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please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 12:48
Sorry for posting a similar thread before, but nobody has responded and I'm in urgent need of help.
I recently factory reset my keyboard after doing some work on it. I thought I had all my performances saved (via copying the full TMP and ROLAND folders through USB to my computer).

After the reset, when I replaced these folders, I could not find my performances anywhere.
Have I done something wrong? Are the performances not inside the TMP or ROLAND folders? Or is there some procedure I have to go through in order to get them back?

Any help at all would be extremely appreciated as I've lost all my performances and need them back for shows coming up.

Thanks in advance!

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:14
All user sound data, except for samples, is stored in the /ROLAND/SND/FANS.SVD file. But if it doesn't show up after copying back, maybe you should try making a factory reset first, and also try loading it off a card instead of internal memory, or vice versa.

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:18
thanks very much for the reply.
I do have that file, I have done a factory reset, and then (through USB from my computer) replaced that file, but the performances I created do not show up. Specifically Performance Layer (user 0-50).

Is there another way to replace that file?

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:21
Are you copying it into user memory or the card? Also, what kind of computer do you have?

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:27
Using a Macbook and usb, I am copying it directly into the user memory. I don't have a card.
When I attach the keyboard to my computer, those 2 folders show up (TMP and ROLAND), I replaced both of them with the backed up versions of them that I had from before the factory reset.

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:37
Hmm, on a Mac all should have been fine, never had it corrupt any files (this does happen on Windows due to problematic USB storage drivers). You should try copying just the FANS.SVD file manually, and make sure you "eject" the Fantom-X before reconnecting, and then you must restart your Fantom-X so it loads the data.

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 14:42
I don't think it's possible to restore the system or patches like this. After reading the disclaimers about touching system files, I have to assume that the system locks and loads the config files on startup.

(EDITED: That does work. YAY!!!)

Good luck.

ps. How many PC's have you owned Art?

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 15:53
Art - thanks SO much - you rock! For some reason copying the whole folder didn't work, but copying just the fans.svd manually brought everything back! Can't thank you enough...

if you get a chance, if you could look at my other problem (the one that started this whole mess) I'd appreciate that as well. It's regarding my realtime control knobs not working for Volume right. Here is the link:

http://forums.rolandclan.com/?action=show_thread&thread...

Thanks again!!

Re: please help with backup?

29 Sep 2009, 16:04
cattivo:

I am very, very glad to hear I was able to help you!

dbijoux:

I have owned one PC, first it was with Windows but after a couple years I got fed up with it and became a Linux user. But again after 3-4 years this platform also disappointed me a bit from the desktop / creative user standpoint - snail-slow development of software. Mac was kind of the enlightenment I came to through a long and sometimes painful path. It is the epitome of technology, it's what a computer should be, it makes you think about photos, melodies and sentences instead of buttons, menus, folders and files. It's pretty much like magic.

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