Recently installed Dorico 6 on my Mac and am surprised to see file names pop up when the cursor hovers over the centre of the screen. They seem to be coming from the Hub which is hidden behind.
Is there a way to minimise the Hub? It certainly is not there when I’m working a score (when I show all windows etc.) but returns if I close a score in readiness for the next project.
When these ghosts show up they get in the way of seeing what I’m trying to edit. Very irritating.
I have discovered that this could be a Mac issue as it happens with others not using Dorico but their solutions involved clearing the Recent Files and the Downloads folder which I did to no effect. Clearly, in my case, the Hub is affecting my work.
I don’t think the Hub is open when you’re working on a document. If it is, you should be able to Command ` to switch to it, or use the Mac Application Windows function.
There is a Preference for what happens when the last window is closed:
I’ve noticed that when the ghosting of file names appears when the cursor hits a certain spot - if I close Dorico then they go away. So perhaps this is a Dorico and not a MAC issue?
In the end, whatever the source of the issue is, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious answer to a fix. All I know is that the Dorico Hub is ghosting file names whenever I have Dorico open. Doesn’t happen when it is closed.
I’m on a Mac and get this behaviour occasionally even if Dorico is not open. Specifically, if a desktop document or folder is selected in Finder and I then move to an open application (using cmd-Tab, for example), the name of the item selected in Finder will sometimes appear in front of the window of the application. It happens at random and I haven’t been able to discern a pattern as to when it occurs. My guess is that one of the many background processes which run continuously in modern operating systems (such as macOS and Windows) is not being updated as quickly as normal and the display of the name of the selected item, which probably should happen only in Finder, is being delayed enough so that it then displays in, or on top of, another open application.
The one occasion when it has happened less unpredictably is when I am using the Firefox browser and have opened a window to my ISP’s webmail login. If I have clicked in the field for email address/username but not actually selected any of the three saved addresses which appear in a drop-down list and then clicked away to a different window in Firefox or in another application, that drop-down list will sometimes appear hovering over wherever the mouse pointer happens to be. It does not happen all the time, though, and it does not happen as frequently with more recent versions both of Firefox (v. 145.0.2) and the macOS version I am running (Sequoia 15.7.2).
But different again. It seems the glitch is there but manifests depending on what is currently running – whether it’s the finder or, in my case, the Hub – background noise with which the cursor is linking.
