Any tricks for reading progress in file copying?

By Khomus, 11 December, 2024

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Hi all.

So I'm copying files. I can read the percentage fine usually, because it doesn't change as fast. But I see where it says "copying 238 megs of 1.2 gigs", that it will also give a remaining time estimate. But since those numbers keep changing, I usually can't get all of it read to find out what the remaining time is, for instance.

Is there a trick to finding that out? I tried interacting with the text, but that doesn't work, the numbers are still changing. VO-shift-w to read the window doesn't work either, which was the other idea I thought of. It would be nice to be able to get at all of the info on progressive stuff like that.

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By Nuno on Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 18:49

Here are a couple of ideas:

  1. VO Utility > Verbosity > Announcements > When status text changes under VoiceOver cursor:; change to "Play tone". This will make your speech not cut off.
  2. Focus on the changing element, press VO+SHIFT+1, then you can use VO+Command+1 to read it from any place.

By Tyler on Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 18:49

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Rather than going to VoiceOver Utility to change the "When status text changes under VoiceOver cursor" setting, you can change this setting from anywhere in macOS by pressing VO-V and locating it using the left and right arrow keys.