[jaws-uk] Re: Dragging and dropping
- From: "Catherine Turner" <catherine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:05:28 +0100
Hi,
Yep, can't cut and paste.
Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Dragging and dropping
> Hi Catherine
>
> Have you tried cut and paste instead of drag and drop?
>
> Barry H
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Turner" <catherine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jaws-Uk" <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:54 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Dragging and dropping
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Forgive the long explanation but this is to do with drag and drop and I
> want
> to explain exactly what I'm trying to do.
>
> I had major problems with my e-mail which resulted in me using a tool
> called
> DBXtract to recover it from probably corrupt .dbx files. Now I have lots
> of
> .eml files I need to get back into Outlook Express. The instructions the
> author of DBXtract gives for doing this are as follows:
>
> 1. Create a new folder in OE and then open OE to that folder so that the
> blank header list is visible.
> 2. Open Windows Explorer to the directory containing the eml and nws files
> and select the files you want to reincorporate into OE.
> 3. Right click on the selected files in Windows Explorer and hold the
> mouse
> button down and drag the files over top of the header list in the open OE
> folder
> and release the mouse button.
> 4. OE will then reincorporate the files into that folder as messages.
>
> I tried to do this using JAWS. The first two times I did it successfully
> by:
> 1. Opening OE and opening the empty folder I wanted to import the
> messages
> into.
> 2. Opening My Computer to the folder containing .eml files.
> 3. Cursoring down a few times.
> 4. Pressing Control a to select all.
> 5. Routing JAWS to PC.
> 6. Pressing ins star to lock right mouse button.
> 7. Pressing Control ins slash to do drag and drop.
> 8. Pressing alt tab to get into OE.
> 9. Cursoring up (JAWS cursor is still active, and was at this point
> focusing on the contacts in OE) until I heard from header bar subject
> header
> bar etc.
> 10. Pressing ins star to unlock right mouse button.
> 11. Pressing control ins slash to drop.
> JAWS said the item to be dropped was not found, the drag and drop
> operation
> was cancelled. But the e-mails did appear in OE.
>
> Now I haven't been able to get success again with the other folders of
> e-mails. Sometimes nothing seems to happen differently in terms of what I
> hear from JAWS (when repeating the exact steps I took before). Other
> times
> My Computer behaves as if I had single right clicked because a context
> menu
> appears, whereas that shouldn't happen if the mouse button is locked.
>
> I thought possibly a problem could be that I'm trying to drag too many
> items
> at once and OE simply can't cope. So I just selected 10 and tried but it
> won't work.
>
> Then I thought maybe there's something corrupt/wrong with these particular
> files so I tried to repeat dragging and dropping the files I'd already got
> (after having moved them to a different folder in OE and having a empty
> folder to drag into again). Still no success.
>
> I have tried different variations on my keystrokes such as locking the
> left
> mouse button instead of the right; not locking either but just doing
> control
> ins slash; not cursoring down before I do control a to select all files -
> nothing seems to have an effect so far.
>
> Was I just lucky the first time? Has anyone else had to do this and how
> did
> you get it to work? Any ideas how I can get it to work?
>
> From speaking to the author of this program and looking on the internet I
> think the only way to get .eml files incorporated into OE is by dragging
> and
> dropping...but if anyone knowas any different I'd be overjoyed to hear it!
>
> Thanks,
> Catherine
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