acrobat Auto saving files ?

[LovelyMaria]

here is my problem:

some one from the night shift ppls play with my G5, when I came in the mornning and start my system I found some thing sooo string :

1) acrobat (verison 6 ) is autosaving the files?
2) when ever I click any icon it will drow a black box around it and it will tell or read the name of the file with the voice ??

still I am discovering more .. for now I hope some one can help me with this two and why and how ??

[Sparky]

I'd say someone is screwing with your system. Check your system preferences especially the International settings.

Are you at admin level or do you have to log in as a "worker bee" and share. If not I would suggest changing the log in password again and set the prefs back to what you had. Or create a separate log-in for the night crew and limit what they can access.

:roll:

[LovelyMaria]

thanks Sparky
I did check the system prefrences and International settings but no thing wrong is there .. I am in Admin level all the time and I did creat new account with admin things but still nothing .. one more thing .. + the problems I tell before ( when I ope any file in INDCS1 or Acrobat 6 PRO ) the file keept updaiting itself ?????

[David]

Originally Posted by LovelyMaria

here is my problem:

some one from the night shift ppls play with my G5, when I came in the mornning and start my system I found some thing sooo string :

1) acrobat (verison 6 ) is autosaving the files?
2) when ever I click any icon it will drow a black box around it and it will tell or read the name of the file with the voice ??

still I am discovering more .. for now I hope some one can help me with this two and why and how ??

1) I don't have Acro 6, but I think you should be able to turn "auto save" off in the preferences
2) Go to your system prefs and click on the Speech icon. Turn "speakable items" off

I've seen this happen before when a certain keyboard combo is used, that key combo is a quick key for some of the system prefs.

hope this helps,
David

[LovelyMaria]

Thanks David
I checked what you ask me to check in System Preferences and the SPEAKABLE ITEMS was off ... one more thing my G5 is not only reading the name of the file its also reading each single thing I will type and It will tell all the commands if I select some thing it will tell that 2 Icons selected or Adobe acrobat file is selected or folder is selected, if I press a key while the Mac is busy it will tell that busy busy busy, I don't know what the hell I have to do. I checked the preferences of Acrobat and there is nothing call Auto save or Auto update?? Still its slow and it took forever to do an action of PITSTOP.

[David]

For the voices you hear:
go to your system preferences/speech/spoken user interface and un-check anything under the "other spoken items".

for your Acrobat:
check your plug ins folder and see if there is a plug in called "auto save".
If you have one, toss it onto the desktop and see if that doesn't fix it.
(keep in mind, I don't have Acro 6 so I 'm going on memory here.)

[MarkDouma]

Tiger includes a feature called "VoiceOver" which is most likely what you're experiencing. The person who used your Mac may have unintentionally activated this feature, since the default globally-active keyboard shortcut for it is Command-F5.

To turn it off, go to System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing tab and turn VoiceOver off. While you're at it, switch over to the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane > Keyboard Shortcuts tab and disable the keyboard shortcuts for "Turn VoiceOver on or off" so it doesn't happen again.

Regarding autosaving in Acrobat, can you explain what you're seeing that leads you to believe it's autosaving files? (Just trying to see if this might be the "Acro#######.tmp" file issue that only affects Tiger).

Hope this helps....

[LovelyMaria]

You are my hero MarkDouma
Thanksso much, It works finally and I will do what Spark told me for saving my Mac from night shift ppls. Yes I am getting that with illy and Acrobat ####.tmp.
I appreciate your help David, thanks to all

[MarkDouma]

Yes I am getting that with illy and Acrobat ####.tmp

This happens due to the way some Adobe applications are saving files. For example, you create a new document and save it as "File.ai". Then, after making a few changes, you hit Command-S to save it again. What's happening is that first, Illustrator makes a copy of the original file and names it something like "Acro879834.tmp", just to give it a unique name. It then saves the new file over top of the old one. If for some reason the power were to go out, etc. while it was overwriting the original file, the file could be left in an incomplete and damaged state. That's why a copy of the original file is saved temporarily, just in case. Once the file is successfully saved, Illustrator is supposed to delete the "Acro879834.tmp" file. However, it's unable to do so because Spotlight is indexing the content of that file so that it's in use. While some consider this a problem with Spotlight, it's really Illustrator that should be saving the temporary file as an invisible file, or otherwise configure it so that Spotlight won't index it at all.

Spotlight indexes the files because they're PDF files, which has an importer for it. One option to prevent the .tmp files from being created, at least for Illustrator, is to uncheck the option to make the .ai file PDF-compatible. Since Adobe hasn't provided an mdimporter plugin for any of their files, an Illustrator file won't be indexed.

Another possibility is to name the folder that contains the .ai file in a special way so that Spotlight won't look inside of it to index the files it contains. If you end the folder's name with ".noindex" or ".build", Spotlight shouldn't look inside of it. For example name the folder "vector art.noindex".

Another possibility is to add the path to the file(s) you're working on to the Privacy pane in the Spotlight preference pane in System Preferences.

Or, you could just delete the files manually.

Hope this helps....