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Resolved Screencapture doesn't reset after recording 10.14.6

Kevbasscat

Kevbasscat

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Whenever I use Screencapture to record my screen, and then attempt to make another screencapture, the menu bar does not pop up to allow me to record. I must go to Activity Monitor and Force Quit Screencapture to get it to record again. It's not dumping or resseting it's memory. How do I fix this? Anyone know? This has been going on since 10.14.1 through 10.14.6 including latest updates.
 
Kevbasscat said:
Whenever I use Screencapture to record my screen, and then attempt to make another screencapture, the menu bar does not pop up to allow me to record. I must go to Activity Monitor and Force Quit Screencapture to get it to record again. It's not dumping or resseting it's memory. How do I fix this? Anyone know? This has been going on since 10.14.1 through 10.14.6 including latest updates.
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The same thing happened on my wife's iMac. I found two 'workarounds'. One is to initiate screencapture from Preview. The other way is to buy Parallels Toolbox (about $20) which has a superior version of screencapture (plus lots of other applets), and that is what she now uses.
On my older MacPro with a patched Catalina, screencapture works fine.
 
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GDMSR said:
The same thing happened on my wife's iMac. I found two 'workarounds'. One is to initiate screencapture from Preview. The other way is to buy Parallels Toolbox (about $20) which has a superior version of screencapture (plus lots of other applets), and that is what she now uses.
On my older MacPro with a patched Catalina, screencapture works fine.
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Thank you so much for your help. I realy don't know the first thing about parells, but it seems everyone has, and uses it, so I should bone up.

That's so sad Apple can't get ther own app to work properly. Too busy removing notches, charging ports, functionality, like preventing 2017 Macs from getting HDR10 and Dolby Atmos, when the the same Windows Pc's process it easily. You know, those and a few and other critically important efforts to force you to upgrade prematurely.
 
bogdanw said:
I use QuickTime Player to record my screen, paired with SoundFlower if I need audio recording as well.
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Are you on 10.14.6 or Mojave at all? Screenshots is a built in app that is part of that particular OS, and should operate as such. Mine simply does not. Thus the reason for the tread.
 
Kevbasscat said:
Are you on 10.14.6 or Mojave at all? Screenshots is a built in app that is part of that particular OS, and should operate as such. Mine simply does not. Thus the reason for the tread.
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Yes, I'm on Mojave 10.14.6 (18G2022). I never used the Screenshot.app because I don't like it. I use QuickTime Player for video capture and Shift-Command-3 & Shift-Command-4 for screenshots.
 
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bogdanw said:
Yes, I'm on Mojave 10.14.6 (18G2022). I never used the Screenshot.app because I don't like it. I use QuickTime Player for video capture and Shift-Command-3 & Shift-Command-4 for screenshots.
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Why may I ask don't you care for it? That's very cool the shortcuts for Qt recording and screenshots, I'll give that a go. Soundflower is from? Darn, I forgot...I have it on my 9,1, but it's put away. Which company or site again? Thanks.
 
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