I have never lost data from a cf card permanently. I just had that one experience where a reset fixed everything, touch wood, but then I have only had my cf card for six months. Since December, I save everything on the cf card, accept for a telephone list, of which I keep a copy on the flash disk. I also save my email to a folder on the cf card once a month and delete them from the email folders. I free data base space after every email cession and I have never had that no subject problem since I do that and my unit is no longer sluggish.
Up to date, I have kept my cf card in the unit, however, it has been mentioned on the list that files could get corrupted on any disk; so I agree that if there is any problem, it probably originates from the unit's behaviour and not from the cf card. I think the card I have is a pretec; the only one which was available in SA in any event, sold via socket communication's agent here and it's guaranteed for three years. Riana -----Original Message----- From: Terri Pannett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2004 11:44 To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] backing up I've never lost data from my BN or from the CF card. But several months ago, I had to do a complete system restore on my PC because I'd gotten a virus, and I lost major projects! I have been able to restore most of them because I had copies on my BN! I'm still working to bring some projects back, and others are lost for good! The sad thing is, more of the projects would have been recovered if I hadn't been dumb and deleted them from my old DOS running PC! I'd better start backing up my BN, but I can't understand why some people lose data and others don't. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] backing up : Interestingly, with this ridiculous pc, I have had to put everything on flash cards so they would run on the Braille Note. : Most everything on the bn is backed up somewhere and well this pc has not run long enough to keep anything and I know better than to put anything important on that machine. : It gets put on the bn and copied into my microdrives and the really important things are on a flash card which rarely is used.Mary Ellen Earls : : > ----- Original Message ----- : >From: John Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] : >To: new list <[email protected] : >Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:30:59 +0100 : >Subject: [Braillenote] backing up : : >Hi Sarah I back up from my cfcard to the pc every few days what a pain but : >you never know. I do hear of users loosing data and I cannot aford to loose : >say all the tuning customers or my books or my chess games. not sure why : >this loss happens but it does. : : : : >___ : >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 : ___ 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
