No kidding! I think I am already in that boat. I did not bothered to up grade to 12. RM
On Sep 8, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Bill Holton wrote: > Sounds like they're afraid eventually you will give up the PC for the Mac > and stop buying their updates. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Kawal Gucukoglu > Subject: Re: Does VM Fusion work with JAWS? > > 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. > > Kawal. > ___ > Kawal Gucukoglu > (E-mail/MSN): > [email protected] > > (Skype ID): > > kawalgucukoglu > > (Mobile/text): > > +447905618396 > > > > > On 7 Sep 2011, at 21:20, Eric Caron wrote: > >> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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. >>> 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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