Yes thanks it is a great list here -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel McGee Sent: 16 July 2012 22:46 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Partitioning an external drive under mac os Lion with Voiceover
Hello Andrew, very useful information for us Lion users. Thank you for sharing. Just as a side note. It might be good if you could send an email to Apple's accessibility address so they know about this problem. Daniel On 16 Jul 2012, at 22:04, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Dear listers, > > I thought I'd post my experience of partitioning an external usb drive > under mac os Lion in case somebody else needed to do this in the > future. > > I've bought a 1 TB external hard drive, and I wanted to partition it > so that it has two different volumes. This is how I accomplished it in > Mac OS Lion. > > I connected my USB drive to my mac. > 1. Open Disk Utility (from the finder, shortcut key, command+shift+u), > and then start typing disk utility to get there. > > 2. In the table of all available disks, find the disk you wish to partition. > > 3. Stop interacting with the table of your disks and move to the right > through the available tabs until you've reached "partition" tab. Press > vo+space to select it. > > 4. Move right to hear "partition layout" popup button. Here yo you can > choose how many partitions you wish to have on your drive. In my case, > I chose two partitions. > > 5. Move to the right. You will encounter a field that Voiceover > reports as something like "name text field". At this stage this field > will be reported as dimmed which means that you cannot do anything > with it. > > 6. Move to the right and yo you will hear "scroll area". This is where > it gets interesting. Remember, I chose to partition my external drive > into two. > > 7. Interact with the scroll area. You will be able to navigate with > vo+arrow keys here, and you will hear: "untitled1 plus some info about > the value of the default size of the partition" and if you move right, > you will hear "horizontal splitter" and then, "untitled2" with the > value of the default size of the partition. At this point, you can't > do anything with these areas. However, in order to be able to name > your partitions, you have to do the following steps. > > 8. While still interacting with the scroll area, place your Voiceover > cursor on the first untitled area. If you have a mac that has a > trackpad which by default is enabled with Voiceover, first disabled > the trackpad commander with vo + rotor left. Voiceover will say > trackpad commander off. Then bring your ouse cursor to the Voiceover > cursor with vo+command+f5. Confirm with vo+f5 that you are on the > untitled1 field and then physically click the mouse/trackpad. > > 9. At this point, Disk Utility got busy for me and I had to force quit > it. To avoid this, after you had physically clicked the mouse pad, > turn Voiceover off and then on again (don't rush the process), and > then stop interacting with the scroll area and move left to the "name > text field". > > 10. You will notice, that now Voiceover announces "name text field" as > untitled1 and it is not dimmed so that yo you can enter the name of > your volume here. > > 11. After you are done with this partition, interact with the scroll > area again, only this time move to the "untitled2" and perform the > same actions here as you had done with "untitled1'. Then again, as > soon as you physically click the trackpad, turn Voiceover off, and > then turn it on again, and then stop interacting with the scroll area > and move to the left to the "name" field where you can now enter the > name of your second volume. > > I hope this will help some people on the list who have been struggling > to partition their external drives. > > With best regards > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
