Do Send/Receive by email?

Question

A national translation team is at a location without internet access. But someone is helping them who has email. Is there a way for the helper to use email to send me a Send/Receive update of their work?

Answer 1

I suggest a Send/Receive to a USB drive and have the helper send that to you via e-mail.

Comments

You’d probably have to zip the s/r folder on the flash drive and send that. Otherwise the s/r on the USB is a mess of folders and hidden files.

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We have been mulling over how to remotely migrate projects after the Paratext 7 server is turned off. After devoting way too much time to this effort all year we have just a few left who will not make the deadline.

Your suggestion is intriguing to me as a possible solution though I’d sure like to hear if it actually works before trying it.

Blessings,

Shegnada James

Language Technology and Publishing Coordinator, SIL Nigeria

Text Processing Specialist – Complex Script, GPS, SIL Intl

Skype: Shegnada.james.

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+1 972 974 8146

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I have not tried it myself. But I do have a spare offline computer to try it on. Let me find some wiggle room in my day. I’ll report it in the forum.

anon645281

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The short answer is yes it does work.

For emailing the steps would be: (1) Do a s/r to your stick. (2) In Windows Explorer with the project folder on the stick highlighted in the right pane, used the right click and selected Send to, Compressed Folder. (3) Accept the name it offers for the zip file. (4) Email that zip file. (5) On the other computer, delete the folder with the same name in Shared Paratext 8 Projects on that (a second) stick, (6) Download/detach the file from your email program to a temp folder. (7) Open the file and copy the only thing in it to Shared Paratext 8 Projects folder. (8) Do a send/receive.

One caveat: SIL mail does not allow zip files (at least in the States where it is hosted by gmail). So you’ll need to either use other email addresses or use 7-zip format and its native format .7z. 7-zip is freeware. SIL mail does allow .7z files through.

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Another issue is sending large files over limited bandwidth email connections. My sample was 6 MB.

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anon645281:

My sample was 6 MB.

Yes, please beware that projects can be very large (in the hundreds of megabytes). If internet access is an issue, I can’t imagine that e-mail would work much better. S/R to the internet will use much less bandwidth than using e-mail as described.

Answer 2

Hi John! If the friend only has email and not internet, the only way I know is to do a Paratext backup to a thumb drive and send that via email. But I would not recommend that, because it will likely mess up the send/receive system. I know because I’ve messed up s/r using backup.