Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Alex Hall
I agree that it would be great if Apple put out a document or iBook explaining the accessibility and interface changes with each release. In fact, this is something that I have urged them to do in the past, for iOS and OS X. I don't use iTunes much, so I can't comment on that, but I will say

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Pamela Francis
Hi Alex, I was originally attempting to search for music title on my Mac. As I did that, everything including email having nothing to do with what I was searching for, web search results that were unlabeled, also having nothing to do with what I was attempting to find. I gave up. I realize in

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Alex Hall
I don't have music stored locally, but if I search for other files, they come up. Have you explored the Spotlight preferences (under System Preferences)? You can uncheck items you don't want searched, and sort the order of result types. On Oct 19, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Pamela Francis

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Pamela Francis
No I have not done that. I didn't know it existed. However, I shouldn't have to. I would think the OS would be smart enough to understand keywords, knowing what it was supposed to be searching for to start with. Pam Francis On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Alex Hall
What sort of keywords? I'll put a couple songs on this machine and try the same search you did, to see if I can get the same (inaccessible) results. On Oct 19, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: No I have not done that. I didn't know it existed. However, I

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Pamela Francis
I have an artist on my machine called the Eagles. Spot light would not pull it up. It gave me everything but, including any email I had relating to any threat I had having to do with computers. I should be able to type in precisely what I'm looking for getting the results I know are there. I

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Juan Hernandez
Spotlight is working for me. Could your installation become corrupted? On Oct 19, 2014, at 7:54 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: I have an artist on my machine called the Eagles. Spot light would not pull it up. It gave me everything but, including any email I had relating

Re: Apple's QA (was: voice commands on yosemite)

2014-10-19 Thread Pamela Francis
Hi, Please tell me how I would know whether or not my installation had been corrupted. Certainly worth checking out. If so, how would I reinstall it? Pam Francis On Oct 19, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Spotlight is working for me. Could your installation