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

  • From: Laura <laura.mcg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:10:25 +0100

Glad it worked for you. I really love it too--especially being able to move 
messages quickly. In general, I'm starting to really like the new mail.

On 24 Jul 2011, at 22:34, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:

> 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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