1.8RC7 file dialog partially broken in new OSX Mavericks

[jmtanous]

Hi,

Yesterday I upgrade to new OSX Mavericks, the new OSX improves battery life by 20% and usability specially if you have multiple monitors.

PI seems to work fine with a minor caveat. The file dialog loses the history, for instance every time the file dialog is open it uses de default location and filename.

Cheers,

Jose

[rockyraccoon]

I'll second that comment.
PixInsight "open file" and "save file" dialog boxes always to go to ~/Documents.

[NGC7789]

You must have missed my reply to your other post:

If you tick the "Remember File Open file type" option in the File I/O Settings I think it fixes this problem. Not intuitive but I think it works.

Or did you try this and it didn't work?

[jmtanous]

You must have missed my reply to your other post:

If you tick the "Remember File Open file type" option in the File I/O Settings I think it fixes this problem. Not intuitive but I think it works.

Or did you try this and it didn't work?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I just tried your suggestion and it didn't solve the problem. This problem didn't exist before the OS upgrade.

Cheers,

Jose

[NGC7789]

Interesting. I also didn't have the problem before and this option fixed it for me. Can you summarize your hardware. I'd be particularly interested if a SSD and/or fusion drive is involved.

[Josh Lake]

The I/O preference trick worked for me in Mavericks, and I had had that problem ever since Lion. But now I'm happy!

[jmtanous]

I have a 128GB SSD main drive.

The model of the mac is this:

[NGC7789]

How much free space is on the SSD? Do you use it as your PI swap storage?

[jmtanous]

Yes, swap goes to /tmp/ (SSD). There is plenty of sapace

[papaf]

It may well be reinterpretation of perfectly good, but different, settings from previous version doing different things during update.
I'm wary of those kind of things, and that's why I never update my linux box but just reinstall and keep my /home intact.
Even doing so, from time to time I have to wrestle some kde inconsistency due to the same config files in my home being converted to the new release, and not producing sane results.
My guess is: who used their macs more or less to the defaults are fine. Those who prefer to tweak many settings will have more chance of getting this behaviour.
Of course, I don't have a mac so this is all pure speculation!
Isn't it possible to reinstall everything and keep just the home directory?

[NGC7789]

That's a very sound guess. I keep a very vanilla system and my updates tend to be very smooth and I rarely suffer from these kinds of issues be it with PixInsight or Lightroom or whatever. I don't know if its possible to reinstall and keep the home directory. I'd have to do some research, but I also don't think I'll have time to try. Sound like a good exercise thought to isolate the problem.

[NGC7789]

A quick google indicates that the best approach for a clean install while preserving previous apps is to make a clone of the system (probably two to be safe) and then after a clean install use migration assistant to bring apps back from the clone.

I don't know if there's a better way but this is the path I would start with...but again I don't think I can find the time.

[jmtanous]

Hi,

My system is 4 weeks old and to my knowledge very vanilla, no tweaks or anything fancy.

Is there a way to completely remove PI including all settings? I rather start reinstalling PI from scratch than OSX.

Thanks!

Jose

[rockyraccoon]

I checked the boxes, applied and restarted PI, but it did not solve the issue.
The I/O dialog box is broken.
I find this surprising. Mavericks developer builds have been out for months: how could this escape anybody's noticing? Opening a file is the fundamental starting point for processing anything.

You must have missed my reply to your other post:

If you tick the "Remember File Open file type" option in the File I/O Settings I think it fixes this problem. Not intuitive but I think it works.

Or did you try this and it didn't work?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I just tried your suggestion and it didn't solve the problem. This problem didn't exist before the OS upgrade.

Cheers,

Jose

[jmtanous]

For the record:

In order to discard a custom setting as the culprit of the spoiled file dialog I created a Guest account and run PI from there. Same result, every time I invoked the file dialog either for opening or saving a file, the dialog didn't hold any contextual info.

Cheers,

Jose