annoying mac os x preview bug #1

June 12th, 2006

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  1. Open Preview.
  2. Open a picture file.
  3. Close the picture file.
  4. Throw it away.
  5. Try to empty the trash. You can’t. Preview still thinks it’s open. Doy.

Drives me nuts, this one does, and without exaggeration it makes me want to shoot myself in the face. It’s been a problem since Mac OS X 10.0, and I’ve reported it a bunch of times; oh well, there’s always 10.5.

UPDATE: I might be crazy, as no one else seems to have this going on in their system. That’s always a real possibility, me being crazy, I mean.

~jeff



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  • http://maximac.se cubeXpert

    Works for me though. Might be something else in your system thats causing this…

  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    Works for me, too. I dunno, man.

  • http://artificial.com Jon

    When Jeff gets lonely, he likes to report made up bugs in OS X just to get attention.

  • http://ldopa.net Jeff

    Are you guys *quitting* Preview or just *closing* the graphic? Because if you *quit* preview, it should work. If you just close the graphic, however, Preview should fail to release whatever “open” flag the Finder uses to sense it’s ok to empty the trash.

    Or maybe I just like the crazy attention.

  • Frisis

    A haiku to Preview:

    This works for me too.
    Open, close, trash, now empty.
    There is no problem.

  • Ben

    Maybe it’s a certain format that doesn’t fclose() or something? Maybe the rotate function (or some other common demoninator) is at work?

  • http://fotap.org/~osi peter royal

    jeff, you’re not crazy, i’ve seen this behavior before as well.

  • http://artificial.com Jon

    Jeff, clearly you and Peter Royal are *both* crazy. Sorry — no other explanation.

  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    … in fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s a mass delusion.

    This is probably the explanation for the non-prosecution of Karl Rove, too.

  • http://www.ldopa.net/ Evan

    The non-prosecution can be tied directly to the length of duct tape used to tape a rat to a recently shaved cat, in order to create a sufficient static charge through the process of hand milking antidote from a caged animal.

  • David

    No problem on my system either.

  • Nicl

    Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

    Time to adjust your dosage again. Your delusions of being persecuted by Preview are beginning to disturb the other patients. Here, now, just swallow this pill and everything will be all flurple floop denord quirf the yimyam.

    (P.S. No problem on my system either. I attribute this to all the clean living.)

  • Nick

    Time to adjust my dosage too. Misspelled my own damn name. (And no, there were no drugs involved.)