How much spoon-feeding is appropriate and how much is too much? There's
teh $64,000 question.
Bruce
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Tyler Wood wrote:
It would save people the trouble of copying and paisting (laisy people,
like me, who feel that if its not right there like don said a hit enter
feature they don't use it <g>
Tyler
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:47 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
It's also probably a fairly easy feature to implement into the transfer
software.
Bruce
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Don Barrett wrote:
> Right you are Bruce; I just maintain that some folks will be more
> inclined
> to back up if it's a built-in hit enter feature. For all my railing
> about
> it, I haven't backed up my cards yet LOL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:28 PM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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> gave the
> right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV
>
> Bruce Toews
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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
> > E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx Radio Show and
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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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