(FIXED) With this morning's 10.15.5 upgrade, screenshots now have gray overlay

[tuqqer]

NOTE: found the fix. It was (I presume) a damaged plist file located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist. More details in post below.

I upgraded to 10.15.5 this morning and now all screenshots have a gray overlay.

I use screenshots all day long for a variety of reasons, and now all of the varieties of screenshot making have a gray color to them:

Command-Shift-3
Command-Shift-4

Also grayed out with separate screenshot apps like Annotate, CloudApp and others.

Something definitely went wonky with the upgrade, at least on my Mac.

[datbeme]

That's not good. Hope there is a way to turn it off. Who wants dimmed screen shots?

Was going to take a screenshot of to illustrate the difference between yours and mine…and the subtle difference between the message box and the white page body. But I was afraid that might break the space-time continuum.

[macphanatic]

It must be something wrong on your computer. Not doing it on mine.

[hal]

have you restarted yet? I can't imagine that this would continue after a restart.

[modelamac]

Tuqqer,

Check sysPref/Accessibility/Display -all of the settings in there. Too many times I've updated my OS only to find the installation toggled some switch or changed a setting.

The other thing you can try is rebooting or a Safe boot (Shift key) and then a normal reboot. I doubt that a Disk Utility -Repair disk will do any good, but you can try.

As a last resort you can try the Combo Update from the Apple site.

[tuqqer]

Well that was a journey. Found the fix.

Tried restarting numerous times. Even tried the great voodoo fix from the Period Before The Internet, PRAM reset (Command-Option-P-R).

Then tried from another User Account. Then removing all 3rd-party screenshot apps (yeah, I'm a total screenshot junkie) and restarting.

Finally got a hint from modelmac's tip and remembered the plists. So I googled the issue and found a thread on Apple Discussions where a wise person from '17 mentioned the location of screenshot prefs (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist ), deleted and restarted, and voila. Screenshots are pristine again.

thanks all. I love you man!

[hal]

nice fix

[RAMd®d]

Too many times I've updated my OS only to find the installation toggled some switch or changed a setting.


I see that wasn't the problem in tuq's case, but too many times I've been bitten by this 'feature'.

Is it a non-serendipitous juxtaposition of old and new bits, or somebody in the Apple coding cave that feels we should 'do it this way'.

I don't know, but don't like it.

In particular with iOS upgrades, the first thing I do after maybe some casual checking of the new features, if any, is to check the Location screen.

There is always some flipped toggles turning something On that I previously turned off.

[RAMd®d]

You found a fix for Mail suddenly sending a lot of good emails to Junk.

It worked well, but I haven't found it again.

Can you point me in the right direction?

[tuqqer]

In the end, it was doing just two things you may have already tried:

1. toggling off and then back on the "Enable Junk Mail filter." (I think I restarted Mail between these)

2. checking "Mark as Junk Mail, but Leave in my Inbox"

I was a little shocked that it worked, frankly, and it's still working. Very few false positives/negatives now.

Here's the article that got me to try this:
https://www.lifewire.com/prevent-filteri...am-1172854

Here's Lifewire's setup, and the only addition I do now is I check that last box, "Filter junk mail before applying my rules." I did this just to make sure "look for junk" was all it was doing initially, and then applying rules.

Ping back in a few days to report how it works.