[bookport] Re: Extreme sluggishness
- From: "Walt Smith" <WSmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 08:01:38 -0400
If you look at the CF card in a card reader, you'll see all these files.
They are created by the Book Port Transfer software and without them,
Book Port navigation won't work. It's the reason you don't want to
simply copy files; especially books; directly to the CF card using
Windows.=20
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:07 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Extreme sluggishness
ROB MEREDITH wrote:
>3. When you put a lot of books in a folder and begin reading them,=20
>the
>third file created for each book, the ._aa file, will be created last=20
>in
>the folder. For example, if you load 50 books into a folder, you will
>have 100 logical files.
Why? What are these files? I don't hear them announced as I arrow=20
through a directory.
>But as you read each book, another file is
>created for each. Let's say you read books 1 through 5, and the card
>becomes sluggish with book 5. Deleting books in the folder will not
>help, because book 5 has a file which is way down in the directory
>listing; it is at position 105. This file is accessed when
>starting/stopping that book, so sluggishness will occur.
Again, why? Why should the position in a directory matter?
Moreover, why does this sluggishness also effect navigation through=20
files. I have experienced this extreme sluggishness myself and found=20
it to be quite annoying. It took like 10 seconds just to skip from=20
one sentence to the next. It also took that long to start and stop=20
reading. Even just moving from one directory entry to the next took=20
this long. What's up with this?
Jeff
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