Very good, glad that worked. I will keep that in mind for the future. Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:55 PM, fred smith <snuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks -- I've finally got the Tab working properly again. In the end, > I followed your suggestion and deleted the mail preferences > (library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist), then reopened Mail. It was of > course back in the default layout, but it was easy enough to restore my > settings and Tab is once again working as it should: taking me between the > mailboxes and the messages list. > > Thanks again. > Fred > > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > >> Hi Fred, >> >> Is your mail toolbar showing or hidden? One thing you can try if your >> mail toolbar is showing is to go to the "View" menu of the Mail menu bar >> and hide it. Then try tabbing. In an earlier post I wrote an explanation >> about how the exact tab focus behavior (using tab to move focus between all >> elements or just lists and text boxes) can get changed depending on where >> your focus is when you press Control-F7 to change this action. For >> example, in Mail on one system I found that I could break the ability to >> tab just between mailbox and message in the Message Viewer window by moving >> my focus to the search box (Command-Option-F), and then toggling the >> Control-F7 to change the focus action of the tab key from that location. >> Tabbing worked as expected in all other apps. >> >> Failing that, you can try to quit Mail and delete some mail preference >> files, or moving them to the Desktop. Perhaps one of these got corrupted. >> If you have a Time Machine backup of when things were working, try just >> copying over the plist files associated with mail. I don't remember all of >> these, but the main one would be "com.apple.mail.plist". You can find it >> in Finder by first going to your user account with Command-Shift-H. Then >> use the Command-Shift-G "go to folder" shortcut, and type or paste into the >> text box of the dialog window: >> Library/Preferences >> and press return. There should be a com.apple.mail.plist file that you >> can copy or move to your Desktop. If this preference file is deleted from >> your Library/Preferences folder, then the next time you open your mail >> application, it will be as though you were using mail with the system >> defaults. You do have to configure your mail the way you want again from >> scratch, which is why it is better to use an old copy from when things were >> working the way you want. If you have an older cloned backup, you can copy >> the mail plist file from that disk into your account's current >> Library/Preferences folder. If, after you reconfigure your mail >> preferences, tabbing still doesn't work correctly, you can move back the >> version that you copied to your Desktop. Just remember to quit Mail first >> before you move the plist file over. Preference files get updated every >> time you exit an application, so if you copy an old file to your >> Library/Preferences folder while an application is open, it wi >> ll just get overwritten by your current settings when you close the >> application. This is also why plist files are the most likely thing to >> examine when troubleshooting, after trying things like a permissions repair >> under Disk Utility. Even though the incidence of problems is not high, >> these files get open an re-written every time you use an application, so >> over time, it's possible that one of the values gets set wrong. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> On 29 Mar 2013, at 04:09, Josh Gregory wrote: >> >>> Very strange, the only other thing I can think of is if you might have a >> time machine backup of When it did work. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Mar 29, 2013, at 5:15 AM, fred smith <snuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> No luck -- I rebuilt the mailboxes but tab still does nothing. 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