Hi guys. It's not that bad, but I have found that in my Lion, at least, that some thumb drives appear to need this treatment. The thing seems to be that if you don't delete the files first, the Trashes file gets bigger and eventually gets you into trouble. This may have been my problem when I messed up that cartridge because I got an error message saying that there wasn't space on the cartridge when I knew I had just deleted the files.
These books files are big, and I guess that's the problem. I agree with you guys that you shouldn't have to do this, but I follow these procedures now every time I do books from NLS. Ever since I have done so, I have not had the problem. I think this is some kind of VoiceOver conflict that I don't understand because if you don't have VoiceOver on, apparently everything goes along just fine. The other thing I don't understand, is that not all thumb drives seem to be affected, and I am beginning to think that, at least where my PacMate is concerned, it may be causing some trouble. This has nothing to do with NLS books, I know. But it's another device that read and write to the thumb drives. Yesterday, I had a thumb drive that was working fine and not giving me Finder Busy messages. However, I copied files to the thumb drive, put the thumb drive on the PacMate, and had the PacMate copy the files and take them off the drive. When I put the thumb drive back on the Mac, I got Finder Busy this time when I hadn't got it before. I gave it the same treatment I do cartridges, and all is well again. I don't get it, but it works. Regards, Gigi On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Angie Giltinan wrote: > OH, that sounds like a bunch of crazyness > not the instructions, but the need to do that at all! yuckness! > thanks, this should help! > may there always be new books to read, and plenty of lazy afternoons to read > them in > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Gigi wrote: > >> Hi there >> You can do it but be careful. First, you need to delete that extra stuff you >> were talking about. Connect your cartridge to your man, go to the empty >> trash item and delete all the trash this phone this will delete all the >> extra stuff you were talking about I do this every time I get ready to put >> more NLS books on. >> Here is the only caution I have. When you are going to copy your books, then >> if voiceover says busy press control will be to copy and turn voiceover off. >> Then wait and wait. Most of the time, I can hear the cartridge turn off when >> the copy is complete >> This should do it for you. I did damage one of my cartridges are not >> following the procedures that I mentioned. >> Regards >> Gigi >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Angie Giltinan <rox0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi all, >>> I have struggled with this question since i got my mac, over a half a year >>> ago. >>> when I put books on my nls cartrige mac installs a bunch of random junk on >>> the cartrige. so my question is this, what's the best method you use for >>> coppying content to your nls cartrige, or stream, or other book player. >>> I've found that when you delete a book, it adds stuff, to your media, >>> I'm kind of frustrated at this point, but there's got to be a way! >>> Thanks in advance! >>> Angie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
