[macvoiceover] Re: I love favorites in Mail on Lion
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:43:24 -0600
Hi Larry,
Well, I had the inbox, drafts and sent on my favourites bar… still am not able
to add any other mailboxes.
Thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one experiencing this… what's the
old saying, misery loves company? LOL
Russell
On 2011-07-24, at 11:14 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
> 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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