[mac4theblind] Re: Work around for changing printers in Mavericks
- From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:31:37 -0700
This was a System preference crash. It is a known problem in Mavericks. At
least, as far as I know, it hasn’t been fixed.
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On Oct 7, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all, I have just now deleted my two printers that I had in System
> Preferences. Reasons being that I don't need or require a printer at this
> time. However, before doing this, upon opening up System Preferences, going
> to the printers and scanners button and opening this and selecting a printer
> in my case presented me with an error. I unfortunately, can't remember what
> it said but basically the only option was an ok button. Selecting this then
> quitted the scanners and printers pain and brought me back to the list of
> categories and no matter what I did to try and explore my two printer options
> always ended up with this error and kicking me back to System Preferences
> again. So what did I do from here?
>
> Well here's the tip that I wanted to share with you. The secret is to turn
> off your curser tracking with VO shift F3. Now I know one could just change
> the printer probably in the programme of choice after hitting the CMD P
> command for print and going through the printing options. However, if you
> have more than one printer installed on your system and are running Mavericks
> then by turning off curser tracking and arrowing down in the list of printers
> in the scanners and printer pain and VO right, then the bug is fixed! Just
> remember to turn your curser tracking back on again once your done with the
> scanners and printer settings.
>
> I just wanted to throw this out there just for me experiencing the bug and
> suggesting my work around in case anyone would need to look or change
> anything with there printer settings in Mavericks.
>
> I hope this may help someone and if not, well I still feel better for
> figuring out a solution for a bug that kept bringing up an error message when
> trying to view the other printer I had apparently installed.************
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