Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by jhenkens on Saturday February 02, 2013 @12:11AM (#5155251)

The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again.

I'm so happy I have nice friends.

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by mathrawka on Saturday February 02, 2013 @01:09AM (#5155355)

Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by pyre on Saturday February 02, 2013 @01:48AM (#5155414)

Why would the spell checker be running against in-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by bdash on Saturday February 02, 2013 @02:01AM (#5155433)

My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by pyre on Saturday February 02, 2013 @09:55AM (#5156092)

Then why would disabling Spellchecking affect that?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by chromejs10 on Saturday February 02, 2013 @01:10PM (#5156735)

This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by seppler on Sunday February 03, 2013 @05:23AM (#5159276)

This will remove any messages from your iMessage database that contain %File:% (% is a wildcard):

sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db "delete from message where text like "%File:%"

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