Hi Jim, Dannie, and Others
Just to add to the info James provided on the location of the VO (and
other) preference lists, I usually navigate to these folders in Finder
with the Command-Shift-G ("Go to Folder") shortcut. For example, from
Finder I will use:
1. Command-Shift-H (to go to my home directory; this is the "/Users/
(your home folder)" part of the path James gave)
2. Command-Shift-G (to go to the folder whose location I type in)
3. In the dialog window that pops up for "Go to Folder" type in:
"Library/Preferences" without the quote marks and with no slash before
the "L"; then press return to go to this location.
Another thing that can be helpful in looking through this extremely
long list of preference files with names that look like "com.apple.
(some_application).plist" is to navigate to the "Date Modified" column
in list view mode (Command-2), then sort on this column (with VO-Shift
backslash on an English language keyboard or by pressing VO-H twice to
bring up the Commands menu and looking for the "sort" option on other
language keyboards). The sort command toggles between ascending and
descending sort order each time it is used. If you display the most
recently modified plist files at the top of your list, you can see the
files that you regularly use and modify.
I'll sometimes copy the most frequently modified/used preference files
to another folder in order to easily keep track of preference settings
that would be annoying to recreate from scratch. Also while some
plist files have easy to interpret names like "com.apple.mail.plist",
a number of these names can seem pretty obscure. It turns out that my
additional keyboard language setups are wrtitten to a file named
"com.apple.HIToolbox.plist" -- where the string is supposed to stand
for "Human Interface Toolbox". There's no way I would have spotted
that file association if I hadn't found this to be the file that was
most recently modified under the Library/Preferences folder after I
added another keyboard language setup.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 3, 2010, James & Nash wrote:
Hi Jim,
The VO preferences can be found at:
/Users/(your home folder)/Library/Preferences
There are a number of apple.com.VoiceOver files but you are looking
for the Voice Over 3 folder. Just copy this folder. This seems to
contain the preferences.
TC
James Lyn Nash & Twinny
On 3 Feb 2010, at 02:41, Jim Gatteys wrote:
James!
do you happen to know which file the voiceover preferences are
stored in? Interesting idea.
Jim
On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:35 PM, James & Nash wrote:
Hi Danni,
What version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard are you running? 10.6.2
seems to have a variety of weird bugs. I've not heard of this one,
but there's no harm in reporting it to Apple. Before this happens
the next time, perhaps when you've set up all your preferences
again, you could make a copy of the preferences file and replace
it if and when it happens again.
TC
James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny
On 3 Feb 2010, at 00:54, Daniel Rowe wrote:
Hi all.
If my iMac does this again, I will go mad.
Over the last month or so, VoiceOver has reset nearly all its
settings spontaneously and with out any warning. Everything bar
my numpad commander customisations get reset to factory
defaults. I make quite a lot of changes mainly in the verbosity
section and it is a pain to have to keep setting things back to
how I like it. I'm glad it leaves the numpad commander alone at
least as I have mapped every ctrl layer key to do things.
Are apple aware of this major bug and if so, what was their
response?
Dannie
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