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caseym67414055
caseym67414055
Inspiring
January 10, 2022
Question

System alert sound when pressing spacebar to drag.

  • January 10, 2022
  • 2 replies
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My mac makes a system alert sound whenever I press the spacebar to use the hand tool.

This began happening a few days ago. No settings have changed.

2 replies

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jamesc58847370
Participant
November 22, 2022

I had this issue and found that it was caused by having the Apple calculator open at the same time as Photoshop. Downright bizarre, but when I close the calculator the alert sound stops!

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    _mads_
    Participant
    August 3, 2023

    OMG that was it for me! I find the calculator immensely useful and I like having it handy, but so glad to not need to deal with the endless alerts. Maybe a third-party calculator won't have the same issues. Or I'll just purchase a slide rule. THANK YOU!

      J
      J453
      Legend
      January 12, 2022

      Are you using a tablet?

       

      Let's also make sure you're back at a known default state. Restore your preferences using this manual method:
      https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
      Does it work correctly?
      If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back.
      If it does solve the problem, I would like to get the folder of settings to try and figure out what is bad with them.

        caseym67414055
        caseym67414055Author
        Inspiring
        May 7, 2022

        Sorry for taking so long to respond, I'm just been living with the issue. Now I'm conditioned to wince every time I press the space bar 😂

         

        I removed the settings folder and so far so good. The issue seems to have a mind of it's own though and will happen at random. Will update if it comes back. Thank you for the help.

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