Thank you Chris for your reply.
I am in Style mode when I open the backup folder and the same for Registration. I wanted to replace a Registration memory, I click on the top left Registration Bank (Regist) and then click on USB 1, backup folder. There are 2 folders AUDIOREC.ROOT and SONG. There is nothing inside, no Registration.
The process of loading Style or other data from a backup file is the same as Korg arrangers, I use it for more than twenty years and I am aware that for loading a related data we have to be in the related page (ex; Style Mode, Song Mode, Sound Mode, etc...). The only difference is that in Korg backup data, it shows all content but not in Yamaha even though we are in the right mode (style mode song mode, etc...)
Hi Bruce,
As already mentioned,
you cannot extract individual files from a "Backup" file (.bup) created with the internal BACKUP function. Such a backup file contains the System settings (System Setup, User Effects and User MIDI settings) as well as the contents of the internal User drive. The only thing you can do with such a .bup file is
restore ALL the settings and files it contains "in one go" using the RESTORE function. All current contents of the internal flash memory are overwritten (i.e. System settings and contents of the User drive)!
To get a backup that you can WORK with, just COPY the desired files (e.g. Styles or Registrations), or entire folders containing files of the relevant file type, in the relevant File Selection display onto a USB stick.
The easiest way is
not to use the internal memory (User drive) at all (or only for frequently used Registrations, User Voices or Multi Pads), but store and manage all "playing data" (e.g. Registration Bank files, Styles, MIDI files) on
USB sticks. To create backups, you plug the USB stick into the computer and simply copy all the data to other sticks, to the computer hard drive, to other media or to cloud storage.
By the way, the internal User drive has fixed main folders specified by the system for each individual file type (e.g. STYLE, REGIST, MULTI PAD). If you work with the User drive and have created registrations in which user styles are linked, for example, these registrations will not work from the USB stick, even if you copy the styles including the subfolder created in the user drive to the USB stick . In order for the registrtions from the stick to work, you would either have to create the aforementioned main folders on the USB stick
exactly as in the user drive and then copy the files from the user drive there, or you would have to change each individual registration (relink user files ) and then re-save each Registration Bank. Alternatively, you could change the file paths in the Registration Banks in batch with the "Yamaha Registration Manager".
You can avoid the source of error just described (caused by the fixed folder structure in the internal user drive) by
always working with a USB stick, as described above.
P.S.
The (hidden) folder "AUDIOREC.ROOT" is used by
Genos and
Tyros5 for the
Audio Multi Recording function. It is located in the internal User drive of the Genos and on the internal hard drive of the Tyros5. As far as I know, this folder does not exist for PSR-SX models.
Best regards,
Chris