Oh, wow. I'm proud of you; it isn't easy to crash OS X. :) I'm perfectly capable of doing the same sort of thing, so I'm crossing my fingers. Glad it's all working again.
I once crash Windows trying to run two screen-readers, Jaws and Virgo at the same time. It completely destroyed my display drivers and I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall the OS. I'm so glad OS X is not so fragile. Teresa On Oct 8, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Guys. > I managed to crash Lion last night, and I'd like to tell you guys how I did > it because it's something a lot of VoiceOver users might be tempted to do. > However, you don't want to do what I did last evening. > > I was in Numbers. I had a file open, and discovered that I had made a > mistake. I took a row out. Then I decided that my mistake was worse than I > thought so I wanted to go to September 19 version. Well, last time I had so > much trouble getting to the right version and calling it up that I decided to > do what I used to do in Windows all the time, copy the old version from my > thumb drive. > > Unfortunately, I forgot to press command-W. Most of the time this has not > been a problem because Lion will let you copy files that are still in memory. > However, unbeknownst to me, I created two of these files in memory. I had > never had that happen before. > > After making the copy, I went back in and there was the old one. So, I made > some changes, took that same row out plus did some more. Then I went to > another window in Numbers, and lo, I found the other copy with, as best I can > remember, the same name. > > I tried closing both files with command-w, and that was when my computer > crashed. I couldn't go anywhere or do anything. VoiceOver did some talking, > but the only way I finally got to shut down was when I got desperate and > pressed the power key. When I did that, I got the shut down menu. When I did > that, copied the file over again, and went back into Numbers again, > everything was ok. > > Regards, > Gigi > > -- > 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.
