Mary, I agree and I wish iOS gave us more control over file management but I've learned to adapt. I believe the accessibility offered by iOS devices will always be better than what Android offers and I place a much higher premium on that than on file management.
Speaking of adapting, your Bookshare books are pretty much already backed up in the cloud since you can always use either your iDevice or your computer to re-download your titles directly from Bookshare. So as long as you know what the Bookshare titles are either through a separate list you keep or through the Bookshare website where you can view your history under the My Bookshare link, you can always re-download them. Finally, you could download your Bookshare titles using your computer and place them in its Dropbox folder where they could be accessed by an app such as Voice Dream Reader. I know this isn't a very convenient workaround if you prefer as I do to grab Bookshare titles directly using Voice Dream Reader. But you would have your Bookshare titles backed up in the cloud from the get go. If Apple ever gives us more file control with our iOS devices, I'll be one of the first to take advantage of it. But I have to say that I'm not holding my breath. Good luck with coming up with a solution that works for you. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 8:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Backing up a voice dream library Hi Alan, my problem is that much of my library is from book share. So it didn't originate with dropbox. So I'm not sure about how you would move things to and from dropbox and keep the integrity of the books. I do have a few things that did not come from book share. But most things did. I would be interested in comments. It doesn't have to be to the computer. What I wish is that I could back up to some sort of cloud service. It would be even better of course, if Apple would let us just plug in a thumb drive and back up the whole business to the thumb drive. That is one of the only good things about android that I like over iOS. Smile. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mary, > > I'm not sure this is possible if what you're wanting is to back up the files > residing on your iPad in the Voice Dream library to your computer. Normally, > if you want to transfer files on your iDevice to your computer, you have to > use iTunes to do this with the File Sharing section of the Apps tab. > > I just connected my iPhone 6 to my computer, opened iTunes, navigated to > Voice Dream in the File Sharing section of Apps, placed focus on the Voice > Dream library which is the only thing shown in the files listed as being on > Voice Dream, selected the Save To button, and navigated to a folder called > Voice Dream on my external hard drive that I set up to hold these files. > Even though I have many items in my Voice Dream library on my iPhone, > nothing was shown in the Voice Dream folder on my computer when I completed > this process. I also find it odd that I was unable to drill down into the > Voice Dream library folder shown in the file sharing section of iTunes. > > This leads me to believe that you cannot transfer content from your Voice > Dream library on your iDevice to your computer with iTunes. On the other > hand, you could make sure that whenever you transfer content into Voice > Dream using the app that you go through a cloud-based service such as > Dropbox. That way, the files are backed up to the cloud and you could also > access your Dropbox folder using your computer to copy them to another > location on your computer for backup purposes. > > I'm sort of trial and erroring here so I welcome comments from others who > know a lot more about Voice Dream than I do. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Mary Otten > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Backing up a voice dream library > > I would like to know if there is a way to back up my voice dream library > without using iTunes. If this is possible, how? If this is not possible, how > can I back up the library using iTunes on my Mac to just back up the library > and nothing else? My iPad, where the library resides, has never been backed > up to iTunes. And I don't want it to be. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. 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