[Dtb-talk] downloading books

[Mike Freeman]

I get the dialogue to open or save; I just select open and it works fine.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burke, Dan (DSS)" <burke at mso.umt.edu>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books


> If you are being asked to "Open" or "Save" the documents when you click
> on the download link of your RFBD download page, then you haven't
> properly installed the RFBD Downloader utility.  This link is at the top
> of the My Downloads page.
>
> When you get the thing to work properly, you won't be prompted to open
> or save.  It will just start to download.  But there is a trick to watch
> out for.
>
> RFBD's Downloader creates two different folders:
>
> * RFBD Downloads
>
> And
>
> * RFBD Media Files
>
> Despite the intuitive desire to open the RFBD Downloads folder, don't
> bother.  In it are lots of zipped up files that are then unzipped into
> the RFBD Media files.
>
> So go to the RFBD Media Files folder in My Documents to find your books.
> You book will be listed by its product number something like ...
> DLXQ777.  For the Stream, you just copy that entire file over to the
> $VRDBT folder and paste it.  You can change the folder name if you want,
> but it won't make any difference to the Stream.  And if the book has
> more than one CD, they will all be in the DLXQ777 folder, and will be
> recognized by the Stream.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> Daniel J. Burke
> Assistant Director/Coordinator
> Disability Services for Students
> Emma B. Lommasson 154
> The University of Montana
> Missoula, MT 59812
>
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>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:31 AM
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books
>
> If you need a mac downloader contact me I wrote one a while back.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Greg Kearney
> Association for the Blind of Western Australia
>
> On 09/01/2010, at 2:28 PM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> By default, the RFB&D Download Manager places your books in (I
>> think) the "RFB Media Download" folder under My Documents, each book
>> in its own master folder with each CD of the book (if there is more
>> than one) in a subfolder. All you have to do is either copy the
>> folder under the RFB Media Downloads to where you place other
>> talking books for Humanware Companion to download and just proceed
>> as you would with any other talking book.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <sarahandfamily at live.com>
>> To: <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:53 PM
>> Subject: [Dtb-talk] downloading books
>>
>>
>>>       Hello. I need to download books from recording for the blind
>>> and dyslexic and copy them to my victor reader stream. Do I need to
>>> open the books or save them? I know they are placed in my
>>> documents. thank you.
>>>   Sarah
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