whoo mama...windows xp vs. MPC 2kxl vs. zip LOST DATA

sorry for the subject line incomprehensibility, I've just downed a few beers to drown my absolute frustration with the FU**ING MPC. (last night as well after this same problem occured on a different tune).

Here it is. If you're a regular reader of this digest, you know I've had some issues already (some retarded, some still unsolved). The current bug has to do with entire folders on my zip disk suddenly becoming "corrupted and unreadable." The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is last night, I was deleting some sounds from a different program, deleting some sounds from the zip disk as well. Then, a completely unrelated folder becomes corrupted. WTF?

I remember reading somewhere about XP and the mpc2kxl having some sort of bugs...now I really need to know if I can fix any possible bugs, or what. I don't know how many more days' worth of work I'm willing to lose due to mysterious zip/mpc/etc. problems. I only work like 3 days a week so I can spend the rest of my time working on music. I have to eat ramen 5 times a week because I dropped so much cheese on this MPC. And it taunts me!

Oh yeah, that .pgm file I asked about last is still gone; I just recreated the whole thing. But, like that arcade delight Whack-A-Mole, when you beat one problem over the head, another just pops up, it seems.

Please, help. The MPC is turning me into an alcoholic.


K. Trunkerton

trunk wrote:sorry for the subject line incomprehensibility, I've just downed a few beers to drown my absolute frustration with the FU**ING MPC. (last night as well after this same problem occured on a different tune).

Here it is. If you're a regular reader of this digest, you know I've had some issues already (some retarded, some still unsolved). The current bug has to do with entire folders on my zip disk suddenly becoming "corrupted and unreadable." The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is last night, I was deleting some sounds from a different program, deleting some sounds from the zip disk as well. Then, a completely unrelated folder becomes corrupted. WTF?

I remember reading somewhere about XP and the mpc2kxl having some sort of bugs...now I really need to know if I can fix any possible bugs, or what. I don't know how many more days' worth of work I'm willing to lose due to mysterious zip/mpc/etc. problems. I only work like 3 days a week so I can spend the rest of my time working on music. I have to eat ramen 5 times a week because I dropped so much cheese on this MPC. And it taunts me!

Oh yeah, that .pgm file I asked about last is still gone; I just recreated the whole thing. But, like that arcade delight Whack-A-Mole, when you beat one problem over the head, another just pops up, it seems.

Please, help. The MPC is turning me into an alcoholic.


K. Trunkerton

Did some of your PGM's, WAV's, Folders have names longer than 8 characters?

Did some of your PGM's, WAV's, Folders have names longer than 8 characters?[/quote]

no. If only that were the solution....Lampdog, my friend, I do believe my zip drive is conspiring against me. Basically I'm just going to try to save everything in 2 other locations besides the zip, so when the zip bails, I can restore it with ease. I'm guessing the problem is either xp compatibility or a slow/faulty/moody zip drive. Maybe I'm just superstitious. The only thing I can remember that might have thrown the zip for a loop is deleting some files from ANOTHER program while the one in question was also loaded in there. How an operation like this can corrupt another folder is beyond me, but, alas, so much is.

Recreation time. Wish me luck. Fingers crossed.

Ben