Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Both operating systems have this functionality to some level. There are security concerns that the vendors take seriously, that limit the usability of the automated crash reports. It is significantly better to use feedback channels with recipes (directions) for causing a crash. Especially if

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know what I think would be really neat? If Apple was to do what GwMicro did with Window-Eyes; make the operating system self-healing. This concept for GwMicro involved collecting crash logs from people's machines when they rebooted; the Window-Eyes software phoned home and sent the crash

Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-14 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Greetings, I intermittently experience restarts of voiceOver. With the exception of doing a google search in Safari I do not have a reproducible test case that I could present to Apple. My question is whether there is a log written when an app crashes? If so is there a system setting that

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cohn
If my memory is correct, there is a logs directory in your library I believe I have seen crash information for VO among the logs there, and the console program can read these log files. Jn On 14/10/2010, GEOFF WAALER geoff.waa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I intermittently experience

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Geoff, To find Crash Logs, go to your Home folder, then Logs, then Crash Logs, and that's where they'll be. Except that VO stopping speaking doesn't generate a crash log. Strictly speaking, it isn't a crash since the VoiceOver cursor is still visible on the screen (or so I'm told).

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-14 Thread Sarah Alawami
Every time I attach those though mail won't send the message as it has problems attaching that crash report. I've had this problem and apple cannot open my crash reports I send them. S On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: If my memory is correct, there is a logs directory in your