Cursor not working properly on Mac OS X El Capitan

[Susanna Schollum]

I've been working on a nearly 300 page document and over the past few days the cursor has started playing up big time. It disappears completely and won't insert back in the text. Sometimes it will appear flashing at the top left hand corner of that page's text box, but can't be moved around. The only way I can then access the text is to use the find and replace feature to highlight text, and as long as I click on the highlighted area the cursor will appear and I can move it around using the arrow keys. As soon as I do any other action, like saving, the cursor disappears again and I'm back at square one. To make matters worse, yesterday after doing a number of laborious text editing, although I saved regularly to the cloud and a usb, none of the changes were visible when I reopened the doc. sigh.

* Updated the affinity app in case that was the problem, but no change.

* Checked hardware acceleration option, but it's blanked out and I can't select on or off.

* Took a quick video using my phone but can't upload it to this (file too big probably)

* No changes to hardware or software used.

So last night I gave up and copied everything across to a brand new publisher doc, spent time reformatting etc, and this morning was still able to access the cursor initially in the new doc. Then I opened up section manager and sorted out all the sections again. By the time I'd finished that, the cursor wouldn't work on the new doc. I went back and deleted all the sections in case that was the problem. The cursor still didn't show.

Any ideas?

 

[NathanC]

Hi @Susanna Schollum welcome to the forums,

To see if I can replicate your issue, could you upload your file along with the recording you took to the below private dropbox link? I'll then be able to investigate further into what might be causing this.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/85uzBY3IOnAEsPhmF9Oc

Could you also send a screenshot over of your performance preferences?

[Nin]

Hi,

I'm having the same issue.  My system:  macOS Monterey version 12.4 on a Mac mini.  Dual screens.  

This issue started after I set up my sections.  

Images embedded.  Saved to iCloud.

I'm at the point where I want to uninstall and do a fresh install.  But I'll wait to hear what I should do.

Any and all help is appreciated,

Mel

AP_curser_issues2022-07-29.mov

Edited July 29, 2022 by Nin
upload different video format

[NathanC]

Hi @Nin,

Thanks for providing a video demonstration, out of interest what are your First Line/Left Indents set to in the Paragraph panel? This could be caused by having these values set to an unusually high value.

Though I did notice this is consistent even when no paragraph style is selected, if this is something which is persistent on a specific file after applying sections and not caused by indents, could you provide a sample file which you're encountering this issue on? I've provided a private dropbox link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/z4S8KO1ed09KcsKmBpNH