On 7/7/2012 5:53 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Jim, Arthur, and Josh,
How does one change store locations on a mac?
You can only purchase items from the iTunes store or App store that is
associated with your account, and that's generally associated with the
geographic location of your credit card. Or, if you create an account just for
the purposes of downloading free apps, the App Store used is the one associated
with the geographic information of the full address you supplied in creating
that account. However, you can change the location of the store that is
displayed in iTunes on your Mac. I do this to check the availability or
pricing information of apps in other stores when I'm posting from my Mac, and I
want to find out whether an app is available to users in another country before
I post.
On most pages in the HTML area of the iTunes Store or in the Mac App Store, the last element is a link image for "My Store". For example, if I move to the last element in one of my iTunes Store
pages with VO-End (that's VO-Fn-Shift-Right arrow on my laptop), I'll hear VO say "link image My Store: United States, Choose Store". If you activate that link, either by pressing the up and down
arrow keys simultaneously in Quick Nav mode, or with VO-Space, you'll bring up a page with a heading for "Choose your country or region". Navigate by headings (VO-Command-H, or just "h"
if you have single key web page navigation enabled with Quick Nav under Lion in the "Commanders" section of VoiceOver Utility, Quick Nav tab), then navigate to the country you want for that region
and activate either the link image or the link with VO-Space or by simultaneously pressing the up and down arrow keys in Quick Nav mode. iTunes will reload the home page, but the entry will be for the new
country you selected. You can check this by using VO-End again, and the announcement will read the new store. However, you'll also be signed out of your iTunes account when you switch stores. To check
this, stop interacting with the HTML area and either VO-Left arrow or just Left arrow if you have Quick Nav on. You'll find a "Sign into my iTunes account" button. If I've changed my store and
attempt to purchase items in the other store, or if I activate this sign in button, after entering my login and password I'll get a dialog window with the message: "This Apple ID is only valid for
purchases in the U.S. iTunes Store. You will be switched to that Store. Try your purchase again." Once I press return or the "OK" on the dialog window I get taken back to my original iTunes
Store. On the Mac App store there will also now be a "Sign In" link under the "Quick Links" heading of pages such as "Featured", "Top Charts", and
"Categories" if you changed your store location.
If I'm checking on iOS apps or looking for music, I usually go directly to the "Search…" page of the iTunes
Store from the iTunes menu bar's Store menu. That keeps the "busy" messages down, since I'm not loading the
image and link rich HTML content of the iTunes Store home page. Then if I want to change countries I can use the Web
rotor (VO-U) and switch the rotor to "Images" with the arrow keys. On the power search page the "My
Store" link image is the only image that will show up in this list. Laptop users might find that easier than
VO-Fn-Shift-Right Arrow, which I press by sliding the middle three fingers of my left hand up slightly from the Fn,
Control, and Option keys so my middle finger presses the Shift key, and then I press the Right arrow key with my right
hand.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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Hey Esther:
Great, as usual. I did create another account and downloaded the Mog
music service app. Can't get it to play though. Ah well!
Thanks all over the place.
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