• Apple OS X

  Lost Program Window

  Posted by Trey Gregory on May 5, 2009 at 2:17 pm

  Greetings!

  I’m running into a problem that I am hoping someone will be able to assist me with. Here’s the situation:

  At my office I work off my macbook pro with a second monitor attached. Sometimes, when I close a program that is running on my second monitor and restart the program later without the second monitor attached the program will open off-screen. I can see the very bottom right corner of the program, but I can’t move the program window onto my main laptop display. It’s like the OS still thinks that I have the extended desktop provided by my additional monitor.

  Typically, I can plug a second monitor into my laptop and then unplug it, causing all the windows to be gathered to my laptop screen. However, I am traveling now and don’t have a monitor to use to fix the problem.

  I feel like there must be a simple way to get my program window to my laptop screen, but I can’t seem to find a way to do it.

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  Trey Gregory
  ECG Productions – Atlanta
  HD Production and Post
  https://www.ecgprod.com

  Markus Löffler replied 11 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Trey Gregory

  May 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm

  After many frustrating hours of searching, i found an answer to this issue.

  You have to download and run a simple script which returns all your windows to the main screen.

  I found a downloadable version of the script here:

  https://www.jonathanlaliberte.com/2007/10/19/move-all-windows-to-your-main-screen/

  best-

  Trey Gregory
  ECG Productions – Atlanta
  HD Production and Post
  https://www.ecgprod.com
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  Markus Löffler

  November 11, 2014 at 3:34 pm

  If you don’t want to deal with scripting, I wrote a ready-to-go menu bar for it, it’s free: https://bring-em-back.com.
  Markus

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