Hey Tim, Thanks so much as you are the voice of reason. I think this latest suggestion is exactly what I have to do as I can do it on my laptop where mail is working and then disable gmail on the desktop and go through everything. Thanks for the suggestion. On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brian and All, > > I don't believe that accessibility is a factor here in this case, especially > since many of the Gmail issues in Mavericks are across the board for VO and > non-VO users. So some sort of campaign would be unnecessary and misguided in > my opinion. > > I have an idea though for you Brian. If you have your iCloud account already > set up then you can quickly bulk move messages using the following method: > > 1. Create some new mailboxes in your iCloud account. Name them something > similar to what's in your Gmail but distinct enough that you can tell that > it's part of your iCloud account. For example, if you had something named > MacVisionaries in your Gmail, you could name it iCloud MacVisionaries in the > iCloud account. > 2. Go into the Gmail mailbox that you wish to save messages from, for > example, Sent. > 3. Press cmd-a to Select All. > 4. Press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu. > 5. Press "m o" to take you to the "Move to" item. > 6. VO-right to open the submenu and "i c" to take you down to the iCloud > MacVisionaries mailbox that you just created. > 7. Press return. > > This will move all those messages over to your iCloud account and place them > in the appropriate folder. Repeat the process for other mailboxes. It > actually shouldn't take that long even with how many messages you have. > After moving all the messages over, you can either disable the Gmail account > and not worry about it anymore, or once you've confirmed that all the > messages have been moved over, you can mass delete them from Gmail. This > will allow you time to go through your historical messages getting rid of the > older unnecessary ones. If you aren't ready to totally disable your Gmail, > this will also drastically reduce the number of messages in your Gmail > account possibly making the Mail app work better in your configuration. You > can also rename the folders after you've migrated away from Gmail so that > they aren't all named iCloud blah blah. > > As long as you have both your Gmail and your iCloud account set up in the > Mail app on your Mac, you can easily move things between any mailbox on > either account. I move things from my home ISP eMail account over to my > iCloud account all the time since the iCloud is an iMap account and more > easily accessible from all my devices anywhere, anytime. This might be worth > a try for you. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:38 PM, eric oyen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am still getting all mails from here. THen again, I can't upgrade to >> mavericks (machine too old). If apple is starting to get lax in their >> accessibility, then a causes petition or a email/fax campaign is in order. >> Talking to the developers is all find and good, but they don't make the >> decisions as to what gets posted into the final product. >> >> -eric >> >> On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >>> So gmail worked in mac mail for a day, and now mac mail is absolutely >>> unusable again as every single time I hit VO and the arrow key I get a busy >>> message and then again and again. I am using mac mail on my laptop to send >>> this, and sure enough gmail isn't working with mac mail here either but >>> differently as I can use it but the macvisionaries list hasn't gotten a new >>> message in the mailbox since friday. Not sure how everyone is not having >>> such severe problems and why I am the lucky one, but dealing with new >>> issues every day is really making me hate mac. 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