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[Mike Bailey]

Occasionally I get a partially frozen finder which I can unfreeze by forcing Spell Catcher to quit. I have use of the keyboard, but the mouse is frozen.

I'm able to force quit by using alt cmd esc on the keyboard then cursoring down to Spell Catcher and pressing the return key. This may be a conflict as looking at this forum it appears that Spell Catcher doesn't play well with a number of programs? Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or got suggestions how to resolve it?

Thanks

Mike

[Evan Gross]

Mike Bailey, on 16 December 2010 - 06:09 PM, said:

Occasionally I get a partially frozen finder which I can unfreeze by forcing Spell Catcher to quit. I have use of the keyboard, but the mouse is frozen.

I'm able to force quit by using alt cmd esc on the keyboard then cursoring down to Spell Catcher and pressing the return key. This may be a conflict as looking at this forum it appears that Spell Catcher doesn't play well with a number of programs? Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or got suggestions how to resolve it?

Thanks

Mike

I've certainly never heard of anything like this.

How easily can you reproduce it?

When it happens, see if you can open the Activity Monitor utility, see which process is listed as "not responding". Take a sample of it, save the sample text, and email it to our feedback address.

A frozen mouse is rarely caused by a (user space) software issue - almost always a kernel extension or other hardware-related one. Especially strange that you can't move the mouse, but can use the keyboard…

And you can always word the "not play well" phrase the other way around - i.e. there are applications that don't play well with Spell Catcher and other input methods…