Partitioning with voice-over is useless. i think a lot more could be done to make the panels more accessible. take the resize control On 26 Jul 2014, at 10:28 pm, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote:
> I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size > did show up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is > replaced by 8.34 no matter what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, there > is a "resize control", but I can't figure out how that is supposed to work. > The options button is also dimmed for no apparent reason. > On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected. >> Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on the >> one you want. Then all the things you want should be enabled. >> Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something >> strange to an existing partitioning scheme. After the install, all of your >> partitions may be contained in a logical partition of the same name as the >> Yosemite. Not to worry however as erasing the Yosemite partition will put >> everything back to normal. At least that has been my experience. >> >> On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb >> drive. Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically prevent >> me from using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly small) >> internal disk instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, leaving me >> with what Finder tells me is about 19GB free. >> >> I opened up Disk utility and selected my internal disk, then hit the >> Partition tab, then Add. I did this same thing to the afore mentioned thumb >> drive, and it was a snap. Now, trying to do this on my internal disk, I'm >> getting odd behavior. >> >> * Despite having almost 19GB available, the new partition is stuck at 8.34GB >> and I can't change it. When I type a new size, it automatically reverts to >> 8.34 seconds later. >> * I can't open the options to check my table is correct because the button >> is dimmed. >> * I can't find a place to name the new partition. >> * The number of partitions (the popup menu) is dimmed. This is not a problem >> since the add/remove buttons work, but it was not dimmed when I partitioned >> my thumb drive. >> >> What am I missing? Do I need to shrink the existing partition? If so, I >> don't know that I can - I tried, but that seemed to make no difference. I >> don't know why this is so much harder than that thumb drive, but it's giving >> me no end of trouble for some reason. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks! >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> Barry Hadder >> bhad...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
