Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Problems with Wordfast Pro under Mavericks
Poster: David Daduč
Post title: Try shrinking browse dialogues
Here is what I wrote to the WFP discussion list about the WFP on Mavericks problem yesterday:
If you suffer the problems (the File Open or Save As dialogues not opening, or even WFP crashing), please try the following: quit WFP and launch it afresh. Go to the Translation Memory menu and click New/Select TM. Click Create TM. Do you see the large dialogue box that displays folders, the search field, etc? I suppose you do. If so, note if you see a small icon running in circles next to the New Folder button (in the bottom left corner). If so, click any existing folder listed on the left-hand side (among Favourites, for example), such as Desktop. That should stop the spinning icon. When this is done, click the small "arrow up" icon next to the Save As field at the top of the dialogue. The dialogue will shrink. Cancel the dialogue now. Cancel the Create TM dialogue. Cancel the TM management window to get back into the main WFP window. Quit WFP and launch it again.
When this is done, open documents to translate by drag-and-dropping them into WFP (or, for recently used documents, by clicking their name straight in the File menu). When saving a file, never click the "arrow-down" button next to the file name field, i.e. avoid expanding the dialogue; instead either save the file in the default directory, or type in the path manually. When you follow these rules, is the problem gone or at least significantly alleviated? Of course, not being able to navigate through folders when open or save documents is a nuisance - but if it turns out this actually fixes (part of) the problem, it would be great to know and I hope it would help the developers fix the problem.
I'm adding two screenshots. The first one shows the large (expanded) dialogue with the spinning icon at the bottom and the "arrow-up" button at the top. The second one shows the small (shrunk) dialogue with the "arrow-down" button you should avoid clicking (because expanded dialogues seem to be causing trouble).
A Mavericks user replied it helped him. If you try this, let us know if it helped you as well.
Topic: Problems with Wordfast Pro under Mavericks
Poster: David Daduč
Post title: Try shrinking browse dialogues
Here is what I wrote to the WFP discussion list about the WFP on Mavericks problem yesterday:
If you suffer the problems (the File Open or Save As dialogues not opening, or even WFP crashing), please try the following: quit WFP and launch it afresh. Go to the Translation Memory menu and click New/Select TM. Click Create TM. Do you see the large dialogue box that displays folders, the search field, etc? I suppose you do. If so, note if you see a small icon running in circles next to the New Folder button (in the bottom left corner). If so, click any existing folder listed on the left-hand side (among Favourites, for example), such as Desktop. That should stop the spinning icon. When this is done, click the small "arrow up" icon next to the Save As field at the top of the dialogue. The dialogue will shrink. Cancel the dialogue now. Cancel the Create TM dialogue. Cancel the TM management window to get back into the main WFP window. Quit WFP and launch it again.
When this is done, open documents to translate by drag-and-dropping them into WFP (or, for recently used documents, by clicking their name straight in the File menu). When saving a file, never click the "arrow-down" button next to the file name field, i.e. avoid expanding the dialogue; instead either save the file in the default directory, or type in the path manually. When you follow these rules, is the problem gone or at least significantly alleviated? Of course, not being able to navigate through folders when open or save documents is a nuisance - but if it turns out this actually fixes (part of) the problem, it would be great to know and I hope it would help the developers fix the problem.
I'm adding two screenshots. The first one shows the large (expanded) dialogue with the spinning icon at the bottom and the "arrow-up" button at the top. The second one shows the small (shrunk) dialogue with the "arrow-down" button you should avoid clicking (because expanded dialogues seem to be causing trouble).
A Mavericks user replied it helped him. If you try this, let us know if it helped you as well.