Open and save buttons are greyed out in the open and save dialogues on macOS Ventura please help.

By trey, 26 February, 2023

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Hi everyone hope you're doing well and staying safe, I've just upgrade to macOS Ventura on my 2019 MacBook Pro I was having the problem I'm about to describe to you on Monterey as well before I upgraded.

Basically my problem is this in open and save dialogues across TextEdit brave browser and Safari and other applications the open or save buttons are greyed out the cancel buttons are still available does anybody know why this could be? And how to fix this problem? It's very bizarre I'm not sure what the solution is, I've already tried repairing the disk permissions with disk utility both in recovery mode and whilst being logged in this hasn't worked. if anybody could help me that would be great as I'm really stuck here thank you very much everyone :-)

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By Igna Triay on Sunday, February 26, 2023 - 14:32

I have run across this in other apps, check to see if there's a dialog or a window from one of your apps causing this. That's how I've fixed it before when it happens. It seems to be that windows such as the applications force quit block voiceover from activating those buttons or something, but once you close the window or popup it should work normally, which makes sence. The popup window or dialog blocks the app or doesn't let the entirety of the content be displayed to my understanding from a sighted perspective.