Hi Richard, Yes, it really is a pain. It's too bad there isn't a way where you could simply specify an unpack folder and the unpack utility would unpack the daisy book into it's own subfolder and you wouldn't have to fool with it at all.
What would really be nice is if the book or newspaper were packed into it's own subfolder to begin with, but this is probably a bookshare issue and there may be perfectly good reasons why not to do this. Hopefully it will all get sorted out over time. Don On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:53:05 -0700, Richard Turner wrote: Hi Don, That works, but it is rather tedious. I think I will make separate main folders for each newspaper. The subfolder stuff is more work than it is worth. Thanks, Richard on 02:20 PM 9/22/2006 don bishop wrote: >Richard, >I'm certainly no expert with daisy books, but I have heard this >recommendation and have run into problems trying to keep several >daisy books in a single >folder, so it just might be worth a try. >I honestly don't know just how much of this is an issue with daisy >on the MPower and how much is an issue with daisy in general. >But, it sure makes reading magazines and newspapers a whole lot >nicer. <smile> >Let us know if that resolves the problem as I'm sure there are many >on the list who are now getting their first exposure to daisy texts. >Don >On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:14:41 -0700, Richard Turner wrote: >Hi Don, >I've been using daisy books from BookShare for several years. >I have kept about 50 books in one folder and never had any problems >reading the one I want. Or, re-reading portions of it. >I don't doubt that there are occasionally common file names, but I >haven't run into them. >However, your suggestion is an excellent one. Since sub folders are >fairly easy to create, I will take that approach with the BrailleNote >from now on. I guess I was just being lazy. >Thanks, >Richard >on 01:55 PM 9/22/2006 don bishop wrote: > >Hi Richard, > >Whenever you download a daisy book and for this context, a newspaper > >or magazine can be considered a book, each one should be in it's > own folder or > >subfolder. > >For example, you might ahave a folder called newspaper. > >You could have unpacked the 13th newspaper into a subfolder called > >oregonian 09-13. Then when you downloaded todays newspaper you would unpack > >it into a subfolder called oregonian 09-22. > >The reason is that daisy books are made up of several files and some > >of them have common file names to all daisy books. So, if you > >unpack one into a > >folder already containing a daisy book, some files from the original > >book will probably be overwritten by files from the new one. > >When you finally want to delete a daisy book, just go into the book > >reader and, in this case, go to your newspaper folder and then > >select the book you want > >to delete and delete it. The book and the subfolder it is in will > >all be deleted in one delete command. > >You can create the subfolder in the first place when you unpack the > >book. when asked for a folder to unpack, simply say something like: > >newspaper/oregonian 09-22 and you'll get the message that the > >folder does not exist and will be asked if you want to create > >it. Just answer yes, and your > >newspaper will be unpacked there. > >Now, when you scroll through yoour list of daisy books in newspaper > >you should see the book named with the name you gave to the > >subfolder. So, daisy > >treats the subfolder as a book and you don't have to worry about it > >from there. > >I hope this makes sense as it can be a bit confusing at first. > >Don > >On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:11:27 -0700, Richard Turner wrote: > >Greetings, > >I had down loaded the Oregonian newspaper last Wednesday, the > >13th. I had kept it for one article to share with someone when we > >could get together. > >This morning, I down loaded today's Oregonian. > >I unpacked it into my "newspaper" folder on my CF card. > >I said no to delete the unpacked book which is in my downloads folder. > >It said, "loading book." > >When the book loaded, it was the Wednesday, September 13th issue and > >it opened at the article I had left it at. > >So, instead of loading the newspaper I had just unpacked, it seems to > >have picked the first one in that folder. Plus, it remembered where > >I had left off--but that wasn't what I wanted. > >I quite easily opened the correct newspaper manually, but this seems > >to be another wrinkle in the daisy function. > >Just thought Mickey and others at Humanware would want to know. > >Richard Turner > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >__________ NOD32 1.1768 (20060922) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > >http://www.eset.com > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >__________ NOD32 1.1768 (20060922) Information __________ >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote __________ NOD32 1.1768 (20060922) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
