Hi, That's the norm. Personaly, I use that command to disgard changes, with KeyWord warning me, "abandoning KeyWord." The confusion might be that the users would assume that pressing exit command would save their data, which is not true for certain doc types. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Hall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:49 PM To: Joseph Lee Cc: David Meador; Mike Welty; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Braillenote] very tired of this. so making a suggestion. 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. 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