Hello Andy and Carol, I really don't have this problem with Mail and I receive hundreds of messages every day. However, I have some suggestions.
Whenever applications are behaving unreasonably, I find it useful to repair permissions. You do this by opening the Utilities folder (Cmd-Shift-u) and opening Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, there is a table with which you interact to find your internal hard drive. It's usually the second item in the table and is often called Macintosh HD. Select it and stop interacting. Then navigate twice right and check that First Aid is selected. Navigate down from there to the button Repair Disk Permissions and click it. You can follow the progress of the permissions repair by navigating up to Results and interacting with that table. When the repair is complete, the bottom line will say as much and you can quit the Utility. Cheers, Anne On 18 Jul 2013, at 18:30, ANDY COLLINS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carol - I'm actually finding mail a bit of a pain, just when I think I can > navigate it ok, the appearance changes, or Having interacted with a message, > when I stop, I am thrown out in to somewhere I didn't expect to be, and can't > get back to my messages without some fiddling about. I've searched around for > help, and have heard a couple of Pods referring to mail, but nothing really > that has given an in-depth explanation of how it works, and how to best set > it up. I'm a bit like this in Safari or Chrome, I think I've grasped > navigating etc, only to encounter something that throws me, and then > frustrates me too! - > > Andy > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" > <[email protected]> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: Mail busy message > > >> Andy, >> >> I have been having similar problems. >> >> One thing that sometimes seems to help me is, instead of stopping reacting >> in messages, to cycle between the reading of headers or messages, and I >> think this is the third one that sometimes comes up, but I can't remember >> offhand what it is. >> >> We both are getting there slowly! I think there may be a keystroke we're >> both missing, so I hope somebody will chime in here! >> >> Carol P >> Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch >> >> On 18 Jul 2013, at 04:58 PM, Andy Collins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all - >>> >>> A lot of the time, when I stop interacting with messages table in mail, VO >>> says "busy." The only way I can get out of this is by quitting the app, and >>> reopening it. Do others have this issue? 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