HI christine: There is the option of selecting noncontiguous files, , I've just never understood it well enough to have it work for me. But it involves turning off cursor tracking while selecting Here is the how-to from an earlier post.
On May 15, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Rose, ... Incidentally, I came across this because I was checking my Preview Bookmarks menu and, in an old version of the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide for Leopard, had bookmarked the section on "Non-Contiguous Selection". ... I'll paste in what the section on non-contiguous selection said, since it also references the escape key to deselect: <begin quote> Hello. 1. interact with the list with vo shift m. 2. arrow down to the item you want to start the selection. 3. turn vo curser tracking off with vo f3 and lock your vo keys with vo semi colon. both of these are toggles by the way. 4. Now just arrow down and press cmd space on the items you want to select. when you are done unlock your vo keys with vo semi colon, complete your action and then reenable curser tracking and you should be set to go. to select non-contiguous items: 1. Navigate to the first item. If VO cursors are not following each other, then use VO-cmd-f5 (add FN on a laptop) to bring focus to where VO is. 2. Now turn off cursor tracking by pressing VO-shift-f3 (add the FN on a laptop). 3. Navigate to the next item you wish to select. 4. Press VO-cmd-space. 5. Repeat #3 and #4 until you have all items selected. 6. Press cmd-c to copy or begin dragging or do whatever you wish to do. 7. Turn cursor tracking back on using VO-shift-f3 (add FN on a laptop). don't forget to do #7 as it will frustrate you to no end when cursor tracking is off and you're trying to do things you're used to doing. HTH Carolyn . On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: > I can't select a bunch of files from my music folder at a time and copy them > to the drive? What a pain! I will try one at a time and sww if that works. I > could copy over the whole file, but then I'll have to go through and delete; > I'm putting together some music files for my husband's iTunes library, since > I was told this is the easiest way to share music files. (We have different > iTunes accounts.) > Christine > On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > >> Hi Christine: >> I don't believe you can copy more than one at a t ime, unless they're in a >> folder. The other thing to keep in mind is you may need to interact in >> order to paste. VO should be telling you both when it copies, and when it >> is pasting, it should say, "paste, copying from ..." >> >> Sometimes it's ust a bit of trial and error tinkering. >> >> Carolyn >> >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: >> >>> Hi, Esther and others: thanks so much for your responses. I am now able to >>> find the drive, and what I want to do is copy music files to it. However, >>> I cannot figure out how to do this. I selected several files, copied them, >>> then interacted with the empty table for the centon drive. I hit command v >>> -- and got the error sound. This is how I went about things with my PC -- >>> is there some step or nuance I'm missing? Even if someone must contact me >>> off-list, could you walk me through the process, or point me to a podcast >>> or web site that does so? I thought this was going to be one of the >>> simpler things I would be doing . . . (grin). >>> Christine >>> On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:32 AM, Esther wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Christine, >>>> >>>> If this is a USB flash drive or memory stick you should not have to format >>>> or otherwise activate it. If this is a new hard drive, depending on the >>>> format, you may or may not want, or have to format (or reformat) the drive >>>> with Disk Utility. What you decide to do depends on how you plan to use >>>> the drive, and whether you need to both read and write to it from >>>> different operating systems, or just plan to use it with your Mac, and the >>>> issue here is that, without additional software, Windows file systems >>>> can't read the default Mac file system file formats. >>>> >>>> Since, from your subject line, you are using a USB flash drive, I'll add a >>>> suggestion to the good recommendations you've had from Zack and Ricardo. >>>> If you can't find the drive on your Desktop, and Carolyn's suggestion of >>>> looking in Finder on your computer (Command+Shift+C) doesn't work, try the >>>> keyboard shortcut in Finder of Command+Shift+G (for "Go to Folder"). In >>>> the text box of the dialog window that appears when you issue this >>>> command, type or paste in: >>>> "/Volumes" >>>> without the surrounding quotation marks, but with the slash mark at the >>>> beginning, and using a capital "V" for "Volumes", then press Return. >>>> >>>> This should show you all mounted volumes that are attached to your >>>> computer in your Finder window. One of them will be "Macintosh HD", which >>>> is your main hard drive. Another should be the name of your USB flash >>>> drive (e.g., "Lexar", "Crucial", or "Untitled"), which you can then >>>> select. This method (pressing Command+Shift+G and then going to the >>>> "/Volumes" folder in Finder) works for me in the very few instances where >>>> an attached drive is mounted on the system, but for some reason the >>>> graphical user interface (GUI) doesn't update the information. The Finder >>>> view is a little simpler with this command than what is displayed with >>>> Command+Shift+C (which, as Carolyn explained, shows the top level of your >>>> Computer), because it doesn't include network connections. >>>> >>>> Remember that you have to exit the files on the attached USB drive before >>>> ejecting it. That means that you cannot have any of the files open in >>>> another application (e.g., be viewing one of the files on the drive in >>>> TextEdit), and you should navigate to the top level of the device in the >>>> Finder window (use Command+Up arrow to move up levels). Then you can use >>>> Command+E to eject the attached USB flash drive and remove it safely from >>>> the USB port on your computer. >>>> >>>> HTH. Cheers, >>>> >>>> Esther >>>> >>>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 16:27, Christine Grassman wrote: >>>> >>>>> I did check that external disks were checked in Finder preferences to >>>>> show on the desktop, but the only untitled folder there is not the disk. >>>>> I can't find anything to activate the disk. Is there something else I can >>>>> try -- is it possible I have to format it or something? It's brand-new. >>>>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Christine, >>>>>> When you insert the drive an icon will appear on the desktop, which you >>>>>> can then open. It might be labeled as Untitled or similar, depending on >>>>>> whether the drive has a volume label or not. You open this with >>>>>> command-o, and then can copy files to it by, for instance, opening a new >>>>>> Finder window with command-n and navigating to where ever you want to >>>>>> copy from. To remove the drive, first eject it with command-e on its >>>>>> icon. >>>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>>> Zack. >>>>>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, everyone, I'm really confused right now. I placed a new drive into >>>>>>> the USB port and expected some sort of dialog box or alert telling me >>>>>>> it was available; I want to copy music files onto it. Nothing, and I >>>>>>> can't figure out how to locate it, the way I used to on a PC using "my >>>>>>> computer". What must I do? (I did try removing it, and I got the alert >>>>>>> that it was not removed safely, but it doesn't seem to notice when I >>>>>>> insert it.) >>>>>>> Christine >>>>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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