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

Tue May 18 01:29:26 UTC 2010

thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Aldrich" <jajkaldrich at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Is it safe to delete books with the Victor Stream?


> 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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