I know why you lose changes, but what frustrates me to no end is that pressing space-e from the "save as a keyword document" prompt will, with no warning, cause all your changes to be lost. I still remember finding this out by exiting this prompt on a class final several years ago, then opening up the final to print it only to find all my answers GONE! Keysoft never warned me that this would happen; all I did was exit from a prompt, which I should be able to do without worrying that it will destroy data.
On 11/10/10, Joseph Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Good points. I'd like to slightly differ on that though: Most of this comes > from how these files are structured. The conversion process from non-KeyWord > type to KeySoft type not only translates from one grade to another, but also > adds special markers and other useful data to the file. As for Zach's post, > as Alex said, pressing ENTER would actually skip "review options" prompt > altogether until you open the file again. > As for losing data, there is a story behind it (somewhat of a non-trivial > one): When you work with open files, you are working with another copy of > the file in question. The original copy is still located on a storage device > and the "active" copy is stored on physical memory. This may sound odd, but > it makes sense, since computers need to load the file to RAM before opening > it. As a consequence, when you quit a document, the resulting changes will > not be saved, since the storage device version of the file would not have > been modified. The only time the storage device version would be modified is > when you actually save the file (either via "save" command or exiting the > program). > I'll rrite a detailed explanation on the next post. Hope this helps. > Cheers, > Joseph > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Meador > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:50 AM > To: Mike Welty; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] very tired of this. so making a suggestion. > > I agree with Zachary Dreicer. The user is constantly forced to > answer a prompt that is not wanted 95% of the time. And if you > one time accidentally exit without answering, you lose your newly > edited data altogether, not good. > > > > Beyond Vision > > Nashville, TN 615-385-0784 > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Mike Welty" <[email protected] >>To: "dreicer, zachary" <[email protected]>,"Braillenote" > <[email protected] >>Date sent: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:49:11 -0500 >>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] very tired of this. so making a > suggestion. > >>dude, you can set what format files are saved as by default, and > those >>review options you find so annoying are used to translate > documents if you >>wish too to grade 2 on the fly. it's not that hard to get past > it is it? > > >>-------------------------------------------------- >>From: "dreicer, zachary" <[email protected] >>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:30 >>To: "Braillenote" <[email protected] >>Subject: [Braillenote] very tired of this. so making a > suggestion. > >>> i'm tired of some documents wanting to be saved as keyword > documents. >>> Also, I'm tired of braillenote asking about reviewing the > options and >>> reviewing previous options when opening such file types as doc, > rtf, and >>> brf. My suggestion is to make a separate menu under format, or > something. >>> It may be good for some users, but for me, it's just extra junk. > Thanks. > >>> ___ >>> Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >>> If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >>> copy to the list as well. > >>> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>> [email protected] >>> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>> http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > >>___ >>Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >>If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >>copy to the list as well. > >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[email protected] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
