Here's some more information to support the earlier problem. under Subject: Re: Problem accessing applications
Jed said: >Hey guys, I hit something, and for some reason I can't view >applications or find applications on the harddrive. >I hit up and down arrow, it says nothing. Any ideas? >I am in the desktop on finder. I wrote back: If you're in finder try pressing shift-command-a That's the keyboard shortcut to get to the Applications folder in finder. Then Jed wrote: >Ok, that worked, but however, when I am in finder, I pressed my up and down >arrow keys, and it said nothing. >Any ideas what I might have screwed up? There were some suggestions from Hank and others that he was not in list view, but even if he was in icon view or column view in finder using the VO-key + arrow key combinations should have given him some reply, unless he was in interaction mode. Any other thoughts, people? Cheers, Esther On Friday, September 14, 2007, at 01:28PM, "Esther" wrote: >Hi Buddy, > >The behavior is stranger than that: when he went into the Applications >Folder under finder he couldn't see anything using VO-keys up arrow >and down arrow. I thought James' explanation about having to stop >interacting was likely to provide a solution, but apparently it didn't. > >Esther > >On Friday, September 14, 2007, at 01:23PM, "Buddy Brannan" wrote: >>It sounds more like you have a very empty desktop. This is faily >>normal (having a very empty desktop). I you're wanting to get to >>other open windows, you ca cycle through open windows of an app with >>cmd-accent. Or hit the window chooser menu with VO keys+F2. But it's >>behaving normally from what your explanation says. >> >>BTW, if you press return on an item, you're in a field to rename >>it...so don't do that unless that's what you want to do. > > >
