GBen Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Lately, my ability to select multiple object through shift-click has ceased. Also, option clicking does not function as a "crossing" window selecting items it touches. Wondering if anyone out there has some insight on this? I am using Version 12.5, but checked in on my older version 11.5 (i don't throw anything away) and it has the same problem. Seems like an Mac OS issue (BTW running Mac 10.4 latest version is up-to-date. The symptoms are somewhat corespondant to my installation of Parallels 3.0. Any thoughts will be appreciated Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Just as a general principle, if installing program B causes program A to malfunction, that's often solved by re-installing program A, to fix whatever B's installation process messed up. So the first thing I would try would be re-installing VectorWorks. Quote Link to comment
bonus Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) Reinstalling is mostly a good solution. Try that, but first... I'm on OS 10.4.11 and have tried this function on both 12.5 and 11. It works fine. I don't think it is a OS issue - rather a hardware issue. Have you tried another keyboard? Edited January 3, 2008 by bonus Quote Link to comment
GBen Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Yes, thanks, I've re-installed program A. It didn't help. I'm thinking that there is some advanced section that program C may have effected-program C (Parallels) now having been un-installed. It was after an upgrade to this that I lost some of my keyboard's functionality It all baffles me-so all input is appreciated Quote Link to comment
GBen Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Thanks also-I have used an external bluetooth keyboard and have had no success sadly. I don't really blame the system for messing things up, I just think that somewhere in the system there is a place to fix it. Now, that said, I have completed re-installing the OS from the discs shipped with the computer to try and re-set things that way, but so-far-not-so-good. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Try trashing the keyboard pref.plist ? How bout emptying the various caches ... have you checked out the Console Logs ? Try running a few of the Onxy.app maintenance procedures ... Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 GBEN, The shift-select issue is a known OS issue, which has been reduced over time throughout the OS X lifetime. Unfortunately, the problem does seem to crop up time to time without consistency. Usually only one or two applications are affected. Restarting the computer typically alleviates the problem for a short period of time. Running disk utility to verify and repair disk permissions will address the issue for a longer period of time. If you are not already doing so, I strongly encourage you to run Disk Utility (or another 3rd party product similar in nature) to verify and repair disk permissions on a regular basis. Personally, I run it every few weeks. It should also be run any time new software or hardware is installed/added, & software and OS updates are installed. Quote Link to comment
GBen Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Thanks Katie and everyone, at this point I've still not resolved the issue having repaired permissions, dumped caches, dumped Keyboard plists. I am going to re-re-install over the weekend and see what happens. The next step will be to wipe the computer-storing everything I hold near-and dear off site and re-installing for real. Any bets on whether this will work. Again, thanks all, if more ideas (or more specific cache dumping or data clearing ideas) come up, I'll be back. Wish me luck Quote Link to comment
GBen Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 It is me again. So-I fixed it then it broke again so I am looking at a way to really fix it. I did find that deleting the prefs made all the difference, but it is a royal pain to get all the software back up to speed. I am wondering if anyone has advice on figuring out which of the prefs is specifically affecting VW other than the time consuming process of going through them one-by-one. Oi! THANKS Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 This may be a case where either creating a new user account is in order (your account may be beyond repair) or even a clean install of the OS. Quote Link to comment
GBen Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 I have tried the clean install and sadly the problem persisted. I am not running Leopard (yeah) and so far it has contined to be an issue (boo). It looked like Quicken might of flumuxed the issue, but I'm afraid to try twice with as many pots on the burner as I have right now. I'd just like to keep it going, if ya know what I mean. So for now, keep your fingers crossed. I've figured out a quick, but certainly dirty way to repair the issue-dump the prefs for everything and restart, but this is annoying as I have to then re-set-up so many little things. Alas, If you hear of anything, I'll be back. Oh, and the other news is VW 2008 is on it's way, maybe that is the solution. G. Ben Quote Link to comment
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