Hi Lisette, While VO is on, some of the Option key functions behave slightly differently since VO keys includes the Option key. In the Go menu situation, make sure that you're navigating down with your VO keys pressed and the Library choice will be available. If you just use the arrow keys, the Library choice will be absent..
In the sighted Mac user world, when they click on a menu with their mouse, like Go, the Library choice is also absent but if they click on it while holding down the Option key, that choice appears. This is also true in Dock menus, as the Force Quit the app will appear when the Option key is pressed but is absent when bringing up the Contextual menu normally. Now, VO causes some odd behaviours with this sort of thin in some cases so, we often just do things a little differently to reach the same goal. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-07-03, at 2:05 AM, Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > I was curious about what you said regarding the option key in the Go" menu. > I can't get this to work. When I open the "go" menu and hold down the option > key while arrowing, I skip over a load of options and certainly can't get to > library. Can you explain how to do this please? I still have so much to learn > about my Mac from seasoned pros like you and others on this list. Thank you > all so much. > > Lisette > > On 3/07/2013, at 5:14 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Try adding the Option key to that key combination. The Option key brings up >> special items that normally aren't seen in menus. For example, in the Go >> menu, while the Option key is down, the Library folder choice is available >> whereas it is not without the Option key down. The Option key can also be >> used to force locked items into the Trash. An extra thing to try is to >> Restart your computer then retry emptying the Trash with the >> cmd-Option-shift-Delete combination. Occasionally, items that are locked >> will not be released from the Trash until after Restart. If none of this >> works, there is a way in Terminal to really force the issue, I will let you >> know that one if all else fails. >> >> In answer to your question about the items only being present when your >> external HD was connected, this is normal behaviour. If those items >> originally resided on the external HD, then they are placed in a Trash >> folder that is hidden on the external HD. Just like the situation when you >> have multiple users on a computer, each has their own Trash. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-07-02, at 6:36 PM, Anouk Radix <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I just deleted items from the trash with cmd+shift+delete. But there >>> are STILL items in the trash folder that i canot delete either with the >>> earlier named command or just with delete/backspace. >>> How can I FORCEthe trash folder to be emptied? >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
