First of all, it's actually command+R, not just the letter R. Then, you'll
have to hit command+F5 to start voiceover once you are in the recovery.
Remember that pressing the option key alone when booting won't work with
voiceover, but basically, you'll land on your default startup disk, then
hitting tab and shift tab, though it won't speak, should! move you between
the available bootable volumes, at which point, you can hit return on the
one you want to boot to.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Voiceover Died On My Mac Mini
It seems that none of those commands such as holding down r to get into
recovery mode or option to allow booting from another drive want to work
for some reason.
Its most likely I'm doing something incredibly wrong <smile> but I am
wondering whether its at all possible that Apple have removed these
commands in recent updates?
On 29/06/2013, at 1:25 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dane,
Do you have another account you can start up from? I'm wondering if your
account preferences got corrupted.
Failing that, can you try attaching a bootable cloned backup disk and
rebooting from that by holding down the Option key when you power up,
then pressing either the right or left arrow key, followed by a press of
the Return key? If the clone boots up correctly with VoiceOver active,
you can try either booting up and logging into another account on your
Mac Mini's hard drive, or maybe checking for corrupted preference files
on the original hard drive user account.
Another option, if you've set up your Mini to permit remote login, and
are comfortable with using Terminal, is to remote login with SSH using
Terminal from another Mac.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Jun 28, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Zachary Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dane,
Have you tried a system reboot with the power button followed by R? I’d
hate to suggest it most of the time, but if VO absolutely refuses to
start up again, it might be worth doing. it sounds as though some
process crashed unexpectedly and the system is having trouble recovering
to a sane state.
Best,
Zack.
On Jun 28, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>
wrote:
Yep tried that, won't work for some reason but I can certainly see
where you're coming from.
On 29/06/2013, at 12:45 PM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
Try getting in to training mode with vo cmd f8. then if you hear, the
voice over quick start, hit esc.
Take care.
On Jun 28, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi!
I've seen problems with Mac machines but nothing like this.
I left my Mac Mini machine on overnight to finish some uploading.
When I returned to the machine this morning it was to discover that
Voiceover had stopped working, I tried turning Voiceover on and off
using Command-f5 which usually works but no result this time.
I used f11 and f12 to check the volume and heard the volume click
change every time I pressed 1 of these keys so sound device is
obviously okay, anyone any further suggestions?
This Mac Mini machine is a 2009 model running OSX Mountain Lion just
in case that all makes any difference of some sort.
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