[FireWire]

Hi! Tonight I was using OS X's Calculator and I needed to update the currency conversion rate list. I clicked on the appropriate button but instead of seeing the list of the currencies that were updated, I was presented with an empty window, which was wider than usual.



I clicked OK (the only choice) and when I wanted to select the currency from the drop-down menus, I found that the names were surrounded by a lot of empty space. Ex:


and when I released the mouse, the name I selected didn't appear in the menu. Doing the conversion anyway resulted in a strange number, even thou the "Recent conversion" menu displayed the right currencies (with the same white space around the name).

I deleted the corresponding .plist file and upon reopening Calculator, it created a new one by default and it worked (albeit with outdated rates). I updated again and got he same results. Any idea?

Thank you!

[monkeybrain]

I noticed this the other day too (strange because I hadn't used the currency converter since I got my Macbook). No idea how to fix it, but it didn't bother me because I normally just use Google to give me a conversion.

[red rocket]

I've got something similar.

Lots of empty space to the left of the currency names. (None to the right, though.)

Despite the ugly appearance, conversions are working fine, here.

[dru]

Use TextEdit to edit the .plist in ~/LibraryApplication Support/Calculator

You need to Find/Replace all the extra spaces. It should be <string>Euro</string> instead of having tons of spaces before and after Euro (and the other currency).

You can do this with two Find/Replace because the exta space before & after are uniform across all currencies.

[red rocket]

It works, thanks.

[monkeybrain]

It's very strange how we've all got this bug, especially as I never used the converter on this Macbook before. I had the error the first time I used it. You'd think it would take a few uses for it to become corrupt.