Cool it worked. in my case cmd option hyphen dinged at me but I got this to work. I did not know of this method. Thanks for this. I'll have to keep this for future reference.
Good luck. On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Bryan Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Not sure if you've already tried the following, but here's the text of an > email I sent in a few months back. Note that this process seems a bit > persnickety and I sometimes have to quit and restart mail.app to get things > dragging again. > > The following method works for me under Mountain Lion. The following > instructions assume you have Mail.app open in Mountain Lion, your Favorites > Bar is showing and already contains the items you want to rearrange, and that > your screen and VO cursors are both zoomd all the way out > (Command+Option+hyphen keys to zoom out the screen magnification, > VO+Shift+Left Brace to zoom out VO cursor magnification.) I'm not sure why > zoom is important, but I did find references online where folks were having > trouble with VO drag & drop in general, and it was mentioned that the items > to be drug (dragged? drugged?) must be visible on screen during the process. > 1. Interact with Mail's Favorites Bar. > 2. Move the VO cursor to the mailbox item you wish to rearrange. > 3. Press and hold the VO+Spacebar key combo. In my case, VO doesn't seem to > give any audible feeback that something is happening at this point > 4. Use the right and left arrow keys while continuing to hold down the > VO+Spacebar to move the mailbox left and right on the Favorites Bar. In my > case, I hear the drag & drop scraping sound after each press of the arrow > keys, and VO announces the name of the mailbox the cursor is passing. In > addition, it seems as if VO announces the name of the mailbox I'm dragging as > it reaches each possible insertion point. > 5. When you've arrived at your desired insertion point, release the spacebar. > At this point, VO simply tells me "Favorites bar" but if I navigate left and > right I hear the mailboxes in their new order. > 6. If I want to remove an item from the Favorites Bar, I use the same steps > but in step 4 I continue to arrow left all the way until VO announces "Hide > Mailbox List." I then release the spacebar whereupon VO makes a brief > "whoosh" sound which I presume is supposed to indicate that the item has been > tossed off of the Favorites Bar. Note that this process didn't work if the > mailbox list wasn't displayed, in other words, if you arrow all the way to > the left and VO announces "Show mailbox list." In that case you might need to > make sure the mailbox list is showing before you try this procedure. > > Note that there were a few times when pressing VO+Spacebar+arrow keys did not > seem to do anything. In those cases I stopped interacting with the Favorites > Bar and then interacted with it again and the process started working. > > HTH, > Bryan > > On Dec 8, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello. How do i rearrange my favorites bar in mail under os 10.8.2? I've >> tried to touch where the check box is for the favorite and move it but no >> go. I can't manage to move the box to where I want it. Don't laugh, but I >> like my favorites bar in ABC order. Ok I like most everything in ABC order. >> but any suggestions on the favorites bar would help greatly. > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
