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Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 20:30:09 -0500
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I can't say to much here because of my agreement with the dev team.  But =
I can say you will be pleasantly surprised with mountain lion.  And the =
reason it took five hours to reinstall lion, is because I erased my hard =
drive first.  Sorry, should have specified that.
On May 5, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:

> LOL! That is an understatement: VO start-up under lion being buggy. A =
few months ago, I did a clean install to see if it
> would help, but as far as I was concerned, the clean install had way =
more quirks than my upgrade install. Thank God for
> Carbon Copy Cloner; I just restored my original lion install, and have =
resigned myself to dealing with VO's quirks. Every
> time a lion update is released, I keep hoping they'll fix whatever =
they broke, but so far, no dice. I'm a bit nervous about
> Mountain Lion, but hopefully it will end up being better than Lion. I =
guess only time will tell.
> I guess the poit is that I agree with Daniel; reinstalling lion to fix =
that 1 little quirk was probably overkill, but at
> least Apple has made the OS installation accessible, so if nothing =
else, I suppose it was good mac practice.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com =
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Miller
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 3:47 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Trying to reinstall operating system, not sure if I did =
it right
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> Hi,
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> I highly doubt you needed to reinstall for that. That's a known issue =
in Lion, where Voiceover will not speak at the login
> field, even though it's set to. In fact, there are bugs with VO =
starting on startup in lion in general.
> I've reported them to Apple for investigation, so perhaps they'll be =
addressed in Mountain Lion.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Keller
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 2:44 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Trying to reinstall operating system, not sure if I did =
it right
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> I don't know yet, I only turned on my computer once since then and it =
went directly to the desk top, but that doesn't mean
> anything, it only means that it hasn't had time to act weird yet.
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> We'll see the next time I shut down and turn it back on.
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> Keep your fingers crossed.
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> Jenny
> On May 5, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Scott Rumery wrote:
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>> The question you need to ask yourself is, did it fix my problem?  I
>> love
> how easy it is to get all back up and running on my Mac.  Much easier =
than reinstalling Windows.
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>> Scott
>> On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Jenny Keller wrote:
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>>> I was having problems with my operating system, Lion, popping up =
with
>>> a
> log in field and no voice over even though it was set up to come on =
with the log in field, but it was also set to just log in
> without being loged in.
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>>> Someone told me to reinstall Lion, using command R and holding it
>>> down
> until the computer booted up.
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>>> Well, I did that, but I'm not sure I did it right.
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>>> I told it to install Lion new, and it asked me to restart the =
machine
>>> so
> I did.
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>>> what was the point of that, it seemed too easy.
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>>> Did I do something wrong?
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>>> Jenny
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