This is about transferring notes.
I don't own a NOOK and just bought my first two e-books. I have both NOOK for Mac and NOOK Study for Mac installed, so I read (and write) everything either on paper or my MacBook Pro 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). My intention was to see if I liked e-books enough to purchase a NOOK. I also don't have wifi and it's annoying to have to go on line every time I open NOOK Study--and that may push me toward a NOOK. We'll see.
The NOOK for Mac is still in beta, and kept crashing when I first installed it. The tech suggested uninstalling NOOK for Mac and installing NOOK Study as the work-around, which I did. I used it for several days and really, really liked it. The two e-books I'm reading are mass market fiction, but I'm analyzing them for a course I might teach and I got very attached to the note function and the idea of organizing the courses I'm developing in separate folders. NOOK for Mac is less navigable, since you can only open one book at at time, and if it has a note function, I haven't found it. The other course I'm organizing on NOOK Study is on an ahnentafel system I developed and can only have my own original material. I plan to teach this system first online.
So, a couple of nights ago, I was reading merrily along in one of the two books, with both open on tabs, and I paused to make a note. When I went to save the note, NOOK Study crashed. I had been using Find to track a character through the story and several times it had balked, suddenly telling me that the phrase I was looking for was not in the book (when it was). When this had happened before, closing the book and opening it again cleared it up. But this time, I was using the note function, not Find, and NOOK Study totally crashed, caught in a loop. After a minute, I force closed it. Then I went on line and logged into my B&N library, and opened NOOK Study. It was still crashed, but this time it was looping on loading the library. After a couple of minutes, I force closed it again. NOOK Study was red in the Activity Monitor. I repeated this process several times. Crash on open, red in Activity Monitor, force close.
I usually work in the dead of night, so all this happened about 3:30 am, when there is no tech support. And, of course, nothing in the FAQ to explain this.
Meanwhile, in my B&N library on Safari, the book I hadn't been reading (but had had open on the other tab, to consult its wonderful maps) and that wasn't where I'd been making the note that coincided with the initial crash, had disappeared from the active book folder, which had said (2) and now said (1). After my initial panic ($30 book missing), I did locate it in the archived book folder and moved it back to active. Then I uninstalled NOOK Study (including the dmg), logged off B&N, closed every program (including a force close of NOOK Study, open in case it really had needed 20 minutes to load the library), emptied the trash, and turned off the computer. Booted.
First I opened Safari and logged back into B&N, where the $30 book had disappeared from active again. It was back in archive and I moved it, logged out, logged back in. I did this a few times. It wouldn't stay in active, so finally I left my library open while I reinstalled NOOK Study from the zip file. When I went to open it, it was still crashed and stuck on loading the library. I repeated this process a couple of times (close all, uninstall, reboot, reinstall). Each time the $30 book would flee to the archive and each time NOOK Study would crash while loading the library. I tried it after logging off B&N and closing Safari. I never got to the screen where you log in the newly installed program. On one of these attempts, I got a message asking if I'd like to update NOOK Study and I said yes, but it made no difference. Another time, I deleted the zip file and downloaded a new one from B&N. No difference.
Meanwhile, I was getting really pissed and not so impressed with the e-book format. The book I'd been reading had crashed at a point of climax and if I'd bought the $21 print version, I wouldn't have been fuming about what happened next. I'd also have had more patience if I'd had a way to read my library online. One thing was different: NOOK Study was now black in Activity Monitor but still caught in the library loop, and still had to be force closed. So I uninstalled NOOK Study entirely, closed, rebooted, etc, then downloaded and installed NOOK for Mac, crossing my fingers since it hadn't been stable last week. By this time, it was 6:00 am, which is even past my bedtime.
NOOK for Mac worked for reading the book that crashed and my $30 book stayed in active on the Web, but it felt really clunky. I'd gotten used to NOOK Study's interface and it felt awkward to only have one book open at a time and be unable to make notes or toggle to the wonderful maps. I stayed up to call tech support when they opened (late, by at least twenty minutes). Someone there walked me through downloading and installing NOOK Study and this time I got to the log-in screen and it loaded my library and it hasn't crashed. Yet. But the techie, a PC person who didn't know the Mac OS or even the difference between quit and force quit and the wisdom of sussing out all stray dmgs and emptying the trash, didn't have me do anything different than I'd been doing on my own. What was different was this: NOOK for Mac was resident on the system; this time instead of force closing NOOK Study, I left it open in its infinite loop; and after closing everything else, I just mashed the power button instead of shutting down on the Apple menu.
Both NOOK programs have been behaving and the $30 book has stayed in the active folder on the Web.
But. A few minutes ago . . .
. . . when I went to make a new note in the wandering $30 book, I discovered that NOOK Study thought this was my first note ever. Then I looked at my library and there's a second copy of it there. I can't open that copy, but it does have attached the copious notes I'd already made.
So, my question is this: How do I transfer the notes from the copy that won't open to the copy that will?
Cheers,
DeeToo
