OK, sorry for the delay on this one but for some reason I can't expand
or collapse any threads using the command right or left bracket no
matter if I interact or not. Does anyone know what could possibly be
wrong and how I can correct it? Does anyone use another set of
keystrokes?
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Dennis, Shaun, Søren, Jessie and Others,
Dennis originally asked:
DB: I have subscribed to several podcasts in ITunes. When
working
with the taple VO says colapsed for all of the podcasts. How do I
click to expand these podcasts?
and several people replied with the answer that the general command
for
expanding/collapsing folders, VO-keys+backslash, works here. Søren
mentioned that for non-English keyboards, you need to use the
VoiceOver
help (VO-keys+h pressed twice) to find the command sequence.
JH: while interacting with the table press vo and the \ key.
DB: Thanks. Now, how do I colapse the podcasts?
SJ; Do it again and you'll get the result you want.
There are 3 sets of command you can use to expand/collapse podcast
folders in iTunes after interacting with the songs outline:
1. VO-keys+backslash acts as a toggle to expand or collapse a
specific
podcast folder
2. Command-] (that's Command+right bracket -- the key next to the
backslash
key) to open, and command-[ (that's Command+left bracket) to close.
These
will expand or collapse all podcast folders in your Songs outline at
once.
You must issue the command from the songs outline
3. Command-option-right bracket (same command as 2. but with the
option
key held down) resyncs all your podcast feeds and also expands all the
podcast folders when it does so. (Resync will get information about
all
available podcasts on all feeds, so I generally don't use this).
The last two commands are general Mac OS X shortcuts that were
mentioned
in discussion of a Mac OS X hints column:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060529055059150&mode=print
These commands were discussed more fully in this forum in December,
e.g, in the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg24236.html
details differences between resyncing and refreshing feeds
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23977.html
gave a bit more discussion about bulk open and close.
I think the command-right bracket and command-left bracket commands
to open
and close all folders work when you tab to the Songs outline for
podcasts even
if you don't interact. As I recall, the command-option-right
bracket command to
open and resync all podcasts required that you interact with a
podcast folder
in the songs outline that is closed. YMMV. The simple open and
close commands
also work for radio streams. But it can take a _long_ time to open
all radio
streams at once.
HTH.
Cheers,
Esther
