Recovering Data - Alphasmart NEO User Manual

Maintaining your files
To delete all files:
1. From any workspace, press
2. Press
not in workspaces); press
deleting files.

Recovering data

As long as you haven't deleted a file or entered new text in a file, you
may be able to recover text you've cleared.
To recover a file:
1. Make sure you're in the workspace of the file you want to recover.
The screen appears blank.
2. Press
The file should reappear onscreen. If it doesn't, you can try an
emergency recovery, which may place "garbage" characters in your
file that you later have to remove.
To perform an emergency recovery of the entire file:
1. Make sure you're in the workspace of the file you want to recover.
The screen appears blank.
2. Press
along with a quantity of garbage characters.
3. Scroll to the location where the garbage characters begin and
press
then press
58
to permanently delete all the files (including named files
Y
.
option- -R
shift-ctrl-option- -R
to select from the cursor to the end of the file,
shift-end
.
delete
ctrl-option- -clear file
to return to the workspace without
N
. Your file should reappear, possibly
.
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