[macvoiceover] Re: I love favorites in Mail on Lion
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:34:47 -0600
Hi Laura!! Thank you so much! That worked! Amazing!
I now too love this feature!
Russell
On 2011-07-24, at 2:50 PM, Laura wrote:
> Hi Russell
>
> Are you using the VO keys with the period key alone, or are you trying
> vo-Shift-Period? I found that I could only do it by focusing on one of the
> mailboxes already in the favourites bar, and then using VO-Shift-Period to
> drop the item ahead of the VO cursor. I got the same message as you when I
> used just VO-Period. I think VO-Shift-Comma would also work, but I haven't
> tried that.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Laura
>
> On 24 Jul 2011, at 21:43, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
>
>> 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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