alex, this helped, and I was able to open the file. How can I associate all .bks files with the unarchiver? I have hundreds of books and would hate to have to go through and change them all individually. I think I saw something about this in System Preferences but I don't remember where.
Tanks. Harry On Aug 11, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > They are zip files. Either rename them with the .zip extension, or > associate them with apple's unarchiver tool (or whatever you use). You > can tell Bookshare to always download zip files instead of bks2 files > in your preferences (on the website). > > On 8/11/12, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote: >> Interestingly, when I moved all of my Booksahre files from my PC to my Mac >> by copying them to an SD Card (or maybe they were always this way from >> opening them in Kurzweil), but in any case, all I see are files with a .bks >> extension. Kurzweil would open them fine, but I'm not sure how to open them >> at this point. Thoughts are welcome. Someone can feel free to e-mail me >> off list as this is no longer a Voicevoer issue. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Harry >> >> On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> This is how I do it as well and I am perfectly content. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 10/08/2012, at 2:55 PM, Greg Aikens <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just >>>> opening the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO. Maybe I'm still >>>> in the dark ages. If others have better solutions, please enlighten me. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Greg >>>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, all, >>>>> >>>>> I don't have the money to upgrade my VMWare Fusion at the moment, >>>>> otherwise I would read my Bookshare books through Kurzweil 1000, like >>>>> normal. I think a few of you said you read your Bookshare books on the >>>>> Mac, and I was wondering how you did this? The one solution I saw >>>>> mentioned on bookshare.org said that the Mac software wasn't recommended >>>>> to be sued with screen-readers, or something. >>>>> >>>>> Help is appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Harry >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
