Questions tagged [dialog]
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Select/copy Finder dialog text
In Catalina (10.15) it was possible to select and copy the prompt of an open dialog. (see photo) Is there a defaults command to make it available after Catalina? (Monterey)
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Application.GetOpenFilename() MultiSelect option doesn't work in Mac Excel VBA
How do I make the "MultiSelect" option work in the Application.GetOpenFilename() method? Despite Microsoft's help page, setting this argument to True doesn't allow me to select multiple ...
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Permission dialog: app wants to use confidential information
Permission Dialog Whenever I use the Mailchimp app for macOS, I get a system dialog asking Mailchimp wants to use your confidential information stored in Safari Forms autofill encryption key in your ...
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How to diagnose a dialog box that flashes up unpredictably, at irregular intervals, too fast to read contents?
Over the last couple of days, I’ve repeatedly had a dialog box appear for a fraction of a second and then disappear, much too quickly to read the contents. It’s happened maybe 4 or 5 times so far; it ...
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How to include variables in the text shown in a osascript display dialog
I'm creating a cool script to bother me by asking to close the app with the name of the variable after the specified minutes. The osascript display dialog is become more complex. Now it's working ...
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osascript script to get answer and buttons of display dialog
I'm creating a cool script to bother me by asking to close some distracting apps that I open without realising. For that, I do this: MINUTES_UNTIL_ASK_TO_CLOSE=`osascript -e 'set T to text returned of ...
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How to prevent macOS or Finder from popping up the dialogue to restore my iPhone in recovery mode?
macOS 11.7. Every time when my connected iPhone enters recovery mode, Finder automatically opens a new window and shows this dialogue. Not sure how possible it is, but I'd like it not to show up ...
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How to prevent macOS from popping up "disk not readable" for my external drive without making any change to the disk? [duplicate]
Similar question: How to get rid of "The disk you inserted was not readable" and auto ignore it? (without installing apps). However, in their case they were able to create an additional ...
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In the Save As dialogue, how can I save to the top (or another active) Finder window
Frequently what I would like to do in a Save As dialog box is to click a single button or type a single command that would select the top window in the Finder (or another active Finder window, but it ...
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Keyboard Access and Dialog Box Buttons
After upgrading to Catalina from High Sierra. I found that I can no longer use the enter key in place of the mouse to click on dialog box buttons. Keyboard access and navigation is currently enabled ...
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OS pop-up windows are unresponsive on macOS Monterey
I've been having this issue for many OS versions now, where every other day, all of the OS level dialog windows (sorry I don't know the technical name for them) will become unresponsive after ...
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Dialog boxes will not click Monterey
I have been having an issue lately (I have never had this issue before). When an app gives me a dialog box (such as an applescript error, a permission dialog, or an unexpected quit), I will not be ...
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Can't select files or folders in dialog box
Every time I want to save or open a file from any program (Chrome, Keynote, Numbers, Safari,...) on my 2021 MBP, when the dialog box opens I can't click on any of the folders or files, nor can I click ...
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Why does the 'open file' dialog contain an 'options' button on some devices but not others?
I‘m using <input type="file" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" /> (run it on CodePen to test it). in my web page to allow the user to select an image file. In the first picture ...
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Applescript Illustrator Dialogs
I have an AppleScript that does stuff in Illustrator and saves the file and then does other stuff. On almost every machine it works. One oddball Mac (macOS 11.6.2 - Illustrator 26.0.2) machine the ...