You mean for $200 all my problems will be solved? <grin> Now since I just
payed my $3,000 credit card bill that included my upgrade to MPower I
really don't think the $200 software upgrade will go over well with my
husband, so I suspect I'm stuck with the less optimal trial and error
method of creating my database. I shouldn't save my credit card
information anywhere where I could use it anyway--after all I shouldn't
really spend any more. LOL
I'm already frustrated because my version of Microsoft Office is too old to
allow syncing with my braille note, and to upgrade that cost a lot,
especially to a person like my husband who uses Linux and never spends a
dime to get the latest software, and to me because I don't exactly make a
lot of money.
I just have to be content with being thrilled that browsing with my BN
works great and files open as fast as I could wish. Most of my other
ddreams of what would now be possible have been, if not crushed, at least
slightly damaged. Maybe I'll feel rich some other month. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] keylist database creation
If you have an M-power, keep watch for 7.0 upgrade which will have Key
Base which should be much easier to create databases of many varying
types. I myself haven't created other databases.
Jim
At 02:20 PM 01/09/2006 , you wrote:
I would like some directions for creating keylist databases. I did this
in the past for keysoft version 3.6, but I kind of forgot what I did. I
also was basically using the trial and error method, which I'd rather not
use again. :-)
I made a database for bank and credit card account information, but I
backed up and removed my database when I sent my braille note in for
upgrade to MPower. I'm sure you all can understand why I did that. :-)
Now I can't get the database back and I really miss it. I don't mind
entering the data again, but I need to have a database to put it in
first. I tried to just put the old files back in the keylist folder, but
I got an uninformative message when I tried to switch to that database. I
believe it said something like "the action was completed successfully"
which was certainly a lie. The database was not present and usable after
that. No matter what I tried to do with that database I got the same
message and absolutely nothing opened or happened.
I found and downloaded a program that said it was for designing keysoft
databases, but it is an old DOS program which didn't run successfully in
Windows XP. I even wonder if the program is supposed to be used to make
modern keysoft databases. If it is usable for that purpose I can run it
on an old computer with Windows 98 on it, but I don't want to bother if
it won't make a database that is usable on a braille note MPower.
Can anyone give me some tips? for that matter, has anyone else made such
a database they could share. I think it is a great place to keep that
type of information because it is easy to read the information off with
one hand while entering it on the phone keypad with the other. It is also
somewhat more secure than other places, because a keysoft database is a
non-standard file that not just anyone could read easily. It is also on
a device that can not be used or connected to without your knowledge if
you keep it with you and aren't connected to activesync at the moment.
Any assistance wil be appreciated.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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