I successfully did it last week, but now I can't find my note file to transcribe & edit. I have CaseCat8. I connected my Stentura 8000 to my laptop using my USB cable to COM1 port. I clicked Read Notes. Great, okay, I see the window "Looking for writer"; found it, there is my file. Great. I click okay and I think it asked me to Append, Overwrite...and I chose Append. Don't know why, but I did. Whoosh, it's gone. Now when I chose to Translate & Edit, I can't find my file. I am sick because I had two tests that I really wanted to edit. Can somebody help me locate this file? Hope so.

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Hi, Diane

It sounds like you appended the notes to another file. append means it added it to the end of something.
The easiest way is just read it onto your computer again. I don't remember if the Stentura 8000 keeps your notes in memory or not, I switched to the Mira a few years ago. When you translate and edit, slow down when clicking the buttons. I think you had two files with the same name so you should change the name of the file you're reading on.
If you can't read it on again, you need to go into whatever other note files you have on your computer and search for the beginning of your test. This is a pretty simplistic answer, but I hope it helps.
Diane,

A Stentura 8000 has no RAM backup. We use a floppy disk in the Stentura 8000. So your notes MUST be on your floppy disk if you saved your job at the end of the day. Do you have a floppy disk drive on your computer to read your notes via the file?

Bubbie Karen
This happens to me whenever I read a note file into Case Catalyst. Since I rarely read notes it takes me a while to find them. Somehow they weren't put into your user, and are still on your computer but somewhere else. I usually find them through Windows Explorer and then copy them to the correct directory. This is an ongoing flaw/time waster in Catalyst, because whoever wrote Catalyst assumes you know where your notes are going, and then don't provide an easy way to find them.

Is there someone out there that has more information on how to find the notes, and how to use Catalyst to move them to where they need to be?

Allan
OTEC
206-284-7492
thanks everyone. I misnamed my Stentura as an 8000 when it is actually a 500, so I don't have the disk drive on the machine. I tried to re-read my notes again, but they weren't there in the machine's memory anymore (since I read them into my computer I assume.) I'm going to try it again with a new file and this time go s-l-o-w-e-r when clicking. I went to the Help area, but couldn't get anywhere there. I'll find it soon.
Do you have the paper notes? If you did really well on the test, just type it from the paper notes.
It will be faster than trying to find the file.
I know you need to figure this out for the future; but if you have a time deadline, open up an edit file and start typing away. Or you can read from your notes and rewrite it on the steno machine, then upload it to the computer. Good luck.
Hi Kellie. Yes, I still have my paper notes and will use these to type with, but given a choice I'd rather use my computer. There's no time deadline..yah. My focus is reviewing my 4-Voice test skills for an upcoming hearing reporter test. I also have to upload my notes into my laptop, so I'm solving these problems now instead of the day of the test.

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