Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-21 Thread Caitlyn Furness
angie, if somebody hasn't answered already, you can buy an app called blue harvest, which will clean up all the "mac dust" from your cartridge and any other drives you have to share with windows devices. I don't have their web site handy just now, but I bought this app and use it all the time b

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, but I have found eventually the extra folders, while they will be ignored by the player, will fill up the drive since these are large files. I have not had the filling up problem on my thuma drives with smaller files, but I have had with the NLS files. Regards, Gigi On Feb 18, 2012, at

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
I don't use the cartridges either, actually don't even have an nls player since I already have other players that will play these books, but I have helped friends copy books to their cartridges, they are basically USB flash drives. The mac will copy some extra folders to it but the player will i

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
THe mac does copy some folders such as for the trash. You can use an app such as cocktail to disable attempts to index the drive. Other than that, most of the time the players ignore the extra folders. On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Angie Giltinan wrote: > hi all, > I have struggled with this ques

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
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 m

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I must say, I have never had to do any of that nonsense when adding books to an SD card using my Mac book pro. I just take off the books I no longer want and paste in the books I want. I fail to see why a cartridge should be more complex than that; after all, it's just another drive. IF you'

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-17 Thread Angie Giltinan
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

Re: adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-17 Thread Gigi
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 read

adding books to my nls cartrige on the mac

2012-02-17 Thread Angie Giltinan
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