[blindkid] Victor Reader Stream Question

[Debbie Gabe]

You can break them into groups by putting theminto subfolders.
Then on the VR Stream, she navigates to different subfolders by pressing 2
to get to different levels and then pressing 4 and 6 to go to the books in
that level.

She needs to learn the navigation keys on the Stream. Have her play around
with them. She won't hurt anything, unless she presses 3 to delete. And then
she would need to press the confirm key after . If she accidentally presses
3 to delete, she can press the cancel key.
But playing around with navigation keys is the best way for her to learn her
Stream. That's what I had to  do!
Good luck
debbies

-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Holloway
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:55 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Victor Reader Stream Question

I think I am with you. I can see the subfolders on the disk in a computer,
but what is then the advantage in having them there? (Perhaps that is your
point?)

I was hoping to be able to break several hundred items into categories and
then be able to navigate inside of a single sub-folder, like "Harry Potter
Books", "Junie B Jones Books", etc.

In your example, could I list ONLY the cookbooks by going to "Cookbooks"
somehow?

She has maybe 250 DAISY books on the unit right now and many more mp3 and
wav files between music and audio story files plus recordings of her own
from sources like her Apex.

Thanks!

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 23, 2011, at 1:55 AM, "Debbie Gabe" <gabe808 at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> ---I use a VR stream. 
> The subfolders are inside the main folders that are labeled as $VR....
> You do not label the subfolders as $....
> 
> I used to put books and music in subfolders. I have not put other files,
> such as text or audio notes into subfolders, don't know if subfolders work
> in those folders.
> 
> An example of a book folder might be something like this:
> $VRDB  (his would be first level)
> Cookbooks  (This would be second level)
> The Joy of cooking (a book in the 3rd level)
> Fiction  (another 2nd level)
> Racing in the Rain (book in 3rd level)
> Etc.
> Same thing for music.
> 
> I actually stopped putting books in subfolders. I prefer just to keep them
> in alphabetical order, and that way it is easier to navigate to them using
> the upper left button, pressing it until it says something like go to book
> number. Then you enter a number that is close to where you think the book
> is.
> I usually have about 60 books on my 8 G card at any one time
> And I don't have the patience to navigate thru them one at a time.
> 
> VR Stream will not say the name of the subfolder or the level of the
> subfolder. It will only say the names of the "bookshelves" and names of
the
> books. You just have to remember what your subfolders are and what order
the
> subfolders are in.
> You should be able to see them on your computer when you put  the card in
> your card reader.
> 
> Does this make any sense?
> 
> Humanware may give you info that is more current than what I gave you.
I've
> had my Stream a long time  and although I've updated it, I don't always
know
> what all the newest changes are.
> Good luck to you and your kid
> Debbie 
> ( NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
> Subject: [blindkid] Victor Reader Stream Question
> 
> Are there any Victor Reader Stream users here who might be able to explain
> to me the file structure for putting items into sub-folders to group them?
> (Offline would be fine.)
> 
> We have VR bookshelves with hundreds of items coming up in a single list
> despite being grouped into sub-folders. I'm still waiting on a response
from
> Humanware, and I suspect there is something simple we're not doing. I have
> tried starting the sub-folder names with $VR like the parent folders and
> that is no help. I think the VR Streams have some great capacities, but I
> have always found organizing files on them to be awkward.
> 
> The manual says you can use sub-folders on most bookshelves. Am I
> misunderstanding something? Should not sub-folders content appear in a
> separate sub-list or group for a given bookshelf? (What would be the point
> otherwise?)  No matter the level of the file, we're finding them all in
the
> same bookshelf list. These groups are just too much to manage in a single
> list!
> 
> Any suggestions would be really appreciated! Maybe there is a VR forum
> somewhere?
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