Big, white square on desktop just appeared...

[brent0saurus]

So my brother just got the newest white macbook and i was playing around with it, surfing the internet in safari, and then when i closed out of the window, there was this huge blank square. I think it's the same size of the safari window i had open, so maybe safari created it?
I tried quitting everything, relaunching the finder, and changing the wallpaper with no luck, so i shut down and that worked. also, right before it shuts down when the icons disappear on your desktop, the white box went away too.

anyway, has anyone else experienced this???

 

[theimacdude]

Thats weird.... I used to get that in Windows alot.

 

[brent0saurus]

Thats weird.... I used to get that in Windows alot.

haha oh no!!! apple gave me a windows machine and i didn't even notice! i was just so overtaken by the beautiful outside case!

but maybe how it happened in windows could apply to this? i mean i've been using macs for a long time and have NEVER seen this. i hope my brother didn't get a lemon

 

[xraydoc]

So my brother just got the newest white macbook and i was playing around with it, surfing the internet in safari, and then when i closed out of the window, there was this huge blank square. I think it's the same size of the safari window i had open, so maybe safari created it?
I tried quitting everything, relaunching the finder, and changing the wallpaper with no luck, so i shut down and that worked. also, right before it shuts down when the icons disappear on your desktop, the white box went away too.

anyway, has anyone else experienced this???

Its a bug in iTunes. Quit iTunes and it'll go away.

 

[macintosh.apple]

Mine does that all the time from iTunes, just quit and restart.

 

[Skydiver32]

Mine does that all the time from iTunes, just quit and restart.

WTF?
What happened with the "It just works"?
I'm leaving the windows world because I cant' stand the Cntl+Alt+Del combo anymore. I don't want my mac to have a constant equivalent

 

[andalusia]

WTF?
What happened with the "It just works"?
I'm leaving the windows world because I cant' stand the Cntl+Alt+Del combo anymore. I don't want my mac to have a constant equivalent

How many other threads have you seen about this?
I don't think this happens very often. Hasn't happened once to me.

 

[H$R]

I've never seen that until now. But sometimes in Exposé I have a little white square, just a few pixels. It is related with iTunes as it seems.

 

[killianb]

How many other threads have you seen about this?
I don't think this happens very often. Hasn't happened once to me.

Me neither!

 

[Richard1028]

WTF?
What happened with the "It just works"?
I'm leaving the windows world because I cant' stand the Cntl+Alt+Del combo anymore. I don't want my mac to have a constant equivalent

Dude, regardless of the OS it's still possible to code crappy applications chock full of bugs.

 

[Prenvo]

How many other threads have you seen about this?
I don't think this happens very often. Hasn't happened once to me.

It's happened to me too

 

[l.a.rossmann]

WTF?
What happened with the "It just works"?

Advertizing folly.

I have hundreds of pictures of macs "just working" for a counter ad campaign someday.

Macs are computers like any other, whose purpose is to destroy our will.

 

[Insulin Junkie]

WTF?
What happened with the "It just works"?

Remember not to let advertisers sh** in your brain next time. One brief glance at any mac forum's threads should show you that OS X experiences problems, like every other OS out there.

 

[boston04and07]

I get that square a lot when I'm opening iTunes, not closing it. I'll click on the icon in the dock and the white square appears for a few seconds, and then is replaced by the iTunes window. Kind of a pain.

 

[brent0saurus]

thanks everyone! if it happens again, it'll be nice knowing that i can just quit itunes instead of having to restart.

thanks again!