Title: Still broken: erroneous send on wake-up: WindowShade X? Entourage?
Entourage:Mac Talk List Folks:
cc: Unsanity Support
Entourage 11.2.3
MacOS 10.2.3
As long-time readers will be aware, I've reported that Entourage emails --- always addressed replies under composition-- open when I put the machine to sleep are sometimes sent during the wake-up process. This happens sporadically, with no particular pattern.
Do I need to explain the problems that could be caused by sending incomplete emails? Or why the content or disposition of no document should be affected at start-up time? That all user data should be completely unaffected by a sleep--wakeup cycle?
For a while I thought that the longer the machine was asleep, the more likely the problem, as I would see emails under composition the night before disappear when I woke the machine the next morning. But that was the most frequent pattern of my using "sleep" so it doesn't mean much.
Fingers have been pointed at Unsanity's WindowShade X (I'm using version 4.0.2 now.) and I've checked with the Unsanity -- They don't know for sure, hmmm, there might be an issue there, try the latest version. Last time I did that, yes, the problem seemed to get better, but it is difficult to tell since the issue is intermittent. It did not seem to matter if the open email was at the front or not when the system was put to sleep.
It happened again, this time after a shorter, maybe 1 hour sleep. In this case, I'm pretty sure that the open email, the one I was composing --an addressed reply to a received message-- was at the front when I put the machine to sleep previously, if that makes any difference.
My theory is this: at Wake-up, MacOS gives control to each application currently open to let it do whatever housekeeping might be necessary at that time, in effect sending a signal to each, "Yoo-hoo, wake up now!". It's believable that WindowShade somehow affects what's received by Entourage, I don't know why, maybe just by being plugged into the window control logic, and the message looks like "Send Now" to Entourage.
After the last version upgrade of WindowShade, I had the distinct impression with no proof whatsoever that the Unsanity people had made a change so what was being received by Entourage windows under WindowShade control was something different, an undefined command, anything to avoid a message that would be interpreted as "Send Now".
One could still blame WindowShade for this problem. One could, but the fact remains that NO other application I use reacts badly at wake-up time. One, five, twenty document windows open in multiple applications. Not a one is closed, overwritten... affected any way.
So, any theories why Entourage is particularly sensitive? Is there a loose end in the scripting system? Any ideas of what to do to fix this problem?
Thanks,
Henry
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