Hi Larry: No problem. A ongoing identification of problems with details is how we will help nail down any accessibility issues that AI2 might address. This has not cropped up for anyone else but since I had it happen when I was screwing around with some Window Eyes settings, not before and not since, I thought it the right time and place to describe that particular situation since It sounded very similar to what you described. Later and good hunting! Rick USA
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Higgins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015 3:14 PM To: Rick Thomas; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Re: Where have all the shortcuts gone? Hey Rick, My Bad this time, I guess. I found the shortcut files in a folder I had copied some extracted files too from the desktop. I don't know how the hell I managed to select those files along with the one's I actually wanted, but in this case, I apparently did. However all that you say about cleanup etc. is true. It just doesn't keep people like yours truly from making dumb mistakes. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how I managed to do that. One issue I had with XP that I never had when using 98 was some times when selecting one or more files to either be cut, copied, or even deleted, I would end up selecting the entire folder, and creating a real mess. Thank God for the Recycle bin in the case of the accidental deletions. I tell ya what's really a lot of fun is when you go to rename one file, and end up renaming an entire folder with the same name, but with a less than helpful number at the end of all but one. If you are really lucky, you discover your mistake in time and go for the undo, but if not, You're really screwed. I always wondered if I was entirely responsible for that somewhat frequent mistake, or if there was something quirky within the OS that made it so easy to do. Keep in mind that it never happened before XP, but hasn't yet happened to me with 8.1, but you can bet I'll definitely be on the look out. Thanks very much for your help, Larry On 2/2015 2:28 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi: That happened to me a couple of times and like you I was lucky and found > them in the Recycle bin. > I don't know, it happened while I was having problems with WindowEyes so I > have no idea if it is a WindowEyes related thing or not. > It wasn't the OS cleaning up unused icons since one of them was what I use > for the MyComputer icon on the desktop and I use that often. > Disk Cleanup is something you have to request to be run and I don't think it > does anything with icons on the Desktop. I think there is a utility that > cleans up unused icons but in the past I had to run that manually as well - > havent used it in a few years so not sure how that works today. > But it was indeed concerning that my MyComputer icon was suddenly gone! > I think it happened twice while I was doing some debugging concerning > WindowEyes and the use of the mouse to track dynamic content. > Now it hasn't happened since then but it happened twice when I was mucking > about with the WindowEyes settings, trying out various web pages and one of > my own desktop applications so something was going on then that caused the > problem. > It never happened before that timeframe nor after. > Rick USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:17 PM > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Where have all the shortcuts gone? > > This thing started, I believe, yesterday. All of a sudden, my shortcuts > just keep disappearing from my desktop. I can some times go to the > recycle bin and find them there, but not always. I know that in XP there > was a Windows function/service or something called disk cleanup or > something that would go round picking things off, and I didn't like it > then either. > > Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening? I would really > rather do it myself, thank you very much. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/ofbgmail%40mi. > rr.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
