Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread Donna Goodin
I have just tried using iBooks for the first time as well. I know this may seem like a sort of basic suggestion, but the first time I opened iBooks, I had the same problem. I closed and reopened the app, and now the problem has gone away. You might give that a try. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 7, 2

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have just tried using iBooks for the first time, so I need to add a couple things to my library. You might want to try trashing all preferences that start with com.apple.ibooks and see if that helps. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 6, 2016, at 04:13, David Griffith wrote: > > Ever sinc

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread David Griffith
On Windows I use QRead and as far as I can tell preserves structure fine for the purposes I have used it for. Control H will bring up a navigable list of headings in any book or magazine and this is my main method of navigation. I will put it on my VM Ware Fusion image of Win 7 as a mac alterna

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Yes, clean installs are best done clean. It’s a pain, but it’s always worth doing the clean part. There will be corrupt preferences and long-dead traces of previous crashes or other problems that would be swept up by simply cloning the Library folders. >From what you’re saying, though, it sou

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread David Griffith
Yes this is what is happening with me but based on this feedback I may have to do an ultra clean install. The problem may be that after the install I migrated my apps and settings across to the new install from Time machine as it is a real pain retrieving and entering all the non app store ap

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Although I think iBooks for Mac is really quite horrible, an unfinished counterpart to its far-superior iOS version, I didn’t have any trouble using it. Once you interact with the scroll area, you can stay interacted with it, and even continuous read, and it will plough through the book, overco

iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread David Griffith
Ever since I upgraded to El Kapitan I have found iBooks on OS unusable with constant busy messages ehen whenever I try to interact with the text scroll area. . I took advice and did a complete clean install of El Kapitan. Unfortunately this has not produced any improvement and I have exactly t