[bookport] Re: feature idea
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:35:48 +0100
Hi folks,
I myself use your strategy with a flash card reader now and again, note
that, now, and, again lol. I only use a 512 meg card for texts entirely so I
carry around lots of books, articles, technical manuals etc on my machine.
Don's backup idea sounds great. The other problem I had when going through
windows explorer was that the sorting order was all wrong when I transfered
it back to the book port card from the PC. It was reversed. Anyone know why?
Best
-James-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:27 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
> I'm not missing the point. Someone said they'dd like to be able to do
> something, I suggested how it could be done.
>
> Bruce
>
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> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Don Barrett wrote:
>
> > Of course that will work, but you're missing the point. A lot of people
> > won't do it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
> > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:10 PM
> > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave
the
> > right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV
> >
> > Bruce Toews
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Podcast:
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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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