Roger, I suggest this. When they're open, call Jaws technical support and
explain your problem and your situation to them and see if they can tandem to
your machine and clean up or possibly re-install open book for you. You do have
a real mess though. The only thing you needed to change in the openbook install
was to specify where you wished your document files to be stored.
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 9:32 PM
To: bksvol-discuss <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Windows 10 Nightmare
I thought I would leave an update on my struggles with getting used to Windows
10 and ask another question. First, I solved that problem about an
accessibility driver not being installed properly in JAWS. I called technical
support today and was advised to remove JAWS 2020 from my computer and
reinstall it. That worked, but it was really time consuming. My download kept
hanging and I had to start over several times. Then I tried to reinstall Open
Book 9. That was easy enough, but it was really time consuming too. It has been
about five years since I installed it the last time, but I sure don't remember
it taking nearly an hour and a half to copy the files from the disk to my
computer. I did what I was advised to do on this list. I saved it to my
documents folder. The good news is that it now shows on my desktop and I
clicked through to it and it appears to be ready for scanning even though all
my folders are empty and I have none of my previous scans or anything else in
it, but it is not ready for the scanning I want to do. That is, I will have to
consume even more time getting all of my settings just right and it has been so
long since I got them just right the last time that I will have to learn all
over how to do it. So I am not quite ready to resume scanning the book I was
on. I made a big mistake, though, in saving it to my documents folder. I had to
click the custom install button to save it there and when I was about to do so
I came across a link for creating a new folder. Somehow right then it was in my
mind that that was not necessary and I just skipped it. Bad mistake! My
documents folder is now so full of Open Book components that I can't find my
documents. Since my documents have to be buried in there somewhere I don't want
to go willy-nilly deleting them and risk deleting something I want to keep.
Besides, I don't want to have to go through that long wait while the files copy
again. I have been thinking about what to do and I have come to think that this
is the best solution. That is, I could copy the contents of the whole folder
all at once and create a mew subfolder to paste it in. Then I could, at my
leisure, delete one file at a time deleting all the Open book files from the
main documents folder and all the document files from the Open Book subfolder.
So here is my first question. Is that advisable or can you think of a better
way. Advisable or not, I can't do it right now anyway. I am a self taught
computer user and while teaching myself when I found a way to do something I
have tended to stick with that way. One of the ways I have learned many things
is to press the alt key and then explore the menus.
That means that, as long as I have been at it, I most often press the alt key
for the menus whenever I want to do something and unlike other people I have
not memorized a lot of those combinations of key strokes that would make it
quicker like I think most of you do. So when I have wanted to create a new
folder I have always selected the file I want to put in it, go to the menu and
find either the move or copy menu items and follow the prompts including the
prompt about creating a new folder.
Well, with Windows 10 I don't seem to be able to do that. I press the alt key
and if I arrow down I get a list of things that have nothing to do with what I
want to do and at some certain point down the list it seems to turn into a list
of file folders in various places in my computer. If I arrow up I quickly find
myself in ribbons. I have never learned to use ribbons and they just confuse
me. I can't figure out how to navigate in them for one thing. I don't even
understand what they are for. The old way seemed to be better to me. So here is
my second question. Providing that it is advisable to do what I have described
how do I create a new folder or subfolder in Windows 10?
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Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind
and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says
everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the
fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
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