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#48144 - 02/08/04 04:52 AM Copy Floppies
Joseph Baron Offline
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Registered: 12/26/03
Posts: 4
Loc: Fleetwood England
Hi Folks.
Has anyone saved to floppy, styles/voices,of their own choice.and then want a backup copy.I load and save each file
to another floppy,a bit long winded this way.At times I have 12 files one a floppy.
Can disk copy be done on computer?,and if so can anyone tell me how!!
Thank You
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#48145 - 02/08/04 05:20 AM Re: Copy Floppies
Gunnar Jonny Online   content
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Registered: 04/01/01
Posts: 4333
Loc: Norway
Put the diskette in your PC's floppydrive.
Right click the floppydrive icon in "My
Computer" and choose "copy", then insert
a empty diskette when asked for.
Or
copy the files from the diskette into a
folder on your PC and copy and paste back
into a new empty diskette.

Both solutions should work OK.
Good luck
GJ
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#48146 - 02/08/04 06:46 AM Re: Copy Floppies
Bill Norrie Offline
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Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 2330
Loc: North Yorkshire UK
You could create a master folder on your PC hard drive, called "Technics Backups" and then within that folder, create another series of folders - one for each of your floppy discs. Then copy each of your floppy discs to it's own folder. This way, you can just copy them back to a floppy if and when needed and you won't need lots of extra floppy discs.
If you wish to save a little space on your PC hard drive, you could ZIP the files.

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
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#48147 - 02/13/04 06:08 AM Re: Copy Floppies
Gunnar Jonny Online   content
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Registered: 04/01/01
Posts: 4333
Loc: Norway
Thank's for fill in what I did not do Bill,
I probably did not read the question good
enough before I replied.

Hi Joseph.
Great to hear that the replies here helped
you out and solved the problem.
Happy playing
GJ
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#48148 - 02/13/04 04:02 PM Re: Copy Floppies
Audrey Turner Offline
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Registered: 03/19/02
Posts: 1098
Loc: Cambridge, Cambs, England
Hi Folks!

Thanks for this information on floppies. I also have always used a MASTER floppy for my own settings etc. but have to admit I didn't think to save them to PC - great idea that.

Mind you, life has been much easier since being able to use the SD card. In fact one of the first things I did was buy a card with a larger memory and copy all my floppies to it, but I like the idea of the PC because it will make it so much easier to go to the setting(s) I am looking for.

However, I would like to know if it is possible to say shuffle the files around, save to a new disk and then load into the KN7. I cannot think of any reason why this would not work but perhaps I'm wrong. Be interesting to know though.

Thanks again for your tips.

Aud

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#48149 - 02/13/04 11:43 PM Re: Copy Floppies
Mark And Michelle Offline
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Registered: 12/26/03
Posts: 83
Loc: Mersea Island, Essex, U K
Hi Audrey,

Just a thought; does your PC have a CD burner? If so you could keep an updated version of all your styles, etc. on a CD-RW so that if you should suffer a computer hitch(!) you've still got a copy of what you might have lost. A standard CD-RW holds 700Mb; thats appx 14,000 saved Technics song files or an even greater amount of styles.

As above, just a thought.

Regards,

Michie

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#48150 - 02/14/04 04:44 AM Re: Copy Floppies
Bill Norrie Offline
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Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 2330
Loc: North Yorkshire UK
Hi Audrey,
Good tip from Michie - I forgot to add that to my last post - I do just that
As far as doing a 'Mix and Match' extraction of your styles from PC or CD, of course you are quite correct - it's just a case of copying and pasting from the source to a blank floppy. Just remember to copy all the individual parts of a song

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley
( especially when the music is played on a KN7000....)

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