Steve, I experience a similar behaviour although it sometimes happens
not just when I am deleting a whole thread. It will happen when I
delete a single message from a list user. I experience a pause and
then Voiceover says "welcome to Mackintosh" and tells me what mailbox
I'm in. I don't understand why it happens. I don't even interact with
the message list. I think it has started happening when I chose to
have my messages sorted into threads in order to speed up going
through my Macvisionaries list. I can't offer a solution apart from
the feedback that it has been happening to me too.
Maybe some other members with more computer programming background can
shed some light on what's happening.
With best wishes
Simon
On 28 Jul 2008, at 18:10, 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
