It's not that. Each time I sent a file to him it kept failing. Not so with 3.8.
-- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherh40 at googlemail.com MSN: ch9675 at hotmail.com Yahoo! Messenger: christopherh40 at yahoo.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Klango: chrishallsworth -------------------------------------------------- From: "Doug Lee" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:17 PM To: "screen access software with skype" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Skype 3.8 > Sending and receiving files with Skype 4.1 is very accessible > actually: "Send File" is still a choice in a contact's Context menu, > and you then pick a file as before. Or, I believe you can still find > a file in Explorer and then use the file's own Context menu to Send To > Skype, then pick a Skype contact from there. As for receiving files, > an incoming file transfer shows up as an entry in the sending > contact's message window. You arrow to that entry in the message > list, then Tab from there to reach the Save and Cancel buttons. > > The only thing we lost from 3.8 to 4.1 relating to file transfers, far > as I know, is the ability to see transfer speed and bytes transferred. > This used to require the JAWS cursor I think, but now it's a tooltip > and harder to get to than it was. I consider this mildly annoying but > not major. I did report it though. > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:04:00PM +0100, Chris Hallsworth wrote: >> Hello all, >> After problems sending a file to a friend, I've decided to go back to >> Skype 3.8. Yes it does work under Windows 7. I will also be sticking with >> this version till we are forced to update. >> Thought I'd let you know. >> -- >> Chris Hallsworth >> E-mail: christopherh40 at googlemail.com >> MSN: ch9675 at hotmail.com >> Yahoo! Messenger: christopherh40 at yahoo.com >> Skype: chrishallsworth7266 >> Klango: chrishallsworth >> >> >> Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the >> latest version of skype go to >> http://www.dlee.org/skype >> To access tutorials and other goodies go to >> http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html >> >> >> to download a tool that will help install skypewatch for jaws users, go >> to this link. >> http://free-zg.t-com.hr/hkatic/SWSetup.zip >> >> thanks and have a wonderful day. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skypeenglish mailing list >> Skypeenglish at emissives.com >> http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > -- > Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org > SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "I before E, except after C, or when sounded like A, as in neighbor > and weigh, except for when weird foreign concierges seize neither > leisure nor science from the height of society." > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > > > to download a tool that will help install skypewatch for jaws users, go to > this link. > http://free-zg.t-com.hr/hkatic/SWSetup.zip > > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
