Well, I've tried all suggestions.  The only thing that works besides using the 
VO arrow combinations is the tab key.

Les
On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this 
> happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it starts 
> working. 
> 
> regards,
> Gigi
> 
> 
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me.
>>  
>> Chris.
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Gavin Grundlingh
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: Navigating the Desktop
>> 
>> I find that, if ever something like this happens to me, tabbing between the 
>> various desktop items seems to sort things out. After tabbing once or twice, 
>> I can usually go back to using the arrow keys.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
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>> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:26 PM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I have always! found desktop navigation to be really spiratic.  Sometimes I 
>> can't even vo+left and right arrow.  I have to command tab away from the 
>> finder to another app, then back to the finder again, then! things start 
>> working as they should.
>> 
>> I made Apple aware of this, but even the engineers were totally baffled as 
>> to why this was happening.  They were! able to reproduce the spiratic 
>> behavior, but just are really puzzled as to a sollution, and as to why in 
>> the first place it's doing this.  They did promise me though that they'd 
>> keep researching it.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Kriegler" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:07 AM
>> Subject: Navigating the Desktop
>> 
>> 
>> When I access the Finder window, I have two items, Macintosh HD and my 
>> external disk drive shown.  I always arrowed using up and down arrows to 
>> highlight either drive.  Now, for some reason, I hear nothing when using the 
>> down arrow key to move from Macintosh HD to my external disk drive.  I have 
>> to use VO Right arrow to highlight the external drive.  How can I change 
>> this back to the way it was?  Thanks.
>> 
>> Les
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