[bookport] Re: feature idea
- From: "Don Barrett" <donter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:39:39 -0400
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-----
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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 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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> 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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