EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi Ron,  you will be pleased to know Hendrik and I have cracked the problem.
The smf files that will not drag + drop on to the arrange page all have the
'read only' status enabled in their attributes.   I realised a solution was
needed to batch convert all the files and was sure that this had been
discussed before on the list. I looked in the archives and found this:

>>Sascha Franck said:

>>But actually it's easy, just go into your folder, select all files,
>>rightclick on them, choose "properties" and uncheck the "read only"
>>checkbox. Unfortunately Win98 doesn't do that for
>>complete folders, so sometimes it's slightly more hassle if you
>>use subfolders a lot (if you're on ME, no problem, it does that).

>Phil Angus replied:

>Further to this, If you want to do an entire folder with all files in sub
>folders just do the following. Suppose the root folder is c:\temp and
>you have loads of files within folders and subfolders copied off a
>CDROM.

>open command prompt and type:
>attrib -r c:\temp\*.* /s

>This will take off the read-only attribute for all files within all folders
in
>that tree, but the folders themselves (which should not cause a
>problem anyway) will not be affected.


I tried this and intially got a 'Parse error 8'.   The problem was due to
long
complicated folder names. I renamed the folders with simple names so that
the path became n:\et\smf  and it worked, all smf files in all subfolders
losing their read
only status.

Let us know if it works for you.

regards, Hector.