greenfox Posted June 20, 2006 Report Posted June 20, 2006 I have just suffered the dreaded hard drive crash. :-[ with no backup of my recent Midibox .ini files :'(Is it possible to read the .syx file from the Core and then somehow reverse Pearl it to get back to a copy of the .ini file? Quote
TK. Posted June 20, 2006 Report Posted June 20, 2006 Yes, this is possible - you can request a SysEx dump with Serge's MIDIbox Editor, thereafter you can save the bank as .ini file, and edit it like before.To ensure that nothing gets unintentionally lost (e.g. for the case that you click the wrong button), you could create a full backup of the flash and EEPROM contents like described here: http://www.ucapps.de/mios/mios_backup.txtBest Regards, Thorsten. Quote
stryd_one Posted June 21, 2006 Report Posted June 21, 2006 And guys - GMail makes for a great backup location for small files like these ;)Just make sure you zip them up in a password protected file or google might own your work or something...Now it's time for me to play the nagging old bastard. I've said this sooo many times. When it comes to data....IF IT DOES NOT EXIST IN THREE PLACES.... IT DOES NOT EXIST.Do your backups! Quote
greenfox Posted June 21, 2006 Author Report Posted June 21, 2006 Thanks, good news TK.Yes stryd, you are right, you are right, you are right!!!!There are of course a lot of things I lost. I have been very lucky for many years, but obviously now need to have a regular backup (multiple coppy) procedure. Quote
stryd_one Posted June 21, 2006 Report Posted June 21, 2006 It happens to everybody once :DI lost all my music the first and only time I've lost data. Ouch.... Quote
tos Posted June 21, 2006 Report Posted June 21, 2006 Hehe....let's not start a talk about faulty data mediums....and.....expenses......BTW: I have Western Digital 120GB waiting to be recovered (with source codes and personal photos and....stuff.....).You see....the other day a girl walked out on me and I still miss more this data(that was lost 2 years ago) than her. Well, some things are irreplacable. Quote
greenfox Posted July 22, 2006 Author Report Posted July 22, 2006 I have had a couple of tries at getting back my .ini file data. I have not been able to get very far. :-[I have used Sysebox (Sep 25 3004) to do a Request Sysex Dump, MIDIO128 Bank. I get 1590 bytes in I think 6 blocks. I then save the file.It doesn't matter if I save it as .sys or .txt, or rename it later. All I can see is Hieroglyphics.I can't work out where to find the syx2hex mentioned in the MISO_backup.txtMay I please have some more help? ??? Quote
stryd_one Posted July 22, 2006 Report Posted July 22, 2006 Yeh, unfortunately, it's a MIDI file (MIDI SysEx to be precise) and no matter what you name it, the hex won't appear as text ;)I can't find syx2hex anywhere either, have you tried syx2asm? Quote
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