Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 08:23:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>> As for the thumbdrives of pictures for my Mother and Aunt, I did find BM>>> it took around a minute for the digital picture frame to load -- BM>>> something I could sort of put up with knowing what was occurring in the BM>>> background but the two who got sometimes confused by a remote control BM>>> were too tempted to hit a button to get something going. Dividing BM>>> pictures to multiple thumbdrives helped speed up the loading time, plus BM>>> a little less fiddling with getting to a section/event. (I put the day BM>>> trip to our visit with relatives in Slovakia on its own thumbdrive.) NB>>> One does have to consider the audience... :) As long as they NB>>> could handle switching thumbdrives for the next set of pictures, NB>>> breaking it down makes a lot of sense for them... :) BM>> Well when I sent the digital photo frame and thumbdrive last year my BM>> Mother did her appreciative of the thought but we (my Aunt and Mother) BM>> barely know how to operate a remote control, blah-blah-blah, excuse- BM>> excuse-excuse for not using it. Me: "Did you read the letter?" My BM>> Mother answered either "what letter" or "haven't had time yet". BM>> Either way was a 'no'. My letter gave detailed instructions with BM>> pictures, plus had Google-translated for my Aunt so they could talk BM>> back-and-forth about it. Plus both have people who'd be able to help BM>> just by looking at the things - no instructions needed. NB>> You did what you could.... If they want to see the pictures, they can NB>> figure it out or get someone to help them do so... possibly even you, NB>> next visit... ;) BM> That was pretty much my attitude. The "carrot on a stick" BM> was view the pictures. Both my Mother and my Aunt have zero computer BM> knowledge and seem to think they can't learn. OK, so I need to do BM> something different; I selected a piece of hardware -- the digital BM> picture frame -- which seemed to be ultra simple, and it doesn't look BM> like it has anything to do with a computer. Wrote instructions that BM> my Mother and Aunt should be able to understand. Both have people who BM> can help. NB> And you might be the one to finally actually walk them through NB> the process at some point.... I suppose what they probably would NB> have preferred was your sending them a package of all the NB> pictures printed out so that they could put them into NB> scrapbooks... or better yet, the completed scrapbooks.... :) They would have preferred, I might have complied if not for the shipping cost, especially overseas. Plus it seems a box undergoes inspection by Austria Post and possibly subject to the 'I will accept the package' documentation like what happened with the digital picture frame I sent my Aunt (she says she signed the paperwork but ended up being returned and I brought over in my luggage last summer). ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... If history repeats itself, I think we can expect the same thing again. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .