Actually if this works in ml I drag and drop the old way. This insures my
favorites are the way I want them, in ABC order.
Try my suggestion last though as the old way is a bit challenging at first but
it is doable.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Bryan Jones <openses...@me.com> wrote:
> A couple of thoughts:
> 1. Make certain quicknav is turned off when you are attempting to rearrange
> mailboxes within the Favorites Bar. That process doesn't seem to work if
> quicknav is turned on. Press the left and right arrow keys at the same time
> to toggle quicknav.
> 2. Regarding Zoom, you can check system prefs / accessibility / zoom to make
> sure it is enabled and to learn which keys are used to zoom in and out. I'm
> not convinced that a particular zoom level really interferes with drag and
> drop, but it was referenced as the culprit by several Users after Lion was
> released, so I think it's worth checking out.
> 3. For further troubleshooting, please supply some more details explaining
> each step you are trying and the results of each step including any sound
> effects you hear and any words spoken by VO. I personally find Apple's VO
> drag & drop to be hit and miss, but with some patience and practice it can be
> tamed, mostly...
>
> Bryan
>
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Danny Noonan <da...@familynoonan.net> wrote:
>> Irony is kicking me now. Just after I asked and was kindly given information
>> on adding to arranging and removing mailboxes from the favourites bar in
>> mail under mountain lion, I was able to add mailboxes with out any trouble.
>> Now that I try to arrange them however I not only can't rearrange or remove
>> mailboxes, but now I can't even add more mailboxes.
>>
>> When I do hold vo/space and use left or right arrow, it just acts as a vo
>> left/right and moves me through the items.
>>
>> I've done vo/shift/[ ctrl, option { and have voiceover curcer size at 1 but
>> for some reason, doing option command hyphen just gives me a beep plus any
>> other combinations with ctrl and or shift and that's with all commanders off
>> trying either the num row or num pad hyphen. I've looked through all the
>> keyboard commands in the vo help and can find no commands relating to
>> zooming the screen curcer so I think I'm missing something here.
>>
>> Also, on vo/, to select an item for dragging, when I then move into the
>> favourites bar and attempt either vo/. or vo/< or > I get an "Marked item is
>> no longer available" so now even in regard to dropping mailboxes in the bar,
>> no luck..
>>
>> I've tried shutting down and restarting my macbook pro again plus restart
>> several times. Turned voiceover off and on several times, closed and
>> reopened mail, uninteracted and interacted with the favourites bar, set mail
>> to full screen, tried pressing the zoom button and all of the quoting and
>> restarting of mail has been with an osx restart in between. I've also
>> dragged and dropped several items from downloads to desktop etc just to make
>> sure drag and drop was working correctly. Process of elimination may help.
>>
>> Any suggestions welcome before I reset voiceover settings on the chance
>> something I've played with has broken something.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Danny:
>
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