Re: dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Jonathan, Very useful reminder there about those Help buttons. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 5/28/2022 4:59 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Hello, If you

Re: dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, If you clicked on the "help" button at the bottom of this settings file you would get to help about this panel. In this help there is a table telling you what the three checkboxes are. The description for the first checkbox says: Hide your IP address from senders and privately download

Re: Safari incredibly sluggish

2022-05-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, that command is listed in the development section. When systems are working as designed, there should not be a need to empty caches. A caches I a place where the computer stores information that it might need quicker than can be obtained normally. For web sites, this is generally a the

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Nichole Keck' via MacVisionaries
You have a system dialogue on your screen. You have to hold down VO and press F1 twice to bring up the window chooser. If you haven’t changed your function keys, you will need to add the FN key to that. Then down arrow to where it says system dialogues and press enter or VO space and arrow

Re: dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
There is no lock in that section. When an item is dimmed, it usually means you need to change another option. Look at the first option in that window and if its checked, that is why the other options are dimmed. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will

Re: dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread Lorie McCloud
where? do I need to go to systemprefs? > On May 28, 2022, at 3:03 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > You need to click the lock in the bottom left corner of the screen, and enter > your Max administrator password. > > - Brad - > > On May 28, 2022, at 14:51, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I've been

Re: dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread Brad Snyder
You need to click the lock in the bottom left corner of the screen, and enter your Max administrator password. - Brad - On May 28, 2022, at 14:51, Lorie McCloud wrote: I've been looking at the privacy settings in Apple mail on my Mac. when something is dimmed that appears to mean I can't

dimmed

2022-05-28 Thread Lorie McCloud
I've been looking at the privacy settings in Apple mail on my Mac. when something is dimmed that appears to mean I can't interact with it. there's a box I'd like to check that's dimmed. how do I deal with that? thanks. Lorie -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Mervin Keck III' via MacVisionaries
Hi, When I hear the beep which indicates that there is a system alert I need to attend to I go to the application chooser by hitting option F. I made a keyboard commander because it was quick and easy and these system alerts often show up on my M1 MacBook Pro. Merv > On May 28, 2022, at 3:29

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! That is the correct way of bringing it up. BLess! /A > 28 maj 2022 kl. 21:29 skrev Yolanda Thompson : > > Interesting I have a refurbed 2020 m1 running monterey and I have to > use VO f2 twice quickly to bring up the window chooser. > > On 5/28/22, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries >

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread Yolanda Thompson
Interesting I have a refurbed 2020 m1 running monterey and I have to use VO f2 twice quickly to bring up the window chooser. On 5/28/22, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Yes, forgot about pressing that combination twice in quick order. > > There was a legacy extension dialog. That

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Yes, forgot about pressing that combination twice in quick order. There was a legacy extension dialog. That reminds me that I've heard messages previously following upgrades, about some Oracle support due to be removed. Wonder whether this might be leftover from my playing around with Virtual

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
On 28/5/22 12:11, Devin Prater wrote: Try pressing VO + F1 twice quickly to open the application windows menu, and see if there are some system dialogs up. In my experience, that's generally the issue - typically a dialogue prompting for a password. -- The following information is

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Have you tried using the window chooser? When this happens to me, usually I can find the thing that’s causing the problem by going into the window chooser. Hope this helps. Cheers, Donna Sent from my iPhone > On May 28, 2022, at 11:09 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > >

Re: Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread Devin Prater
Try pressing VO + F1 twice quickly to open the application windows menu, and see if there are some system dialogs up. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:09 AM 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries < macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I updated my Intel Mac Mini

Periodic Beep Is Back After Upgrade

2022-05-28 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
I updated my Intel Mac Mini to the latest Monterey this morning. I am getting that periodic beep-chime and I can't seem to get rid of it. VO+N tells me no notifications; and on a second press tells me no announcements. I'm flummoxed (and annoyed) yet again. Seems like some settings aren't