Sorry, I just meant fiddle with the first line in the text files, so that they are not replicated. Perhaps just a problem that I encounter. The main thing for speed of opening folders is lots of folders each with few files Graham From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Megan Bening Sent: 03 September 2010 17:47 To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Transfer Tool Problem Graham, when you say that I should prepare the files before transferring tem, how do you mean ? -----Original Message----- From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Lewis [gjl] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:22 AM To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Transfer Tool Problem Debra, I think you are right about the way the transfer tool opens up a directory to display file names. I have never really understood the advantage of using the first line of each file as its filename in bookcourier. I really wish it would just use the filename it already has on the computer. It is particularly annoying when I load a large number of files which have the same first line. The tool then tries to obverwrite the first with each new one and I have to go back to the computer and edit the forst line of each file. Anyway, it is'nt going to br changed now. My advice is to work with many small folders, avoid too many subfolders and think about preparing the files before you load them onto the bookcourier. Graham Lewis Co-ordinator, CDSAP. From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong Sent: 03 September 2010 01:58 To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Transfer Tool Problem Yes, and I've tried with Jaws, WindowEyes and NVDA, on three different computers. It doesn't actually hang, it just seems to be doing some processing that takes forever. Go get yourself coffee and come back, and it will take another keystroke. The problem is that when you navigate to a new entry with arrow keys, it appears frozen like a snow cone again. I think what is happening is this: it's not looking at filenames. It is opening each file to find out what book title that file refers to. It is using some kind of poor algorithm to do this whose performance suffers when there are a large number of files and directories to traverse in the tree. I know how to program and I am sure it would take me some effort to figure out a way to do this quickly. --Debee ________________________________ From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Megan Bening Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:21 PM To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Transfer Tool Problem I have been using my book courier since I purchased it in 2005, andlately I have been having some issues with the transfer tool. In folders where I have more than about 90 books, the transfer tool completely hangs when I try to transfer books or look at the books already in the folder. Also, it seems as though operations in the transfer tool itself are very slow. This did not happen when I first got the book courier and only started to happen a few months ago. Has this happened to anyone else on this list? If so, how did you fix it? Any help would be sincerely appreciated! Regards, Megan