Hello John and others, I have done the following to try creating portable preferences using a flash drive: 1. Inserted the drive on which I wish to create the preferences. 2. Open voiceOver utility making sure that portable preferences were on. 3. Made changes to settings (in this case changing default voice and rate) 4. Close voiceOver utility. 5. eject the flash drive using command e shortcut. 6. With the drive not connected, changed voice over preferences uing voiceover utility. I changed the current voice away from that I had selected for the preference. 7. Inserted the drive after closing voiceover utility with no change to the settings. that is, the preferences stored on the drive were not used. Hope that helps. john farina farina1952@xxxxxxxxx LEGAL NOTICE This e-mail transmission, with accompanying records, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information belonging to the sender, including individually identifiable health information subject to the privacy and security provisions of HIPAA. This information may be protected by pertinent privilege(s), e.g., attorney-client, doctor-patient, HIPAA etc., which will be enforced to the fullest extent of the law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, analysis, disclosure, copying, dissemination, distribution, sharing, or use of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message and associated documents in error, please notify the sender immediately for instructions. If this message was received by e-mail, please delete the original message. ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx