Right click (or Control click) on the grey area of the menu bar (where the text is). You'll get a drop down menu to change settings. He's possibly set it to text only. Change it to Icon and Text and all should be good.
Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 30/08/2014, at 5:46 PM, Marlene Oostryck <oostr...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Hi Ronni > > I have been double clicking the message in the drafts folder and hitting > "Send" and there is just no response. > I must have tried 10 times over the last few days - all no response. > > I just tried again to get an exact answer for you - and found out what the > problem is! > > Somehow my husband has made the menu bar very small and the little icons > above Send, Chat, Attach etc have disappeared and the tiny word "Send" is > right next to the red "Close" button. (Unfortunately he has no memory of what > he did). > Instead of Sending - it is Closing and putting the message in the Draft > folder - an endless loop. > I very carefully sent a test message, and kept away from the Close button and > all is operating. > > Now I just have to find out how to restore the "icons" and increase the size > of the Send, Chat etc so there is greater separation and we should be OK. > > Thanks for your response. > So sorry I couldn't see the wood for the trees! > > Regards > > Marlene Oostryck > > On 30/08/2014, at 5:24 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: > >> Hi Marlene, >> >>> The current problem has been over a few days - all his emails were going to >>> Draft and now they will not respond to the "Send" button. >>> He is still able to receive emails. >> >> When you double click on a message in the drafts folder what happens? >> The message should open in another window where you can hit the send icon. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> On 30 Aug 2014, at 4:47 pm, Marlene Oostryck <oostr...@optusnet.com.au> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello All >>> >>> iMac 10.6.8 SL using gmail on Mail. >>> >>> My husband has Alzheimers but is still able to send emails ( 2 a day on >>> good days!). It keeps him in touch with family in the Netherlands. >>> >>> Unfortunately his short term memory loss creates lots of problems and >>> Google and I are continually unscrambling actions on his computer (I am >>> leaning lots). >>> >>> The current problem has been over a few days - all his emails were going to >>> Draft and now they will not respond to the "Send" button. >>> He is still able to receive emails. >>> >>> If I use Time Machine and go back maybe 2 weeks will that reset his >>> computer and restore the "Send" function? >>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Marlene Oostryck >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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