Motion 3 Commands Missing

[Stephen Smith]

If you are in the File Browser and hit the Command and 1 keys it will disappear. If you hit the Command and 1 keys again it will re-appear. But you already know that. So I think the unfortunate answer is: Trash your Preferences. Here is an article on how to do that: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1885
Hope this helps.

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[Keith Hill]

Thanks. I found that link in a thread yesterday and performed the un-install.

There appears to be a problem with Motion 3.0.2 operating on my PPC OS X 10.4.11 because when I did the install of Motion 2 everything was fine. When I did the upgrades to make it current the File Browser, Library and Inspector window have disappeared again. This is a bug of some sort. It appears that I need to stay on Motion 2 or something to get my work done.

Keith Hill
Lighted Path Films | Productions
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creator of TheJudahSet.com
Dallas, TX
G5 2Ghz, OS X (v10.4.11), Final Cut Studio 2 | Combustion 2008 | Cinema4D | Mocha | DVX100A 24p

[Stephen Smith]

Sorry Keith, I’ve never heard of that before. This must be very frustrating. I wonder if Motion 4 would work better. Only $299 for an upgrade.

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[Keith Hill]

Yes, very frustrating.

Well, I went over to the Apple Support Forum and found someone having the same problem when their Inspector was missing. They did the following:

After quitting Motion…

1. Hit Shift-Command-H
2. Click on Library folder
3. Click on Preferences folder
4. Find ‘com.apple.motion.plist’ (list should be alphabetical so it shouldn’t be hard to find) and drag to trash
5. Restart Motion – everything should be fine now

THIS HAS WORKED!

Thing is though. I did this before performing the un-install and it didn’t help. I, then did the un-install, then upgrades to 3.0.2 and got the problem back and now followed the above instructions and the commands, browsers are back. Very strange. I hope this problem doesn’t come back.

Hopefully this can help someone else.

Thanks for looking at this with me, Stephen.

Keith Hill
Lighted Path Films | Productions
https://www.LightedPath.biz
creator of TheJudahSet.com
Dallas, TX
G5 2Ghz, OS X (v10.4.11), Final Cut Studio 2 | Combustion 2008 | Cinema4D | Mocha | DVX100A 24p

[Stephen Smith]

Good find. Thanks for sharing with the rest of us. Best of luck on your project.

Lone Peak Productions

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[Edward Bellamy]

Guys, excellent advice, after having encountered the same problem the un-install/ re-install route led to a temporary fix, but deleting the plist. has appeared to provide an ultimate fix. What a strange problem, expecially considering my previous version of 3.0.2 had been running perfectly!
Anyway thanks again.