[Dtb-talk] Failure deleting books from Victor Stream.

[David Andrews]

No, I have not heard of such issues.  You might want to reformat your 
SD card.  The only thing I have found to increase startup time is a 
large number of books on my SD card.

Dave

At 10:42 PM 2/1/2013, you wrote:
>Dan,
>
>I don't know what you are referring to as "Daily with Images". but I 
>am pretty sure I am not doing that.
>
>What we are doing is inserting CDs of DAISY talking books into the 
>CD drive they sell for the purpose and copying them into the SD card.
>
>So why can't I delete books?
>
>Further, it takes ages now for the Stream to initialize on power-up. 
>Surely that isn't expected behaviour? I deleted the books with a 
>card reader which would not go away under the Stream control but 
>this delay on start-up persists. Further, after having deleted the 
>two offending books we find that we cannot load new books onto the 
>card using the Victor's rather expensive disk drive.
>
>There is something very wrong with the software controlling this 
>device. Does no one else have similar issues?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dale Leavens.
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hicks" <danjhicks at yahoo.com>
>To: "'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Failure deleting books from Victor Stream.
>
>
>If you are downloading Daily with Images, the images folder stays in the
>folder and therefore the folder cannot be deleated.
>
>Other times, when there is no images folder, I notice than an empty folder
>remains. This takes up virtually no space and does not cause much of a
>problem. I just delete the empty folders, periodically.
>
>I call this a minor bug. If that is the worst thing I have to worry about, I
>feel I am doing just fine. Hail Bookshare and Hail the Victor Reader Stream.
>
>
>Dan Hicks
>
>No trees were harmed in the creation or distribution of this message.
>However, many millions of electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike
>Gilmore
>Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:46 PM
>To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
>Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Failure deleting books from Victor Stream.
>
>I'm having a similar issue. I have no problem deleting NLS books. I hit
>delete and the book is gone and doesn't show up on the SD card. However,
>when I read a text file downloaded from bookshare, something different
>happens. I delete the book and it no longer shows up in the listing of
>documents; however, when I go onto the SD card itself, it's still there and
>I have to use my laptop to delete the file. Why does this happen with the
>bookshare stuff but not NLS?
>
>Mike
>
>--- On Wed, 1/30/13, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>From: Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Failure deleting books from Victor Stream.
>To: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens at puc.net>, "Discussion of Digital Talking Books"
><dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 11:29 AM
>
>
>Have you checked the little slider on the side of the card itself?
>This will actually lock the card so that it cannot be written to, or deleted
>from. It happens sometimes.
>
>Dan
>
>
>On 1/30/13, Dale Leavens <dleavens at puc.net> wrote:
>>Can anyone help with this issue?
>>
>>For some reason we cannot delete DAISY books from the SD card of our
>>Victor Stream. When selecting this function Stream announces something
>>like "delete denied". The files are not deleted. All other functions seem
>to work.
>>
>>Obviously this is unacceptable. Why does this happen and how is it
>>overcome?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Dale Leavens.
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>
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