Each of my two Macs have just lately suffered from an issue the place immediately Focus will not open information or purposes. For instance in the event you seek for the string setting it’s going to present System Settings however in the event you press enter or click on on the end result, completely nothing occurs—the menu simply closes. It additionally does the identical for apps which are already operating, and for information that beforehand used to trigger apps to open these information.
That is type of maddening; I exploit Highlight to modify between apps and open specific information all day day-after-day. So I am 100% certain that in each circumstances it was working completely high-quality, after which it immediately simply stopped, within the second case I am fairly certain it stopped whereas I used to be utilizing the pc.
In each circumstances this occurred solely after updating to Sonoma (at the moment 14.5 23F79). For my iMac it was quickly after updating, possibly a number of days in. For the laptop computer it was a couple of weeks after updating. For the iMac I may by no means make it work once more, even after reboots; I needed to reimage the machine and afterward the issue was gone. The laptop computer simply began having the issue in the present day a couple of hours in the past, and it went away after rebooting, however now it is again a couple of hours later. I suppose I will reimage it too, however I am terrified the issue will come again in a couple of weeks.
Most different reviews are about Highlight not even displaying apps within the first place. This isn’t that drawback: the apps present up, however do not activate once I choose them. I’ve tried rebuilding the Highlight index with sudo mdutil -a -E, however it did not assist.
I do know this can be a very imprecise report, and I apologize. Does anybody have any concept what is perhaps inflicting this?
Replace: the issue appears to focus on a battle decision dialog for an iCloud drive doc that I open on a regular basis with Highlight. At the moment if I killall -9 Highlight Highlight works completely high-quality precisely till I attempt to use it to open a markdown file referred to as reply.md. Once I do this nothing occurs, after which no different apps can ever be activated once more.
If I as a substitute attempt to open that file with Finder, I get the “Modifications aren’t in sync. Select which variations to maintain.” dialog. Generally once I select one to maintain I get an error about how Finder could not open TextMate. Different occasions it really works.
It looks like the Highlight course of is possibly hanging when it tries to open that doc and desires to indicate the battle decision dialog (which labored high-quality earlier than Sonoma). I do not know why Finder can also’t open the file generally even after I reply to the dialog.
