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Depending on your computer's operating system, you may sometimes see a scary device
removal warning on your desktop after using the PC3K virtual drive. You may disregard such a
message without worries of damage to your PC3K or computer.
Caution: Do not remove a USB device while the display says Loading... or Saving.... Removing a USB
device during a file transfer can cause data corruption.
Formatting a USB Device
See Format on page 13‐12.
Directories
A directory lets you group files together as you might separate documents using folders in a file
cabinet. You can create directories on a USB device. You can even create subdirectories within
directories. Directories appear in the normal file list with the indicator <dir> to the right of the
directory name.
Directories are handy for organizing your song, and program files. The PC3K provides many
operations for setting up and managing directories and the files within them.
Path
The Path field shows the current directory on the current device. This field is displayed upon
returning to the Storage mode page after you have pressed one of the Storage mode soft buttons
and viewed the file contents. It stays visible on the Storage mode page until you power down or
do a soft reset.
The PC3K always starts at the root (top‐level) directory when you power it up, or when you
change the value of the CurrentDisk parameter. When you use the disk functions to view other
directories, the Path field updates the current directory value to track your movements.
The root directory is displayed as a backslash:
Path:\
If you press the Load button and load a file from a subdirectory called SOUNDS, the Path field
will appear as
Path:\SOUNDS\
The backslash character is a directory separator, as in the following Path:
Path: \NEWTUNE\SAMPLES\DOGS\
This represents the directory DOGS, which is a subdirectory of the SAMPLES directory, which is
a subdirectory of the NEWTUNE directory in the root directory. If the path is too long to fit on
the top line of the display, it gets abbreviated. The maximum length of a path in the PC3K is
64 characters (including the backslash characters).
Disk Drive Information
For USB devices, the manufacturer and device size are displayed.
Storage Mode
Directories
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