List Members,
First off I would like to apologize to the list for the actions taken
by myself this morning. I should have ignored James and others and
did more reading as well. I will say that I gott textedit back by
doing a soft install. MMuch thanks to Esterm, John and Woody for
their continues assistance. I would like to say that after getting a
fundamental run on how OXX actually works compared to Windows it was
a steep learning curve. I still have a few more questions as I have
my system set up pretty good. These concernes editing text and a
couple of e-mail questions not found in any help turtorials that I
have read yet. That is not to say that they are not their. Most tell
you the sighted way of doing things and then you have to convert it
into Voice Over commands which confuses me. The one thing about this
morning is that it made me say that I will fix it with or withhout
the list. Apple was no help. They make a product that they don't
support over the phone. Now that things are back to normal I just
have tthose two questions and a couple more about downloading and
navigation. Again I apologize sincerly. Last if we just bare with us
newbys everything will go smoothly. That is to say please help
members without making them feel like they are stupid. If you don't
want to answer the question then delete it and move on it is not
taking too much time out of your day to delete. Thanks again
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi John and Shaun,
Regarding TextEdit on Shaun's MacBook John wrote:
Since it's not in the trash then you might have to re-install
Tiger but
possibly and only a guess but look on the DVD and maybe you can
just copy
the app to your Applications folder.
John Gunn
A simple copy of an app doesn't work. Shaun, can you try one more
thing to
check that TextEdit really isn't on your MacBook? Because the
search in Spotlight brings up everything you have that references
TextEdit -- your mail messages, bookmarks, etc. and depending on
how you ran the search in Finder the TextEdit.app might still be on
your machine, but not appear to come up in your results.
Try bringing up the VoiceOver Application chooser menu:
control-option-F1 or, since you're on a laptop, you'll need to hold
down the function key, too for control-option-function-F1
You need to press this sequence twice to bring up the Application
chooser menu. I don't use this because I find it awkward to hold
down the three keys: function, control, and option with my left
hand and then hit the F1 key twice with my right hand, but you
can lock down the VoiceOver keys (control and option) first if you
like, with VO-keys+semi-colon. You'll hear "enable control option
lock". Then you only need to press the function key and the F1
key twice, and you can toggle off the VoiceOver keys lock with
another VO-keys+semi-colon.
So, assuming you're holding down the three leftmost keys on
the bottom of the keyboard, function+control+option, and
have tapped the F1 key twice (just to the right of the Escape key
at the top left of the keyboard), you should hear:
"Application Chooser Menu, 7 items"
arrow down to the bottom entry, which should be "Text Edit"
right arrow to "Text Edit Menu" and down arrow once to
"Go to Text Edit"
Carriage return and tell us what happens. OS X is pretty resiliant,
so please first check whether TextEdit is still there.
If you need to, you can probably use a software application called
Pacifist, which allows you to extract individual applications off your
installer disc to repair or restore applications.
Pacifis is described in a minitutorial at the macfixit site:
Mini-Tutorial: Re-installing Apple applications from a Mac OS X
disc/update package using Pacifist
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005070807515981
and they also give links to the software. It appears to
be accessible.
However, since you have multiple items that you've removed,
and since I found a few review comments that said that
using Monoingual to remove language packages sometimes
complicates the use of Pacifist because inidividual language
localizations of apps have been deleted, and since you've
also mentioned using Monolingual and Onyx, it's probably
best to go slow with this.
Hope this helps,
Esther
On Monday, September 24, 2007, at 06:19AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
Original Message:
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From: VaShaun Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:01:32 -0700
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Text Edit not available now
Spotlight just brings up a e-mail header from one of my mail
pieces
from another list. It is not oin my documents folder nor in the
trash. I actually want it fixed and I don't wknow what to do. I don't
like the attitudes of some of the list members and help is far and
inbetween. As far as installing Tiger it was a guess as I am not a
Mac expert. Your help would be greatly apreciated.
On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
VaShaun Jones wrote:
It brings a message that we ddiscussed on the list. \
I don't remember this discussion and you don't provide a link or a
thread name. What message does it bring? Does Spotlight work
generally or are you having problems with it whatever you search
for?
Is their a better program that is free?
Depends what you're trying to do with TextEdit.
If you are saying that I have to install Tiger again, I would just
want to get something else.
Nobody's said that (yet).
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Hi:
Since it's not in the trash then you might have to re-install
Tiger but
possibly and only a guess but look on the DVD and maybe you can
just copy
the app to your Applications folder.
John Gunn
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