Nowl, Thank you for the clarification. I think the situation where someone has problems with certain characters is a temporary issue in the sense that they would upload their next transcription normally and then get any districts file update. However, the situation where transcribers opt to use File Management upload is more of a concern. I would go back to my original suggestion to solve this; the new districts file should be available as a patch, that is an install package that would just replace the districts file when it was executed. I believe this is far safer than expecting users to download a file and then use it to replace the existing districts file. It does, however, considerably increase the effort required to publish a new districts file. The "advertising" looks like a special message that File Management presents to the user when there is a new districts file but it is presented only once otherwise it will will occur so often it will be ignored. Barrie > -----Original Message----- > From: freebmd-syndicates-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:freebmd-syndicates-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nowl > Sent: 15 February 2009 14:18 > To: FreeBMD-Syndicates@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Revised district lists for WinBMD > > Barrie, I believe Anne is asking if volunteers who upload > through File > Management, rather than WinBMD, will be alerted that a new districts > file is available and be able to fetch it manually. > > Anne mentioned situations when File Management has to be used, for > example when WinBMD won't allow input of certain characters. > But I have > quite a few transcribers who take a batch of pages at a time > and prefer > to upload the lot at once through File Management, as normal > practice. > So yes, I'd think it would be a good idea to advertise when a > new file > is available. > > -- > Nowl > > > Archer Barrie wrote on Sun, 15 Feb 2009: > > >I think that giving the warning when the user next starts > transcribing > >is a very good idea. It had been suggested we give the > warning when the > >file is downloaded but I think your suggestion is better. > > > >I don't understand your reference to manual download. We do > not believe > >that users have ever been advised to edit the districts file. Even if > >they had I am not sure why they would need to manually > download it. In > >fact, with the way the system will probably work, the file would be > >available for download but do we need to advertise this? > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the message >