[macvoiceover] Re: Dragging signature to new account: success!
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 16:20:59 -0800
Ok on second thought thye didn't fix the crashing problem. I sut managed tomake
it crash the same way as before. Growl!
Sarah Alawami
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On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:38 PM, ashley wrote:
> Thanks for this! been trying to get this working for ages. And yes, I do
> think they fixed the problem.
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> On 06/02/2011 21:31, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> I wish I could tell you definitively how I did this but it is possible to
>> drag your signatures in Mail.
>>
>> I found a tip when I googled that said you should disable and then re-enable
>> your account in Mail> Preferences> Accounts> Advanced. So I disabled my
>> account, saved the changes when the dialog came up when I closed
>> Preferences, and then closed mail. I re-opened Mail, enabled the account and
>> again closed, saving changes when the dialog came up, quit and restarted
>> Mail. All of this may not be necessary. I then went into Preferences>
>> Signatures and to "all Signatures". I went into the Names table and selected
>> all the signatures. I did try to move the mouse but finally decided that if
>> they were all selected as shown by vokeys-f6, I could try it. I then did
>> cmd-vo-shift-space and got a message about mouse down though I think it only
>> mentioned one signature or part of it. I turned cursor tracking off, when
>> into the signatures table to the account I wanted to have the signatures in,
>> and lined the mouse up on gmail using cmd-vo-f5 and then vo-f5 to check. It
>> is important to make sure the mouse actually is there. I then again did
>> cmd-vo-shift-space; I think I heard something about "mouse up and the
>> account name". Then I turned cursor tracking back on. All my signatures now
>> showed up under all signatures and under the account.
>>
>> The only strange thing about this is that the first time I got this to work,
>> I closed the window and went to do an email and none of my signatures were
>> availabel. When I opened the preferences again, the signatures were gone
>> from the account again. The next time I did it, I actually selected all the
>> signatures again once I got them to gmail; then went into the text and
>> highlighted the one whose text showed. Then I left the window open while i
>> opened a new message window with cmd-n and actually started an email and
>> chose a signature. I then went back to the signatures window (cmd-accent)
>> and permanently chose a signature in Preferences, though of course all of
>> them are still available. After doing all of this, I finally closed the
>> signatures window. Since then I've quit mail and restarted it and my
>> signatures are still there. So I know this does work but don't know what
>> made them disappear after the first success but kept them from disappearing
>> the second time. At any rate, it did take me several tries to get the
>> drag-and-drop to work, partly because I goofed up the sequence a few times
>> and partly just because the drag and drop seemed not to work. But if you are
>> patient, disable and re-enable your account first, and keep trying, it is
>> possible. I recommend just selecting them all and dragging them; then you
>> can always delete ones you don't want. Also, you probably want to make sure
>> mouse-keys is off when you attempt this.
>>
>> Btw signatures in preferences didn't make mail crash when I was doing all
>> this so maybe the problem is finally fixed.
>>
>>
>> Hth.
>>
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