Lol. Yes I realized that. It was a harmless revelation though. Again, I apologize to everyone for the extra traffic. It won't happen again. Allison On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote:
> Hi Allison, I don't want to publicly embarrass you; but, I'm afraid your > private answer must surely have been meant for me off list; but, it's out > there now. Oh well. > > I did want, however, tu publicly address something you posted about. > Remember the other day you complained that Voice Over was repeating things in > finder and someone told you how to turn Kind off? Well, I think I worked out > how come that the repeats are happening. > As we know, it used to be best practice to make certain that file > extensions were turned on in the finder preferences; because, if not, it was > tricky to tell what one was focused on. It would appear that, with Mountain > Lion, this is not so necessary as it once was. Why? Simple. With kind > turned on, one gets told by Voice Over whether one is passing over a .wav or > .mp3 file or a folder. Therefore, with file extensions turned off, one can > still tell what kind of item one is focused on even so so long as kind is > turned on. Thus, the repeats. In short, turn off file extensions in finder > preferences, leave kind on, and you can still determine exactly what manner > of file it is. turn kind off, however, and you'll need to turn file > extensions back on. > > Now, just need a bit of a refresher where to turn kind off. Thanks. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > On Jul 28, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Allison Mervis <alliso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Ray. >> Well outside not so much because it's mostly hot sidewalk where we currently >> live, but I tend to go barefoot inside most of the time. >> Allison >> On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote: >> >>> Well, it's right off the home folder. >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >>> >>> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >>> >>> Skype name: >>> barefootedray >>> >>> On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I just installed dropbox, and I'm wondering where the folder is. I told it >>>> to open the dropbox folder, but I would like to know where that folder is. >>>> I'm geeky enough that I use cmd-shift-g to go to most places on my hard >>>> drive. How would I see the location of a given folder when that folder is >>>> open? I found something called a "path list", but interacting with it >>>> forced my mac to restart. I have to say, though, waiting a minute or so >>>> and having everything recover is so much better than a comparable windows >>>> crash that my respect for my mac just grew a whole lot! >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> 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. 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.
