Hi Les, A couple more things that, hopefully, may but possibly, may not work. Try them one at a time then see if things are fixed, if they work, then of course, you don't need to do the rest of the options.
1. Press VO-shift-d to force focus on the Desktop. 2. Click your mouse or trackpad once on the Desktop. 3. Try a new Finder window, cmd-n. You may need to do a cmd-w right away after that if a window opens due to your settings. 4. Log off then back on to your account. 5. Restart your computer. 6. Pour yourself a stiff drink and curse Apple under your breath. 7. Try to repair your Disk Permissions using Disk Utility. Not sure what to do beyond that. It still works for me so I can't duplicate things right now. P.S. Depending on your lifestyle choices, #6 is optional. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-05, at 12:57 PM, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Well, I unloaded VO and relaunched without change. Something visually must > have happened. I went into preferences and didn't see anything to modify. I > checked under the view menu and I'm set to view as lists which is what I > wish. So I'm stumped on this one. Thanks. > > Les > On Jun 5, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Try toggling VO off then on. Sometimes things get messed up by background >> apps not usually visible to VO. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-06-05, at 11:43 AM, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Well, I've tried all suggestions. The only thing that works besides using >>> the VO arrow combinations is the tab key. >>> >>> Les >>> On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when >>>> this happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it >>>> starts working. >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> Gigi >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me. >>>>> >>>>> Chris. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Gavin Grundlingh >>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: Navigating the Desktop >>>>> >>>>> I find that, if ever something like this happens to me, tabbing between >>>>> the various desktop items seems to sort things out. After tabbing once or >>>>> twice, I can usually go back to using the arrow keys. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Gavin Grundlingh >>>>> Primary Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 >>>>> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 >>>>> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 >>>>> Primary Email: g.batw...@gmail.com >>>>> Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za >>>>> Skype: Batworx >>>>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/gavin.grundlingh >>>>> Twitter: @Batworx >>>>> >>>>> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:26 PM, "Chris Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have always! found desktop navigation to be really spiratic. Sometimes >>>>> I can't even vo+left and right arrow. I have to command tab away from >>>>> the finder to another app, then back to the finder again, then! things >>>>> start working as they should. >>>>> >>>>> I made Apple aware of this, but even the engineers were totally baffled >>>>> as to why this was happening. They were! able to reproduce the spiratic >>>>> behavior, but just are really puzzled as to a sollution, and as to why in >>>>> the first place it's doing this. They did promise me though that they'd >>>>> keep researching it. >>>>> >>>>> Chris. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Kriegler" <kriegle...@gmail.com> >>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:07 AM >>>>> Subject: Navigating the Desktop >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When I access the Finder window, I have two items, Macintosh HD and my >>>>> external disk drive shown. I always arrowed using up and down arrows to >>>>> highlight either drive. Now, for some reason, I hear nothing when using >>>>> the down arrow key to move from Macintosh HD to my external disk drive. >>>>> I have to use VO Right arrow to highlight the external drive. How can I >>>>> change this back to the way it was? 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