[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Big Frustration
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 03:12:22 -0400
Been there, said that. Now, at fairly often intervals, I copy the book to
another folder on another drive While it's in progress.
You might look for a UPS (uninterruptable Power Supply) which will last 15
minutes. I don't know how OpenBook works, but with what I use, you can save
the file while in progress so that whatever you don't have, it's not the whole
file. I don't follow my procedures religiously myself, but I do it often
enough so that I haven't lost a book in a few years. I did loose a hard drive
which had 700 books on it which I had bought once when I was about to copy it
to a cd but ...
I still have that one in the hope that I can some day send it to Seagate and
they can do a recovery. That's more money than I have right now.
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From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 2:42 PM
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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