Why didn't he approve?  Why would FS even care.

Ricardo Walker
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:

> I rang up Freedom Scientific last year as I wanted a reset of my activation.  
> I told them that I was running Jaws on my Mac under Fusion and as soon as the 
> representative heard that he said he would not support me by giving me a new 
> activation unless I wanted it for a native windows PC.  This year I went to 
> Site Village (an exhibition for all access Technology) and Eric Damerie was 
> there and I told him that I was running Jaws on a Mac and he simply did not 
> approve.
> 
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> On 7 Sep 2011, at 21:20, Eric Caron wrote:
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>> Hi Kawal,
>> 
>>      Freedom Scientific would not be happy to hear this but at least three 
>> of the tech reps I talked to were very supportive of my Mac use.  Two years 
>> ago I was uncertain about buying a mac and mentioned that when working on a 
>> unrelated JAWS problem.  The Rep told me to get the Mac and I would love it. 
>>  He was correct!  The other day I had another issue and before I knew it the 
>> rep was asking me questions as she said she loved her iPhone and was 
>> considering getting a Mac.  Most recently I called for help with my work PC 
>> and Jaws.  I mentioned my problem with Jaws not starting in my VM and told 
>> him I didn't expect him to answer that question as it was not supported.  In 
>> fact, he gave me a good idea to try and seemed familiar with the Mac.  The 
>> Mac seems to, in my experience, be becoming popular with at least some of 
>> these reps.  It really was one of these reps that was the final straw 
>> resulting in my purchase of my Mac.  I've never looked back!
>> 
>> In all fairness I was dealing with real JAWS issues when I called, but in 
>> all these cases the reps were supportive and either all ready knowledgeable 
>> about the Mac or curious about them.
>> 
>> 
>> Even though I don't have all the bugs worked out of my VM yet I am convinced 
>> that the over all experience with Windows on my Mac will be better then my 
>> experience on a native PC. 
>> 
>> Eric Caron 
>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>> 
>>> Bood job you did not tell the Freedom Scientific representative that you 
>>> were planning to install Jaws on a Mac as they do not support this.
>>> 
>>> Kawal.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 7 Sep 2011, at 12:57 PM, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>> Last week, a friend of mine bumped into someone who had the same problem 
>>>> as you seem to experience, in that settings you make in jaws, don't hold 
>>>> from shutdown to next run of jaws. And it is now resolved. We, that is my 
>>>> friend and his friend, and I, have all been looking into the problem. We 
>>>> have checked the permissions on the mac hd volume. We have checked inside 
>>>> windows, to see if somewhere in documents and settings, where jaws stores 
>>>> its configuration data, a rights problem was sitting. Why, would jaws, on 
>>>> other systems, retain its settings, while on the vm it would not. We were 
>>>> starting to think that this was a fusion problem. Even one of the Belgian 
>>>> freedom scientific workers helped debugging the problem one entire 
>>>> afternoon, but no luck. Until my friend's friend, came up with the 
>>>> solution, found by accident.
>>>> 
>>>> What you need to do, and this as worked for 2 people already that I know 
>>>> of, is that you reset jaws to its factory default, thereby destroying all 
>>>> your user settings. But, when you reconfigure jaws afterwards, you may 
>>>> find that from then on, jaws will remember its settings. Albeit spelling, 
>>>> autostart, and whatever. Please try that and report back on it, because it 
>>>> seems that this is a nasty jaws bug, but so difficult to trace. To be 
>>>> clear, my friend's friend encountered this same problem on a native 
>>>> windows pc. He passed it on, and now it works for my friend as well. 
>>>> Hth,
>>>> Paul.
>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Kawal and Paul,
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks for this added info.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My imported Boot Camp partition seemed to be working ok until I deleted 
>>>>> the real Boot Camp.  now each time I start the virtual machine I get a 
>>>>> strange message that says something like can not connect file 
>>>>> User/ecaron/library/application support/VM Fusion/Vertual 
>>>>> machine/BootCamp/ Boot Camp.vvmwarevm//auto Detect as a CD rOM image Can 
>>>>> not find the file. Vertual Device IDE 1 will start disconnected.  I then 
>>>>> press OK and things seem to work all right.  this error message made me 
>>>>> concerned so I decided to create a new virtual machine with my windows 7 
>>>>> disk and instal JAWS directly.  That went ok until I decided to set up 
>>>>> JAWS, still in 40 minute mode.  It seems to work except it won't hold the 
>>>>> check box setting to start at log in.  This makes me concerned that it 
>>>>> won't work correctly.  Plus I need it to come up talking. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, I have two machines available at the moment.  I only on ant one but I 
>>>>> can't get either one to work correctly. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I really appreciate the tips and information.  Even just knowing someone 
>>>>> else has Lyon working with VM and JAWS is helpful.  I'm close to having 
>>>>> this working!  Perhaps there is just a setting I need to fix in one of 
>>>>> the machines. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tips are greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Eric Caron 
>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>>> I'm aware that people sometimes have issues with jaws when importing 
>>>>>> their bootcamp partition into fusion but I can't tell you what is wrong. 
>>>>>> Can't you remove the authorization from bootcamp, and then reinstall it 
>>>>>> into fusion?
>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Eric Caron wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Listers using VM Fusion,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> By the thime I get this working I'll be able to be a consultant for 
>>>>>>> future listers.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I created a new VM not with Boot Camp and after fighting a bit I got 
>>>>>>> Jaws 12 to instal.  No matter what I do when I restart the virtual 
>>>>>>> machine Jaws will not come up talking.  I noticed that once I check the 
>>>>>>> box for it to start at start up the check box is unchecked the next 
>>>>>>> time I look at it. 
>>>>>>> I don't want to wast a license on the machine if it will not hold the 
>>>>>>> JAWS settings.  Anyone have this working and the settings and 
>>>>>>> authorization sticking?  Any tips?  This mac lover has been spending 
>>>>>>> way too much time trying to get this VM working! 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Eric Caron 
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