Hi Dónal, Some quick questions: 1) does this behavior happen when you use Skim instead of Preview? 2) If you open the file in Preview from another user account, do you have the same issues?
A search on the web came up with the information that you might need to remove the plist file from: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist Another poster in the Apple Discussions forum suggested that instead of removing such files, a better way of dealing with issues is to use Terminal and "hide" the parent folder, which will then be recreated when you open the application again. So, if you open Terminal and are in your user account directory, (or do a "cd" just to make sure), you would type: mv Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview.hiding The "mv" command that appends the ".hiding" extension to the "com.apple.Preview" folder under the "Library/Containers" directory of your account does the hiding. I assume that you do this with Preview closed. Then, when you open Preview again, the "com.apple.Preview" folder in this directory should get recreated, just like a new plist file. This Library/Containers structure seems to have started with Lion and above. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 8 May 2013, at 04:36, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone else having any issues with preview? > > Basically when I set the view to "single page" then VO says "scroll area", > inside which it says "text" but reads nothing. When I set to continuous view > all text etc. is there. I think I deleted all preview plist files from > ~/library/preferences, and didn't see any in the /library/preferences folders > but are they stored anywhere else? > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dónal > Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick, > School of Computing, > Dublin City University, > Glasnevin, > Dublin 9, Ireland > Tel. +353-(0)1-700-8929 > fax: +353-(0)1-700-5442 > email: dfitzpat (at) computing.dcu.ie <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
