System alert sound when pressing spacebar to drag.

[caseym67414055]

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.

[J453]

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]

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.

[jamesc58847370]

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!

[_mads_]

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!