[macvoiceover] Re: I love favorites in Mail on Lion

  • From: Larry Smith <larry.smith566@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:14:57 -0400

Hi Mark and Russell. I am getting the same message. The selected mailbox fail 
to be dropped on the favorites bar. I have tried several mailboxes but have 
gotten the same mail. I'll keep playing around with it also. BTW, the only 2 
mailboxes on the favorites bar are inbox and sent.
On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:

> 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
>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
>> www.mobileaccess.org
>> 
>> 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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