OK thanks Ronni. Good idea. Please send along your trackpad settings. It may turn out to be something as straightforward as that.
Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 25/01/2011, at 11:06, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Carlo, > > It could be a trackpad setting you have selected. If you wish I could send > you a screenshot “Offlist” of my trackpad settings for comparison. > > Cheers, > Ronni > On 25/01/2011, at 10:54 AM, cm wrote: > >> >> Hmm... Interesting. Knowing that it doesn't happen on your MacBook Pro rules >> out a lot of common causes. I must have some unusual software installed or >> some unusual operating system or application preference selected. I have >> seen at least three other users with the problem in the Apple support forums. >> >> An interesting addition was that while I was submitting the bug report to >> Apple I realised that the problem also occurs for me in Safari text areas. >> :-) >> >> Thanks for going above and beyond to reproduce the problem, Ronni. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> On 2011-01-25, at 10:38, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Carlo, >>> >>> Ok, I just changed my trackpad ‘Three Fingers' from ‘Swipe to Navigate’ to >>> ‘Dragging’. >>> Opened Mail and tested and it works perfectly the same as in my previous >>> reply. >>> >>> i.e.: Use three fingers drag over text (to highlight), type new text … and >>> text is replaced. >>> >>> Exactly the same as using the same method in TextEdit. >>> >>> So I don’t think it is a bug, but something going on with your setup or >>> Mail App.? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
