Hi Nic, > Yep. I tried that, including the Command-F5 a couple of times between delays > when it first crashed a week or so ago. I got the ding. The Mac worked fine, > though, but regardless, VO refused to cooperate before a Force-restart with > Command-Control-power button.
There is a much safer ay to do this, but it depends on whether the Mac is operational or not and being totally blind I'm not always sure. You could try this: Open Terminal in Spotlight and enter: sudo reboot You'll be asked for your password. However, this doesn't work for me. Probably because I'm using a standard account. TC James On 21 Jan 2010, at 16:16, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Yep. I tried that, including the Command-F5 a couple of times between delays > when it first crashed a week or so ago. I got the ding. The Mac worked fine, > though, but regardless, VO refused to cooperate before a Force-restart with > Command-Control-power button. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Jim Gatteys wrote: > >> Hi to all! >> When my voiceover crashes or freezes or whatever it does, stop speaking, I >> press vo-command-f8 and bring up the quickstart, close that and voiceover is >> fine. >> >> Jim >> f >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:48 AM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> Hi Anne, >>> On 21 Jan 2010, at 12:51, Anne Robertson wrote: >>>> I lose speech from time to time for no apparent reason. I find that I have >>>> to press Command-F5 four times with a gap of several seconds each time to >>>> restore speech. >>> >>> Thanks Anne, I'll try this. >>> >>> Hope to speak to you both soon and hope that you and Archie are ok. >>> TC >>> James >>>> Hello James, >>>> >>>> I lose speech from time to time for no apparent reason. I find that I have >>>> to press Command-F5 four times with a gap of several seconds each time to >>>> restore speech. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Anne >>>> >>>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:45 PM, James & Nash wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> Twice now, I have had to restart the Mac in order to bring Voice Over >>>>> speech back. Yesterday, I was selecting a number of items in Finder and >>>>> VO went silent - in fact, i had no sound at all. So once i restarted the >>>>> computer - by holding down the power button I'm afraid, I repaired the >>>>> Permissions and everything seemed to be fine. A few moments ago however, >>>>> after waking the Mac from sleep (I am currently running off of the >>>>> battery), I again had no speech. So I am sending this E-Mail after having >>>>> restarted in the hope that others have had similar experiences and so may >>>>> have some solutions. >>>>> >>>>> I think i will drop Apple a message just to let them know that this is >>>>> happening in the current build of 10.6.2, as i know another member here >>>>> has had a similar problem where they are unable to upgrade to 6.2 due to >>>>> having no speech or sound. >>>>> >>>>> TC >>>>> James-- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> ----- >> Find me on facebook or: >> Skype: jimintexas >> Yahoo or Aim/Ichat: jgatteys >> Msn: [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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