IOS 12 shortcuts

don’t really understand the basics of writing shortcuts and cannot fined any guidance on this other than the sample shortcuts in the gallery. So does anyone know of a good overview of how shortcuts work? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Problem with permission for bean to edit doc files

, but that is tedious compared with locating the desired file in finder and doing command+down arrow to open it. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem. I do not want to have to go to system preferences for every doc file I want to open! Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information

Safari hangs on audible web site

. Do others have this problem? Are there any VO setting I can change to make things better? Paul Hopewell -- 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

Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

a great job of the Newsletter PDF bug gives up on the statement PDF! Is there a version of Voice Dream Reader for Mac OS? Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

use the app pdf to word. this is OK but it is more work and it would be better if I could just read the PDF. Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

IOS podcast app: password protected podcast

a message saying that the podcast is temporarily unavailable and to retry again later. I assume this is because of the missing userid and password. I can play the podcast fine using iTunes on my iMac. Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

IOS podcast app: password protected podcasts

password but it took me a while to find out what the userid and password were and after that delay the button did not work. I have failed to find that button again. So how do I reliably enter the userid and password for a password protected podcastF? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following

IOS navigation apps

name and distance of the nearest cross street. In the UK house numbering schemes are not as logical as elsewhere and one cannot deduce much from a house number! Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any ques

IOS podcast app: how to mark episodes as played

already heard on my iPod Nano and which I would thus like to quickly remove from my iPhone as they use up a LOT OF IPHONE STORAGE. Alas I have not found any way to do this. Any suggestions? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

How to boot High Sierra from an encrypted SuperDuper backup

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Using Hearing aids with Iphone, anyone has experience?

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How to boot High Sierra from an encrypted SuperDuper backup

but none of these work. Have any listers successfully booted High Sierra from a SuperDuper backup on an encrypted time machine disk and if so how did you do it? Many thanks for any Tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Problem starting Mac OS 10.13.4 from an encrypted external SuperDuper backup

is formatted as Mac OS extended journaled and is using the guide partition table which all looks correct. The startup disk panel in system preferences shows the external disk as a bootable disk for Mac OS 10.13.4 so it all ought to work. Any ideas? Paul Hopewell -- The following information

How to re-arrange my mail boxes

using the mouse down and mouse up commands but this has only made matters worse! Is there a VoiceOver friendly way to move mail boxes into a desired structure? Many thanks… Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

VO friendly weay to delete old backups

newer then the chosen backup date. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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 contact

VO friendly way to delete old time machine backups

to be deleted. It seems that the standard way to do this is not VO accessible. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

VMware fusion question

an error message saying that my SCSI hard disk is not supported by Windows 10. Are any of you successfully running Windows 10 under fusion on a Mac with SSD? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Driving recovery manager without sighted help?

sighted help. IN normal Mac OS operation I could have pressed VO+F2 to discover the list of possible windows but this did not work with recovery manager. So if any of you have re-installed your OS from recovery manager using VoiceOver then how did you do this? Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell

Preparing a Mac for disposal

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Preparing a Mac for disposal

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How to remove my Apple ID

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My new iMac with SSD is too quiet

Hello, I have recently migrated to a new iMac with a solid state disc. This works very well, but I miss the sounds of the hard disk running. When I did not know whether my previous iMac was kind of what it was doing are used to listen to the hard disk working way. Hello, I have recently

Problem with users on a new iMac

Hello Tim,, Many tanks for your help. I would never have deduced that Documents and Desktop folders for a new user were by default in iCloud. The problem is now solved. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Problem with users on a new iMac

Hello, I am migrating from a 2008 iMac to a new 2017 iMac. I am not sure how but I seem to have finished up with the below configuration and cannot work out how to correct it. I am set up as user Paul hopewell with a login password. For some reason user Paul hopewell is subordinate to user

How to authorise audible on latest iTunes

Hello, I am upgrading my 2008 iMac to a new model. All is going well except for authorising audible for iTunes 12.7. Alas the instructions on the audible web site do not seem to work. Any ideas? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Starting an Email on IOs and finishing it on imac

that iMac could see it and edit it. i see that IOS has a button to minimise draft but that does not seem to move it into the draft mail box. so how can i do the above? Many thanks... Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Using migration assitant

and not migrate other Apps? This is not clear in the Apple web site guidance which talks about choosing what to migrate. I will be migrating from El Capitan to High Sierra. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Problems with outbound mail on El Capitan

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Migrating to a new iMac

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Migrating to a new iMac

version. Many thanks for your help. Paul Hopewell -- 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 contact the owners

Migrating to a new iMac

. Rather than migrate everything it would be a good opportunity to get rid of now unwanted Apps and to start as many Apps as possible with a clean slate. So how should I best do this migration in a VoiceOver friendly way? Best regards... Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important

Horizontal scrolling in IOS

Hello, Yes I tried the 3 finger swipe left and alas it did not help. I am now working with the headspace app developers to avoid the need to do horizontal scrolling. Best regards Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Horizontal scrolling in IOS

on. If so what is the gesture to do horizontal scrolling with VoiceOver turned off? Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Same page links in IOS mail

this does not help. Do others have this problem? Is there a way round the problem? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Marking podcasts as played using IOS podcast App

on the iPhone which had been marked as played on the iMac but alas not. Many thanks for any tips.Would I do better using a different IOS podcast app? Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Problem editing calendar on El Capitan e3diting

entries works for you then what VO speech verbosity settings an what VO navigation settings do you have? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Can I change the name of a user installed App on my iPhone?

the name of an App. Am I missing something? I think I ought to be able to rename an App. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- 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

VoiceOver friendly way to order a list of items into descending order of importance

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VoiceOver friendly way to order a list of items into descending order of importance

remembering which priority numbers they have already used. So have any of you seen a web site which offers a screen reader friendly way to order a list of candidate items? If so what do they ask their users to do? Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important

Removing Junk mail on IOS

box? Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- 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 contact the owners

Recovering from failed Safari and iTunes update

store? I could clearly restore my last SuperDuper backup of about a month ago but I would rather not do that as I have done a lot of data updates in the last month. Many thanks for any tips…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Recovering from failed Safari and iTunes update

recover iTunes and Safari from either my backups or the Mac App store? I could clearly restore my last SuperDuper backup of about a month ago but I would rather not do that as I have done a lot of data updates in the last month. Many thanks for any tips…. Paul Hopewell -- The following

How to control playback speed in VLC

with the slider I can make the playback faster but how to I undo that and make the playback slower than the normal speed? I recall a reply mentioning Alt+arrow keys as a way to control playback speed. Is that something I have to set up in preferences? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell olayback seeing

Headspace meditation App

anyone has found a work around. Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- 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 contact the

Downloading TV programs from the BBC

of the programs to my iPod Nano was very handy. Does anyone know if there is an alternative or if get iPlayer automator will be updated to handle the logon issue? Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Restoring a prior version of an App on IOS

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Migrating from VMWare Fusion to Bootcamp

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Question on Cleanmymac maintenance functions

thus not convinced that the task was run. Has anyone successfully used the Cleanmymac release 3 maintenance functions with VoiceOver and if so I would appreciate tips on how to do this. Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Help! Cannot boot from recovered hard disk with encryption

as I cannot start VoiceOver. Does anyone have any ideas on what is happening and what I should do to get my internal hard disk working again? I can use the iMac from my external hard disk but disk access is very slow! Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following information

Shopping on Amazon using Safari on Mac OS

. I have downloaded the Amazon IOS App on my iPhone and will try that next time I need to do some shopping on Amazon. Many thanks again for your help. Happy Easter….. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Confused about spaces, windows and full screen

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Shopping on Amazon using Safari on Mac OS

no effect. I also get pop-up windows about other sellers and thereby get totally lost on the Amazon site. These problems only seem to happen while shopping on Amazon. Other sites behave well. Any suggestions on what is going on and what to do about it? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell

Editing 1 password secure note on Mac OS

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Downloading audio from a web site

I can play the parts on my iMac but cannot work out where they are stored so that I can transfer them to iTunes and then to my iPod Nano. I could probably do this using something like the “audio hijack” application but feel there must be an easier way. Any ideas? Many thanks….. Paul Hopewell

Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

email addresses are now working OK for both receiving and sending. However can you please clarify the below question on how to access the status area using VoiceOver. many thanks….. Paul Hopewell you say the following for the account information for the iCloud mail box in the mail

Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

in iCloud preferences under system preferences and then re-enabling it. that did not help. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Problem with iCloud mail on iMac

accounts list has an entry for the original first iCloud mail and as far as I can see that all looks good. For some reason my iMac will not let me add a new Email account for the second iCloud mail alias. Are there any known problems in this area? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following

Same page links in Emails on IOS

way but alas no joy. Does anyone know of a reliable way to get to the target of a same page link in an Email? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Marking an application as trusted in El Capitan

to avoid having to do this. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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 contact the owners

Aliases in iCloud mail

that code onto my iMac. that resulted in my entering some obsolete authentication codes which resulted in my being locked out of my appleid account for several hours. 2 factor authentication is not a great idea for VoiceOver users. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all

Stopping GMAIL archiving

the delete key to delete them. This moves them all to the trash folder. I can then go to the mail box menu item and empty the trash folder. Then presto the archive is now empty! Paul Hopewell Hello Paul, The short answer to your question is, Yes. You can either manually

How to move deleted mail box to server on latest IOS

” and “on the server”. The drafts mail box is shown as selected and is in the ‘on my iPhone” list. Whatever I do I cannot unselect it or move it to the “on the server” list. Am I doing something wrong or is this an IOS 10.2 bug? Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important

Aliases in icloud mail

and so think this part of the process is working OK. Has anyone added an iCloud mail alias using VoiceOver? Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Stopping GMAIL archiving

as it reduces my privacy and so would like to stop this behaviour. I have looked at my GMAIL settings and cannot see anything I can change to stop GMAIL archiving. Is it possible to stop GMAIL archiving all messages? Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all

Erasing everything from a USB flash drive

the memory stick as not encrypted? In summary I want to restore the memory stick to its original empty unencrypted state. What do you recommend? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Erasing a folder on Mac OS without first moving it to the trash

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iCloud mail and Email address

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ccessible smart TV

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Accessible smart TV

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2 factor verification for Apple ID sign in

only. is the iPhone 5S not able to receive verification text messages for hardware reasons or do i need to do some setup somewhere? Many thanks… paul hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

hyperlinks in PDF

this conversion ought to work OK. Do hyperlinks work in PDF documents under Preview for anyone? If so can you please point me to such a PDF document. Many thanks…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Stop speaking imbed level in Aple Mail on iMac

does anyone know how to stop VoiceOver in Apple Mail speaking the imbed level of a forwarded Email? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Mac OS warning when in upper case

use caps lock as a VoiceOver key in addition to Control+Option. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Mac OS warning when in Upper Case

or is there any way to easily change half a page of upper case text into correct text without retyping it. Or in desperation is there any way to disable the Caps Lock key. Many thanks for any tips…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Adding Notes in iBook

successful would the note text be visible on both iMac and iPhone? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

recovering a deleted contact with El Capitan

Hello, I am running the latest level of El Capitan. I use Time Machine. Is it possible using VoiceOver and Time Machine to recover a contact I erroneously deleted a few days ago? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Copying and Pasting text from Kindle on iPhone

and hold to start text selection but does not tell me what to do then. Many thanks for any tips…. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Is the Kindle App accessible on Mac OS ?

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Still get reminders from deleted instances of a repeated event in IOS calender

notifications of the deleted event instances. Is this a bug? Note that the calendar is in iCloud and is shared with my iMac. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Latest itunes and manual refresh of podcasts

with the current version of itunes and it therefore seems that I have to individually refresh each of my 30 or so podcasts. Does anyone know how to easily manually refresh all podcasts? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Problem with imap gmail on Mac OS

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Entering passwords for 1 password on Mac

to type “12god” into the password field. Any ideas on why this should be? It is simple enough if the password is short, but bad news if the password is long. Note that all other fields in the detail for my new logon work correctly. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- The following information

Syncing Apps between itunes and iPhone

to a file in the public folder. SO maybe non-syncing of updated Apps is another problem of this configuration. If automatic syncing of updated Apps works for you on El Capitan in a basic environment then I will probably give up on the sandbox configuration. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell

Syncing Apps between itunes and iPhone

. This is worth doing for say the Tom Tom App with is 1.8 GB download! I would appreciate any tips on how to do this using VoiceOver. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Order of boot images on Mac OS

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Copy and paste from iBooks

this using vision and a mouse, but this does not help a VoiceOver user. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- 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

Airplay iPhone 5S to Apple TV 3rd Generation

the Apple TV keeps dropping out when streaming video from iTunes on my iMac. I cannot move the Apple TV to a location with better wifi signal without rearranging the entire room! Hence I am wondering if airplay from my iPhone would work better. Best regards…. Paul Hopewell -- The following

Problem with latest Infovox iVox update

Hello, Below is a reply received late Sunday from AssistiveWare on this problem…. Dear Paul, Thank you for contacting AssistiveWare support. I'm very sorry we got you into so much trouble. Earlier this week we released an update to several of the voices. Unfortunately the install process did

Problem with Infovox Ivox latest updates

? Ideally I would like to continue using the Infovox voices if I could figure out why they have stopped working and can do something to get them working again. I have done several updates of the Infovox voices in the past and did not have any problems. Many thanks for any tips…. Paul Hopewell

Problem starting VoiceOver

Hello, Is there any way to start VoiceOver other than Command+F5? For some reason Command+F5 does not always work for me. Is there an alternative? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Gesture to end dictation on iPhone?

cannot easily find the done button. So I have been ending dictation by pressing the home button. that certainly ends dictation but takes me out of the App I am using and I then have to get back to that App. Is there a better way? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information

Re: Managing spaces with VoiceOver on El Capitan

the button to remove the space. It works fine. Paul Hopewell December 6, 2015 at 11:43:28 AM UTC, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Have you tried opening System Preferences and looking at Mission Control. > Try unchecking the first four checkboxes, then set all the shor

Deedback assistant

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Managing spaces with VoiceOver on El Capitan

. I suspect the VoiceOver and Safari looping problem relates to multiple spaces as spaces have changed in el Capitan. Many thanks. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Problem with VoiceOver looping using Safari on el Capitan

ceOver orSystem options or preferences which alleviate the problem? Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- 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'

Problem with VoiceOver with edit fields in calendar on El Capitan

y odd thing I can think of is that my Calendar is synced with my iPhone, but I imagine that this is often the case. So are others seeing this problem? If not any ideas on what might be causing the problem on my system? Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following infor

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