Hi Steve. I read mail exactly the way you do, and do not have this
problem deleting threads. This of course doesn't help you much,
except to know that this isn't normal behavior.
I wonder if perhapse it's a corrupted preference file or something.
What you might try is to log in as a different user, or maybe the
guest user, set up your mail, and see if the problem persists.
Darcy
On 28-Jul-08, at 1:10 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
I'm experiencing a very strange issue, one that seems to have come
up out of the blue. I keep my mailing list messages sorted by
threads and often will delete entire threads. For some strange
reason, VoiceOver is deciding to occasionally reset when I attempt
deleting lengthy threads. Here's a broken down example of what
happens.
#1 I go to a mailing list folder and interact with the messages table.
#2 I vo-right to the subject heading as that's what I normally focus
on and because I don't care about the date, status, etc....
#3 I start merily deleting mail and come to a thread that is not of
interest.
#4 I hit delete to zap the thread and hear nothing. About ten
seconds later, i get the VoiceOver ready message. I then have to
again interact with the messages table and find the subject column.
Sometimes this behavior repeats itself on the very next thread I
wish to delete, sometimes not until a few threads later. I believe
the more posts a thread contains, the more apt this problem is to
occur.
I haven't installed any new software lately and can't think of
anything that's recently updated -- mail definitely hasn't.
Thinking that my deleted items might be too full or something, I've
made sure to empty it -- results are the same. I've thought maybe
deleting the mail .plist might help, but am not sure where my view
settings and rules are stored and really really want to avoid
setting all that back up.
Thanks for any ideas,
Steve
