Now you can disregard my Authentication Busy Issue

It seems to be cooperating with me now. Thank you anyway Sharon H. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please

Authentication Busy, Busy, Busy

Hi, Maybe this has been addressed before, but I hope you don't mind. I recently updated my Mac Air to Siera, and was able to enter my username and password. But the system was unable to unlock my Icloud Keychain. So I got the choice to update, create new, or go on with the login. I do want

Re: Apple music on the Mac with Siri

Dito for my Siri. I try not to have one command do more than needed. It is snappier to have Seri on FN + space anyway. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my Macbook Pro Contact: Phone: Private: +27 (0)60 525 9181 For technical support with iOS: +27 (0)78 120 5013 Email:

Re: Apple music on the Mac with Siri

This is good. I would just like to say that I switched my command for Siri. I switched to FN Space instead of Command Space. I did this because Command Space is Spotlight and I type stuff into Spotlight when I'm searching for something. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:44 PM,

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

How about using a ethernet to thunderbolt adapter for the air and connect through ethernet in that way avoiding any Wi-Fi issues. Sent from my IPhone > On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Brandt Steenkamp > wrote: > > Ok, that is new. I did a fresh install of Yosemite a

Re: Apple music on the Mac with Siri

I tried this the other day with Eddy Grant and Electric Avenue. Very cool feature when combined with Apple music.:) > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Antonio Guimaraes > wrote: > > I haven’t seen this addressed recently, but in case you haven’t tried or > didn’t

Re: Reading kindle books on Mac OS or converting to other formats

Gena, I may need to delete the one title that refuses to work and then try it again. I installed the older version of the removal tool which matches your steps. Same result though. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/12/2016 1:50

Apple music on the Mac with Siri

I haven’t seen this addressed recently, but in case you haven’t tried or didn’t know, Siri will play music in iTunes for Apple Music subscribers. simply hold down Command space and say “play” song title, or “play” artist after the tone. I’ve experienced having to say the command a bit slow for

Re: Clean install of Sierra

Chris, The only problem I ran into was durring icloud set up I had a problem whare trying to enable 2factor authentication the system would reboot at the screen whare you are asked for a phone number to use for ggetting a code. I left this alone to get everything else set up then set it up

Re: How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

It is downloading and taking forever. Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:43 PM, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > 1. Open the App Store from either the Apple menu

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

I like that analogy.:) Hopefully these aren’t Starship Troopers sized roaches. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Brandt Steenkamp > wrote: > > Hi, > > I honestly do not give a dam where the messages go, I just want the darn > things out of my bloody inbox!! which is

Using Audacity when totally blind

All, I am asking for some advice trying to use Audacity on my Mac. I am trying to cut out a 5.23 second snippet of an audio file but am having difficulty trying to get those start and links fields appropriately filled in. Can anybody offer me any suggestions? I was hoping that I could simply

Help with Pages

Hi there folks, I am writing a document for which I need to know the word count. I know that command Shift W shows this, but I cannot find it anywhere on the screen. Please help? Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my Macbook Pro Contact: Phone: Private: +27 (0)60 525 9181 For

Re: Reading kindle books on Mac OS or converting to other formats

Hello, I don’t remember running into the kindle wizard myself. What are the steps you take to run the kindle wizard? Then don’t do those steps again. I did give an example of a kindle extension. So anything looking like .azw is the file you need to point to. I have seen .mobi and .html files

Nasty mail issue solved!

Hallelujah, hallelujah, finally!!! As far as I can tell, the problem is solved. I went into mail preferences > accounts > mailbox behaviours, and change the Google trash folder to none. The archive folder is set to all mail, so that is good. I tested this set up by deleting some mail that I do

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

Hi, I honestly do not give a dam where the messages go, I just want the darn things out of my bloody inbox!! which is precisely where they stay. It is like an infection of cockroaches or ants in your kitchen. Completely unwelcome where they are, but fine outside! Warm regards, Brandt

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Tim you should be fine as I think the Express version will continue to work with what you are doing just OCR documents it just will not work connecting to a scanner as I do have the read file option, just no longer have the Twain option to use with a scanner. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:53 PM, E.T.

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

Hi, Check your settings in Mail Preferences, Accounts, Mailbox Behaviours. Under the Trash section, make sure it's set to "None", to delete messages "Automatically" and that the Archive messages is set to go to gMail - AllMail. See if that improves things. I'm having no issues here.

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

I’m glad this has been brought up. I’m having a heck of a time deleting and removing messages from inboxes. They just keep reappearing. Any ideas? It didn’t use to be like this. BTW, mine is gMail iMap as well. Thanks, Traci > On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Tim Kilburn

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Its not ridiculous, its business. We all would love to pay a one time fee and get a lifetime of free upgrades. If we worry about the off chance that at some point we will have to pay for an upgrade, we would still be using MS DOS. No, they do not MAKE a version incompatible with new OS

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Hmmm. Very interesting. I've used it multiple times over the last few weeks. Again, I've just opened existing scanned documents, but have had no issues. I hope it doesn't fail in the next little while. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:38, Brian Fischler

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

Hi, Scott is correct. gMail accounts do not normally send deleted messages to the Trash Mailbox unless you specifically tell them to. My question is, does the message that you delete get removed from the InBox, but just is not present in your Trash Mailbox? If so, it will be in the Archived

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Customer service got back to me and Express no longer works with Sierra you have to pay $80 to upgrade to pro which is ridiculous, as who knows when they will decide to make that version incompatible. Very disappointed with Fine Reader as I believe I paid $60 or more for the Express version. No

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

On Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 12:18:07 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > I've taken a read of what's available about the new Karabina Elements, as > I'm really keen to get this functionality back. I wasn't able to work out > how to create a configuration file that remaps the capslock key.

Re: Nasty issue in Mail

Hi Brandt, I could be wrong here but doesn’t gmail not actually delete but archives instead? I’m not sure here so take anything I say on this subject with the appropriate grains of salt but I do think gmail behaves differently than traditional mail servers. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:18 PM,

Nasty issue in Mail

Hi there folks, I find that when hitting delete on an email message in the inbox, said message does not do what it is suppose to, namely make its way to the trash. Is there something I do not know? More background info, it is in a gmail account, iMap. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

Ok, that is new. I did a fresh install of Yosemite a couple of years ago, and the wi-Fi connection did not persist. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my Macbook Pro Contact: Phone: Private: +27 (0)60 525 9181 For technical support with iOS: +27 (0)78 120 5013 Email:

Re: amazon echo

http://www.mysticaccess.com/other-audio-tutorials/amazon-echo-mp3-audio-tutorial > On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:10 AM, wayne wrote: > > hello sorry i know this is off topic but has anyone have the link to buy the > echo tutorial from mystic-access only i am thinking of buying one

amazon echo

hello sorry i know this is off topic but has anyone have the link to buy the echo tutorial from mystic-access only i am thinking of buying one and would like to listen to the tutorial before i decide thanks -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

No need to do that, google for “install disk creator”. This simple, fully accessible application does it all for you. > On 12 Oct 2016, at 18:39, Brandt Steenkamp wrote: > > Hi there, > > I see only one issue with your steps. Unless you have either some sight or

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Thanks Tim, you would think if it works on Sierra than it would work with a scanner. Hopefully customer support will get back to me, but they have not in the past which is why I would not buy another product from them. Thanks again. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Tim Kilburn

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

If he joins the Wifi it will carry over to the recovery partition. Also, you can get to that screen with voice over by pressing vo m twice, arrowing twice and then down. This has worked for me as recently as a week ago when fresh installing on a 2011 MacBook Pro. However, if he already is

Re: How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

1. Open the App Store from either the Apple menu or the dock. 2. The link for Sierra should be right on the home page of the App Store. So click on that. 3. Click the download button. 4. If prompted for your Apple ID, enter the appropriate credentials. It should then begin downloading. > On

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

Hi there, I see only one issue with your steps. Unless you have either some sight or are pare of eyes to borrow, installing the OS is going to be very hard. The air does not have an ethernet port, and the wi-Fi network selection screens do not talk. The best workaround I can think of in your

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Hi, Yes, Express is working for me with Sierra. The difference, though, is that I've not ever used it with a scanner, so can't properly comment on that part of things. Usually, people have just sent me scanned documents, and I OCR them. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Express use to work fine but may they stopped supporting it. I have emailed their customer support but I find them to be useless. We shall see, I may just dump the product as I am not going to pay for the upgrade as it is ridiculous if they stopped making the Express version work with mac. If

Clean install of Sierra

Hello everyone. I plan to do a clean install of Sierra, just to see if there are any issues my girlfriend may experience if she does it on her own. For now though, are you aware of any? I see no issues when updating from El Capitan or the GM (Golden Master), but never done a clean install. Any

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

When I wanted to get Finereader 2-3 years ago for the Mac, Express was then not available so got the Pro version. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/12/2016 10:21 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: I believe it is am I possibly running an out

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

I believe it is am I possibly running an out dated version? Are you guys running the pro version? Thanks, > On Oct 12, 2016, at 1:10 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Is the Express version compatible with Sierra? > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Without H2O there is no life! >

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Is the Express version compatible with Sierra? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 10/12/2016 10:10 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: John, Are you using Abby Fine Reader Express or Pro? I am using Express or should say trying to use. Just deleted

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

John, Are you using Abby Fine Reader Express or Pro? I am using Express or should say trying to use. Just deleted and reinstalled and still nothing. Most frustrating product out there. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:51 PM, John Panarese wrote: > >I’ve had no problems with my

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

Yep. I restored apps from TM and the next day redid the clean install, this time only restoring computer and settings from TM via Migration Assistant. Manually installing apps and registering a very few of them again was easier. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life!

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

That's exactly right, it was my understanding that reinstalling from a time machine back up would only reinstall whatever problems you were trying to get away from to begin with. I've never done a clean install since lion OS X and that's why am doing this now. Sent from my IPhone > On Oct

Re: Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

I’ve had no problems with my HP8500. I just checked it out to be sure. I’d suggest first making sure Image Capture will work with the scanner. If it does, you might want to try deleting Abby and then installing it again. If Image Capture isn’t working, be sure the scanner is being seen by

Re: Adding ports to airport express.

Anders, let me ask some questions here. The head end router is in bridge mode, does each airport have a public IP or where is the address translation taking place? Where you’re doing the NAT is where you want to have the port forwarding enabled. Does that make sense? > On Oct 12, 2016, at

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

You can but you reinstall any difficulties you were having previously. Not a bad solution but not the perfect clean sweep I think Phil is looking for. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > > After you reformat the drive, can’t you restore from the time

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

Phil, this sounds like a sound procedure to me. No need to reauthorize as your computer will identify itself with the same identification again. You should be good to go. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > These are the steps I intend to follow to do

Adding ports to airport express.

Hi! I have some difficulties getting ssh to work from my Linux box to my Mac mini. This has worked before but i guess that port 22 is blocked on all my network devices. I have a Compal router or modem which is in bridging mode. This is connected to an airport express via ethernet cable. he

Abby Fine Reader not recognizing scanner

Hey all, Since installing Sierra I have not been able to get Abby Fine Reader to work. I have done my research on this issue and it looks like Abby is not recognizing my scanner as it is only giving me the option to read from file, no Twain driver option. Does anyone know how to fix this as

Re: Reading kindle books on Mac OS or converting to other formats

Another update on this process... The removal tool is a bit illogical and has unlabeled buttons but once those 3 are labeled, its not too bad. Adding file is a typical process. Once I learned that the .azw file is the file to work with, it was simple enough to select that and

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

He could, but he said he wanted a clean install. If you want to reinstall from a backup, you wouldn't need to format the drive, because time machine would sync it. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

After you reformat the drive, can’t you restore from the time machine backup? This should eliminate the need to reinstall applications and files. Chris > On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Blee Blat wrote: > > That looks sane, just be careful that you don't accidentally erase

Re: How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

Hello, It might have already been downloaded by itself, similar to how Apple rolls out iOS updates. So if it did, check your applications folder for an app called I think “Install macOS Sierra” or something similar. > I hope this helps, Jeffrey > On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Stacey Robinson

Re: iMud (an accessible macOS MUD/MUSH client)

For anybody who wants to try dentinmud.org port 3000 might be a good place to start. As far as what iMud currently offers over telnet Devin pretty much hit the nail on the head, sound support is a big feature. iMud also has both a custom scripting language and mildly

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

That looks sane, just be careful that you don't accidentally erase the recovery partition, just erase the HD volume. If you erase the recovery partition, it will drop you into internet recovery and you'll then have to start with the OS the machine came with before you upgrade to Sierra again

Re: How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

Thanks Scott. I thought it was downloading but apparently not. I’ll start over and pay closer attention. Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Oct 12, 2016, at 8:52 AM, Scott Granados

My plan for a clean install of Sierra

These are the steps I intend to follow to do a clean install of Sierra on my MacBook Air. If anyone sees a problem in these steps would you please let me know? For example, is it necessary to first D authorize my computer in iTunes to avoid problems One. I have installed Sierra over the top of

Re: How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

If you’re using the regular version and non beta which I assume do the following. First, backup your machine. Use time machine to do this either with a removable disk or with a network attached disk. If you don’t have the means to do that then at a minimum back up your critical files like

How do I download the latest OS update for my mac?

Hello. Can someone give me step by step instructions for downloading and installing the latest mac os update to my macbook air? Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- The following information is important for all

Re: iMud (an accessible macOS MUD/MUSH client)

They offer a way better experience than with Terminal, sound support, and, well, a GUI. Probably a lot more, but that's what I like. I'm taking my poor Mac to the Apple store today to get Sierra installed. I messed with Linux, didn't like it, and now... Anyways, when I get Mac os again, I'll

Re: Spamfilters.

Hi! Sure mate, i tell ya. /A > On 12 Oct 2016, at 13:03, Scott Granados wrote: > > Let me know if I can be of any help Anders. > >> On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:30 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: >> >> Hi! >> The afternoon is to late for me Scot *lol*. >>

Re: iMud (an accessible macOS MUD/MUSH client)

I have a follow up question if it’s ok. I’ve played lots of muds but only used telnet and the port number. What do these clients do that say telnet doesn’t offer? Thanks Scott > On Oct 11, 2016, at 8:56 PM, Jim Danley wrote: > > Hey Tyler, > > I am a swift

Re: Spamfilters.

Let me know if I can be of any help Anders. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:30 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > The afternoon is to late for me Scot *lol*. > Well i am using crystone so i guess i have to check my settings there to get > rid of it. > I take a look and take a

Re: question about a scrambled address book like effect in Apple mail

So what worked for me was John’s excellent suggestion of going to the previous recipients window and clearing everything from there. Seemed to be the easiest way to resolve the problem and it worked. Thanks > On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:58 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi

Re: Voices in Sierra

There might be another folder in to which those voices need to be put. Bear in mind I’m using L Capitan and not Sierra and so can be of no help there. Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very

RE: Siri Shortcut

Yeha should be command and space bar held down till it beeps Quickly hitting command and space bar invokes spotlight. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Saqib Hussain Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 8:23 AM

RE: question about a scrambled address book like effect in Apple mail

Hi Scott, I know you can rebuild a mailbox database, Can you not do the same thing with an address book database? I can't say I've looked but possibly a feature like that. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: The Twitter for iOS Night Mode Feature is Now Compatible with VoiceOver

Hello Mark, because I’m not sure if I fully got it a sincere question: in what way is this feature important to VoiceOver users? Or do you mean for partially sighted Zoom users? Thanks and all the best Jürgen > Am 12.10.2016 um 06:38 schrieb M. Taylor : > > Hello All, > > I

Re: Spamfilters.

Hi! The afternoon is to late for me Scot *lol*. Well i am using crystone so i guess i have to check my settings there to get rid of it. I take a look and take a plunge into the dark. /A > On 11 Oct 2016, at 11:55, Scott Granados wrote: > > Oh come on Anders, there’s

Re: Moving to the top of my Email messages list

Try option-command-up and option-command-down to move to the top or bottom of the list respectively. > On 12 Oct 2016, at 00:32, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > > I used to be able to do this by making sure I was interacting with the > messages table and then pressing