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When Spaces works, it is great for a nice clean look. Just now I was editing a film score and all of a sudden the Quicktime movie moved to Space 1 (assigned to the Finder and misc programs such as Quicktime) and DP's dedicated windows (such as Control Panel) would only appear in Space 6 (which I use for DP). Yet the transport for DP was active in Space 1 if the movie window was active, as well as in Space 6.

I'd been working all day with DP in Space 6 without a problem, but when I went to resize the movie window to check on some precise timing - BAM! the movie went to space 1 and the DP windows dropped out of site to space 6. Return to Space 6 and the DP windows were there and the movie window was gone.

Parallel universes at work!

Disabling and re-enabling Spaces brought things back to the expected behavior and the bug is not easily reproducible.

I'm gonna go with Apple as the culprit on this as Spaces has failed in a few other programs as well and was a "fix" in the latest release of Leopard. But for present and future lurkers with this problem, try the above to get back to "normal."

I've had the exact same issue since the last update. Very odd and I cannot reproduce it at will, it crops up randomly. I've also had an issue with VIs appearing over the main DP window randomly when switching spaces. It is frustrating because it worked so well before the update.

-Kevin

IAMLFO wrote:I've had the exact same issue since the last update. Very odd and I cannot reproduce it at will, it crops up randomly. I've also had an issue with VIs appearing over the main DP window randomly when switching spaces. It is frustrating because it worked so well before the update.

-Kevin

I am thinking that perhaps keeping DP and QUicktime in the same Space might be the answer (and in separate Spaces being the problem.) Since DP is accessing QT for data, QT wants to be in it's assigned Space. Just a theory...

Thanks for the confirmation and post!

I've had similar problems with other programs. Namely Final Cut Pro. Supposedly the last OS update (10.5.3?) was going to address some of there issues, but I still get them from time to time. I think spaces isn't really "finished" yet. Love using it though, somehow makes my mind less cluttered.

Feste wrote:I've had similar problems with other programs. Namely Final Cut Pro. Supposedly the last OS update (10.5.3?) was going to address some of there issues, but I still get them from time to time. I think spaces isn't really "finished" yet. Love using it though, somehow makes my mind less cluttered.

I think that is the appeal. A clean slate in each project with no need to "hide" anything. Like all things digital, it'll take a while to see: 1) If people will embrace the technology and 2) if the feature is really worth developing.