Re: 10.7.1 is out everyone

2011-08-28 Thread carlene knight
They've always done that as long as I can remember. On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I still to this day wonder why it does that. I think that is one of the most bizarre bugs in Lion, quite frankly. Chris. - Original Message - From: Shawn Krasniuk

Re: 10.7.1 is out everyone

2011-08-28 Thread carlene knight
that is a prefference file. You might want to have VO rewrite those files, just a thought. If you would like me to send you an email explaining how to do that, I can. You will have to reset your prefferences in VO, as your settings will be lost. On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Missy Hoppe

Re: Looking for a program like Adobe Audition

2011-08-28 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Surely, Mike, you mean amadeus Pro. Quite right too. I use it all the time. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Isn't that an

Crash Plan

2011-08-28 Thread Keith Watson
Hi, I wanted to kick the tires on Crash Plan yesterday. For the most part installation and backing up initially is somewhat doable. It's getting to the selections on the left of the window that is a challenge. My question to the hive is there a way to have a sighted person move the mouse

Where Is The User Library folder in Lion?

2011-08-28 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi I'm having a problem finding my user library. I'm in my user folder which is my name, but unlike Snow Leopard, there's no Library folder and I have to move something into my Application Support folder which has a specific App not found in other App support folders. Has anyone found their

RE: 10.7.1 is out everyone

2011-08-28 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! I assume this preferences file you're talking about is for fixing the com.apple.doc.extra problem. If so, I'm not sure it would help. I had a tech from Apple help me reset my preferences over the phone, but the second I organized my doc the way I wanted it again, the problem came back. Now,

Re: going from an MBP to a MacBook Air

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anouk, Actually, the internal speaker on the MBA really isn't bad. As Neil said, it lacks some of the fullness of the speaker on the MBP, but I don't think it's unacceptable at all. And it puts out a lot of volume. I know you said you were planning to buy headphones, but thought you'd

Re: Where Is The User Library folder in Lion?

2011-08-28 Thread Mike Arrigo
The library folder is hiden in lion, personally I think apple made the wrong decision with that, but it's easy to get to. In the finder, press command shift g, this opens a dialog box where you can type the folder you want to go to. Type ~/library note the symbols at the beginning, select ok

Re: zipping

2011-08-28 Thread Craig J Dunlop
And will the Mac zip files? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2011, at 12:12, james walton jmwalto...@gmail.com wrote: Why do that, way is in mac os works great! To just unzipped, open the file! On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:09 PM, ezzie bueno ezziebu...@gmail.com wrote: Try the Unarchiver. You

Wrestling with the Lion

2011-08-28 Thread Adams-SpinkLTD
I've just written this review of Lion from my own perspective as a magnification user. Thought this group might find it interesting: http://www.adams-spink.com/Lion_Taming_for_VIPs Geoff Adams-Spink -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: coppying books

2011-08-28 Thread Craig J Dunlop
i forgot to say that i do open the talking book folder and interact with the list before hitting command v. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2011, at 20:16, james walton jmwalto...@gmail.com wrote: Open the talkingbooks before pasting. On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:14 PM, craig J Dunlop

Lion: Searching Mail

2011-08-28 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, this is quite strange. I'm trying to search through my unified inbox in Mail under Lion. I have 4 accounts all total set up. I don't have View by conversation turned on either, don't know if that really would matter, but... So in the list of mailboxes, both in the classic view, and in

ziping

2011-08-28 Thread james Walton
not that i know of i have never done it so i don't really know maybe some one else here can help -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Re: ziping

2011-08-28 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
hello; in the finder under the file menu is a selection for compress. hope that helps, max On Aug 28, 2011, at 2:05 PM, james Walton wrote: not that i know of i have never done it so i don't really know maybe some one else here can help -- You received this message because you are subscribed

ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'm trying to transfer my data from my MBP to my MBa using the migration assistant. Every time I am at the point of starting the transfer, I get an error message that the transfer can't happen because the user account on the MBA has the same name as the one on my MBP, go figure, given

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread james Walton
to delete your accountt folder do the following 1. press command shif g on the finder type /Users/ and press enter there you go. also you can press command coma for finder pfrefs and check hardisks to show on the desktop. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Bless you!!! I looked in system prefs rather than finder whn trying to see the file structure. Hopefully deleting the user folder will solve my migration asst issue. Best, Donna Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:25 PM, james Walton jmwalto...@gmail.com wrote: to delete your

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread james Walton
no problem! i love it when people find my help useful! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Lion: Searching Mail

2011-08-28 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Chris! Well I don't know if this will work in Lion! And someone else has the same sort of problem as you! And they also are using Lion! But from your description it looks like the only thing you did not try is after typing your search criteria [ And this is what I do in SL] is to stop

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, when it is formatted in ExFAT you are able to read and write in Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows 7. All the best Jürgen Am 28.08.2011 um 04:25 schrieb erik burggraaf: Mac OS can read NTFS, but it can't write to them. If you want full access to the drive it needs to be FAT32, although, I've

Re: other resources for garageband 11

2011-08-28 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anouk, would be nice if you could report how useful the manual is for VO user. I imagined not to much. Once I tried to explore GB more with a sighted friend. It didn't work at all. All the best Jürgen Am 28.08.2011 um 04:28 schrieb anouk radix: Hi, A few days ago I discovered

Re: other resources for garageband 11

2011-08-28 Thread anouk radix
Hello, I hope to be able to read them in the next week. While they might not specefically be useful for vo users they might make understanding the garageband software easier for the first-time daw users like me. Greetings, Anouk, Op 28-8-2011 22:58, Jürgen Fleger schreef: Hi Anouk, would be

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread anouk radix
Cool! I will have to test asap if writing to ntfs really works from mac osx, that would be nice indeed. I wont be able to encrypt the disk then but it does not really have much sensitive data on it anyway. Greetings, Anouk, Op 28-8-2011 22:55, Jürgen Fleger schreef: Hi, when it is formatted

files in use that aren't in use

2011-08-28 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
After closing a few JPG files I had opened with Preview, I later went to empty the trash with these JPG files in it. The trash wouldn't empty because the files were supposedly still in use. However, no instance of Prevues is running that I can find. So, what's using these files and how do I

RE: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Miller
Hello, Writing to an NTFS formatted drive doesn't work in Mac OS X, since NTFS is a windows-only format. You'll have to reformat the drive either in XFat, or Fat32. I hope this helps! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

more help needed with migration assistant

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, OK, I'm back home now, and still unable to get rid of this user account. I followed Jim's excellent instructions, but I am not allowed to delete the user folder. I'm really perplexed about how this is supposed to work. I mean, if you purchase a new Mac, your name and your Apple ID

Skype

2011-08-28 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi all, I have just joined the World of Skype and I am wondering if there is a tutorial out there that would teach me how to navigate around. I've had to set it up to automatically start video when I receive a call because I cannot get to that button. Things are around sometimes and then

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Mike Arrigo
Did you create an account when you first got the macbook air, or are you trying to do this during the initial set up? If you already created an account during the initial set up, you will probably want to reinstall your operating system and transfer the account information during the initial

Re: Skype

2011-08-28 Thread Cody
Yes, sometimes when you are in a cal, the video, and add people, hangup, hold buttons/check boxes appear and disappear at will, you need to just keep right and left arrowing around between the html content area and the images you hear in the conversation window. I don't know a work around, but

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Cody
One option is instead of using the migration assistant, to use time machine, make a backup of your pro, and then load that image onto your air. That for sure will work.. Also, if your pro is running leopard, not snow leopard, make sure you've got the latest updated migration assistant.. On Aug

Re: 10.7.1 is out everyone

2011-08-28 Thread carlene knight
Yes it is. One thing you might try is to relaunch the finder which I have to do sometimes as sometimes my computer will say whatever was last in focus in the finder every few minutes until I relaunch it. To do this, find finder in the dock and press VO+shift+m to go to the context menu and

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Ugh! Yes, I wanted to spend some time playing with it before I moved all my data over, and they didn't tell me not to do that at the store. Do you know if I can restore from a time-machine backup instead? Thanks, Donna On Aug 28, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Did you create an

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Cody. Wouldn't the migration assistant have been upgraded as part of the Leopard upgrade? Also, both the MBA and the MBP are running Leopard, 10.71. So I can just restore from the time machine backup and that will work? Thanks, Donna On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Cody wrote: One

Re: going from an MBP to a MacBook Air

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Roy
I got mine about 10 days ago. Donna, like you, I upgraded the SSD to 256, and, like you, I am nnot totally convinced that i need to do that, but, I did it anyway. Yes, it's expensive. I also contemplated returning it, but, I love this expensive machine, it's not going back. On Aug 27,

Re: ready to throw MBA out a window, can someone help?

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Roy
wow, is that advisable. Your restoring an OS configured on different hardware to a different set of hardware and probably some driver differences. Now, if people tell me it works, great, but, I don't think it's recommended. Personally, I used my external drive which had a complete backup of