I believe you can erase this folder on a PC. At least, I could. That's
another solution. Back-up everything on your hard drive, which is a good
thing to do, whether it's a CF card, a disk drive, or a banana peel. Don't
slip!
C. L. Kennedy, Poet
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] translation problems
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.
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