P: CS5/CS6 text deletes when highlighted for editing on MacOS 10.9

Thanks David, the DICTATION & SPEECH function switch off works a treat.

Worked For me! Thanks!

My problem went away when I turned off the dictation feature in Mavericks. It was previously print in both CS6 and CC newly created files.This is obviously a compatibility issue existing between the Adobe product and the feature on the OS. I don't use the dictation feature so the fix works for me.

Sending you an email...8-)

Hi David, I am still having this problem under some use cases, similar to what Mark described above. I posted a comment on this thread a couple of months ago. I am a longtime adobe user and would be happy to do a screen share or something to show you the problem in action. That might be better than trying to explain it in words. Thanks, Mike

Hiya Mark,

These was a bug similar to what you are describing in the past, but it has been fixed since CS6. That said, files which were created or edited using previous versions of Photoshop could have the problem introduced and there is no way to "fix" the particular file.

Are you seeing this problem with newly-created files or only with files which already existed?

Thanks,
David

I have a frustrating problem with Photoshop on my Macbook Pro. I can enter text without any problem, but the minute I try to edit it, resize, change font or colour it totallt dissappears and the layer name revers to 'layer x" (whatever number it is). This problem has appeared since the upgrade to OSX Mavericks, but only on my Macbook Pro...it does not happen on my 27" iMac which is running the same OS.

I have totally uninstalled all my CC Apps on the Mackbook Pro, reinstalled Photoshop CC, same problem.

I uninstalled CC again, and reinstalled Photoshop CS6, same problem.

this is despite having run the software without problem previously.

The Macbook Pro is a early 2010 model, has only 256 graphics...so cant run the 3D option of CC,but it has 8gig ram...the only difference between the Macbook Pro and iMac in terms of spec is the different graphics card size. (iMac is late 2012 newer version)

I found the same thing; as long as I successfully inserted text the bug doesn't happen either with or without Enhanced. I also found, however, that even if I didn't use Dictation in PS but did in another app unsuccessfully, it would still destabilize PS. Just a heads up to keep in mind...8-(

Good to know, though I actually had the 'Enhanced' bit completely disabled the whole time (never used it). For me, as long as Dictation successfully inserts text, or gets turned off completely, it resolves the text deletion issue.

Thank you! Dictation is the culprit. However turning off the dictation didn't solve it 100% for me. I had 'use enhanced dictation' turned on, which ended up being the specific setting that caused highlighted text to delete itself. So it's possible to use dictation, just make sure your enhanced dictation setting is unchecked and it solved all my problems. Thank you David for leading me in the right direction.