So what are you suppose to do at this prompt? Saving the document
as a keysoft file means you can't read it anywhere else but on
the BN, right?
What exactly are the options anyhow? I think I've pressed
space e to exit when I've read that prompt, but I don't think I
lost anything...yet!
Thanks.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]>
To: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:48 PM
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
>
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>
>>----- 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.
>
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