On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Brian wrote:
> >I'm trying to export approximately (3-6 notes per hour of class) * (3
> >hours of class per week) * (12 weeks per term) * (13 courses) - and
> >ideally that would be 13 big RTF files (one for each course). Based on
> >the one course I've half-exported so far, I'm looking at about 6 files per
> >course, with the 1Mb limit.
>
> Well, you can always glue the RTFs back together in Word or whatever once
now there's a thought. Good idea...
> exported. In terms of time and of getting your data out safely it might be
> best to just make one note per RTF at first.
I've got to be misunderstanding something here - wouldn't one note = one
RTF take longer than grabbing lots of notes and shoving them in one RTF?
> Did you try/ have you asked about Xport and how it might handle this large
> a task?
Xport. no, haven't tried it; I'd better go look for it.
> About how many "screens" of data is one note?
.5 - 4, averaging 2, depending on how often there's a 'break' in the
lecture (topic-wise, that is).
-Rhonda
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