-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dennis-
Thanks for the help! What you have done is exactly what I want to do. I am using version 1.8 on a Sony Clie NX60, and I discovered the "limitation" by slowly removing files until plucker would open without crashing. Now that I know that Plucker is not the culprit (:-)) I will dig deeper and see if I can fix it. I love your suggestions, and I am going to give then a try right now. I have been converting them with the python tools that came with Plucker Desktop and some scripts I wrote, so that might be causing problems, too. I will give your method a try and see if I have better results. I have chiefly been converting plain text files from PG, so (in theory) they should not be any more troublesome than the HTML you have been converting. Anyways- thanks for all the help! - -Mark dmccunney wrote: > On 2/18/07, R. Mark Adams, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been trying to build the ultimate e-book reader out of my ebay'd >> Clie NX60 (50$!) by converting a large number of classic texts from the >> fabled Harvard "5 feet of knowledge" and elsewhere into plucker and then >> onto the Clie for reading. The sad part is that I cannot seem to have >> more than about 25 large files in the Plucker library (around 10Meg or >> so) without having Plucker crash. Is this a fundamental limit of the >> program? Should I be nesting the files into folders somehow? I would >> love to have every byte of the 128Meg card I have full of literature of >> possible. > > > Which reader version are you using, and where are you storing the books? > > I use Plucker viewer 1.8 (current), and I have about 2,600 Plucker > documents occupying 1.3GB of a 2GB SD card. Plucker documents reside > in /Palm/Programs/Plucker. I add documents after conversion by > dropping them into the directory the card with a USB reader, then do a > manual Update Documents operation in Plucker. I get HTML documents > from Project Gutenberg, the Baen Free Library and elsewhere, and > convert them on the desktop using Rafael Fetzer's freeware PDA > Converter app (from http://www.jakewakk.de). Some of them are very > large (like 15MB), but Plucker handles them with aplomb. By default, > Plucker rebuilds the document list each time it is opened. I have > that set to Manual, and force an update when I add books, because > rebuilding the list with 2,600 books takes a bit... > > Unfortunately, it is not possible to nest Plucker docs into folders. > Right now, Plucker will see documents in /Palm/Launcher, /Palm/books, > or /Palm/Programs/Plucker. There has been discussion about expanding > Plucker to use multiple sub-folders to get around the 16 category > limit in PalmOS, but that would require substantial changes to the > existing code and isn't being worked on at the moment. (I'd kill for > more categories.) > > One thing you might try: use a PalmOS file manager like Filez (free > and open source, available from http://www.nosleep.net). Plucker > stores its document list in a file called PluckerDocList. (Indexes > into books being read are in files called "Plkr 1-<book filename>") > Remove the PlkrDocList file. Put all of your ebooks in one of the > directories I mentioned (I'd suggest the one I use, for consistency > with the informal PalmOS convention that program data goes in > /Palm/Programs/<programname>). Invoke Plucker, and do a refresh > documents. Do you still see problems? > > Also, if you have a USB card reader, try running CHKDSK on the card. > Expansion cards are formatted with the MS-DOS FAT filesystem, and can > have the same problems FAT formatted disks do, like lost clusters,m > which can mightily confuse PalmOS and your applications.) > >> Thanks! >> - -Mark > > ______ > Dennis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2nU05rQGeNhqYzcRAn4oAJ9ZT68H7XVt/MhaUnibM31IC6mUDwCfaKJq OyV5whbzBcRmZhuzbwz+7Nc= =yhwl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
