Hello everyone, Last Monday, a day before the arrival of two students for a three-day VoiceOver course, one of our two MacBook Pros that we use for training gave up the ghost. It was running hotter and hotter so I shut it down and let it cool off. I then zapped the PRam, but it never booted again. That machine has always been temperamental, but it seems to have suffered a fatal stroke this time!
What to do with two students, neither of whom could bring a machine of their own? Well, my MacBook Air that I've been very happy with is two years old, so we decided I could have a new one as an early birthday present. My husband bought me a lovely new 11-inch MBA with 256 GB SSD and 8 GB of RAM (just what I wanted!). He brought it home from Paris, along with our two students. It was after dinner before I could even unpack my new toy. I booted it up and set the language and keyboard, then imported my data from my Time Machine backup. That's when disaster struck! This new machine told me that I could now start enjoying using Lion! But my password didn't work! I couldn't access my new computer and get Mountain Lion. Apparently, because my new MBA is a higher spec machine than most people buy, it had been in the Louvres Applestore since just before Mountain Lion started shipping with new computers. Luckily, we always keep a USB key with the latest OS on it. So I shut down my new MBA and did a clean install of Mountain Lion. I then had to import all my data once again. The next problem was the Infovox iVox voices that started nagging me. I set everything to use Fred, but as long as the Infovox iVox voices were on my system, I couldn't do a thing with VoiceOver. I'm lucky to have a sighted husband who knows an awful lot about Macs. So he was able to remove the voices from my system. We then had to set up my old MBA in French and with a new user name for one of the students. This was Archie's job first thing on Wednesday morning while I ran through some basics with our students. Well, the students have now left and they said they were delighted with the course. But we're absolutely exhausted! And I can now start looking at tweaking my new toy and putting the Infovox iVox voices back on it under less stressful circumstances. It really is an incredibly fast machine! Cheers, Anne <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
