[bookport] Re: bookport Digest V5 #60
- From: "Rich Ring" <ring2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:08:47 -0500
There is a thought! I have flown with a Bookport many times, and never lost
a file. I always carry it with me, since I usually read on airplanes. I
always lock the keys though.
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On Behalf Of PAMELA RADER
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:58 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport Digest V5 #60
Hi:
I don't have any experience with this, but my thought, too, is that since
the command for reformatting the card is the 4 corner keys, they could have
thrown it down in such a way as to have activated that command. If it
bounced, then it reformatted the card. It's a stretch, but it would explain
why it happened.
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
>>> morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/25/08 01:25PM >>>
Just a thought...
I've been reading the posts about the loss of book files from a CF card
after going through the X-ray machine in an airport. Sounds like an event
that is not terribly likely to happen again. I've been on many hundreds of
flights with my BookPort and always leave it in my briefcase which goes
through the X-ray machine. I've never had a problem. I wonder if the
problem might have been cause by something else is that the file structure
on the card, albiet without book files, appeared OK, that is, it didn't
seem to need reformatting. Wouldn't the card tell you that it needed
formatting rather than there were no files -- I don't know the answer to
that one. And, it did sound as though the Help file was intact.
My gut says that repeatedly removing a CF card is potentially harder on the
BookPort, card slot, and the CF card. If left in a purse, it'll go through
X-rays anyway, and in a wallet, it can take a bit more of a beating if sat
upon.
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