She says it’s not new to Tahoe, just much worse. She’s seems to have lost all her sister’s email. I have had chance to go into the ~/Library data files yet.
What I’ve tried:
Rebooting, of course.
Onyx’s delete and rebuild Mail index didn’t fix it.
Disk Utility / First Aid found ~20 “Resource Fork xattr is missing or empty…”
Said it repaired them but refound them when First Aid was repeated, even from Recovery Mode. Also “descendants” (74) of dir-stats object (id…) is greater than expected (64)…
Is the drive (not a spinner) going bad?
Later:
WELL, I didn’t know Apple had FOUR support tiers…
;-)
Will, I can only imagine how stressful this must be for your sister and yourself.
I’m still on Sequoia for now, and have taken the radical approach of only using Fastmail’s Mac app for my email & calendar, and have done the same for my iPhone SE. Touch wood, I’ve never had anything on the scale of what you’ve described, but I now feel that perhaps I’m better off not having Apple’s apps connecting to my data at Fastmail…
Feels odd to quote myself but…
This effect I describe in Dictionary is now also in Signal app on the Mac (26.1) when clicking to Reply to a text bubble. It used to be, clicking reply would exerpt the bubble AND place the cursor in the text box so you could immediately start typing (as we see here in forum replies).
Now, in Signal, clicking Reply only excerpts and doesn’t place the cursor. So I’m starting to think this is some OS oddity that might be correctable with a Terminal Command.
If anyone knows of such a command, please advise. Thanks.
Just a note that this is also true if you open an encrypted disk image file from the Finder. It used to be that the cursor was in the Password field, and you could simply type the password; now it is not, and you must click in the password entry field before typing the password.
I assume that this is a minor bug and not a deliberate design decision.
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OK now I am re-replying to Self but wanted to update this for anyone interested.
I intentionally reboted more often over the last week, and although Signal was not updated that I am aware of in that time, the cursor now places itself in the message window when clicking to Reply.
Also, Dictionary is sometimes putting the cursor at the end of previous word when I alt-tab to it, and sometimes the previous word is selected. It’s not consistent. Discovered that hitting the Enter key will highlight the previous word after an alt-tab, and that’s a bit easier for my hands to reach than esc.
No known change to OS, all automatic updates are off.
The latest update from Apple for Mac is appalling:
Finder = this is change for change sake! Appalling
Apps = who came up with the categories and dumped all the apps all over the shop - 80% of the apps now shown are of zero interest to me but I have to wade through pages and pages to find what I am looking for - SOOOO frustrating.
Screen shot has been disabled! Why doesn’t anyone at Apple test anything these days - they have opted for Microsoft testing through it out the door and wait for complaints and then fix.
I hate complaining - but Apple is now my least favourite IT company!
HELP! Is there any way I can revert to the old interface??
Not shure what you are talking about. Screenshots work fine over here (macOS 26.2).
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Screenshots on a M2 MBA with 26.2 working here too. Could be access routes have changed since recent OSes, and I think there’s a new one, shift-cmd-5, which opens a little toolbar showing the options. There’s also been a screen shot app for a year or two.
I find it a bit unfriendly that when a long-standing function has been changed, the user is not alerted and informed by the OS upon first attempt to use the old way. So it goes.
I’ve been using shift-command -5 for years . It may be part of the original OS X spec. I’ve used it because it’s an efficient way to access all the options (full-screen, window, manually selected rectangle, as other pictures or videos).
Golly! only noticed it recently by mistake! almost all the screenshots I make are with shift-cmd-4, one day I hit 5 instead. 
Either Shift+Command+3 or Shift+Command+4 or Shift+Command+5. With Shift+Command+5 you will find more options
CMD-SHIFT-3 (capture entire screen to file) has been around since the earliest days of the Mac. At least System 6, if not older.
CMD-SHIFT-4 (capture region to file) has been present since MacOS 9. Not sure about 7 or 8.
CMD-SHIFT-5 (launch the Screenshot app) was introduced in macOS 10.14 (“Mojave”)
The format has also changed over the years.
- System 6 saved a MacPaint file
- System 7 switched it to a PICT file (associated with the SimpleText utility)
- Mac OS X 10.4 switched it to TIFF
- Current macOS releases use PNG
- You can change it to JPG, TIFF, GIF or PDF, if you like. At least you could in 2021.
- I’m not sure if other releases used other formats by default.
And FWIW, CMD-SHIFT-1 and -2, although no longer supported, used to be for ejecting floppy discs. -1 for the first drive and -2 for the second (or external) drive.
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Hey, is the macOS 26 Tahoe still buggy? I haven’t updated it yet. I’m running on macOS sequoia.
I’m on 26.2 on all my machines (iOS & Mac) and am not seeing any substantial bugs.