Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-27 Thread Donna Goodin
I agree. It seemed very random to me, too. Donna On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:50 AM, marie Howarth wrote: > I'm glad I'm not the only one. Hope they fix this soon. Has anyone told Apple > yet? I couldn't even begin to explain why its happening lol. > > On 27 Apr 2010, at 08:15, Anne Robertson wrote: >

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
I didn't. I'm not sure why it is happening as well. and I can't explain it that well too them. I can't even reproduce the problem as it happens at random. Take care. S On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:50 AM, marie Howarth wrote: > I'm glad I'm not the only one. Hope they fix this soon. Has anyone told Ap

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-27 Thread marie Howarth
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Hope they fix this soon. Has anyone told Apple yet? I couldn't even begin to explain why its happening lol. On 27 Apr 2010, at 08:15, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Marie, > > Yes, it's happening to me a lot, too. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:4

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Marie, Yes, it's happening to me a lot, too. Cheers, Anne On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:45 AM, marie Howarth wrote: > I had this happen once but that was a while ago now. But something else > that's been happening a lot recently is VO just stops talking either when I'm > typing or switching be

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yes I experience this about 3 or 54 times a day. what I do is hit vo command f8 to bring up the quick start guide and escape out of it and 99 percent of the time it works. On Apr 26, 2010, at 5:45 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > I had this happen once but that was a while ago now. But something else

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread James & Nash
Hi Donna, Go to your Preferences folder which you'll find in the Library Folder of your Home folder. In that folder, you'll find a folder called com.apple.VoiceOver3. Make a copy of this folder and put it somewhere. It contains all your preferences. VO resetting to its defaults has only happ

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread marie Howarth
I had this happen once but that was a while ago now. But something else that's been happening a lot recently is VO just stops talking either when I'm typing or switching between windows. I can easily cmd-f5 toggle several times to get it to come back on but this really is getting annoying. Anyon

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Thanks, Jim, Rick and Sarah, I didn't know you could export settings. This is the first time I've encountered this problem, but I think I'll do a backup just to be prepared, should the need arise again. :) Also, think I'll dash off an email to accessibility, just to be sure they know

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh wow sounds easier then what I've been doing. Thanks. On Apr 26, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > Hi Donna! > When I have voiceover utility open and choose the file menu I can select > export voiceover preferences and it will let me save that in a specific > location and then can re-imp

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'ts happened to me more then once over the last few months and it is starting to drive me nuts. I don't know what the cause of this but question. doe sapple know about this? On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > Yeah, I think I've had that happen one time. I don't know what it was,

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Sarah Alawami
copy the preffences folder fo vo from the libraries folder to a folder someware else. Good luck. On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Well, at least I'm not alone. :) How did you make a backup of your > preferences? > Thanks, > Donna > On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Ji

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Gatteys
I just had voiceover crash completely--just now. Had to hold down power button on my macbook to shut down and restart. I'm wondering if I have some weird malware with all this talk but not sure how to find out. Also as I am writing this email my fan speed is increasing quite a bit. Anybody h

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, Your not alone on this one. It's happen to me twice. I have no clue what caused it though. lol. Like Jim, I have saved my VO settings just in case. On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I just had the strangest thing happened. I was browsing on my Mac, and

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Donna! When I have voiceover utility open and choose the file menu I can select export voiceover preferences and it will let me save that in a specific location and then can re-import them from the same menu. Jim On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Well, at least

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Pete Nalda
Yeah, I think I've had that happen one time. I don't know what it was, I've heard of it before. On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I just had the strangest thing happened. I was browsing on my Mac, and all > of a sudden VO just really slowed down for no reason. I

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jim, Well, at least I'm not alone. :) How did you make a backup of your preferences? Thanks, Donna On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > Hi Donna! > I've had exactly the same thing happen to me, and not sure why! > > I just made a backup of my preferences and then recover them wh

Re: weird VO thing

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Donna! I've had exactly the same thing happen to me, and not sure why! I just made a backup of my preferences and then recover them when I need to. Jim On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > I just had the strangest thing happened. I was browsing on my Mac, and all