Work With Preset Files On The Microsd Card; Legacy Presets; What Will Happen To My Legacy Presets? How Do I Convert Them To The New File Structure - 1010music Blackbox 3.0 User Manual

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Work with Preset Files on the MicroSD Card

Preset files can be backed up on your computer or shared with other blackbox users. The

presets are saved as XML files on the microSD card. Each preset is saved in a preset.xml

file in a folder with the name of the preset under the \Presets folder. For example, a preset

named April Gig will be stored as \Presets\April Gig\presets.xml. If you have packed a

preset, all of the WAV files for that preset will be stored in the preset's folder.

You can use a microSD Adapter to insert your microSD card into your computer. You can

then use standard file techniques to rename the preset folders, delete them, copy them

onto your computer or copy them onto other microSD cards. We recommend that you

occasionally make backup copies of your presets, especially before upgrading to new

firmware. Keep in mind that if you move a preset file to another microSD card, it will only

work properly if the WAV files needed for that preset are on the new card in the same

directory structure. The Pack function makes that much easier.

Note:

► Blackbox stores all presets in self named folders under the \Presets

folder. Blackbox will not find them if you move the XML files outside of

these folders or move these folders outside of the \Presets folder.

Blackbox Firmware version 1.5 changed the way presets and new sample recordings

are managed. In older versions, the preset files were stored in the root folder, but

now the preset files are in individual folders under the \presets folder. New WAV file

recordings also used to be stored in the root folder and are now stored in the

preset's folder. What if you have some legacy presets on your microSD card?

What will happen to my legacy presets? How do I convert them to the new file

structure?

When you load presets, blackbox will display a single list with all presets stored at

the root and all presets stored under the \Presets folder. The files will be in

alphabetical order by file name, independent of where they are stored. Each time

you open a preset that is stored in the root, blackbox will create the preset folder for

this preset and move the preset into that folder. In this way, as you open the presets,

they will be migrated to the new structure one at a time. You can then use the

File->Pack feature to collect all of the WAV files used by this preset into the

corresponding sub folder. Any new recordings you make will be stored in the preset

sub folder.

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