[nabs-l] Dowloading files from Bookshare to Victor Stream

[Justin Young]

Steve,

When I did the extract thing it worked.  And yes I had to put in a password too.
Thanks for all the help

On 1/25/11, Steve Jacobson <steve.jacobson at visi.com> wrote:
> Justin,
>
> I am not sure if Jewel was suggesting this, but I would avoid renaming the
> files you download.  If you do, though, the end of the file name should
> remain
> ".zip" to be sure that it is detected as a "ZIP" file.  If the last part of
> the file name is not ".zip", the extract option may not appear.  You may be
> asked to
> enter your Bookshare password as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:14:51 -0500, Justin Young wrote:
>
>>Thanks for your help Jewel!
>
>>On 1/25/11, Jewel S. <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear Justin,
>>> Here are the steps that I take to download and extract a Bookshare
>>> book onto my Victor. I take extra steps to have the book available on
>>> my external hard drive in case something goes wrong and I have to
>>> delete the book off my Victor.
>>> 1. Download the file into My Documents (or a flash drive or esxternal
>>> harddrive as you prefer, but not your Victor yet).
>>> Name the file the book's title plus ZIPPED plus Bookshare
>>> , so you can recognize it well.
>>> 2. Go into the folder you put the file in, and right-click and select
>>> Extract All.
>>> 3. Follow the steps of the Extraction Wizard, and click the Browse
>>> button to extract the file into a new folder in the same location as
>>> the original file. This way, all the files are together and easy to
>>> copy and passte the whole folder and only those files.
>>> 4. Once the files are extractred into their folder, go into that
>>> location, copy (or cut) the unzipped file, and paste it into your
>>> Victor's $DTB (digital talking book) file.
>>>
>>> If this doesnn't work, you may jave the download settings set to the
>>> wrong type. Can anyone remember how to check this? I don't recall...
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Jewel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/25/11, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Hope the semester has begun nicely for you all!  I have a quick
>>>> question.  I just recently got a Bookshare license and was wondering
>>>> can you put the files you download when you want to download a book or
>>>> whatever.  Can you put that on the Victor Stream?  If so, how do you
>>>> do that?  I have tried a few different ways and when I go to see if it
>>>> will play it doesn't recognize it even being there.
>>>> Thanks so much,
>>>>
>>>> Justin
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> ~Jewel
>>> Check out my blog about accessibility for the blind!
>>> Treasure Chest for the Blind: http://blindtreasurechest.blogspot.com
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