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

Sat Feb 2 06:07:12 UTC 2013

Take a look at the card with a card reader and PC. I bet you have many extra files.

Mike Freeman
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On Feb 1, 2013, at 23:42, "Dale Leavens" <dleavens at puc.net> 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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