What a fabulous idea for the none folder. I only have about 120 disks full of stuff from my old Braille Lite and that really opens up tons of possibilities. Thanks so much!
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Brenda Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:26:05 -0500 >Subject: re: [Braillenote] none folder >Hi Lisa, >I'll just add a few comments here. None folder exists on our system, but I >think it's not a folder, although you can request it. It does have its uses >for me. Before I had Braille Note, I used Braille and Speak, the classic >version and others upto about 2001. One thing I did was build a book >collection. Each book was stored in ascii text with each chapter stored as > a file on that disk I purchased. Sometimes I scanned in my own books with >reading Edge, corrected the scanning errors with Braille and Speak, stored the >files to a disk,and that way I could use the portable disk drive to load books >into Braille and Speak and read them. Now those versions can't open folders, >but if I want to store something from Braille Note for Braille and Speak to >read, when I've connected the super disk drive and when it asks for a folder, >I just type "none" without the quotes, of course. Any files you put in that >none folder on your disk that goes to the disk drive can be read by! Br! >aille and Speak. You see there was a portable disk drive you could buy with >Braille and Speak. Now what happens if I want to read those old disks with my >new super drive from Pulse data in my braille Note? After all, there is no >routing information connected with the name of a file. I'm just requesting >files from that disk. When it asks for a folder, I type "none" without the >quotes, of course. Then I can read those old files on those old disks. Does >this help? Consider this. If you were a sales person going to a convention to >sell your products, loading files onto a disk to give away in the none folder >would mean that even someone without a PC could read them with a Braille and >Speak, an old one. >Brenda Mueller > . >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: Ann Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:26:11 -0500 >>Subject: [Braillenote] none folder >>Hi all, >>>>>>> "Lisa" == Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Lisa> Hi Listers, Sometimes when I save documents to Keyword I get >> ,Lisa> a message about saving them in the none folder. Does this >> Lisa> fold exist? If so where is it? I ask because when I look >> Lisa> at the folders names on both the Keysoft and the flash >> Lisa> drives this folder is not listed. What is in this none >> Lisa> folder? Is there anything relevant I can delete from it? >><smile> The term "none" is misleading, and I would strongly erge the >>PDI programmers to use the proper name for this place on a drive. The >>proper name for this is root, not none or anything else. Its name is >>root! I suppose "none" does make sense in a sort of way, but it took >>even me a minute or two before I could decipher its meaning. Lisa, >>what this means is files that are stored in a drive outside the >>folders in the root on the drive. The term "none" means no folder, >>just on the drive's root. >>It's like this, Say you had a flashcard. The path to a file in your >>office folder would be flashdisk/office/file1.kwb If on the other >>hand, you stored a file, in your storage card without putting it in a >>folder, its name and path would be: flashdisk/file2.kwb >>Does this clear up the misunderstanding? >>Ann P. >>-- >> Ann K. Parsons >>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp >>"All that is gold does not glitter. >>Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.pulsedata.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.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
