Hi all.
I want to save a file from Voice Memos. Apple support says, just drag a recording to the Finder. So I go to the desktop, and hit cmd-shift-o, to open documents. I cmd-tab to the Voice Memos window. I interact with the library and hit VO-comma, which marks my recording for dragging. I cmd-tab back to documents. I hit Vo-period. Voiceover says "window may be hidden".
How do I drag and drop? I already tried VO-shift-space to click on the recording, cmd-tab to documents, and Vo-shift-space to click again. That doesn't drag the recording. I assume VOiceover's drag and drop will work, if Voiceover doesn't think the window is hidden. The last time I asked about this, for some sort of software, people came up with mouse clicking, which didn't do anything either. So I am very specifically trying to find out how to make Voiceover's drag and drop functionality work here, unless you can really get specific and tell me what I'm doing wrong with VO-shift-space. Why does Voiceover think the destination is a problem ,and how do I fix it?
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Copy and paste
In my experience, voice memos can be saved in Finder by focusing on the memo and choosing "Copy" from the context menu (accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M). Clicking the memo to select it and then pressing Command-C to copy may also work, but I'm not totally sure.
Either way, once the memo is copied, it can then be pasted in your desired location in Finder by navigating to it and choosing Edit > Paste (or pressing CommandV).
HTH
Thanks, I'll try that.
I'd still like to figure out what's going on with drag and drop though. Are there window commands for the Mac? On Windows I would have tried maximizing, but I know for the Mac, it wants both the source and destination visible on the screen, so that might not work, if Mac has an equivalent.
But for whatever software I was asking about before, VO-shift-space didn't work, nor did copy and paste. I could get the Mac hooked up to a screen and have my wife use a mouse whenever I really need drag and drop I guess, but I'd like to see if I can get it working myself. I think I did use it for something once a while back, so it does actually work, when the stars are right. In both cases I was trying to drag a file from Finder, so I don't know if there's something specific about that and the way it arranges windows that's hidingthings for Voiceover.
Draging a file from finder
I was going to say the same thing about voice memos.
If you want to take a file from finder and drop it somewhere else, make sure finder is in icon view.
You can either press VO+comma on the item you want to drag, and VO+period in whatever app you want to drag the file when VO is focused on the point where you want to drag the app.
Alternatively, use mouse down and mouse up commands (VO+shift+command+space) on the item you want to drag, command+tab to the other window, and VO+command+shift+space again to drop the item.
Be sure to use command, or you may just be doing a simple mouse click.
Check out the VO user guide for dragging/dropping here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/voiceover/vo14056/10/mac/26
Any idea why it needs to be in icon view?
I usually have it in columns. I'll look at the guide, pretty sure I have before but it couldn't hurt to refresh, obviously, and give icon view a try. BTW cmd-c and pasting did work for Voice Memos. THanks everybody!