[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Big Frustration
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:26:27 -0700
That sounds horrid. Wish there was a way you could recover your scan.
Regards, Kim Friedman.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Big Frustration
Let me tell you about a big frustration I had this weekend.
I just got back on line after a computer crash on Saturday, or more
correctly, a screen reader crash. It was about three in the afternoon on
Saturday that a storm came up while I was scanning a book. I was almost
finished and I really did not want to stop just yet until I did get
finished, so I reached over and disconnected the cable that supplies
Internet service. My computer and scanner are plugged into a fairly
expensive surge protector that has not failed me yet, so I felt like the
Cable was my vulnerable point and with that disconnected I could continue
scanning until I got the very short little bit done that I was on. Well,
there was no power surge, just the opposite. I had a power failure. It was
one of those short power failures that lasted less than half a minute, but
needless to say, my computer was shut down abruptly.
My library of congress digital player was plugged up at the time and started
up as soon as the electricity was back on, so I went to the other side of
the room to turn that off and then went into the kitchen to get a drink and
since the computer was off anyway I waited until the storm was over to
resume the work I was doing. When I rebooted the computer my JAWS screen
reader was not working. I worked on it until almost midnight that night
trying to do repairs with the installation disk and trying everything else I
could think of and finally decided that I would have to call technical
support. The trouble is that Freedom Scientific technical support is
available only Monday through Friday during the daytime. So this morning I
called and spent the whole morning on the phone with technical support. I
finally had to completely uninstall JAWS and reinstall it and then download
updates from the Freedom Scientific web site and install those too.
Well, here I am back on line again, but if that was frustrating I have an
even bigger frustration to deal with. As I said, when the electricity went
out I was almost finished with a book I was scanning for Bookshare.
It was a 469 page book that had densely packed text on each page. It had
over two hundred thousand words. If a book has a hundred thousand words I
consider that to be a long book. I had spent about three hours a day working
on it, so altogether I had about fifty-four hours of work invested in it.
When the power failed I had only four pages to go and had just scanned the
penultimate two pages and was waiting for Open Book to recognize the text
when the power was cut off. It looks like I lost the entire book. If
somebody thinks I didn't I would appreciate it if you would tell me how to
recover it. I go to my library in Open Book and I see it listed there and it
says that the file contains five hundred sixty something kilobytes, but when
I open the file I only get the words untitled document, zero words, zero
pages. That was a whole lot of work to lose in an instant like that. I am
inclined to just say fuck it and forget about it, but this is a book that
Madeleine sent out to me on the condition that I would scan it and upload it
to the checkout list. I thought I was going to upload it on Saturday. It now
looks like I will have to start all over. I will probably do that tomorrow.
So Madeleine, it might be another month until I can get that uploaded. As
for me, I feel like tearing my hair out right now.
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