Hello Craig, My problem seems to be resolving itself gradually. I now have quite a few of the sounds back, without having done anything further to change things. Yes, I found a long thread on the Net about this and one person said that he had submitted a bug report and been told that his report was closed since the bug was being worked on already. My MacBook Air is three years old and working great under El Capitan. I do, however, have 8 gb of memory. Amazingly, we have a 6 year old 17-inch MacBook Pro with only 2 gb of memory which we’ve been using to beta test El Capitan in French, and it’s holding up remarkably well.
Cheers, Anne > On 18 Oct 2015, at 04:55, Craig Werner <coffeeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, Anne. > > A day or two after the public release of El Capitan, another user and > I posted either on MacVisionaries or Peel-the-Apple that our incoming > mail sound disappeared after the upgrade from Yosemite to El Capitan. > In fact, I believe any sounds associated with the Mac Mail app > disappeared, in my case, at least. I made sure that sound effects > were still enabled, and I ran through all the different incoming mail > sounds. No joy. I also created a Test account with the same > disappointing results. Then, I enabled mail sounds not just for the > inbox but for all my mailboxes. When these attempts failed, an Apple > Accessibility rep suggested the radical solution of erasing the hard > drive and rolling back to Yosemite 10.10.5. This solved the problem. > I know this was a drastic step to take, especially because it > prevented further specific testing. However, since Safari was quite > flaky on my MacBook Air, and since I had reservations, as a new user, > in upgrading so soon after El Capitan was released, I figured the > safest path was to restore my machine to its Day One state, so to > speak. > > BTW, there is evidence on the net for others having this problem. I > read a thread which had a number of contributors, none of whom said > they were VoiceOver users. One poster said he finally got an > admission from an Apple rep that this sound issue was a bug. However, > two Apple Accessibility reps I spoke to said they had not heard of the > problem and assured me it was not on their list of emerging issues. > > Craig > > > On 10/17/15, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I installed El Capitan today and my only problem is that my Mail sounds are >> all gone. Not just my custom sounds, but the built-in Mail sounds too. >> I’ve done the new First Aid thing in Disk Utility. I’ve booted into Safe >> Mode. I’ve reset the SMC. Anyone got any other ideas? >> It’s not critical, I just like to know which mailboxes to look in. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
