Hi Ronni and Daniel Many thanks for your expert advice as always. I have just had time to implement your suggestions and all is working well again.
Regards Marlene Oostryck On 30/08/2014, at 5:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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> > > -- 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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