[Dtb-talk] downloading books

Tue Jan 12 15:54:33 UTC 2010

Well, I don't know exactly how to answer that question, especially if
you're having no problems downloading the book.  When you click *Open*
does the RFBD Downloader then launch?

I've helped a number of students install the downloader and retrieve
their first RFBD downloads.  Typically, if the "open, save, or cancel"
window pops up, it's because the downloader isn't installed.

Installing it is just the click really, it's pretty quick and doesn't
even require an admin login for our network, which usually requires
admin login in order to scratch behind one's ear.  However, after
installing and downloading on my office machine, I couldn't get it to
install properly on my home machine, causing me to wonder about some
restriction per user account.  I'd prefer to download any books for
myself at home, while using my work computer to train students or, as
with Mac users, to download their books using their accounts so they can
transfer them to a Stream.  It seems, though, that I'm locked into the
use of my work  machine if I want anything from RFBD for my personal
use.

I agree with the sentiment that it's all overly complicated, especially
when we compare it with the relative ease of the NLS downloads.  The one
advantage that RFBD has, it turns out, is that you can click on a number
of packets at once in the RFBD Downloader and speed up the download
process, given the limits of your connection and RAM and so forth.  This
has considerable appeal to the college-aged user. (grin)

Dan

Daniel J. Burke
Assistant Director/Coordinator
Disability Services for Students
Emma B. Lommasson 154
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

www.umt.edu/dss/

406.243.2243 voice/text
406.243.4424 direct line
406.243.5330 fax

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:33 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books

How does one "properly" install the download manager? Frankly, I just
wish I 
could download a zipped file and handle it all myself. Oh well.

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
>
> www.umt.edu/dss/
>
> 406.243.2243 voice/text
> 406.243.4424 direct line
> 406.243.5330 fax
>
>
> -----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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