 Switching letters when beginning to type
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Joined: Aug 2009
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I have been battling a problem for months (sometimes does not show up, but most often it does). When I first typing in a program (switching to a program), the first two letters are swapping. So, for instance, I type John, and it immediately changes to oJhn (sometimes it switches the first three letters, so it would be ohJn. Unfortunately, it happens with numbers, and when I log into web sites, the account number is not entered correctly.
I have tried adjusting the CocoaAspell, Spell Catcher, and a few other things, but nothing seems to correct it. Occasionally, when I restart the computer, it will be fine, but the next time, it reverts back to this behavior. Any thoughts on how to resolve?
MacBook Pro 15†Matte, OS X 10.6.6
Scrivener 2, Mellel 2.7.3, DevonThinkPro 2, Accordance 9.1,
OpenOffice.Org 3.3, Notebook 3, Reunion 9, Tinderbox 5.6.1
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Re: Switching letters when beginning to type
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Joined: Aug 2009
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Tried another account, and no problems.
As a first step, I disabled TextExpander. that solved the problem, but now I can't use TextExpander. Nuts.
MacBook Pro 15†Matte, OS X 10.6.6
Scrivener 2, Mellel 2.7.3, DevonThinkPro 2, Accordance 9.1,
OpenOffice.Org 3.3, Notebook 3, Reunion 9, Tinderbox 5.6.1
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Re: Switching letters when beginning to type
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Joined: Aug 2009
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Joined: Aug 2009
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Could be a corrupted preference file. In your normal account, go to Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and move com.smileonmymac.textexpander.plist to the desktop (at least, that's what I think it would be called; I don't have TextExpander so I can't experiment). Log out/in. If the problem is solved, reset your TE preferences and trash the bad plist. If not, put it back and then log out/in again.
Jon
macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365
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Re: Switching letters when beginning to type
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Joined: Aug 2009
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Thanks. I did that, and it does appear that the plist had been corrupted. I will tentatively say that this has been solved.
MacBook Pro 15†Matte, OS X 10.6.6
Scrivener 2, Mellel 2.7.3, DevonThinkPro 2, Accordance 9.1,
OpenOffice.Org 3.3, Notebook 3, Reunion 9, Tinderbox 5.6.1
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