Hi, The one thing here is that on the new firmware release the bookmarks will be intact when upgrading. However, there is definitely a problem with the manual in that section, though I can see a logic to the restore all settings option verses the remove all bookmarks option (the later doing the bookmarks, the former doing the settings but not the bookmarks). Also I aggree 100% that it should be possible to back up such material - ias it is possible to have so much information on the PTR1, this is useless if it can get lost easily.
Andrew. > -----Original Message----- > From: J Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 June 2004 20:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bookmar Cautions > > Hi all, > > > > I'm pretty P/o right now because the one thing I was dreading > the most just > happen and I thought I would let the group know that they > should beware of > the following incorrect text below from the PTR manual. I just lost > absolutely all my voice notes and bookmarks which of course means I've > wasted an incredible amount of my freakin time indexing my > books and other > material using PTR1's faulty bookmarks and such to then lose all this > information in an instant as a result of a plextalk firmware defect. > > > > I was reading a book read onto my Toshiba card, and while > rewinding, the > card became stuck. I listened to the PTR1's rewind mechanism > and it made 0 > noise telling me that the PC card was stuck. I heard the > waiting tone for a > long time before finally deciding to simply turn the unit off > by pulling the > battery out of it since it would not shut down in any other > way. I turned > the p1 back on and the pc card was working fine and all my > bookmarks were > intact. The problem now was that I was getting a prompt from > the p1 telling > me that my daisy book on CD was not identifiable even though > it was reading > before all this happened. I was also instructed to reset all > settings. I did > this by going into the control panel per the manual's > instructions below. > Everything seemed alright until I pressed the bookmarks > button to check to > see if my bookmarks and notes were still there, but of course > they weren't. > Damn! I knew this would happen, but as noted in > > the text below from the manual, it stated all bookmarks and > notes would be > alright, so I didn't think there was going to be a problem. > > > > My point: 1. Most of us already know, but for the newcomers, > absolutely do > not trust the plextalk manual. 2. again, Plextalk must create > a manner by > which the user can backup their freakin bookmarks!!! Just as > there have been > updates to the P1 within the last couple of years, there will > more than > likely be more in the future. Does this mean users such as > myself which need > to access information quickly must reread their entire > bookshelf of books in > order to index and restructure and re-bookmark all their > books? I just lost > all my personal notes and bookmarks for about 30 textbooks > and personal > recordings. Why even bother allowing one to place bookmarks > if they will be > completely useless every 6 months or year when Plextalk puts out a new > firmware revision. > > > > 10 USING OTHER PLEXTALK CAPABILITIES > > > This section covers a variety of other capabilities of the > Plextalk Portable > Recorder. > > 10.1 Clear All Settings > > You can use the menu to clear all settings, and return the > Plextalk Portable > Recorder to its default factory settings. Even if all the settings are > cleared, the bookmark information and the notepads remain intact. > > > > Again, the text immediately above is BS, so don't trust any Plextalk > documentation if you value your data. > > J Garcia > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
