Correction on this file. The file headers should be as Russell pointed out.
3.01 Chapter 3.mp3
Sorry about that.
John Justice
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Justice" <[email protected]>
To: "blind computing" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:57 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF MULTIPLE FILES ON A DISK
I'm not sure how many of you will find this helpful but it took me so long
to sort it out, I decided to share my experience in hopes that I can save
someone else the grief.
here's the scenario.
You have a CD you are creating and you want to keep the files in order.
In my case, they were chapters in a book I had written. I tried
everything but for some odd reason, the files would be loaded in some kind
of random order. I tried labeling them with numbers having multiple
digits such as: chapter 001.mp3
No, that didn't work and Chapter 17 ended up right after Chapter 1 and
Chapter 2 ended somewhere in the pack.
Then I remembered the way that Freedom Scientific labels their files on a
training disk. The numbers have to be first and they must be absolutely
precise.
That's the only way. here's an example of how I finally labeled those
chapters and they stayed in the correct order.
1.1 CHAPTER 1.MP3
1.2 CHAPTER 2.MP3
1.3 CHAPTER 3.MP3
Apparently, when you use the List command available from the View menu,
the files appear in order but they don't stay that way unless the decimal
system is used. if you have several books on the same disk, either divide
them into folders or use a progressive system.
My book has four parts so I used 1.xx for the first section, 2.xx for the
next and so on.
For some brainyacs like Rick and David, this may be second nature. But
for someone like me who is more of a writer than a computer person, I was
so relieved when my method finally succeeded. My thanks to the people at
Freedom Scientific for giving me the idea.
it was David who introduced me to the View menu and told me how to list
files in any folder.
While in the folder but without an open file, press Alt V for the View
menu.
Then, to arrange the files in a list, press the L key and the list will be
displayed.
John and Linda Justice with guide dogs Jake and Zachary
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