Directories; Path - Kurzweil PC3 Getting Started Manual

Storage Mode

Directories

Caution: Do not remove a xD card while the blue LED is lit; this can cause data corruption.
Formatting an xD Card
xD cards come formatted and ready to use with the PC3. If you ever need to format a card,
however, insert the xD card (with gold contacts up) into the PC3's xD slot, or in the xD slot of
any computer with xD formatting capability. Make sure the card does not have a write-
protection sticker attached.
Press the Storage button to enter Storage mode. Press the soft button labeled Format. The PC3
will ask you if you want to format, and a pair of Yes/No soft buttons will appear. Press the Yes
soft button when you are ready to begin.
The PC3 will remind you that formatting will erase the xD card, and will give you two more
chances to cancel the formatting procedure—we want to make sure you don't accidentally erase
any cards. Press the Yes soft button to continue formatting. When formatting begins, the display
will tell you that the card is being formatted. The blue xD LED will light.
Directories
A directory lets you group files together as you might separate documents using folders in a file
cabinet. You can create directories on xD cards. You can even create subdirectories within
directories.
Directories are handy for organizing your song, and program files. The PC3 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 PC3 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 PC3 is
64 characters (including the backslash characters).
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