Hi Mike, Good point, and we find out the limits by pushing them. Since my understanding of what raul said was that the email folder could hold basically whatever the drive could hold it was worth testing to see just how useful that might be. I'm not complaining only experimenting and reporting back my findings so we're not all reinventing the wheel.
One thing I found with using the space s to save emails is that it works with the same program that lists the recently opened documents in your word processor, not sure how to phrase that correctly. But if you have 8 recently opened documents listed in the word processor and then go and save a dozen or so emails using the space s then those emails file names will show up in your word processor listing. Probably not a problem unless of course you've forgotten where that document was that you were reading before you went wide on saving emails and now have to go dig it up all over again. Tessa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Freeman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] question about email With great respect, it seems to me that the underlying theme here is that several of you are trying to use the BS Plus -- essentialy a PDA -- as you would a full-bore PC. This is understandable given the cost of braille note-takers. But they generally truly do have only the power of a PDA. They have all the advantages and also the drawbacks of a PDA. They (the braille note-takers) are very good at what they do but they function best if the user is knowledgeable about their limitations. Mike Freeman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tessa" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] question about email They accumulate, life happens. In thinking on the issue I think I'd create multiple small folders in the email program and have a day's worth of mail in each, doesn't help with the total mass but does make loading faster. Tessa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colleen Roth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] question about email Hi, I was just wondering why anyone would want that many emails in their in box. I try to delete those I do not need and save those I do to Flash Disk or better yet Cf Card. Colleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 2009/11/03 19:30:07 Subject: Re: [GWN] QUESTION ABOUT EMAIL > > > The Braille Sense and Voice Sense in many ways are like PDAs for the > blind. On a PDA FOR SIGHTED PEOPLE, IT's probably not going to be used > for thousands of email messages. Since the Sense notetakers build an > index file when the inbox is loaded, the updating and building of this > index file would take longer when there are more messages. Personally > I > try to keep less than 1000 messages in the inbox since the email > program > doesn't have features such as automatic sorting of mail into other > folders. > > Many thanks. > > On 11/2/2009 7:57 AM, Tessa wrote: > > Just to comment on my experience with too much email. I understand > > that > > the > > program will use as much space as the bs+ has available, but so far > > here's > > my experience. > > First my flashdisk has about 5 to 6gb of freespace. > > I've been testing out the email limits by loading as much as I can > > into > > the > > program. > > At about 3,000 messages the bs+ starts acting up, or at least my > > particular > > unit does. The inbox is very slow to load, taking 5 to 10 seconds > > between > > percentages, so overall taking several minutes to load the entire > > inbox. > > At > > 4,000 messages I found it took about 4 to 5 minutes just to load the > > inbox, > > and when adding new mail after the mail had been downloaded it took > > what > > seemed a long time for the new mail to be intigrated with the > > current > > list. > > Large messages take a minute or two to open, I don't know if that's > > normal > > or if it's a result of too much mail. Large being 50k or so. > > I found that several messages when opened gave me the dull ding, but > > oddly > > enough the unit didn't freeze solid but would allow me to exit out > > of > > the > > message and go on to something else. Unfortunately it did freeze up > > while I > > was saving the inbox after deleting some 600 messages. > > So, with this particular machine it appears that 3000 messages is > > about > > the > > practical limit for the inbox. Not to mention that getting around > > amidst > > that many messages and finding anything is a challenge in itself. > > Tessa > > > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > > [email protected] and include leave gw-notetaker in the body of > > the > > message. > > > -- > Raul A. 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