[Steve Shelley]

Hi all,

Just today my Alphasmart (which I looooove) has been telling me my files are full after very low word counts. Like, under 100.

There are no other files stuffed with content.

Has anyone had this issue before and what can I do about it?

Cheers

 

[Alyson]

I've never heard of any troubles like that with any of the Alphasmarts.

If you find out what's going on, please let us fellow users know.

 

[Steve Shelley]

Thanks Alyson,

I loaded up my Alphasmart Manager software onto my laptop and connected the Neo via USB.

Using the software I was able to  remove all the educational applets that were taking up space.

Got the memory down to 11%!

So far, so good.

Seems quite a few issues can be cleared up by changing settings through AS Manager.

 

[Jim Johnson]

Oh, nice. If I had seen this earlier I would have suggested installing the software. I remember removing almost all the useless apps a long time ago. Was also going to suggest checking to see if there were additional text files possibly clogging up the works, but sounds like you got it worked out. Write on!

 

[Steve Shelley]

Thanks Jim ... what are these additional text files? 

 

[Jim Johnson]

Thanks Jim ... what are these additional text files?

There's a way you can store more than eight text files on the Neo by piling files on top of each other within each of the eight file keys. If you somehow had a bunch of those files on there, they'd have taken up memory too.

The info is hereabouts:

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/207851/Alphasmart-Neo-1.html?page=39#manual

 

[Steve Shelley]

There's a way you can store more than eight text files on the Neo by piling files on top of each other within each of the eight file keys. If you somehow had a bunch of those files on there, they'd have taken up memory too.

The info is hereabouts:

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/207851/Alphasmart-Neo-1.html?page=39#manual

I didn't know that! I may have inadvertently been creating those.

Cheers