This happened to me in June when I lost the middle of a 60 page document and
talk about being hot under the collar?
Man oh man oh man.
I don't use the bn for really important things unless my 1 gb micro drive is
in then it usually gets put right away on it and that way I know its safe.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "laura wolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Adel Alzamar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Braillenote List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 5:52 AM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Re: what the reesen?
Hi Rhonda:
You said, "I don't understand why you would lose half of the book." My
response: "Me neither." But I am here to tell you (and hopefully PDI
staff), that this is still an increasingly reoccurring problem. It may
not happen on all units consistently, but it sure as heck happens on mine
on a regular basis. If I didn't back up once a day (sometimes twice if
it's really important), I would surely be in a mess.
I can only offer this advice to Adel in the future, because it is quite
possible that this problem is found in that unit as well. When I am
saving a document, primarily with large documents like a book but even
with smaller ones, be sure you do not touch ANYTHING, and I do mean
anything. Touching a thumb key, cursor button, any single thing on the
unit almost half of the time causes major truncation in my data. For
instance, if I press space with e to exit from a file, and I think the
file is done saving but it hasn't and hence press the thumb key to advance
the display down the word processor, there is a 50% chance that one half
to one third of the data in the file I've been closing has been lost.
This applies to switching between applications, documents, or simply
quitting the word processor.
Can you tell I'm annoyed by this? *grin* Adel: backup frequently. In
fact, I recommend that to everyone, regardless of whether your unit seems
to have this problem or not. It can never hurt, and you never know when
it might save your life!
Laura
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