It is certainly doable. When downloading stuff to the BP, I would be too
impatient to back up the cards. I know. One of these days, I will pay for
that, probably.
At 05:09 PM 6/16/2006, you wrote:
Is there any reason the below wouldn't work?
1. Atach your Book Port.
2. Navigate to the BP drive in Windows Explorer. Tab to the list view.
3. Control+a to select all files and folders.
4. Press control+c to copy.
5. On your hard drive, create a BPbackup directory or some such, and just paste the whole mess into it. Then if you need to restore, you should be able to do so by, in effect, reversing the process. Is this not doable?
Bruce
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Sarah Cranston wrote:
Don,
I'll heartily second this suggestion. Oh how I wish I'd backed up my 2GB card the day I was so eager to show my BookPort to my mother that I just pulled the card right out without making sure it had beeped first. Needless to say, everything on the card was gone and it had to be reformatted. It took literally weeks to put it all back the way I wanted it. I'm another one of those lazy people who never gets around to backing things up, so this feature would be great.
-----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don Barrett Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:39 PM To: Bookport Subject: [bookport] feature idea
Hi All,
I just heard about someone who lost a bookport on an airplane and I got this huge knot in my stomach just thinking about the prospect. It would be bad enough to have to replace the book port, but the thought of having to create two gigs of numerous text and audio files with all of their attending bookmarks would be a truly horrible prospect.
It gave me the thought that perhaps a feature for the transfer software might be a backup card function. This function, if activated, would open a folder on the hard drive, and either compress or just plain copy the whole card to it, bookmarks and all. This could be an automatic feature which happens once a week or whenever whenever the bp is hooked up.
Now I know the naysayer's will say hey if you want to backup the card, just copy everything to a folder; but human nature says that most people just will intend to do it but just plain won't because it's a bother and all that. Make it a feature which is easy and appeals to lazy people like me and I'll jump on it.
The reason this feature might be doable is that it doesn't impinge upon the firmware at all; it's just another feature request for the transfer software.
Don
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