Hi, Ann and all you merry listers.
I have found that storing material regularly on a flash card does not in fact work, since, on 1st May, I lost twelve MB worth of data. I too find that, since upgrading to 6.11, I can no longer send attachments of whatever type. When I try, all I get is the message: "E-mail Encoding Error." As for translation errors, The main ones occur in words of either one cell or those involving what we in the UK call short forms. For instance, ACR is across, so the word alacrity mis-translates as alacrossity. The Duxbury program cannot distinguish between capital sign p followed by a period, indicating an initial letter such as P for Peter or P for Pauline, and the word people followed by a full stop. Thus, in compiling a weekly list of programs for a digital radio station called BBC7 for which the details in Braille are negligible, a program called Revolting People followed by a period mis-translates as Revolting P. This also applies to A m followed by a period, which mistranslates as a more period. I have therefore found it safer, when preparing this list of programs for distribution to 133 blind Internet users, to work exclusively in computer Braille. And yes, Ann, bless you, I've actually solved the flashcard problem by putting everything since the first of May onto two separate flashcards, though, since no verbal warning was given of the actual erasing of the twenty-two self-destructing folders, I am still not happy with this storage method, and still can't erase my blank folder, either from the flash card or from the flash disk. And, yes, I repeat, there are NO HIDDEN FILES in this inerasable folder. With which thought, writing as I am in contracted Braille, and using the far superior US computer Braille table, I shall leave you. Warm regards, Jim Taylor.
