Hello kelly, people are afraide of the reset command. they think it's going to distroy the braillenote. i see this all of the time. Chris
Thursday, July 29, 2004, 12:40:00 PM, you wrote: kssn> Thanks for all the information. I'll pass it on to her. I suggested a kssn> reset to her last night and she wouldn't hear of it. That was a guess. kssn> Kelly Stanfield kssn> ----- Original Message ----- kssn> From: "Maria Kristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kssn> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> kssn> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:24 AM kssn> Subject: re: [Braillenote] 5.1 and older information >> Hi Kelly, >> >> Well, there's some good news and some bad news. >> >> With the planner, she should copy her old planner year files into the kssn> KeyPlan folder on the Flash Disk. Then, after a simple Reset, she will be kssn> asked whether she wants to import the files into the new planner, one file kssn> at a time. Regardless of her answer, all old planner year files will be kssn> moved to the /KeyPlan/Old Planner Files directory of the Flash Disk after kssn> the importing process completes. This means that, if she wishes to import kssn> some old planner year files at a later time which she didn't initially kssn> import the first time, she can repeat the procedure. Any old planner year kssn> files in the KeyPlan folder are recognized as files you wish to import, so kssn> she will be prompted if she wants to import them upon a simple Reset. With kssn> the new planner, the words "All Day" are indeed put before any typed text kssn> unless they are notes for an appointment. If she wants to create something kssn> like a task list for the day, she can create an all-day appointment by just kssn> typing in the name of the appointment outside of the Notes field of another kssn> appointment; she can also go through the scheduling process, and, at the kssn> "Appointment Time?" field, press L for "All Day". The appointment could be kssn> called something like "Tasks". Then, after the appointment is created and kssn> with her cursor on the Time line (in this case the words "all day", she can kssn> press ENTER to type the tasks in the Notes field. In this field, the delete kssn> commands are used as in KeyWord, so the [BACKSPACE with dots 1-4], [CONTROL kssn> with I] command, for example, deletes to the end of the sentence of the kssn> Notes as opposed to canceling the appointment when the cursor is on the Time kssn> line of the appointment. That way, with her tasks in the Notes field, she kssn> could move about them as she would in a KeyWord document. >> >> The bad news is with the Address List. In future, she should back up the kssn> Address List.cdb file in the KeyList folder of the Flash Disk to her Storage kssn> Card. This is a "hidden" file, so she would have to press [SPACE with X], kssn> [READ with X] when presented with the list of files in the KeyList folder kssn> during the process of copying a file to view it. Note that when backing up, kssn> she shouldn't just copy all files in the folder using the multiple-character kssn> wild card, as this will not copy the hidden files; therefore, the .cdb files kssn> which store database records for all databases will not be backed up. If kssn> she wants to back up all data, she can use the Backup option of the kssn> Utilities Menu. In this particular situation, with the Address List, if she kssn> had copied this file (Address List.cdb) to a Storage Card, she could have kssn> copied it to the KeyList folder of the Flash Disk of the new BrailleNote, kssn> and after answering Yes to the prompt asking whether to replace the existing kssn> file with the one being copied, her Address List database would have been kssn> restored. However, now that it is in a KeyWord document, she will have to kssn> type in the records into KeyList. >> >> HTH, >> Maria >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >To: "BrailleNote List" <[email protected] >> >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:33:50 -0500 >> >Subject: [Braillenote] 5.1 and older information >> >> >I hope someone on here can help me so I can call my room mate on her cell kssn> phone while she's out of town on a trip and give her some good news. >> >> >My room mate, Tina, had to pay to get her BrailleNote BT 18 cell replaced kssn> because it was totally shot. She got one with the new board and the 5.1 kssn> software on it. >> >> >She tried to load her old planner, which she uses quite a bit, from a kssn> PCMCIA Storage card into it. What does she have to do to load these old kssn> version scheduled events into the new planner? So far because she's having kssn> trouble accessing this stuff (e.g. it's calling everything an all day event kssn> and she hasn't gotten past it) she says she doesn't like the new planner kssn> set-up. >> >> >She had converted her address list into a Keyword file right before her kssn> old one crashed. Is there any way to load this information back into the kssn> address besides retyping all of it/ >> >> >Thanks a million1 >> >> >Kelly Stanfield >> >___ >> >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 >> kssn> ___ kssn> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to kssn> [EMAIL PROTECTED] kssn> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit kssn> http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote -- Best regards, Chris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
