--- In K5000@yahoogroups.com, "Joe-Joe Sparrow" <analog_geek@...>
wrote:
>
> hello all. im getting use to my k5000 and i have to say the sounds
> that can be created are other worldly! i wanted to share some with
the
> group when i ran into a problem. Seems when i try to pull the
patches
> off of the floppy into my hard drive i get a "Cannot copy file:
Cannot
> read from the source file of disk" and this is only the files that i
> create and save. The files i download from the internet work just
> fine. I can put then onto floppys and pull them off no problem. I
was
> wondering if there was a work around to get the native file formate
to
> the computer? thanks!
>


I just got a K5000 and you are so right.. other worldly

I had the same problem. I started saving patches and changing the
names to conform to old DOS naming conventions. I made the filenames
all cap letters and no spaces. You do not want any special characters
(ie use only numbers, letters, - (dash) and _ (underscore) )

-Under MS-DOS and 16-bit FAT file systems, file and directory names
are restricted to eight characters with a three-character file
extension, such as CHAPTER4.TXT. This naming convention is often
referred to as the 8.3 file-naming rule or the standard MS-DOS
file-naming rule.

I think the K is doing some VFAT trick from the Windows 95 days.