Thanks, Deb, for that very useful piece of info. I’m going to my message rules right away and dealing with it.
Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well what you should be able to do and what you can do don’t seem to work. > And, I found out that this is a known bug that plagues some folks back in to > Lion. So here’s the fix, and it did work for me at least. > You create a message rule. If all conditions are met, all attachments > containing “.” mark as read. This apparently forces Mail to acknowledge that > there was an attachment. It marks the message to a different color, you could > do any color change and it will work, and the little paperclip icon > reappears. That’s what’s missing. It’s not a VO issue at all. Sighted people > are having the same problem. But I’ve now got easily accessible attachments > all over the place like I used to have in Mountain Lion. > It took a few times for me to get the rule correct. The attachment name is a > period surrounded by quotes BTW since that probably didn’t read for you if > punctuation is limited. > My problem was that sometimes I didn’t even know if there was an attachment > for sure. Now the attachment icon has reappeared and I’ll know. As I said, my > sighted co-worker is experiencing the same thing and will apply this fix as > well. apple needs to apply it, LOL. > > On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You should always be able to save with save attachments in the file menu >> even if you can't open it. Be sure to go down below "save" to "save >> attachments". As for opening rather than saving, if you interact with the >> text and move very slowly, you can often, but not always, get on the >> attachment. Then usually it's now better to do vo-shift-m for the context >> menu and choose open from that instead of vo-space. This doesn't always work >> though and to compound matters, I find that people's attachments are placed >> close together or so near other text that it is hard to get focus on it. >> Also it may say "attachment image" which I think is different than what it >> said in Mountain Lion, but you should be able to open it or at least save it >> with "save attachments" >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, Lord, >> my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) >> >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 22, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> Did you check your file menu? That’s the only way that works for me. >>> >>> >>> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>> built-in! >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >>> >>> On Nov 22, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Well I’m definitely having problems with this very thing. I know there’s >>>> an attachment. I can see it on the iPhone and in Windows, and in the >>>> headers of the message when I’m on the mac. but nothing will open it. Save >>>> attachment is dimmed, Look is dimmed. the context menu has no attachment. >>>> But as I said, I know it’s there because every other device in the world >>>> sees it and opens it. This is just an impossible situation so far. >>>> It’s in the headers so I do know it’s here. >>>> >>>> Deb >>>> >>>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Sharon Ballantyne <sbal...@nexicom.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I know I wrote last week but I still cannot open attachments since >>>>> upgrading to Mavericks. >>>>> >>>>> Prior to upgrading I could use quick look using command y. This would >>>>> allow me to open or save the attachment as I chose. >>>>> >>>>> Now using command y does not seem to be able to get focus. Even if I have >>>>> tried to save the attachment, I get a message of no items found. >>>>> >>>>> I really need to figure this out. >>>>> >>>>> I also would like help with isolating attachments if more than one >>>>> attachment is attached. >>>>> >>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Thank-you >>>>> >>>>> Sharon >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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