I have read online that the general slowness has to do with spotlight indexing your files. IF you do a command space and then down arrow it will tell you how much time is left to index your files. I'm just gonna leave my macbook running until all the indexing is complete. Hopefully that will speed it up tremendously. I'm sure it will, as there is a lot more disk activity going on right now.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! I completely agree with your observations regarding VO at startup. The > boot time is at least 10 seconds longer now, and > VO has yet to say its welcome message. Furthermore, that > "com.apple.dock.extras" thing is already driving me bananas! I > might be brave and attempt a clean install once a podcast is posted to give > detailed instructions, but like you, I wonder if > it would make any difference. I don't have any of the issues you're > describing with mail, and haven't tried to play with > saphari yet, but this start-up stuff really needs to get figured out. > I've also discovered that VO doesn't tell me whether or not trackpad > commander is on. I don't use it much, but like to > practice from time to time, and either I'm not doing the jesture right to > enable it, or something else is going on, but VO > never really says one way or the other what its status is. > As I posted earlier, I'm not necessarily saying I regret updating right away, > but there is that little part of my brain > that's yelling "I told you you should have waited." LOL! > Anyway, it's a learning adventure, that's for sure! > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shen > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:37 PM > To: macvisionaries > Subject: Wow, what's up with Lion! > > OK, here are just a few of my impressions. Most of them come from the > way I use Mac, so a lot of them are personalized and most habitual. So > I am sure there is room for improvements in both Lion and my habits. > > First, has anyone noticed that VoiceOver no longer speaks the welcome > message? Ever? After installing Lion, I have yet to hear VoiceOver > speak the welcome message once. And this is after restarting, or > turning off then on the Mac at least a dozen times. I know this > because half the time, after logging in, VoiceOver is dead silent, it > doesn't say anything. The other h50 percent of the time, it says > "com.apple.dock.extras". > So what is "com.apple.dock.extras"? > Why can't the focus go to the desktop like Snow Leopard used to? OK, > so we can press VO-Shift-D, or command-Tab to go to the desktop. But > why do that when Snow Leopard used to put you right there after > logging in? This seems like such a weird behavior. > > My second observation is that the entire system seems to run a little > slower than it used to. I don't know if this is because I updated Snow > Leopard to Lion. Will my system run more smoothly if I installed Lion > from a clean install? > This is not Windows, this is Mac. Does it really make that much of a > difference? If so, why would Apple make us update instead of providing > a dvd for clean installs? If I were a betting man, I'd bet that even > on a clean install, my system would run more or less about the same. > The other major issue is Mail. > For example, Mail has turned into a waiting game instead of the snappy > fast response it used to be. Now when I press up or down arrow keys to > scroll through the message list, every few times, Mail would say "Mail > busy" and take about 2 seconds before reading me the email message. > This has never happened in Snow Leopard. > > The other issue I have is the download window in Safari. In Snow > Leopard, it used to be that when you click on a link to download > something, a second window pops up and you can immediately see what > you are downloading. Now with Lion, you have to move from the html > content, move to the toolbar, interact with it, find the download > button, click it, then you can see the downoad progress. > This may be better for a visual user. But for a VoiceOver user, it has > gone from a window that pops up automatically, to forcing the user to > navigate to find out the info. > I'm starting to see a trend that things may be accessible, but not > necessarily user friendly. Apple may be good at making sure things are > accessible with VoiceOver, but not necessarily user friendly. > > > > > > > > -- > Shen > goalb...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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