[Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor Stream?

[James Aldrich]

If you have a card in that stream, show your sales person that card.  Ask 
for either the Sandisk brand or Kingston brand of card.  Try to get a good 
price on an 8 gig card at least.

Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey.bradley at att.net>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor Stream?


> Thanks for the info.
> now with sandisk.
> I have one in my cell phone, its not even near half size as the card I 
> have in my stream.
> What do you ask for when you go by one?
> I don't know much about them as you can tell.
> I guess I can show them the one I have, but I borrowed my stream from my 
> talking book library, so it might say something on it that they might not 
> know what to cell you.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Aldrich" <jajkaldrich at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor Stream?
>
>
>> Hello again!
>>
>> My favorite cards are Sandisk or Kingston!
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey.bradley at att.net>
>> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor 
>> Stream?
>>
>>
>>> I'm going to ask a stupid question.
>>> What kind of cards do we need for the stream?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
>>> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 5:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor 
>>> Stream?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> I would say that the format error was definitely a fluke.
>>>>
>>>> I delete many books (well, books, podcasts, etc.) every day from my
>>>> card and have had no problems.
>>>>
>>>> Now, there are times when the stream won't delete your entire Daisy
>>>> book.  This won't hurt your card, but will sometimes leave directories
>>>> around that have 1 or 2 files in them.  Occasionally, I'd poke around
>>>> your card with your computer, and delete the extra crap.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, SD cards are not really *that* stable.  I would expect a card
>>>> to last between 9 and 18 months.  Some longer, some shorter.  So, in
>>>> general, I'd make sure I had a backup of your card.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:35:05PM -0700, Tom Shults wrote:
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am wondering if people on this list are having good or bad success 
>>>>> at
>>>>> deleting books on the SD card using the delete function on the Stream.
>>>>>
>>>>> Over a year ago, when I first got my Stream, I deleted a book, and
>>>>> subsequently got a card format error both on the Stream and in my PC.
>>>>> Reformatting the card worked fine.  Since then, I have not attempted 
>>>>> to use
>>>>> the Stream's delete function as I feared it might be unreliable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps my format error was a fluke.  Perhaps I do not need to be so
>>>>> cautious.  does anyone have experience with this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
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