Hi, It could have something to do with Lion. I recall having more problems in Lion than occurs now within Mountain Lion. Sorry it caused you more grief.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-04-10, at 9:22 PM, Kevin Gibbs <kevj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure. but I think I'm in Classic view. In any case, your scenario > didn't work. I had the same problem again. I had to kill Mail and VO and > restart them both in order to restore functionality. In any event, moving > these mailboxes appears impossible. Any other ideas, folks? > Kevin > On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Not sure if this works for Lion but in Mountain Lion, it worked for me every >> time. Note that I'm in the New View of Mail in Mountain Lion, not classic >> View. >> >> • Interact with the Mailboxes List. >> • Interact with the Mailbox you wish to move. >> • Press VO-cmd-space, VO will announce Mouse down on. >> • Stop Interacting with the Mailbox name. >> >> Now, it's a little tricky. Because of the placement of the VO cursor when >> navigating, where you navigate to depends on whether you're going up or >> down. If you're navigating down, then navigate to the Mailbox you wish to >> have the original Mailbox placed after. If you're moving up, you'll need to >> navigate to one Mailbox higher than the one you want it placed before. >> >> • Then press VO-cmd-space to drop it. >> >> If you have all cursors following each other like I do, then VO will jump to >> the Messages area but you can simply stop Interacting with it then go back >> to the Mailbox List and "voila", things are switched around. >> >> For example, if you have the following four Mailboxes in this order: >> >> Home >> Work >> GMail >> iCloud >> >> To move the iCloud Mailbox to the second position, Interact with the iCloud >> text from within the Mailboxes List, VO-cmd-space to perform the Mouse Down >> action, then Stop Interacting,, move up to the Home Mailbox, Interact with >> it then press VO-cmd-space to Mouse Up and thus drop it in place. the >> iCloud Mailbox will now be in position two and the others will remain in >> their same order. >> >> to move the iCloud Mailbox back to position four. Interact with it from >> within the Mailboxes List, press VO-cmd-space to perform the Mouse Down >> action, stop Interacting with the Mailbox, move down to the GMail Mailbox >> and Interact with it, then press VO-cmd-space to perform the Mouse Up action >> thus dropping it after the GMail Mailbox. >> >> If this key combination is too awkward for you, set up something in the >> Keyboard Commander to handle the Mouse Down and Mouse Up actions. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-04-10, at 8:10 PM, Kevin Gibbs <kevj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Okay. Here's a follow-up. >>> >>> I had to close mail and reopen it again with VO off. then, things seemed >>> to work. so, I tried reordering the mailbox I was talking about. the same >>> thing happened. the box appeared to move, but eventually came to rest >>> where it had been. I have some vision and could see this. thereafter, it >>> was impossible to open any mail with VO on. I quit VO and quit mail, which >>> took a very long time. then, I restarted mail and turned VO on. Now, >>> everything seems to work okay. I just have to forget about moving any >>> mailboxes around. Incidentally, I'm doing this with the latest version of >>> Lion. I should have mentioned that before. >>> >>> thanks for any help, >>> Kevin >>> >>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> Well, >>>> I have two problems. the first is that, when I tried the VO comma and VO >>>> period solution, I saw the mailbox move around a bunch and come to rest >>>> where it was. After that, all mailboxes appear to be undraggable. the >>>> second , and probably more problematic issue is that I can't open mail >>>> while VO is on. I'll do some more testing after I send this. but, I may >>>> have a real problem on my hands. >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Much reordering since ml is very random and many cant reorder with the >>>>> drag and drop shortcuts and for many who can, it works some times and not >>>>> others and as far as I can tell, no one knows why. >>>>> >>>>> Danny. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On 11/04/2013, at 8:17 AM, Kevin Gibbs <kevj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Guys, >>>>>> I'm noticing that new mailboxes I create at the top level of On My Mac >>>>>> are not being placed in Alphabetical order after a certain point. It's >>>>>> as if new boxes are inserted in some kind of chronological order now. >>>>>> Whatever the case, I want to reorder a bunch of my mailboxes and i don't >>>>>> know how. 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