Clearing And Deleting Files - Alphasmart NEO 1 User Manual

C l e a r i n g a n d D e l e t i n g F i l e s
Clear all files off
NEOs on a regular
basis (perhaps once a
quarter) to prevent too many
files from being stored on the
school NEOs.
File Type
Unnamed text in a numbered
file (1–8)
Named text in a numbered file
(1–8)
Named file that isn't in one of
the eight numbered files
(use ctrl-F to view)
Unnamed file with a linked
file in a one of the numbered
files (1–8)
NEO 1 and NEO 2
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R I T I N G O N
The text that you type in each file remains there until you clear or delete the
files. There is a difference between what happens when you clear a file and
what happens when you delete it:
• Clearing a file removes the contents of an unnamed numbered file (1–8). If
the file is named (see page 28), clearing the file closes it. If you clear an
unnamed file, you can recover the text if you haven't entered new text yet;
see "Recovering Data" on page 52.
• Deleting a file completely removes both the contents of the numbered file
and the named file (if the file is named), and you can't recover any of the
data. If the file has a linked file, the linked file is deleted as well.
The table below summarizes what happens when you clear or delete each type
of file:
Clear File
• Clears text (which you can still
recover)
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
• Closes the file so it is no longer
open in the numbered file space
(however, you can still open the
named file in any of the eight
active files)
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
• Clears text (which you can still
recover)
• Keeps file name, resulting in an
empty named file
• Clears the unnamed text (which
you can still recover)
• Keeps linked file text intact and
clears check boxes
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
(with linked file available)
N E O U A W
S I N G L P H A

Clearing and Deleting Files

Delete File
• Deletes text (no recovery)
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
• Deletes the file and its name
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
• Deletes the file and its name
• Returns you to the numbered file you
were using before (which might or
might not contain text)
• Deletes the unnamed text (no
recovery) and the linked file
• Leaves you in the empty, active file
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