Re: A couple of questions for the list concerning contact cards on the Mac and I phone and Skype on the Mac.

2020-04-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, No, I did. I had three with duplicate information, and one duplicate. All I could do was to click on the merge button. Have no idea which ones were affected. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all

Re: delivery delay

2020-04-24 Thread Dave Carlson
Got it. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- 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 po

Catalina -- What are Caveats and Trade-Offs?

2020-04-25 Thread Dave Carlson
I’m still ignoring the upgrade notice to get Catalina over my Mojave OSX. Can anyone list known things that changed, possibly detrimental or just plain irritating? I may take the plunge since there’s a bit of downtime around here. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker

Re: Busy message

2020-04-26 Thread Dave Carlson
service.\ Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- 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 po

Re: Catalina -- What are Caveats and Trade-Offs?

2020-05-01 Thread Dave Carlson
Thanks to your responses. A follow-on question. I understand that iTunes has been affected. What are the replacements for iTunes capabilities, specifically in playing audio books in the .M4B format? Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Not Playing Well

2020-05-03 Thread Dave Carlson
Voiceover? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- 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 po

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Not Playing Well

2020-05-03 Thread Dave Carlson
I’ll give that a try — thanks. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- 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

Re: Question About E-mails from Ramy

2020-05-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Happens to me on my iPhone but not on the Mac. Likely you just need to turn off your automatic language detection. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: Question About E-mails from Ramy

2020-05-05 Thread Dave Carlson
Pete, Think it’s under Settings/General/Keyboard. But not absolutely certain. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: Blocking senders on list

2020-05-07 Thread Dave Carlson
Phil, Likely you need to set up a rule to delete the message to trash when it arrives. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: An old apple keyboard

2020-05-08 Thread Dave Carlson
computer, and a spare in case one gives up. It’s so much more comfortable than those flat keyboards with large pads. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Set up a Hotkey for Printer Queue

2020-05-09 Thread Dave Carlson
directly? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- 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 po

Re: Picker Items

2020-05-09 Thread Dave Carlson
tap anywhere. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- 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 po

Re: Picker Items

2020-05-10 Thread Dave Carlson
Angus, No. Speaking rate is a different item. It is a slider and it is changed by flicking up/down with a single finger to change the value. Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Safari Busy

2021-08-13 Thread Dave Carlson
Try doing a refresh. Only thing I’ve found to help. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Aug 13, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: Hi, Safari has been freezing a lot. Often when I just open a new window, it’s hard to navigate anywhere because Safari

Re: File duplicate detector

2021-08-14 Thread Dave Carlson
Catherine, Can’t use the link you sent. Can you try it again? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Aug 14, 2021, at 6:09 AM, 'Catherine Turner' via MacVisionaries wrote: Catherine -- The following information is important for all members

Re: Auto Voice Over at Login

2021-09-03 Thread Dave Carlson
Brad, This does not appear to be consistent with Mojave. I suspect this is for Catalina or Big Sur? Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Sep 3, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: Sorry Greg, that won’t do it. To enable VoiceOver at the log on screen, one

Setting Up iCloud Documents Folder

2021-09-05 Thread Dave Carlson
folder in iCloud showing up on my Catalina OS so that any files I create or change or delete in Catalina, or Mojave, or on the iPhone will sync across all the operating systems. What steps do I need to do so that my Catalina install shows the same documents folder? Thanks. Dave Carlson

Re: Setting Up iCloud Documents Folder

2021-09-05 Thread Dave Carlson
turned to the iCloud services table, and you are now done. You > may close System Preferences > Internet Accounts. > > HTH. > > - Brad - > > > On Sep 5, 2021, at 20:46, Dave Carlson <mailto:dgcarlson0...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I know I did this for my

Re: Setting Up iCloud Documents Folder

2021-09-05 Thread Dave Carlson
Brad, Very concise, and it does spark a slight recollection of doing this long ago. I’ve copied it and will have handy so I can do it when I have my Catalina OS up and running. Thanks very much. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Sep 5, 2021, at 8:10

Any VO Experts Who Can Help with this App?

2021-09-08 Thread Dave Carlson
of Designer 4 from Carvewright: https://www.carvewright.com/download-software-demo/ Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Any VO Experts Who Can Help with this App?

2021-09-08 Thread Dave Carlson
Brad, No, have not tried that. But first, it would be happening quite often, and I’m not sure that I can even move around the screen. The tab key dows nothing, and using the trackpad also does nothing — at least with regard speaking to me. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar

Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

2021-09-14 Thread Dave Carlson
I use the Startup Disk Dialog often to switch back and forth between Mojave and Catalina. Is there a way to put a shortcut or alias on my desktop to quickly access this dialog? Or even better a rapid way to switch between the OS options? They are on separate partitions on my hard drive. Dave

Re: Anyone know how to enter a hard page return into a Pages document on aniPad using a bluetooth keyboard?

2021-09-15 Thread Dave Carlson
DONNA, FOUND INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE: Keyboard shortcuts for Pages on Mac - Apple Support <https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/keyboard-shortcuts-tanc0ffef022/mac> Page Break , Fn-Command-Return or Command-Enter (not available on all keyboards) Dave Carlson Ore

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

2021-09-15 Thread Dave Carlson
will everything go back to normal after a subsequent reboot? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Sep 15, 2021, at 7:12 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi, Using Terminal is probably your best bet. See this link for more deta

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

2021-09-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, You are a breath of fresh air and knowledge. Thanks for putting my mind at rest on how to do this. I’d never had known about this stuff. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Sep 15, 2021, at 10:08 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

2021-09-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Not sure I did this right. Should the .sh file have the following line of text: sudo bless -mount /Volumes/MacCatalinaOS -setBoot Or should it be something else? When I VO + space on the .sh file it just opens the file. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and

Re: IPhone SE 2020 (2nd generation)

2021-09-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Shawn, What is it about Face ID that you don’t like? Did you have it on your previous iPhone? I personally like Face ID as it is so much faster than using Touch ID or the passcode. Perhaps it’s the lack of a home button that’s actually your reason for your iPhone preference? Dave Carlson

iOS 15 Roll-out Today?

2021-09-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Did I hear that iOS 15 will. Be pushed out on September 20? Has anyone received the download? I’m in Pacific Time Zone. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: IPhone SE 2020 (2nd generation)

2021-09-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Donna, Had no idea about the washout. Good point. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Sep 20, 2021, at 7:34 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi Dave, Not Shawn, but I’ll give you my take on this. First, I do like the Home but

Re: IPhone SE 2020 (2nd generation)

2021-09-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Actually, if Face ID does fail, you are presented with the passcode keyboard automatically. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Sep 20, 2021, at 8:29 AM, wrote: Okay. Could you disable Face ID temporarily and just use the passcode? From: '

Re: IPhone SE 2020 (2nd generation)

2021-09-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Interesting. I did the process to use a mask, and it was not as easy as just doing the original Face ID setup. But I got it to work, and it does work now with a mask. Thanks for the tip. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Sep 20, 2021, at 8:46 AM

Re: IPhone SE 2020 (2nd generation)

2021-09-29 Thread Dave Carlson
unlocks immediately when it’s pointing anywhere near my face. Good luck. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Sep 28, 2021, at 10:07 PM, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hey Dave. I'm finally able to send a reply to your message

Access to a Drive on My Wi-Fi Server

2021-09-29 Thread Dave Carlson
. But it tells me that this operation is not valid. Is there a better way to do this, rather than using the files app? Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Re: Access to a Drive on My Wi-Fi Server

2021-09-29 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Yes, that’s exactly where I looked for ideas. I may be botching the user ID. Tried the usual admin with my password and that did not work. Can you point me to where I would look on the Mac for this information? I set up my backup drive so long ago I have no idea where to look. Dave Carlson

Re: Access to a Drive on My Wi-Fi Server

2021-09-29 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Are you saying to look at the Airport Utility on the iPhone, and the disk tab? I opened Airport Utility on the Mac and do not find any tab for the disks. What am I missing? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Sep 29, 2021, at 10:31 AM, 

Re: What's With This "XXXX Busy" - Ridiculous

2021-10-13 Thread Dave Carlson
problem. Not sure what to do to fix, except remove the extension. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 13, 2021, at 5:21 AM, Bill Gallik wrote: I’ve recently been experiencing far too much of “(Name the Application) Busy” with hardly ever more than three apps

Re: Turning Off Email Notifications?

2021-10-14 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, Type letters n, o, t quickly and you will land on it. It just happens that Network comes alphabetically before Notifications. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 14, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Fazil wrote: Hi, Tim. I can not find Notification in System

Re: MailBox Table

2021-10-14 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, Control-Option Right Arrow twice to open that mailbox.Control-Option Left Arrow twice to get out of the mailbox. Use up/down arrow to look at the message subjects. Press Enter to read the message. Command-W to close the message. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician

Re: Going to the Top of the list in Message List?

2021-10-14 Thread Dave Carlson
Command-Option UpArrow Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Oct 14, 2021, at 8:35 PM, Fazil wrote: Hi, Group. I am ashamed of my ignorance. When I am in a message list and arrowing through messages, and I reach, let’s say, 70thmessage in a list of

Re: Mail Has No Windows?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, Launch mail again from your dock or launch pad. You accidentally closed the mail app and need to reopen it. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Oct 15, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Fazil wrote: Hi, Group. What should I do when Voiceover says: “Mail Has

Re: Mail Has No Windows?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Carlson
ch are free, and others come at a cost. Voiceover is not an easy interface when you’re coming from a Windows environment — I know because I was there a couple years ago. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 15, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Fazil wrote: Hi, Group

Re: Mail Has No Windows?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Then also look at macfortheblind.com <http://macfortheblind.com/>. I learned a lot from their free tutorials. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 15, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Fazil wrote: Thanks much, David. Yes, I am using AppleVis extensively. Thanks!

Re: iTune for Mac

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Not if you are using Catalina or newer OS . Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 15, 2021, at 9:25 AM, Fazil wrote: Hi, Group. Do we have iTune for Mac? Thanks! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Backing up an iPhone or iPad to a MacBook Air

2021-10-17 Thread Dave Carlson
Ron, Sounds like your Mac Air thinks this is the first time you’ve connected your iPad to it for backup. Is that the case? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 17, 2021, at 5:54 AM, 'Ron' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi there, I’m trying

Exercising My MacBook Battery

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Carlson
it set to keep power off for 8 hours on, 8 hours off, and then a couple other smaller increments over a 24-hour period. So now my MacBook gets to run with and without battery during every day. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is

Re: Turning voiceover on and off quickly

2021-10-19 Thread Dave Carlson
No. It does not turn voiceover on/off. It just turns speech on/off. There’s a difference that’s important. Voiceover is still active, allowing the gestures and sounds. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Oct 19, 2021, at 6:45 AM, tim m wrote: Just

Re: Turning voiceover on and off quickly

2021-10-20 Thread Dave Carlson
SIRI to respond. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Oct 20, 2021, at 12:39 AM, 'Andy Logue' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi Tim and Dave. I never mentioned a 3 finger triple tap. I didn't know of it's excistance. What I meant to say is tha

Trying to restore a MacBook Pro

2021-10-30 Thread Dave Carlson
. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Farfar, Oregonian, pioneer, engineer, and Musician -- 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, p

How to Determine Where My Hard Disk Space is Being Consumed

2021-11-02 Thread Dave Carlson
I’m looking for somewhere on the Mac OS where I can look at how my hard disk space is being used. My old Mojave is pretty large (350+ Gb) and the APFS is crowding out my new install of Catalina on a second APFS. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker

Re: How to Determine Where My Hard Disk Space is Being Consumed

2021-11-02 Thread Dave Carlson
Brad, Yes, but that only shows the total. I’d like a report to show me where the most or least amount of space is being used by particular applications or file types. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Nov 2, 2021, at 7:22 AM, Brad Snyder wrote

Re: How to Determine Where My Hard Disk Space is Being Consumed

2021-11-02 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, That tells me how much space remains on any of my connected volumes. But I need to know where the space is being gobbled up, as in what type of file, or files associated with particular apps, are consuming such-and-such amount of disk space. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer

Dual Boot Mojave and Monterey on MacBook Pro

2021-11-03 Thread Dave Carlson
, do any of you have some idea what’s going on? Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar -- 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

Re: Verbosity

2021-11-05 Thread Dave Carlson
Jonathan, I was not able to select activities on demand with VO+X. Instead I found that Option+Control+x worked. Is this possibly OS-dependent? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Nov 5, 2021, at 6:24 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Hello, You need to go

Re: Verbosity

2021-11-05 Thread Dave Carlson
Sorry, my bad. I realize that I mis-interpreted my keys used under my right hand. VO is indeed Option+Control… Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Nov 5, 2021, at 8:44 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: Hello Dave, I do believe this changed at some point

Re: VO=X, Is this a VoiceOver Command?

2021-11-06 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, Yes, VO+x will bring up a list of activities for voiceover. If you’ve not created any, then the default will apply. But if you do have two or more activities created, you get a list so that you can instantly change to another set of vo conditions. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer

12 Watt Charger and MacBook Pro

2021-11-07 Thread Dave Carlson
Anyone know if I would be able to charge a MacBook Pro using the 12 Watt charger that comes with the newer iPhones? I would of course buy a USB C / USB C cable for this purpose. And I know that it would charge more slowly, but don’e know if the MacBook would complain. Dave Carlson Oregonian

Re: 12 Watt Charger and MacBook Pro

2021-11-07 Thread Dave Carlson
Joseph, oh, heck. I completely forgot to think about voltage. Pretty likely the MacBook requires something in the range of 12 to 16 Vdc, and the phone chargers are only around 5 Vdc. Thanks for the sanity realignment. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer

Re: 12 Watt Charger and MacBook Pro

2021-11-07 Thread Dave Carlson
electrical engineer. Just hadn’t had enough caffeine before posting that. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Nov 7, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Joseph Hudson wrote: Actually Dave, I just did some googling and it's actually lower than what we thought. Here&

Re: Notification About Mac Updates from the AppStore?

2021-11-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, I recommend you go to system preferences / software updates. There you can instruct to automatically update your apps and security and OS. I believe it will be under the advanced area, and you may need to use Touch ID or your password to enable those changes. Dave Carlson Woodworker

Re: Notification About Mac Updates from the AppStore?

2021-11-23 Thread Dave Carlson
True, but in system preferences under software update you can tell the Mac OS to automatically download app updates, in addition to security patches and other things — inside the advanced portion in software updates. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar

Re: Notification About Mac Updates from the AppStore?

2021-11-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Fazil, That would require going to the App Store. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Nov 23, 2021, at 12:24 PM, Fazil M. wrote: How can I see each individual app? Thanks! From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.

Re: Equivalent to Trackpad Commander on windows

2021-12-07 Thread Dave Carlson
actually hold both keys down at the same time. Hope that makes things clear. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Farfar, Oregonian, pioneer, engineer, and Musician On Dec 7, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Rebecca Skipper wrote:  If I understand correctly, you can lock the VO keys with capslock +semicolon. This

Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-11 Thread Dave Carlson
Having trouble with MS-Edge lately. Not too thrilled with Safari and how chatty it is when filling in logon and passwords. What other browsers are you using with any success? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-11 Thread Dave Carlson
Eric, Thanks for the suggestions. My problem with MS-Edge is that I can’t navigate tables at all. When one shows up all I hear is the Table with x rows and y columns. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Dec 11, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Eric Oyen wrote

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-11 Thread Dave Carlson
E.T. Interesting. I tried to find Firefox on the Mac App Store and it was not there. Should I have just gone to the internet and downloaded it from there? Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Dec 11, 2021, at 2:48 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionari

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-11 Thread Dave Carlson
Okay, just installed Firefox on my Mac. Only major problem I have so far is that I cannot do a Option-Control-F find using Firefox. I think I remember this way back in the Windows/JAWS days. Is there a way to adjust Firefox so that I can use the VO find function? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-12 Thread Dave Carlson
Greg, Interesting your observation on the bug in Edge. That could well explain why tabl navigation used to work, and now does not. As to Firefox, I’m using the version I downloaded last evening, version 95. How do I get my hands on a beta version? Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-12 Thread Dave Carlson
Greg, I found a developers version. Is that what you meant by a beta version? Dave Carlson Engineer, Farfar, Woodworker, Pioneer, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

How to Finish Opening a DMG File

2021-12-12 Thread Dave Carlson
starting it? When I try to move it to my applications folder I get complaints that there are locked items in the Trash. What is all that about? A sighted friend just said all I need to do is to drag that .app file into my applications folder. Yeah, sure. Any tips? Dave Carlson Farfar, Pioneer

Re: Alternate Browsers on Mac

2021-12-13 Thread Dave Carlson
Greg, Okay, I found it. But it seems to have the same issues with not responding to a Cmd-Opt-F search on the page. Dave Carlson Engineer, Farfar, Woodworker, Pioneer, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Dropbox dmg won't open.

2021-12-13 Thread Dave Carlson
Anders, use Cmd-o or Cmd-Downarrow Dave Carlson Engineer, Farfar, Woodworker, Pioneer, and Oregonian -- 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&#

Re: Right AirPod Pro stopped working

2021-12-13 Thread Dave Carlson
Possible that your right AirPods didn’t get charged? Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -- 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

Re: XXXXX Is Not Responding

2021-12-14 Thread Dave Carlson
No, but often I get the “ busy” message. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Dec 14, 2021, at 9:54 AM, Bill Gallik wrote: Has anybody else been experiencing a circumstance where after opening an application, upon trying to do anything at all in

Re: Messages suddenly disappearing in mail app.

2021-12-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Jessica, Make sure that your mail is being synched via iCloud, as well as your iPhone. Dave Carlson Farfar, Pioneer, Oregonian, Engineer, and Woodworker -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: Messages suddenly disappearing in mail app.

2021-12-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Jessica, On your Mac, it’s system preferences and then either iCloud or your name, depending on what OS you’re using. On your iPhone it’s settings, then your name. In both cases, make sure that your email account is connected to iCloud. Dave Carlson Farfar, Pioneer, Oregonian, Engineer, and

Re: Help with punctuation

2021-12-16 Thread Dave Carlson
Suggest you try to change your pitch or intonation when you say punctuation words. And I gave up on using the word period. I use the words “full stop”. Works every time. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -- The following information is important for all

Re: Help with punctuation

2021-12-16 Thread Dave Carlson
Full stop is also telegraph terminology. Dave Carlson Farfar, Pioneer, Oregonian, Engineer, and Woodworker -- 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

Re: Help with punctuation

2021-12-16 Thread Dave Carlson
Joseph, Yes, no ambiguity when using the term “full stop”. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -- 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

Re: Uploading to Overdrive

2021-12-18 Thread Dave Carlson
If you have installed dropbox, then in your context menu you should have a choice to copy a dropbox link that you can send to someone. As to actually putting a file in the folder, just use copy and paste in the finder app. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and

Re: Uploading to Overdrive

2021-12-18 Thread Dave Carlson
Oops, realize after the fact that this is a conversation on Overdrive, and not dropbox. Ignore my previous outbursts. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Farfar, Engineer, Musician, Pioneer, and Woodworker On Dec 18, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Brad Snyder wrote: Hi Christine, Try the following, and see if it

Re: Changing Sim cards is changing a nano Sim card on an iPhone some thing that can be easily done? They seem like they’re pretty small and it might be difficult to do this without site. Anyone have e

2021-12-18 Thread Dave Carlson
Only one corner is notched, so it’s impossible to get the orientation wrong. Dave Carlson Farfar, Pioneer, Oregonian, Engineer, and Woodworker -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: Syncing iPhone contacts with MacBook Pro

2021-12-21 Thread Dave Carlson
You need to set up iCloud so that it synchronizes your contacts on each device. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Amputating a Folder on External SSD

2021-12-27 Thread Dave Carlson
ff this folder and not get that message above? I suspect there’s a clever terminal command to do this, so looking forward to one of the real tech-heads on this list to point me in the right direction. Many thanks! Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and E

Re: Audio books in iTunes

2022-01-03 Thread Dave Carlson
Lorie, Pretty sure you cannot put an Audible book in iTunes. They are proprietary, and not like MP3 or M4B files. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 3, 2022, at 5:25 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I'm trying to add an audible book I just bought to audio

Re: i phone going totally silent after phone calls and headphones are removed

2022-01-06 Thread Dave Carlson
Occurs to me that you may have either damaged the lightning port, or there is debris in the port that is fooling your iPhone into thinking there is still a headphone connected. Have you been able to clean the port, or made sure that nothing has broken off inside the port? Dave Carlson

Re: Scheduling Zoom meetings on Mac

2022-01-10 Thread Dave Carlson
Min, Have you tried interacting with the date picker, then right arrow to the next field, then up/down arrow to change. If this works, then right arrow to the next part of the date field, up/down again to change that part of the date. Same idea for the time picker. Dave Carlson Oregonian

Re: Scheduling Zoom meetings on Mac

2022-01-10 Thread Dave Carlson
Minh, And after you made the changes in the picker, you moved out of interaction with VO+shift+upArrow? Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 10, 2022, at 8:06 AM, minh Tam ha wrote: Hi Dave, Yes, I tried doing that but when I uninteracted with the fields

Re: Conflict between sending mail from mac and receiving on a PC

2022-01-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Change your settings so that you are composing only inn plain text. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 15, 2022, at 8:20 PM, Gabe Griffith wrote: Hello all, I'll try to explain my situation and see if anyone has come across this or has any tho

How to Reduce Delay Between Successive Keypresses on Mac

2022-01-19 Thread Dave Carlson
from Mail. Thanks in advance. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- 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&#

Re: need help with VO pitch

2022-01-20 Thread Dave Carlson
, look for the OK button before you leave. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 20, 2022, at 9:50 AM, alia robinson wrote: thanks, I looked at that, and I see where you can change it all, and I did, but it’s still awful. it’s like the voice I choose

Re: need help with VO pitch

2022-01-20 Thread Dave Carlson
Then you need to drill down further in that table. There are specific rows where the control types are named, and you can change the voice attributes for each type, before you click on the OK button. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Jan 20, 2022

Cleaning out the Gmail All Mail Folder

2022-01-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, On the topic of that folder, I also have almost 40,000 messages there. If I select a whole bunch and hit delete they go away, but then they always come back. How can they be permanently moved out of that folder and/or deleted forever? Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician

Re: Cleaning out the Gmail All Mail Folder

2022-01-23 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Appears to work. So of course any messages I stored in folders will also be gone, but these go back to January 2021. Thanks for the help. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 23, 2022, at 6:36 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi

The LA Pronunciation woes

2022-01-24 Thread Dave Carlson
that it’s not saying that, but how can I un-train VO to stop saying El A for any all caps words starting with LA? LATER (yes LA Ter). Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Re: The LA Pronunciation woes

2022-01-25 Thread Dave Carlson
Dan, in my case I am using Tom Compact and that is what it’s doing. Are you using regular Tom? Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 25, 2022, at 11:25 AM, dan d. wrote: These kind of things tend to be voice specific. I use tom and it doesn't

Re: The LA Pronunciation woes

2022-01-26 Thread Dave Carlson
Hmmm. If I can stand using Standard Tom I may give it a try. Thanks for checking. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 26, 2022, at 6:35 AM, dan d. wrote: Yes, the regular tom. I just checked to make sure, LAST with all caps speaks the word as

Re: Microsoft edge has new window.

2022-01-27 Thread Dave Carlson
make it work. Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Jan 27, 2022, at 4:00 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Every now and then I VoiceOver is saying that microsoft has new window. It annoys me both with speech and braille as it interrupts my reading. Can I get

Re: Apple ID's

2022-01-29 Thread Dave Carlson
Yes. You can keep your Apple ID even if you cancel your email address. They are not connected. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Farfar, Oregonian, pioneer, engineer, and Musician On Jan 29, 2022, at 4:08 AM, Stan ZA wrote: Hi 1&All, My Apple ID, which I have had now for more than fifteen years

Re: All text files that cannot be read

2022-02-08 Thread Dave Carlson
Steve,Are you on a Mac? If so, try using Preview, or just pressing the spacebar on the filename for the quick look. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

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