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Leopard, Spaces, and Adobe products, and PowerPoint too

Okay, I give up. I just disabled Spaces. Let me count the reasons why:

1. While putting Word into Space 1 prevented Word from crashing as frequently, using PowerPoint (2004) in Space 1 still led to PowerPoint telling me that the file on the file server I had open had been locked (by me) and so I had to save the file to a new name. Repeatedly.
2. Today I had PowerPoint and 1 mail message open in Space 1, Firefox and Mail open in Space 2, and iTunes open in Space 3. I started using iTunes U, which required flipping back and forth between Firefox, my Mail, and iTunes. I clicked on Mail in the dock, and the space wouldn't flip. I moved the 1 mail message back to the rest of my mail in Space 2 and clicked on Mail in the doc--still the space wouldn't flip. I clicked on Firefox, I couldn't get to Space 2. Finally, I couldn't move from any space to any other without going into Spaces itself, or the Expose shortcut.

Okay, so that's only 2 reasons, but I've really had it. Which stinks, because I love Spaces, and if it worked, it would make me more productive.

As for the Adobe products: something's still buggy between Leopard and CS3. For example, there are times when I choose the crop tool, type in measurements, and try to crop: the crop measurements don't stick. Sometimes they do stick, and then when I try to remove them from the toolbar, it looks as though I deleted the measurements, but the crop tool is still sticking to the deleted measurements. This happens at home consistently, but I'm pretty sure it happened at work too.

Then there are the CS3 updates, which take forever to load.

Leopard, oh Leopard, when will you stabilize?

Posted: January 4, 2008 12:42 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 1 comment
Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, PowerPoint 2004

Apple Leopard Spaces and MS Office 2004

Here is my new theory: if you're going to use an Office product in a space other than Space 1, make sure there is a finder window in that space that includes the directory where the file is located.

Or, perhaps it's: if you're going to have a Finder window open that shows the file you're trying to use, make sure that Finder window is in the space where the Office product is.

I was just using PowerPoint in Space 2, and had a Finder window showing my file (on the file server) in Space 1. I noticed that when I saved, PowerPoint flicked briefly, as though to go to Space 1, and then back. After a while, when I tried to save, PowerPoint completely hung on me, and I had to force quit.

I'm going to try it with my new rule and see if I have happier Pages and Office 2004 experiences.

A few minutes later: except that now the file server thinks the original file is already in use and so I had to save it with another file name. And then, without leaving PowerPoint, I got the same complaint twice more. Now I'm up to version C.

A few days later: Today it happened again. I'm up to version E.

Posted: December 10, 2007 12:54 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 0 comments
Tags: Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, PowerPoint 2004