There really is no need to use floppy disks on the 7K, except to upgrade the system or use the midi or file type converters.

Say you have the supplied 8MB card still, use that as your download transfer "floppy".

Format the 8MB card, then perform any normal SD save on the KN7000 to the card.

Open on the computer, open the Private, Technics, KN7000 folders, delete the Kn7000mn.inf file (and the Kn7000mn.bak file if you have it). Open the TFLD001 folder and delete all the contents.

Job done.

Now copy the technics format files from inside the thread download zip to the TFLD001 folder.

You can see and load them in the 7k... name them properly and save to your other larger daily use SD card.

Next time you have some new technics format files, just delete the 2 inf and bak files, and empty the 001 folder again.

The technics format files must be numbered 01 to 20, you can just copy any complete floppy disk of 7k, 6k5, 6k, 5k, 3k, 2k format to the 001 folder to see all files in the 7k at once - unbelievably quicker than loading 20 files off floppy individually.

If you want to copy many floppy disks at once just create TFLD002, TFLD003 etc folders next to the 001 folder, fill each with a max of 20 technics format file groups numbered 01 to 20.

Then throw those awful floppys away, on the 7k they are just a waste of valuable lifetime!

Thanks Alec,

will follow your advice!

Just to reawaken this thread. I recently purchased an ipad and discovered that not only could I dropbox my mp3 files from my computer onto the ipad and thence into some very good mp3 player apps'; but having done that I only had to connect the sound orifice of the ipad to the rear sound input of my KN7000 and I had completely bypassed SD Cards etc with my backing tracks for my singers - see www.tributeartistes.com
Katrina you are it seems in much the same situation of providing backing for singers from time to time and this may be a better route for you than purchasing another laptop.

Hi Roger,
I advocated that method some time ago ... I got sick of all the converting to Secure SD, 'Checking Out' etc. which is a bit of a pain......
It's a whole lot easier just connecting a standard MP3/WAV/WMA player to the KN7000 (or earlier KNs) Line In sockets.
Admittedly, you need to carry an extra bit of kit to gigs and you don't have the 'Sync' facility, but they are only 'minor irritations'