Tracey:

"I'm taking each file, downloading it, then copying the name of each patch onto a sheet that I constructed and printed copies of on the computer"

My question was actually: How do you know which patches you want to keep (= store in User memory) without downloading the whole bank? You have to download the whole bank to audition it.

Your original question was how to keep certain User patches from being overwritten when you download these banks. The answer is: you can't. Nor should you want to, since, as I indicated above, you'll need to audition the whole downloaded bank to determine which patches in it you want to keep (= save into User locations).

Anyway, good luck. We'll get you straightened out with it one way or another.

dnark/doug