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support
articles
When app shortcuts are truncated...
I’ve tried adding some app shortcuts to Mojave using the Keyboard pane, but their
names keep being replaced with ellipsis marks. What am I doing wrong?
You’re not doing anything wrong at all: this is
a bug in Mojave, which we hope Apple will fix
in the near future.
Open the Keyboard pane, select the
Shortcuts tab, then App Shortcuts on the left.
Add around three to four custom shortcuts
using the + button below and you’ll see that
some of their names, which are the text of
the menu commands they call, are replaced
by an ellipsis character (“...”).
This makes them almost impossible to
manage. If you need to change a name when
it is shown as an ellipsis, you must perform
keyhole surgery through a tiny window into
the text. Worst of all, when this strikes you
can’t really see what each of your app
shortcuts actually does.
The problem does come and go, though.
Sometimes every name will be replaced by an
ellipsis, sometimes they are all shown clearly.
There doesn’t seem to be anything that you
can do to help the situation.Can I unpack
a cpgz archive?
The app that handles those and other
types of archive is Archive Utility, which
shows up if you search for it using
Spotlight. Open it, then drag and drop the
archive onto the utility’s icon in the Dock.
How can I change the save
location for screenshots?This used to require Terminal, but is easier
in macOS Mojave. Press Cmd+Shift+5 to
open the screenshots toolbar, click
Options, and pick a location from the
“Save to” group in the pop–up menu.Add several app shortcuts and their names may change to ellipses, making them difficult to manage.
Tech Support & Techsplanations
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