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09-20-2008, 12:28 PM | #1 |
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"BOOKS" button leads to an empty display after configured to the CF card?
I configured my iLiad in the Device Manager at Page 3, pointing the "BOOKS" location to "CF card". And after that pressing the BOOKS button, it displays nothing.
But if look into the "CF Card" from Device Manager I can see the book titles normally. Any idea folks? |
09-20-2008, 04:38 PM | #2 |
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You need to have your books in a "books" folder on the CF card. Thats what those buttons jump to.
/mnt/cf/books This also goes for "newspapers", "documents", and "notes". |
09-20-2008, 05:06 PM | #3 |
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Thanks CleverCloth,
what is this "/mnt/cf/books"? Sounds like a linux path. |
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09-20-2008, 08:22 PM | #5 |
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Thanks Thomas.
But I just want to set the root folder of CF card as my "BOOKS" folder and I do not want to create a BOOK folder for books at the CF root as this CF CARD is for books only. Besides, iLiad is still very slow so I want to reduce the steps of navigation to the least possible. One more folder means one more step of navigation (if i enter from the "CF Card" option from the device manager, i would have to navigate through the BOOKS folder before I can see my books). Is there any work-arounds to make the BOOKS shortcut links to the root fold of the CF Card? Last edited by genome2k; 09-20-2008 at 08:26 PM. |
09-21-2008, 08:01 AM | #6 |
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You don't have to navigate folders created by the iLiad. Clicking the book button will take you directly to your books. For example the iLiad creates folders when you copy a Mobipocket book to the iLiad. Visually the iLiad does not reveal this organization and does not force one to traverse a directory tree to get to it. You only see it when viewing the card on your PC. It sounds like you are trying to fix a problem that does not exist.
Of course you do have to navigate the folders you create. Last edited by timezone; 09-21-2008 at 12:11 PM. |
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Maybe this works:
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Thank you very much Thomas. But I still have not tried this. I am still looking for newest release of Mrxvt and EmelFM2 File Manager I am totally an idiot about linux and XML. Redarding the XML file you asked me to create, can I use a TXT editor for the content but save it with a suffix of XML? There is another finding related to my problem: Like I said, I linked the BOOKS button to the CF root. But I left all the setting of NEWS DOCS NOTES default. After my settings for BOOKS shortcut, there weird thing come: iLIAD AUTOMATICALLY created 4 folders on my CF card root, which are BOOKS, NEWS, and DOCS and NOTES. and I found the buttons of NEWS etc. are actually linked to the atomatically created folders, rather than the settings in iLiad (Main memory). I guess this is a bug from the iLiad's part |
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I have the same setup (books on CF, documents etc. on internal) and it works fine for me, so it should work for you too. |
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I am sorry Thomas the manifest.xml trick didnt work. |
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There might be a solution that requires a lot of linux knowledge (reformatting your internal flash partition and setting a symlink), but simply living with the automatically created folders would be much easier... |
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Yes I guess so. I just have always been using highly hierachical arrangement of folders on my computers. I like to organize documents by levels of folders according to their relevancy than to look around in a flattened, long list of folders on a same level. So i usually delete any folders unnecessary. |
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