only appear in PS, every other application is not affected by it.
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Zeno,
I feel so stupid, but that also crossed my mind.
And to be honest, I think that is really the reason.
Why didn't I think of that before...

Weird compression behavior

I have been trying to compress some animation material for DVD. It is mostly flat colors with black outlines. The past few weeks I've been having trouble exporting to compressor via Final Cut (the connect to background process bug) and so I have been using reference movies loaded into Compressor standalone.
I am seeing weird behavior, though. When I compress the reference movie, the frames look fine although every now and then there are artifacts, pieces of the image that break down. I think of them as compression errors, and I suspected that the compression markers at the beginning of each clip were not being exported in the reference movie.
So I tried a few things and finally got Final Cut to connect to compressor directly. This worked in that the compression errors I was seeing are gone--HOWEVER, the overall quality of the encode has decreased markedly! The black lines around shapes are all jagged, and the whole image looks inferior to the one compressed in Compressor standalone.
The thing is, both of these were compressed using the exact same preset! Does anyone know what the deal is? I would like to get the image quality from the standalone Compressor encode, but without the artifacts.
Thanks for any advice,
Bob

Your mileage may vary with Compressor 2. Some like it, some don't.
As for your original question, I've never seen unexplained changes like what you describe in a preset's behavior with FCP HD and/or Compressor 1.2.1.
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Strange stacks icons and weird dock behavior

I got leopard for Christmas and on the first day of the install my icons on the right side of the dock- i guess the stacks for applications and downloads icons look weird. It's not a combination of all the icons in the stack like someone else wrote, it is a weird green, white, red rectangular shaped image with weird black and grey squiggles going through the middle. Also-I'm not sure how to describe it but what used to be a clear line I guess to separate the stacks stuff with the other icons on my dock it's next to about this mac icon on my dock has turned into a weird pink rectangle with a really small picture of the weird red, green, and white rectangle on top. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My husband is a windows guy and after me bragging about how much better mac is, I don't want him to know that I'm already having problems with leopard

No, this is not "normal behavior." The problem is that it is not consistent, either, so it is hard to tell what is going on. It may happen after using some full screen programs, but I am not sure. I am not able to reproduce the issue, myself. It just happens from time to time.
The icons are not changing after they are used. The ones in the download folder will usually have their normal appearance, the dmg file or a pdf file with its "preview" icon or whatever. Then, for some reason, I will notice some of the icons have become blocky and pixilated, not resembling anything, usually almost a solid color.
Again, the way to get them to change back is to remove the downloads folder from the doc and return it. Then all the icons return to their normal view.

GNOME - Weird Trash behaviour

Hello people, I'm having a weird problem in GNOME: the trash works kind of unexpected: When I attempt to delete a file, Nautilus displays a pop-up: "This file cannot be moved to the Trash. Do you want to delete it right away?" Obviously, I'd like that file to be moved to the Trash. Other weird stuff: I have a backup hard disk, which is NTFS formatted, and it appears correctly under "Places", also works correctly when I mount it, asks for root password, etc. When I mount that volume, random, previously deleted files are appearing in the Trash (probably they weren't deleted, just moved to some .Trash000 folder. At the time those were supposedly deleted, I wasn't using Arch (Guess it was Ubuntu).
I read somewhere on the forums, that installing ntfs-3g solves this problem, but I couldn't check this, And I'd like to keep using that shortcut to the drive Under "Places".
So how do I make my trash work like normal? Thanks for the help in advance.

The problem is the illegal characters in the file name. Try booting from your install disk, then go to the menu and select Disk Utility and run the First Aid-Repair Disk function. Restart, and you should be able to empty the Trash.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Weird application behavior - solution

I recently had a major series of disk meltdowns. I suspect part of the problem may have been caused by letting my startup disk get too full and working with very large photoshop files (with photoshop using the startup disk as a scratch disk). Anyway, I managed to restore a clone of my startup drive, update all apps, and get back to work. I've cloned the startup drive to my second internal drive and intend to religiously update the clone whenever I update any applications (we'll see if I return to agnoticism). Anyway, several applications had weird behavior. Cleaner would succesfully compress one file and then quit. I could then restart cleaner and the batch list had successfully updated but again, just one compression and then a quit. DiskWarrior would successfully rebuild a drive directory but then quit without any notice. Today, I restarted from my cloned startup drive and ran diskwarrior on my main startup drive. Problem solved. Figured a few people out there might benefit from my experience.

Michael,
Often, the Quits are caused by a corrupt Property List file. When a number of apps have the Quits, that's another story. Back in v10.2, that was often caused by a hidden user prefs file
(~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist) where ~ is your user Home folder. You could try deleting it in Terminal, but I haven't heard of this causing these problems since Jaguar.
Maybe you could try creating a new user Account, log into the new Account and see if things improve. At least that would prove whether the cause has something to do with user prefs, including that hidden global prefs file.
I'm thinking it's a hardware problem, though.
EDIT: FWIW, here is the step-by-step for deleting that global prefs file and replacing it with a fresh copy:
1) Log in as an Administrator.
2) Create a new user account, called NewUser.
[The name isn't important, because you're going to delete this account when we're done].
2b) If the affected user account is not an administrator account, go ahead and make it one. You can revoke this privilege later, but it will make things easier for now.
3) Log out, and log back in as NewUser.
[This will initialize the account and create undamaged preferences.]
4) Log back out, and log in again as the user affected by the crashed (who, according to step 2b, is an Administrator).
5) Launch the "Terminal" application, located in /Applications/Utilities/
6) Type the following command (for all of the following, copy and paste):
cd ~/Library/Preferences/
7) Type this command:
rm .GlobalPreferences.plist
8) Type this command:
sudo cp /Users/NewUser/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist .
[it will ask for an administrator password to allow you to log in as root for this action]
9) Type this command -- DON'T COPY-PASTE THIS ONE! YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR OWN USERNAME:
sudo chown USERNAME .GlobalPreferences.plist
10) Log out.
10b) If you enabled Admin access on an account that shouldn't have it, log back in as an Administrator and disable that Admin access.
11) Delete the NewUser account.
12) Log out, and log in to the affected acount.
There will be some System Preferences you'll need to reset afterwards.

Weird textinput behavior embedded font

I have this weird behavior with an embedded font in a textinput.
I have embedded the myriad font and aplied it on a textinput.
In this weird scenrio when i type "test configuration" in the textinput and then pres the left arrow key the cursors will not go further back than the letter n in the word configuration.
This behavior is only with some font types, like myriad or ubuntu.
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In here i have a video of the behavior and a test project.

Not sure if this will help you, but in order to get my embedded fonts to render, I had to do:
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