[macvoiceover] Re: I love favorites in Mail on Lion
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:06:05 -0600
Hi Ricardo,
When I follow the steps to drop a folder on the Favorites bar, I receive a
message, "Fail to drop on Favorite bar". Any ideas what might be happening?
Thanks,
Russell
On 2011-07-24, at 2:13 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to say, thanks to the person who mentioned using the favorites
> bar. Its freaking amazing. lol. here's what you do, if the favorites bar
> is not already shown press command option shift H to show it. Now go to your
> mailbox table and interact. Navigate to the mailbox you want in favorites
> and press VO comma to mark the mailbox for drag and drop. Now stop
> interacting with the mailbox table and navigate to the favorites bar. It is
> near the toolbar btw, and press VO period to drop the mailbox into to the
> favorites bar. Now, you can press command plus the corresponding number to
> jump directly into the messages table for that mailbox no matter where you
> are in mail. You can double check what number your mailbox is by going to
> mailbox in the menu bar and opening the go to favorite mailbox sub menu.
> Even better, you can move messages from one mailbox to the next with a
> keystroke. When on the message you want to move all one needs to do is add
> control to the favorite mailbox command. for example, lets say my
> Macvisionaries mailbox is the first item in my favorites. It would be
> assigned the number 1 to to jump to it I would press command 1. Now lets say
> my gmail inbox was the 2nd item in favorites so it would be jumped to by
> pressing command 2. Now lets pretend I wanted to move a message from the
> macvisionaries mailbox to my gmail inbox. I would just have to be on said
> message and press command control 2.
>
> This is a really, really, cool feature. To remove a mailbox from the
> favorites bar you can't use the new drag and drop method. Here's how you do
> it though. Interact with the favorites bar and navigate to the mailbox you
> wish to remove. Now if your mouse cursor is not following your VO cursor you
> will need to press VO command F5 to move the mouse cursor to the VO cursor
> manually. After that, press VO command shift spacebar to do a mouse down.
> Now, stop interacting with the favorites bar and VO right arrow once to the
> mailbox table. Finally just press VO command shift spacebar to do a mouse up
> and you will hear Mail make a sound to indicate the mailbox was removed from
> favorites. Keep in mind, if you don't have your mouse cursor set to follow
> your VO cursor, when you move to the mailbox you will have to move the cursor
> manually again with VO command spacebar. Btw, the keystrokes can be found in
> the menu bar under mailbox then explore the go to favorite mailbox sub menu
> and the Move To Favorite Mailbox submenu.
>
> hth
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx
> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
> www.mobileaccess.org
>
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