How come I cannot open my ebook files (.pdf &.pdb) from my internal memory of my Tungsten T5?
Posted Friday, July 3, 2009 by admin
I understand that my Tungsten T5 has the following specs with regards to memory.
Memory
256MB (215MB actual storage capacity: 160MB internal flash drive, 55MB program memory for applications and data.)
What I don’t understand is whenever I put an ebook file in the bigger internal drive, I cannot open them to its appropriate application. What happens is, my ebooks go to the lesser program memory, thus, lessening my memory there.
The reason there is an internal memory so I can STORE files there but does this mean I may not be able to WORK on them (inclusive of other files such as word, powerpoint, excel etc.)?
I already have Adobe Reader in my Palm. I just can’t seem to open files I transfer at the internal memory.
FROM Sescja
* My answers in parenthesis *
You have a total of 256 MB of the drive. Every time you download an ebook, or other application the 55 MB will become greater, lessening the other internal storage space of 215 MB.
(I checked on my memory and it seemed only the 55 MB changes whenever I put some file in the Palm. The remaining internal memory does not change.)
What I see to be the problem may be that you downloading ebooks intended to be only read in one kind of formatting.
Some ebooks will only open in certain applications due to formatting. If you download an ebook formatted only to be read in eReader format, it will only be picked up if you open it in eReader. If you are trying to download “.pdf” and trying to open but it will not open, you may not have the appropriate reader for this. Adobe has a free application for the PalmOS, if that will help (link below).
ebook software
download adobe reader
Adobe’s Acrobat reader for PalmOS does not open your typical .pdf files that’s out there. You need to run the .pdf file through the desktop portion of Adobe’s Palm Acrobat Reader to ‘convert’ it to a PalmOS .pdf file. See the site I attached below for more info.
As for your .pdb files, Anything you try and copy to Palm’s internal memory will change to a .pdb file. You will need the specific reader that can find these files, or keep them on external storage so they keep it’s original attributes. So for example, if you are trying to read a .tr3 file (Tome Raider 3) it’s best you keep the e-book of in external storage…If I were to copy it to my internal memory, it would change to a .pdb either unrecognizable or the Tome Raider program doesn’t scan internal memory for files.
Good Luck!