I tell you something, partitioning is something that is totally
accessible from the word go under OS X. Under Windows you either need
sighted assistance or one of the talking environments out there, unless
you use a third party partitioning program under Windows or you want to
partition on drives other than the system drive using Disk Management.
On 26/07/2014 21:23, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I have to comment here that partitioning with voiceover is most certainly NOT
useless. I do it all the time with external drives and have done it with my
internal drive on occasion. I don't have time right now to write more, but it
involves how you interact and tab; it might be a bit challenging but it isn't
at all undoable with voiceover. It's much more tricky if you are resizing
though because (1) you can't resize in such a way to make your partition that
already has data on it too small to hold the data any more; (2) if you try to
resize and put in a text value this often won't be the exact figure that you
really need for resizing; and (3) if you actually have free space that isn't
even partitioned somewhere this makes it more complicated yet. However, it
definitely is possible to partition using voiceover and it gets easier the more
you do it. This includes writing your names in the title text fields too.
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On Jul 26, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Michael Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
Partitioning with voice-over is useless. i think a lot more could be done to
make the panels more accessible. take the resize control
On 26 Jul 2014, at 10:28 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size did show
up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is replaced by 8.34 no matter
what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, there is a "resize control", but I
can't figure out how that is supposed to work. The options button is also dimmed for no
apparent reason.
On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote:
Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected.
Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on the one
you want. Then all the things you want should be enabled.
Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something
strange to an existing partitioning scheme. After the install, all of your
partitions may be contained in a logical partition of the same name as the
Yosemite. Not to worry however as erasing the Yosemite partition will put
everything back to normal. At least that has been my experience.
On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb drive.
Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically prevent me from
using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly small) internal disk
instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, leaving me with what Finder
tells me is about 19GB free.
I opened up Disk utility and selected my internal disk, then hit the Partition
tab, then Add. I did this same thing to the afore mentioned thumb drive, and it
was a snap. Now, trying to do this on my internal disk, I'm getting odd
behavior.
* Despite having almost 19GB available, the new partition is stuck at 8.34GB
and I can't change it. When I type a new size, it automatically reverts to 8.34
seconds later.
* I can't open the options to check my table is correct because the button is
dimmed.
* I can't find a place to name the new partition.
* The number of partitions (the popup menu) is dimmed. This is not a problem
since the add/remove buttons work, but it was not dimmed when I partitioned my
thumb drive.
What am I missing? Do I need to shrink the existing partition? If so, I don't
know that I can - I tried, but that seemed to make no difference. I don't know
why this is so much harder than that thumb drive, but it's giving me no end of
trouble for some reason. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks!
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