Every once in a while, my Mac will do this thing where Command+F will no longer work to find/search in any application I use (Atom, Slack, Chrome, etc). Command+G still works in Chrome for "Find Next" as does Command+Shift+F in Atom. The problem seems to be solely limited to Command+F. It doesn't matter which Command key I use (left/right/built-in/external). When I pull up the Keyboard Viewer, the Command keypress registers correctly but not the F
Things I have tried:
- Closing all applications
- Fully restarting. The problem persists across full restarts.
- Resetting all keyboard settings to default
- Uninstalling Karabiner (which I use for a couple of shortcuts unrelated to Command+F)
The problem persists after trying all of the above and usually goes away after a couple of days for seemingly no reason. Has anyone run into this before or can anyone help me diagnose the issue further? This is driving me nuts.
OS Details: Macbook Pro running OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6
92 Answers
This has been driving me nuts for months too, and today I figured out that when I press Command+F (in that order), the F key press doesn't register. However, if I flip the order by pressing F + Command, it works again. That seems to "reset" something so that I'm able to continue using Command+F for the rest of that session. I hope this helps!
1this is old post but it is first in the google search results by "cmd F doesn't work", so let me post a link to working solution
TL;DR
- remove
~/Library/Caches/ - restart in safe mode
- restart again in normal mode
- PROFIT
and i'm not sure about deleting file, please someone check it
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