Are you running Mountain Lion 10.8.2? This seems like your portable preferences are not being saved or saved correctly. When I have a chance, I will experiment here. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:51 AM, john farina <farina1952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello John, > > Doing the following did not produce the expected result: > 1. Ejecting the drive while voiceover is running. > 2. turned VoiceOver off and then back after inserting the flash drive. > 3. As recommended by David to this list, restarting the computer with the > drive inserted. > > As an aside, at several points while supposedly saving portable preferences I > am confronted with a message that indicates "voiceover utility busy." > > Hope this helps, if you would rather this conversation occur off list let me > know. We might even been abel to speak by phone at some point. Thanks for the > help. > > 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 > ************ 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