Listers, Thanks to all for your responses on my trouble with Yosemite clean install. In the end, I had to ask sighted assistance since Voiceover would sometimes speak during the installation and then it would disappear again. The machine I was doing the clean install is late 2010 macbook air but I can't see why it would matter. It is truly bizarre when so many of you have achieved clean install with voiceover, and here I was having to work with a pair of eyes to do so. Once installed, I have voiceover as normal but I am just curious and somewhat disappointed and worried in case I should have to do the clean install again.
Thanks a lot for all your suggestions. Andrew > On 29 Jun 2015, at 19:37, Grant <grant.li...@icloud.com> wrote: > > What about trying to turn up your system volume? The commands are F12 to > increase, and F11 to decrease. You may need to hold down the function key as > you execute these commands. > > Grant > > On Jun 29, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com > <mailto:ioani...@me.com>> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for responding. I've been trying command+f5 repeatedly and no luck. > A sighted person tells me when I press command+f5 that he can see Voiceover > on and off on the screen but I have no speech. It's curious. With sighted > help I'm downloading Yosemite as we speak but I'm still disconcerted why I > lost speech. Hopefully once the process starts I will get voiceover back. > > Andrew >> On 29 Jun 2015, at 18:03, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com >> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Try cmd-f5. Even if the installer is proceeding, assuming the Mac isn't >> restarting or something, you should get speech. It might be that VO is >> actually on and you'll turn it off; in that case, just press cmd-f5 again. >>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com >>> <mailto:ioani...@me.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have just had to start reinstalling Yosemite on my macbook air. I've >>> started from the recovery partition by erasing my hard drive and then >>> pressed reinstall. Apple verified my computer and I pressed the agree >>> button in the dialog that appeared. And then I couldn't hear anything. >>> There's no speech. Does this mean that the reinstallation is proceeding? >>> Should I have speech with it or do I have to wait until the download >>> completes and reinstallation starts? Is this normal? Please reassure me, >>> I'm panicking a bit. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> >> >> -- >> 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 >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
