Filed under: OS, How-tos, Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard Fixes: the angle-bracket "copy email" behavior
Snow Leopard introduced many welcome changes to Leopard and one huge annoyance. When copying an email address from Mail, Snow Leopard wraps the address in "< >" brackets, for example, "<annoying@email.com>". When pasting, you've got to go back and remove the brackets.Mac Daddy World has identified the preference setting and posted the simple Terminal commands that will eliminate the brackets. I tried it and it's working perfectly! Thanks, Mac Daddy World. That was very simple and most welcome.
While most users are happy with Snow Leopard, there are these annoyances. Is there something bothering you?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Twist said 6:14PM on 10-22-2009
Losing the ability to disable auto-play in the Quicktime Plug-In is my number one annoyance (that Apple is responsible for) so far.
My number one annoyance is still no update to Windows Live Sync.
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SIP said 10:02AM on 10-23-2009
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Cy Starkman said 6:15PM on 10-22-2009
So far the only things that bothers me are...
1) A complete lack of real reviews of SL Server from anyone
2) That Apple didn't do any work on making spaces easier, especially assigning apps to spaces
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Dave Wood said 6:16PM on 10-22-2009
I'm annoyed that a bug that existed in Tiger, Leopard, and now Snow Leopard has yet to be fixed.
The bug is hit when you have two or more monitors, each with a colour profile attached. When the screen saver comes on (or rather as it turns off), the colour profiles are randomly reset on each monitor. So instead of having the profile you selected, you end up with one giving you awful colours.
Leopard had a quick way to work around this issue, you could run '/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DMProxy' in a command line (obviously using a symlink) and your profile would become active again. That stopped working in Snow Leopard, and now you must go into System Prefs, Displays, and hit the Colour tab. Just picking the Colour tab returns your chosen profile, so it's not like the OS has forgotten it, it's just ignoring it.
More info here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1252005
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Paul said 6:32PM on 10-22-2009
Use Option-brightness up or Option-brightness down to open the display preference using your keyboard ... it's a bit easier than clicking through with the mouse.
Paul said 6:46PM on 10-22-2009
Actually, I think I have an easier workaround. Go to Preferences/Expose & Spaces and set up a hot corner to switch off the screen (using a modifier key to prevent accidentally activating). This seems to fix the color profile on my MBP on returning from screen saver.
Dave Wood said 10:22AM on 10-23-2009
Thanks Paul, the corner trick works great. Much faster than going into prefs.
Apple: I'd still like to see the actual problem fixed eventually.
jdisher said 6:33PM on 10-22-2009
Technically, the angle brackets are part of the RFC for email address form. They are what lets you do "Joe User ". It shouldn't be that big of a deal.
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sporobolus said 7:02PM on 10-22-2009
yeah depends on context is correct in text, is correct in an email address header
Portnull said 7:29PM on 10-22-2009
One great big annoyance are the confirmation boxes where on Leopard space used to mean 'go ahead' and return used to mean 'cancel'. An example of this is file extension renaming. On Snow Leopard, there's only return, and you have to tab-space to confirm. In fact, now there's two ways to cancel, return and escape, and no way to confirm.
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Brett said 7:19PM on 10-22-2009
You can't display the full source of an email message in SL, then forward that message with the full source. You just get a blank message. That used to work in Leopard.
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mrfine said 7:48PM on 10-22-2009
My biggest annoyance has been my applications crashing and shutting down. I get it almost everyday and it's horrible. Nothing had ever crashed, or it had been so long since an application crashed that I can't recall the date. Now, it's all the time, everything will pause...then the spinning wheel...then the crash, then that annoying crash report comes up. Photoshop 4 crashes all the time and it's my number 1 application. iWeb, Pages, just about everything at one time or another will crash.
I find it hard to understand that no one else is having this problem. I had a friend of mine uninstall Leopard on his Mac because programs crashed at will.
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robogobo said 10:14AM on 10-23-2009
sounds like you're having memory problems. Might be a coincidence with the upgrade.
(you mean Photoshop 11 right?)
SCOTT said 11:20AM on 10-26-2009
@mrfine
I have the same problem...spinning ball...streaming hiccups...crashing programs...ALL THE TIME
it's a nightmare and I have a brand new MBP...I have core duo mini and macbook that don't have any of these issues...and it's driving me nuts...
been dealing with it with applecare for about a month...and no fixes...now they want me to wipe my hard drive and install SL clean and then migrate my back up...well the back up takes forever and the computer is almost unusable when it is backing up...it's stressing me out
and you never know what program is going to crash on you next...I would expect problems with my old machines but something I just paid over 2 grand for I don't expect...and it's frustrating...and until I am able to back up and clean install we can't go to the next level...even tho I have already reinstalled SL...it is making me crazy
my apple tv will just freeze all of a sudden when I am streaming something...and I look at the MBP and the ball is spinning for no reason...and two min later things will go back...I don't get it
glad to know I am not the only one with these problems
enostrum said 9:06PM on 10-22-2009
I discovered a bug in leopard that no one could solve and neither Snow Leopard.
When I mail a contact that only has name (or only has surname), Mail or Address Book duplicates his Name (or Surname) so when I open Address Book I see a lot of contacts with duplicates and i have to manually correct them. The worst case is when I don't think of it and sync my iPhone because all the duplicate will go to the iPhone...
The only way to stop this is deactivating recent list in Mail.app. But I forgot the terminal command.
Could someone know about a workaround please???
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CharlyBrown said 1:05AM on 10-23-2009
Hi! I think I have the same issue, but for me is that when the person rplies from hotmail automatically Mail completes the missing data in Address Book with hotmails data (sorry for my English I hope you understood me)
a workaround is to put an space in the empty fields in Address Book so they wont be replaced.
Markus said 7:56PM on 10-22-2009
What annoys me is the Kernel Panics, lack of responsiveness, generally laggy behaviour and most of all the remote bug, which is fortunately going to be fixed in 10.6.2.
I have to admit: To me, Snow Leopard and Win 7 are almost (but just almost) even.
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David said 9:09PM on 10-22-2009
I have one I'm happy about: the return (finally) of the "Put Back" command for items in the trash.
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Carl Bender said 9:27PM on 10-22-2009
Every now and again duplicate copies of Mail appear in my inbox. I've tried one fix, but the problem persists.
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Martin said 10:11PM on 10-22-2009
I have something that truly infuriates me about SL. Quicktime 10.
I run a post company and we have purchased copies of QTPro which we use for a huge number of tasks.
However when we now want to open our video in QT7 we have to do an open with, followed by scrolling down to the others section etc... because even when I set the default .mov application as QT7, it still opens with QT10 for some unknown reason!
Any help very much appreciated.
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