MPC zip to mac and pc bad idea?

Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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MPC zip to mac and pc bad idea?

By Magnum PA Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:02 pm
after 9 years of mpc (2000 and xl) use, i finally started messing around with Live, yeah im a sellout, but 32 meg ram vs 2 gigs, come on...
but anyway, i have a usb zip drive i use with my mac and pc and i wanted to get some older mpc (wav) sounds into live. seemed to work ok, then i put the zip back into the mpc and some junk file showed up, so i deleted it, and i guess it deleted some wav files along with the junk file. is there any safe way to use a zip disk to share midi and wav files on all 3 platforms? will these junk files cause problems with mpc operation if i just ignore them?
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By Lampdog Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:02 am
This sounds alot like a thread about a year ago. One person was pissed cause Sound Forge kept placing "junk files" (.SFK) into the directory where the samples where. This person had opened up those samples in that directory. Well, those "junk" files actually contain data that is needed by the parent program. IE. Vegas creates a VEG when u do a new mulitrack session. This .VEG is like an undo keeper, a parameter keeper, a settings rememberer. If you delete the VEG file then Vegas will not know what files you want where when you lite up your previous multitrack session.

Same happened to your LIVE. Do yourself a favor, find out the 3 letter extension of that file, google that 3 letter extension and see what comes up. You need to know what those files are and what they contain before you assume they are junk.
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