You may want to run a permissions repair, which can be accessed via Disk Utility. I had a similar problem and I actually ran Cocktail, which does a number of maintenance tasks and this did correct the problem. On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Johnny Angel! wrote:
> Hi all, > > Been away from the list for a bit and trying to catch up on my mail. I > haven't seen anything thus far on the list about the Lion update I got when I > checked my software updates. It was a 47 minute, 900 meg update that kept me > up past my beauty sleep start time. <grin> Then, after getting back into > mail today, I am unhappy to see that my mail messages behavior is changed. > Before the update, and since I installed Lion, When I opened a message, VO > would automatically start reading the message for me. No longer. After Lion > says the word group, which I never heard it say before after opening up a > message, VO goes silent and I am left at the top of the body of the email > message. Has anyone else downloaded the Lion update? Does everything still > work as expected like before the update? Now I know that some of you power > users out there are scratching your eggheads, shaking them and saying: Johnny > me lad, this is no biggy. But please understand that the only power this > four month old baby MacBook Pro user demonstrates is pushin the old power > button to turn Mac on! <smiley> Anyway, I would like to get things back to > my expected normalness. Now, I had originally set up Lion mail to be in > simple, non thread mode where, status, number, sender, subject and date sent > were the only things I would hear when left and right VO arrowing on a closed > message. This seems to be the same. > Oh and another funny thing too: > It seems that at least once in a while, two finger swiping down on the > trackpad hadn't work either. I saw a couple of messages on repair > permissions, so I took the wise advice and did just that. But after getting > back into mail, nothing was changed. > Well I said all that to ask two questions: > 1. How can I tell what mode my Lion mail program is in? > 2. Any other ideas on what may have happened to my nice mail reading > capabilities and how I may go about fixing it? > Incidentally, quick nav is off like usual. > Johnny Angel! > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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.
