Okay, if you can connect the BP and defrag, can you, using Windows Explorer, move files from one folder to another? ----- Original Message ----- From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Don't try this at home Walt: I suspect that your crash after defrag was nothing more than a coincidence.= You can not scramble the firmware by treating the card like a drive. With that said, I seriously doubt that defragging would really make any = difference on a flash card anyway, since there are no moving parts. If the = defragger removed directory holes, the Book Port may run a little faster = when moving between files. >>> walt@xxxxxxxxxx 10/29/04 02:36PM >>> I scared myself very seriously the other day and wanted to warn others = not=20 to do the same thing. Thinking I'd save a few seconds, I decided to run = a=20 disk defrag on my CompactFlash card while it was in the Book Port and the = BP=20 was connected to my PC via the USB cable. When it completed, the BP was=20 stone dead and I really panicked, thinking that I might somehow have = managed=20 to wipe the program out of memory. I pulled the card and replaced it, but = no=20 joy. Finally, I pulled the batteries and replaced them and it came back = to=20 life. This was a stupid thing to do in the first place, but Larry's = recent=20 message indicating that there's a way to load the image from a CF card=20 reminded me that I'd been meaning to mention this as something that = it's=20 advisable to not do, although it does appear that there's a way to even = get=20 yourself out of that particular hole. -- Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL walt@xxxxxxxxxx=20