Hi Alice,
Sorry, I missed your bit about the backup you took in the
original email.
Are you trying to take a copy/backup of the address list in case
something aweful happens to your PK and you need to recover it,
or is it so you have access to the address list while the PK is
away?
If you want access while your PK is away, I'm sure Sarai is right
about sync, and I have no idea on that.
With the backup you took, did you try to just backup the Keylist
folder?
If so, it should have created a Keylist directory under the may 5
2008 folder on the CF card.
In that Keylist subfolder, (or directory), there should be all
the files that are in your Flash disk Keylist folder.
When you said you couldn't read or open the address list backed
up on to the CF card, how did you try that?
Rhonda,
Will Alice not need to take the Address List definitions file
also, or will the .cdb be accessable from whatever definitions
file is left on the Flash disk?
Hope I'm making some sense--bit late for more.
Regards,
Steve.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alice dampman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Rhonda Stogner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] backing up the address book
Hi, everybody, again,
this is getting very confusing. I called Humanware and found out
that I had
to go through some directory route with space t a couple of
times, and there
was the file with the .cdb file. It is there, but I can not read
it or open
it from the cf card. I did not hear anything about the definition
file, and
I did not see it listed, either.
I was told the only way I can access that information without
having the
flash drive right there with the address book on it was to copy
the whole
file *by hand* onto my computer. An enormous and tedious task to
say the
least. I can perhaps get a loaner BN of some description while
mine is off
having the battery changed, but even so, I can't read my address
book, and I
need that info.
Any suggestions? If it's on the cf card and the cf card is in
a BN, why
can't I read the thing?
Alice
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Rhonda Stogner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] backing up the address book
Hi,
Just tried this on a BN so might be different, but, you may need
to be
careful on what files you copy.
To access the address list you need the .cdb file and it's
definition
file.
So, copy or perhaps backup or may be even both, both those
files.
What happened to me was I copied both definitions and .cdb to
another
directory on the flash disk.
Having finished the test, I went to delete them--just the
copies.
During the delete, not having left the copy directory, some how
the
original .cdb disappeared.
Got it back from backup, but it was not easy.
I have asked someone in HW who is looking into it.
I'll perhaps post again when I have more info.
Regards,
Steve.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rhonda Stogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Mon, 05 May 2008 22:54:14 -0800
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] backing up the address book
Hi Alice:
If you only want to back up the address book, I'd just copy it.
From the Main Menu, press F, then C. Go to the Flash Drive, and
to the
Keylist file. At the "list of files" prompt, press Space with X
so that
you see "hidden files". When you see address.cdb, press Enter.
You'll be
asked "copy to which folder"? Go to your drive, and I would
just put it
in the "none" folder.
As far as your list that you backed up, I'd probably erase that
folder. If there is something in that folder, they are "hidden"
files.
Since it says "zero" I suspect it didn't copy.
Good luck with the PK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alice dampman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[email protected]
Date: 2008/05/06 03:33:27
Subject: [Braillenote] backing up the address book
Hi, everyone,
Thanks to Shaz, I got my PK up and running again, but it
seems that my battery has to be replaced. It won't hold a charge
for
longer than one day.
So before I send in the PK, I've finally gotten around to
trying to back up my address book, the only thing I really keep
on the
flash disk, Everything else is on a cf card.
I went to utilities, chose backup, it gave me the option of
putting it into a folder called May 5 08 back up or something
like that. I
hit enter, it said something about x files copied and seemed to
be done
almost instantaneously.
Being the skeptical sort, I went to that May 5 folder on the
cf card and tried to open the address book to make sure it was
really
there. I could not find it. The folder was there, but it said it
had zero
items in it.
What did I do wrong? And where is that backed up address
book?
Thanks for help.
Alice
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