Hey Roger,
I know you probably already thought of this, but did you try your Windows
Search with the filename, or did you just look in the folder where OpenBook
normally stores files? It seems unlikely that the file is just completely
zapped, but it may have a strange name or be in some temp folder, if OB does
that kind of thing. K1000 stores a copy of a scan I'm working on in its Temp
folder so that if something like that happens, the next time I open it, it
will tell me that the last file was not saved properly and would I like to
open it? Apparently, OpenBook doesn't have that feature, but the file may
still be in there somewhere, although if it is in some native format, the
chances of being able to open it if it wasn't saved properly may be slim.
Also, I'm not sure this would be compatible with the way you scan and proof
your books, but if you have a copy of MS Word, you might want to
periodically save your book as an rtf file and open it in Word. Word
automatically backs up files that are being worked on every (I think) ten
minutes or so by default. Or, if you don't have a copy of Word, just making
a copy of your scan periodically in a different folder would save your
bacon, or at least most of it, the next time this sort of thing happens.
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:17 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A wasted Month
No one can do anything about this, but I feel like venting anyway. Back
on September 27 I started scanning a book Danger Trail by Max Brand.
It's a western and not the type of book I would ordinarily read, but it
was on hand and was not in the Bookshare collection. So I decided to
work on it anyway. I wish I hadn't. It was a very difficult scan.
Because it was so difficult I have been scanning it one page at a time
and proofreading each page before I went on to the next page. It is an
old mass market paperback with very yellowed pages. So there are a lot
of scanning errors and a lot of corrections to do. It also appears that
when it was printed the printing press was running low on ink. A lot of
the words are very dim and a lot of words are incomplete and I have had
to figure out what they are through context. Very often I have had to
scan a page over and over to figure it out. There are some pages that I
spent nearly two hours on. That is, I have spent whole scanning sessions
working on a single page. Today I was down to less than forty pages to
go. At the rate I have been making my way through this I was not
expecting to finish either today or in the next several days, but I was
close enough that I was beginning to feel like the end was in sight and
I was looking forward to finishing it. Then without warning a thunder
storm was upon me. That is a bit unusual around here this far into
October and it was totally unexpected. I knew that it was raining
outside, but I knew nothing about any thunder storm until a very loud
clap of thunder erupted right over top of me. I started scrambling to
get my computer shut down. I had to close my Open Book software and
disconnect my modem. My cable modem does not have a surge protector and
my computer got zapped through it once before. I am not sure what
happened. I am thinking that perhaps in my hurry I might have cut the
power before Open Book was quite shut down. But when the storm had
passed and I booted up everything to resume my work there was absolutely
no sign of Danger Trail. I lost every bit of work I had done on that
book over the last month. That happened to me once before when I was
scanning a 500 or so page book and had four pages to go. In that case
the scan was relatively easy and so I started over on it and finally
completed it. This time, though, the book was a very difficult scan and
I just don't have the will to start all over. I won't even find out how
the book ends. It is a fairly predictable western though. So that I can
just about predict that there is going to be a shoot out between the
good guys and the bad guys and the kidnapped fair damsel, Molly, will be
rescued. Nevertheless, an entire month of arduous work has just been
blown. This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like just quitting
as a Bookshare volunteer.
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