[gps-talkusers] e: Re: e: Tip of the week February 23

Thanks, Charles.  Makes perfect sense.
Kathy



----- Original Message -----
From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:29:39 -0800
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: e: Tip of the week February 23



Kathy,
Occasionally when downloading files off the Internet you don't get
the complete file even though Microsoft says it downloaded the file
you only get about 40% of the file, sometimes 80%, usually you get
100% but if you don't your file size you download will be smaller
that the actual file size and then when you try to install it well
you don't have the entire file so it is corrupt and fails in a
strange way.  Eg "Not enough storage space to continue".



The reason why it says this message is the install program is trying
to install a file with no END MARKER because you didn't get the
complete file originally so basically its trying to install a file
with unlimited size because it can't find the end of the file marker,
so it says: well the BrailleNote doesn't have unlimited memory so it
fails with not enough space to continue.  It really should say, file
is corrupt and not allow you to install it at all but well the
install packager is a Humanware product we use so unfortunately there
is nothing I can we can do except explain the different scenario's
why you would get this message.  If you have a good download of the
install package (i.e the downloaded file size matches the file size
on the website) and you still get this message it usually means that
your FlashDisk is full, ie we are trying to install a file that is
lets say 1 Megabyte and you only have 700K left on your flash disk
because you filled it up with books or wav file memo recordings.



When your file size doesn't match the website, try redownloading, if
that doesn't help which sometimes happens this is another Microsoft
bug where it caches the incomplete file size and it doesn't matter
how many times you try to download the 1.3 Megabyte file it always
returns only 700K of it.  When that happens you have to clear out
your Internet cache in your browser and this usually does the trick
on the next download and you finally get the complete file.



Hope that all made sense.
Take care
Charles.

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