![]() ![]() I have worked in computer graphics for about twenty years. But what good are saved versions if BookSmart won't load any of them? The software design flaw is described above. Kat White I have saved many versions of this book. I am now saving yet another version (v 14) and will back this up to another drive as I have done with all my previous versions. And you can get it back only by empirical methods. ![]() If the book is on a device not currently available, mount that device and run BookSmart again." Instead it forgets all about that book you have put well over a hundred hours into. Better would be to put up a dialog that says something like "I can't find the current book. But run it just once without that location available and it just reverts to "Mystery Location and See If You Can Figure Out Where" mode. As long as you run BookSmart with the location of your book in a mounted volume you're fine. I think the people who write these apps think that we would never want to bother our pretty little heads about where the project actually lives. I really want to see an end to applications that *strongly* prefer or even require that you save all your work in a location it wants, and with a specific, non-intuitive directory structure. The fact that I was able to outsmart it is a part of its dumbness, but in this case I made it work for me. I still say BookSmart is the worst software I have ever come in contact with. Evidently, when you pull the location of you book out from under BookSmart, it goes all flustery and starts afresh in some unrevealed location somewhere on your hard drive(s.) However, by forcing it to look in the place where your book actually is by using the method of re-setting the location of your library, it suddenly believes those files which it claims were not exported from BookSmart are in fact actual book files. Then my book appeared on the list of books you can open. I put on my dumb software thinking cap and realized I could probably get my book back by making a throwaway book, then, while that was open, re-set the location of the library to where it had been before BookSmart woke up and didn't see that original location. You should be able to locate the file that way. On the dialog box, you should know the name of the file, no? If that's the case just search your external drive from your computer. And if it becomes clear that you'll have to restart your book, make sure you save a new version everytime you open the program. ![]() I'd only suggest rebooting your computer several times in the chance that it didn't load the external drive properly. I'm not sure if you're going to have much luck with that book. Sometimes programs have a habit of corrupting files, and once it's done all that work is lost. You should always, and I repear always save dated versions of your work. If working in design for 5 years has taught me anything it is to not trust technology. You may want to contact the Blurb guys and see if they ahve anything to remedy this. BookSmart is the worst piece of software I have ever used. I have spent well over 100 hours on this book. It saved the new book in some unknown location and you cannot a) determine that location or b) make it look somewhere else And there's no way to get to my real book since the Open book. You made the file.ĩ) I make a book I intend to delete just so I can get past that dialog boxġ1) The only book I see is the throwaway I just made. I realised that the book was on an unmounted volume External Drive 1ĥ) I start up External Drive 1 and rebootĦ) I run BookSmart, select Import a book and navigate to my existing book projectħ) When I try to load it, BookSmart says something to the effect that the file does not seem to be a file exported from BookSmart. 1) I have a book-in-the making on External Drive 1Ģ) Every time I open BookSmart the book automatically appears, ready for more editingģ) Today I booted the computer with the external drive offĤ) I opened BookSmart and it presented me with the dreaded Make a new Book, Open an existing book (grayed out), Import a book and the Getting Started Guide. ![]()
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