[bookport] Re: feature idea
- From: "Don Barrett" <donter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:23:57 -0400
Of course that will work, but you're missing the point. A lot of people
won't do it.
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On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:10 PM
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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
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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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