Hi Don, Thanks for this very helpful suggestion. I'm getting my BN mPower back next week, I suspect, and I will implement this strategy from the beginning.
Les -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of don bishop Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:20 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Problem in 7.2 Daisy 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
