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Rather than ask on the main list, I thought I'd bring this here, Some time ago I raised a ticket for these all being blank this includes prefs, log in share and other parts of the application.
I use Windows 7 and when I broached this on the main list last only two people seemed to have the issue apart from myself, so one has to deduce that it has to be a windows issue, ie something has mangled a dll or registration thereof. However the tool does not fix his. Nobody in the Dev team can duplicate it either. I have a working theory that this all started due to ccleaner installing avast very stealthily. Yes you can remove the software, but it seems possible that doing this which has to be done in safe mode by a sighted person has not left windows as it should be. Dropbox did try to help but none of their suggestions worked. reinstall, winding the computer back or sending them some data. All looked well and Is OK for the sighted of course! I'd like to get to the bottom of this of course but its not mega important, as I can get a sightee to help but its a chore. So I'll leave it hanging. All ideas considered except reformatting and reinstalling windows or putting windows 10 on this machine. It has to run legacy copies of the Access database and other old software and I don' to want to lose that. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. |
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Have you tried running SFC /SCANNOW from an admin command prompt on the machine? Worth a shot if you haven't
-- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." ~ Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
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Can you reformat the system? This is a brute force wa of doing this, but it seems like now you are the onlyone having the issue as they did fix the blank windows in dropbox. Take care Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. . For more info go to our website. The listen page is found here Our telegram channel is also a good place for an announce only in regard to podcasts, contests, etc. Finally, to become a patron and help support the podcast go here On 25 Apr 2019, at 1:09, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
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Yes did that and had to reinstall my email software after doing it but it made no difference whatsoever to the issue.
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Its irritating when these sort of problems occur. On the surface since it only affects one piece of software that should point a big flashing arrow at the problem. Scratching head....! This is the nvda/f1, but its pretty boring. INFO - globalCommands.GlobalCommands.script_navigatorObject_devInfo (17:18:04.401): Developer info for navigator object: name: u'' role: ROLE_UNKNOWN states: isFocusable: False hasFocus: False Python object: <NVDAObjects.IAccessible.MenuItem object at 0x05000170> Python class mro: (<class 'NVDAObjects.IAccessible.MenuItem'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.IAccessible.IAccessible'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.window.Window'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.NVDAObject'>, <class 'documentBase.TextContainerObject'>, <class 'baseObject.ScriptableObject'>, <class 'baseObject.AutoPropertyObject'>, <type 'object'>) description: None location: None value: None appModule: <'dropbox' (appName u'dropbox', process ID 2836) at address 4d6f9f0> appModule.productName: u'Dropbox' appModule.productVersion: u'71.4.108' TextInfo: <class 'NVDAObjects.NVDAObjectTextInfo'> windowHandle: 984030 windowClassName: u'#32768' windowControlID: 0 windowStyle: 0 windowThreadID: 2840 windowText: u'' displayText: exception: 'NoneType' object is not iterable IAccessibleObject: <POINTER(IAccessible) ptr=0x81b2170 at 50ae0d0> IAccessibleChildID: 15 IAccessible event parameters: windowHandle=984030, objectID=-4, childID=15 IAccessible accName: exception: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) IAccessible accRole: exception: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) IAccessible accState: exception: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) IAccessible accDescription: exception: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) IAccessible accValue: exception: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) Which is bonkers as the display is most certainly there and can be moved apparently using tab and the mouse when viewed by a sighted person. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vogel" <britechguy@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [chat] Dropbox preferences Have you tried running SFC /SCANNOW from an admin command prompt on the machine? Worth a shot if you haven't -- Brian *-* Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 *A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."* ~ Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
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I already covered this and why I don't want to. This is the one thinning I'm not prepared to do it would be far too time costly with all the many batch files and folder configurations and modified parameters I'd need to remember and the fact that I use it all the time for content for our talking newspaper. Two windows 7 machines are involved both have the problem and both once 'caught Avast Anti Virus, Mainly due to some sighted users not realising its implications for the blind user.
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Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <marrie12@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [chat] Dropbox preferences Can you reformat the system? This is a brute force wa of doing this, |
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