Greetings.
Michael Bowman-Jones
Right on; you are so right; a card reader would be faster.
-----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:12 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
I'm not saying don't put it in. I'm just aying it would take something
beyond forever with a fully-loaded 4GB card. If people really want that kind
of backing up, I'd recommend a card reader, especially since the eternal
process from the Book Port will eat up considerable batteries.
Bruce
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Don Barrett wrote:
Podcast:What about the hundreds perhaps thousands of bookmarks people have; that alone would make the feature worth it. Remember, it's voluntary; it's an option. No one will be beaten into using it.
-----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:04 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
Yes, but is it a USB1 device? I also don't have anything on my BP that I don't have somewhere else.
Bruce
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Don Barrett wrote:
process.I back up my 300 gig hard drive all the time using Ghost, and it's well worth the waiting.
-----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russ & Valerie Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:57 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
That long?!?!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, 18 June, 2006 14 44 Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
For a 4GB card, the time the process would take would be somewhere between
the time it takes for a politician to accidentlly make a wise decision and
the time it takes for ice cubes to naturally form in Death Valley. Bruce
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Russ & Valerie wrote:
That's a good point; it could be a button in the Options menu.
I would prefer that the update take place at the start or end of a BP online session. But I'm still wondering about the speed of thisignore it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, 18 June, 2006 01 40 Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
Bruce,
The question can be avoided by putting it as an optional feature--those who want to use it can use it and those who don't can
Michael Bowman-Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: feature idea
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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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 notdoable?Podcast:
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 2GBcard 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.
whenever the bp is hooked up.This could be an automatic feature which happens once a week or whenever
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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