Information like my original message basically comes from putting together things that hw people say and drawing conclusions from there, flushed out by testing on my own unit and, if necessary, verifying with others. It definitely also helps to be a computer science major and understand a good amount of what goes on under the hood, so to speak. Essentially, what people like myself, Joseph, Nicole, and others do is to take all the information we have (provided by hw, found out from tests, or even learned from mistakes) and combine it into an outline of how keysoft and its parts work, a structure that is always being refined as we find out more and as hw changes how keysoft works. We (bn geeks) actually find this fun, believe it or not!
On 1/6/11, peter greco <[email protected]> wrote: > Jack, Alex found out the information basically and mainly by > himself! > Peter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jack and bakey <[email protected] > To: Alex Hall <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:10:05 -0600 > Subject: re: [Braillenote] what I learned from the evil keymail > databasesaga... > > Well I don't know about anyone else of course, but, made perfect > sense to me. Thanks for all the effort Alex. Only thang I do > wonder is why we basically must figure these things out for > ourselves rather than having a humanware representative actually > on list ! answer these types of queries?? True it's a busy list > but it's not that cotton pickin busy. And how long Alex did it > take you to find someone who knew all this? it's terrific info. > You bet! Hope Joseph will find room on his site for it. > Good job > All The best > Jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Hall <[email protected] > To: bn <[email protected] > Date sent: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:37:37 -0500 > Subject: [Braillenote] what I learned from the evil keymail > database saga... > > Hi all, > After much phone time both to the person I was helping and to hw > tech > support, I learned a few very important things that everyone who > has > any bn should keep in mind: > 1. Your keymail folder will always contain a database called > email > folders.cdb, which is always hidden. However, this is NOT ALWAYS > your > email database! If deleting and restoring, copying over, and so > on > does not work, try looking in the keylist folder or the none > folder > for an email folders.cdb file. If you find one, move it to > keymail, > replacing the one already there, then try the usual erase/replace > steps on it. > > 2. Just because you back up your keymail folder does not mean > you back > up your emails. In the past, email folders.cdb has been put in a > few > different locations, and keysoft will accept any of them. This > means > that, if you restore an mPower backup to an Apex, your cdb may in > fact > be in keylist, none, or somewhere else. To make sure you have > the > right one, hit space-i on the cdb file and check the size. If it > says > 48kb, it is an empty database. I know you can hit space-i on the > email > folders folder (the keylist definition file), but if this file's > database is somewhere else and you do not realize it, the record > count > you get may not be the count of records in the cdb in the same > folder > but rather that of the cdb located in keylist or somewhere else. > Before you go deleting and replacing, it is best to back up your > entire flash disk if you have never messed with the cdb before, > so > that you do not accidentally erase the right file, as I did > (sorry, > Peter!!). > > 3. As some have pointed out, copying a database to the flash > disk > protects it automatically. This caused me to panic for a moment > when, > after all this, keymail said "access is denied" when we tried to > erase > an email. Make sure that, if you copy a cdb from a backup into > the > keymail (or keylist or keybase) folder, you go find the copy on > the > flash disk and hit backspace-p, then u to unprotect the cdb. > Failure > to do so will result in the "access is denied" message whenever > you > try to do anything other than read from the database. > > Hope this helps someone. Sorry if this is a bit technical. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > 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 > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > 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 > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. 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
