Dear Olivia,
I am not sure to what extent I may be of helpto you but do not
despair. I will try to help. When youchoose to create a new message
and attach a file to it, you press command + shift + A. This will open
a dialogue box which you navigate with vo keys plus right or left
arrow. On the left side of the bar as you move from left to right you
have the usual keys like close , zoom, forward, I can't remember them
all. Then you have a popup button which determines where the
application is going to look for the file you want to attach. With
popup buttons in Mac, once you land on them, you need only to use your
up and down arrow keys to activat them and then arrow up and down the
list of choices. With a few others, you need to press VO keys +
spacebar to activate them but it is not always necessary. In this
popup menu you will have things like downloads, documents and other
folders where the computer thinks you might have your file located by
default. Choose the one you want, press vo keys + spacebar just in
case to confirm it. Once it chosen, you can move to thenext choice.
When you hear side bar table, you can arrow up and down it to choose
the folder you want. When you arrow up and down the folder list, and
you stop on a particular folder, you then move with vo + right arrow
to the vertical line and then to file list. Again, arrow down and up
it to fine the file you want. You can press the first letter of the
file if you know it to get faster to it. Once your arrow is located on
it, press vo keys + right arrow to move to the choose file button.
Press on it using vo keys + spacebar. The file should then have been
attached to your message.
Hope this helps.
Simon
On 1 Feb 2008, at 18:10, Bruins Fan wrote:
How do I access the file table?
I am so happy with my mac, this file atatching process is the only
thing I can't figure out.
Olivia
On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Scott,
You said: I interacted with the sidebar and went to the network
location or at least the root drive of where the file was.
Pressing vo\ didn't expand the location and when I pressed command
o to open the location so I could file the file I wanted to attach,
mail was busy for a very long time. after a while, i force quit
the application and there came up a dialog about report this
problem or ignore. I pressed ignore and tried several more times
but I just can't seem to get this process to work.
TK: the SideBar can be tempramental sometimes. I try not to use
it much except when accessing network shares. In many cases,
expanding doesn't apply within the SideBar. that is, if you were
to select Macintosh HD in the SideBar, expanding it will not occur
within the sideBar, you'll have to Stop Interacting with it then
navigate to the file Table to select items. Here's a few tricks
which may make things easier and quicker for you:
when in Open or Save dialogs:
• cmd-shift-a opens the Applications folder in the file Table.
• cmd-shift-i brings your idisk to the File Table.
• cmd-shift-h brings your Home directory to the file Table.
• cmd-shift-d brings the Desktop to your file Table.
• cmd-shift-c brings your "Computer" to the file Table which will
list most items attached to your computer including removable media
and network locations.
• cmd-shift-k brings attached network devices to the File Table.
• cmd-shift-u brings the Utilities folder to your file table.
Note that the File Table is a separate entity to the SideBar. the
file Table works properly with VO expanding commands and such.
SL: Honestly, I'm feeling that most stuff I try on this thing
isn't working right and I wonder why did I leave windows?
TK: I understand your frustration and I believe that it's just
taking a little time to get yourself wrapped around a different
way of doing things. I am so used to doing things in the Mac
environment that I often experience similar frustrations when I
have to use Windows. Don't expect everything to fall into place
too quickly, some things will, some may take some getting used
to. Keep asking questions, we're here to help and I don't believe
that there's anyone on this list who doesn't like sharing their
knowhow.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
