[macvoiceover] Re: I love favorites in Mail on Lion
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:45:56 -0600
I checked, and the mailboxes I am trying to add to the favourites bar are not
there… I'll keep playing with this and see if I can figure it out!
Thanks for all your help.
Russell
On 2011-07-24, at 9:21 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> double check to make sure the mailbox your trying to drop in favorites isn't
> already in there. I really can't think of another reason why it wouldn't
> work.
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx
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> www.mobileaccess.org
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> On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
>
> 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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