Disklavier

If I'm following this correctly, you still have your functional original 80 gig drive.  You said failing, but not failed?

If you could get the piano to boot off of that drive, you could use DKVBrowser to backup your "recorded live" music.  It is a little used feature, but if you select an album, and choose Copy to PC it will copy an entire album to your FromToPC folder.  If you drag that folder from the FromToPC to your desktop it will create a file in the folder called SongData.csv [this is the magic part].  Later you can drag it BACK into DKVBrowser's FromToPC window (even on a different piano, or the same piano with a different hard drive) and then you can right click on the folder and chose "Process Song Data", and DKVBrowser will restore the song names, and a few other details back to the values that they had when you dragged them from the piano in the first place.  This works for any songs/albums on your MarkIV, unless they are marked as copy protected (imported floppies, I guess).

Hope this helps.

-Kevin


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 From: carwizard <carwizard@affordableclassics.com>
To: "<disklavier@yahoogroups.com>" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> 
Cc: "disklavier@yahoogroups.com" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Impossible to backup song data on Disklavier
 


  
This is now true. The latest update has broken the backup AND restore routine. I know this, because I just finished repairing an intermittent Disklavier Pro, which I have owned for 6 years.

I had two problems at the same time. They were a failing hard drive, and failing power supply. 

Two days before the hard drive was replaced, I backed up my piano. No problem. I then updated the piano to the latest operating system. Shortly after that, I replaced the hard drive. To my HORROR, I could not restore my music. For testing purposes, I tried to do a new backup with the new hard drive and experienced the "file handle process is running" error. I called tech support looking for what I was doing wrong, only to find out that it was not me, but rather the piano. Tech support was not aware of this problem, and are now working on a fix. This is not the first time an update has broken the backup routine. 

So I spent 3 days putting all my music back in and have permanently lost all "recorded live" music.

To have a back up, I have decided to cloan the hard drive. I purchased a hard drive cloaner and spare hard drive, and in 30 minutes, I have an exact backup.

The good news is that since I know own a "cloaner", I decided to put in a 256gig SSD drive in. I cloaned the original drive (after restoring music) to the SSD drive and then used "Parted Magic" to expand the cloaned copy to the new larger 256 size. 

It work great! Quieter, faster and larger. I then cloaned the final larger drive for backup purposes to another drive. So in summary, my DS4 M PRO now has a 256 SSD drive in it, and I also have 2 extra hard drives. 1 original 80 gig one and 1 backup 320 gig "cloaned backup" one.

Take Care 
Neal Polan - President
Affordable Classics, Inc

On Jul 2, 2013, at 12:41 AM, "Julien Roche" <julien.roche@...> wrote:


  
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>On my disklavier, it is now impossible to backup the song data. Doing the procedure I receive the warning message : "file handle process is running" 
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>So what I shall do to allow backup ?
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>Thank you !
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>Julien