Message "Wordfast Pro" would like to receive keystrokes from any application | MacOs Catalina Thread poster: Ehab Tantawy
| Ehab Tantawy Local time: 16:06 Member (2006) English to Arabic + ...
Hello Dear Prozians, I've recently upgraded my MacOs to Catalina! and also same also for Wordfast PRO 5.11.1! Each time I do open Wordfast I do receive a message {"Wordfast Pro" would like to receive keystrokes from any application}. This requires selecting one of the two actions; "Open System Preferences" or "Deny" When I select the Open Pref. option it opens Security and Privacy window, it gives me a selection for "wordfast" app to check/enab... See more Hello Dear Prozians, I've recently upgraded my MacOs to Catalina! and also same also for Wordfast PRO 5.11.1! Each time I do open Wordfast I do receive a message {"Wordfast Pro" would like to receive keystrokes from any application}. This requires selecting one of the two actions; "Open System Preferences" or "Deny" When I select the Open Pref. option it opens Security and Privacy window, it gives me a selection for "wordfast" app to check/enable it under a message that means to select this app to allow it to monitor input from my keyboard even while using other apps. Why does this appear (which was not happening before)? How to avoid this message every time I fo open Wordfast Pro? Your help will be highly appreciated. Best, Ehab ▲ Collapse | | |
Perhaps you can try this: - Close WFP.
- Remove the Wordfast entry from the Privacy tab.
- Reboot Catalina.
- Start WFP.
- Tick the (new) checkbox of the Wordfast entry in the Privacy tab
HTH ... | | | Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 14:06 Member (2008) Italian to English
Would you be happy to have all your keystrokes memorised in a remote server you don't know anything about - or even where it is, who owns it, and what kind of access they have to the data? What about when you type in your password to your bank account? Happy with that? Why should you even have to "allow" or "deny" that?
[Edited at 2019-10-24 08:47 GMT] | | | Ehab Tantawy Local time: 16:06 Member (2006) English to Arabic + ... TOPIC STARTER
Tom in London wrote: Would you be happy to have all your keystrokes memorised in a remote server you don't know anything about - or even where it is, who owns it, and what kind of access they have to the data? What about when you type in your password to your bank account? Happy with that? Why should you even have to "allow" or "deny" that?
[Edited at 2019-10-24 08:47 GMT] Hello Tom, Many thanks for the time you spent to help me. Actually, what I've understood from this is the versus! I mean that I should accept this to be able to input/type inside WFP! May be I did not read it carefully, but your advice/clarification is highly appreciated. Have a great morning! Best, Ehab | |
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Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 14:06 Member (2008) Italian to English
Yes- Apologies, Ehab. I went slightly off-topic. Your post re-awakened in me some of the general concerns I have about using the so-called "Cloud" (which is not a cloud). | | | Ehab Tantawy Local time: 16:06 Member (2006) English to Arabic + ... TOPIC STARTER Thanks Hans! | Oct 24, 2019 |
Hans Lenting wrote: Perhaps you can try this: - Close WFP.
- Remove the Wordfast entry from the Privacy tab.
- Reboot Catalina.
- Start WFP.
- Tick the (new) checkbox of the Wordfast entry in the Privacy tab
HTH ... Thanks Hans! I've selected "Deny" as per Tom's advice, but when closed the App and opened it again, the message appeared again???!!!! A strange behavior! Best | | | Ehab Tantawy Local time: 16:06 Member (2006) English to Arabic + ... TOPIC STARTER No Worries, issue continues! | Oct 24, 2019 |
Tom in London wrote: Yes- Apologies, Ehab. I went slightly off-topic. Your post re-awakened in me some of the general concerns I have about using the so-called "Cloud" (which is not a cloud). No worries Tom! The problem is that I've selected "DENY", and used the program for some minutes and closed it, then opened it again and the message of selecting either "Open System Preferences" or "Deny" appeared again! Brainstorming | | | Any response from Wordfast on this? | Nov 22, 2019 |
It is a very alarming (perhaps poorly worded?) but why on Earth would anyone want Wordfast to record keystrokes? Does it still work if you hit "Deny"? I've just been ignoring the message ... | |
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macOS Catalina works in mysterious ways | Nov 22, 2019 |
Paul Sinfield wrote: It is a very alarming (perhaps poorly worded?) but why on Earth would anyone want Wordfast to record keystrokes? Does it still work if you hit "Deny"? I've just been ignoring the message ... We do not record any keystrokes and it is a problem with several Java programs after Catalina upgrade starting to complain. As strong as the message is we are not recording any keystrokes or storing it or sending it to a server or cloud. Here's the problem happening to NVIDIA graphics card software: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4868/~/i-upgraded-my-macos-to-10.15-catalina-and-i-am-getting-a-different-mouse Here's the problem explained by JAVA developers scrambling to find solution and Apple remain silent on answering this issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231513 Our developers are still trying to find a solution on this new message added in Catalina. Hope this helps to answer some of the questions Thank you, John | | | Ehab Tantawy Local time: 16:06 Member (2006) English to Arabic + ... TOPIC STARTER Wordfast PRO 5.12 (new issues) | Nov 22, 2019 |
John Daniel wrote: Paul Sinfield wrote: It is a very alarming (perhaps poorly worded?) but why on Earth would anyone want Wordfast to record keystrokes? Does it still work if you hit "Deny"? I've just been ignoring the message ... We do not record any keystrokes and it is a problem with several Java programs after Catalina upgrade starting to complain. As strong as the message is we are not recording any keystrokes or storing it or sending it to a server or cloud. Here's the problem happening to NVIDIA graphics card software: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4868/~/i-upgraded-my-macos-to-10.15-catalina-and-i-am-getting-a-different-mouse Here's the problem explained by JAVA developers scrambling to find solution and Apple remain silent on answering this issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231513 Our developers are still trying to find a solution on this new message added in Catalina. Hope this helps to answer some of the questions Thank you, John Hello John, Thanks for your input! Actually, I am working currently with selecting "Deny", but the problem is that the last update Ver 5.12 came with an old issue! After closing Wordfast inside Mac OS, an issue was happening in the past that I do receive an error message "Wordfast Pro quit unexpectedly. Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple." [Ignore] [Report..] [Reopen] This error message was disappeared on the last two versions before 5.12. Please could you help or put your explanation for the same? Best, Ehab | | | Default switch to heavyweight browser mode | Nov 22, 2019 |
Ehab Tantawy wrote: Hello John, Thanks for your input! Actually, I am working currently with selecting "Deny", but the problem is that the last update Ver 5.12 came with an old issue! After closing Wordfast inside Mac OS, an issue was happening in the past that I do receive an error message "Wordfast Pro quit unexpectedly. Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple." ( Ignore ) ( Report.. ) ( Reopen ) This error message was disappeared on the last two versions before 5.12. Please could you help or put your explanation for the same? Best, Ehab Last two versions we ran Wordfast for macOS default on lightweight browser mode but it came with lot of Keyboard and Editor problems. So we switched it back to heavyweight mode as default and Crash on Close as known issue. If you go don't like the crash message you can switch to lightweight mode by clicking Wordfast Icon and last suboption to switch to lightweight mode. Then restart the application. We're trying to fix the crash on close but so far we don't have solution to this problem. Thank you, John | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Message "Wordfast Pro" would like to receive keystrokes from any application | MacOs Catalina Wordfast Pro | Translation Memory Software for Any Platform
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