Hi All, If the card really gets messsed up to the point of not working, a reformat is necessary. Otherwise, I find that most problems can be taken care of by running checkdisk on the card once in a while. Robert Carter At 08:07 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote: >I am not aware there is a need to reformat the card simply because you add >and delete material but if this is so, I'd like to know it. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Robert Carter" <r-carter@xxxxxxx> >To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 11:18 AM >Subject: [bookport] Re: reformating question > > >Hi Tiffany, > >You don't have to find the manual. Any time that you plug your Book Port >into your computer, it checks to see if the manual is on the card. If it is >not, it automatically gets sent. This happens so fast that you never even >know that it has happened. > >Robert Carter > >At 10:47 AM 11/6/2004, you wrote: > > >I'm not having any problems with my two cards, but I was just curious how > >often you're supposed to reformat them? > >I typically load a pretty large number of files onto the card, erase the > >books slowly as I'm done with them, and every so often load a few more > >back on it. I honestly have never reformatted them at all. > >Now the other question is, I'm aware that reformatting the card wipes > >everything off of it, so where would I find the instruction manual to load > >back on it. I know the CD which came with the transfer software has the > >manual, but it's no longer up-to-date. > >I do of course know that the manual can be found in the Book Port Transfer > >submenu of the programs menu, and since it opens in Internet Explorer I > >assume it is an html file, but where would I browse to actually find it > >and send to the book port? > >Thank you. > >Tiffany > >tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx