That was a very good guess, seems he responded though that the port was loaded. The only other thing I might suggest is running a permissions repair on the disk.
Martin, quick question, are you using a rotating disk or an SSD storage device? I assume you know this but if not you could check under the finder, apple menu, about this Mac, and under the storage section it will tell you the types installed. Rotating disks can definitely cause this behavior, especially if they are near full. Another guess but maybe we’ll get lucky and nail the problem. Thank you Scott > On Jul 6, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > I am curious: Are you using your device with a monitor connected to it? I > don't know if this monitor has to be on, or not, it very well might have to > be. If you are, the rest of this answer does not apply. > > Apparently, the mac needs to have a load connected to the HDMI port or it > will give the symptom you described, VoiceOver saying busy. I bought what I > call a dummy load to connect to the HDMI port of my mac mini. Go to amazon, > and search the word compulab. What you want apparently is used by those who > use the mac mini as a server. It goes for about $15. In the brief time I > had it, VoiceOver never said busy. > > Arnold Schmidt > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Brown" <mbrown.bro...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 9:17 AM > Subject: On a serious note Scott > > >> Hi Scott. >> Thankfully I'm not as paranoid as my last post might suggest. Just having a >> hard day with the Mail App. No matter what I want to do, I get a lot of >> 'busy busy' from good old Alex. Perhaps my system just needs a good old >> clean install. >> >> On a serious note, it is sad, if true, that those whom we put our trust in >> let us down in such an appalling way. But as you say, there are a lot of >> good people doing the best they can with the resources at their disposal. >> >> I have no doubt that the upgrade to Narrator coming next month will not >> include a talking installer. Perhaps someday it will. It is a long time >> overdue. 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