Hi, I just tossed Terminal on the dock. It works fine here.
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:47 PM, James & Nash wrote: > 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. >> >> > > -- > 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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