Krister, Forgive me if I say something obvious you know and tried already, but have you repaired permissions? Also, have you verified your disk in disk utility which you can find in the same tab in disk utility, that is under "first aid"? You may want to do this from your start up partition for best effect by restarting your computer and then holding down command+r immediately you hear the chime. Hold it down for a while, and then release. Your imac will boot but you have to start speech with command+f5 yourself as it won't come on automatically. Once you have got speech, you will be on the table where you choose disk utility. In disk utility, choose your macintosh hd, and then select "first aid' tab and then repair permissions as well as verify disk. If you get a message that your disk needs repairing, you can repair it under the same tab by choosing "repair disk".
Also, I've recently bought an application called "app-delete'. It seems a very useful app. One of the choices in the app is to look for orphan files. These pieces of apps or files left behind after deletion. You said you had accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. Maybe you have lots of orphan stuff on your computer as well, like invalid preferences files etc. If you want to purchase app-delete - which is not very expensive - get it from the developer's website as the version available in AppStore is apparently buggy. I know this from somebody on this list. I'm copying the link to the developer's website below. You can use app-delete to delete unwanted applications and and app-delete makes sure that everything is deleted. You will have to learn how to do this but I know you have a lot of experience since you've been on the list for years. Here's the link: http://www.reggieashworth.com/appdelete Best wishes Andrew > On 14 Dec 2014, at 13:10, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: > > Hello good people. > I will now as best i can try to describe a problem i have and have had since > Mavericks. Every so often especially when browsing facebook or other apps > with html content, but even in other apps, Voiceover will all of a sudden go > silent and after that the only things that can be heard are the typical > voiceover sounds when changing lines, windows etc, no speech is present. The > only way i’ve found for speech to come back again is if i reboot the > computer. I wonder if this is a known issue among you or if it may be unique > to my mid 2011 IMac who’s never had a clean install? I wonder if there’s > anything one could remove in terms of prefs files or such in order for this > to go away or if a clean install has to be done. I hesitate to go the clean > install route because of everything i have collected through the years but if > it has to be done, so be it and then i only need to read up on how to cleanly > install Yosemite on the Mac. > TIA, > /Krister > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
