Audrey,you're a sweetheart for offering, but I have since found the indexes I always make when I backup a card.

John, that is my problem.

Since it is rather laborious to retype the names, I am going to take the suggestion of formatting a clean card and rebuilding.

Thanks again
Bernie

Bernie,
I did not format the card --- all the data was still in the SD card. I loaded a file and then resaved the file with the old name if I remembered. If I did not remember, I gave the file a new name.

I did not have to create from the beginning.

For a large fee I’ll come over and do it. (Grin)

John C.

Yes, you can load and resave each file at the KN7000 as John suggests. But you still need to enter the long names which is very time consuming at the KN7000. It is easier and much faster to just drag the files over to the SD card with the SD Explorer and type in the long names at the computer while you are there.

Bernie, are you certain that the .bak file that Bill mentioned is not there? His suggestion is much better than any of this other stuff we are talking about.

I put the faulty card in a reader and found no .inf file, but only a setup file with the KN#'s and a .bak file with no contents, besides the Private file.

YIPPEEEE !
Success,I read another card that I had restored the same data from the pc on, and eventhough it too had numbers, it had the .inf and .bak files included. Using Wizard Bill's formula,it worked. Sorry John for all your work. Bob,if you had not been persistant, I never would have gone back and tried it again.

What a bunch of gals and guys on this forum.
Bernie

That's good news.

Bernie, if you worked on the card since you made that backup, there may be a few new items that are missing. But it's much better than starting from scratch.

The moral is; copy the SD card Private folder to your PC often so that you can recover it if a backup fails.

Right you are Bob,however, the problem arose when I restored the card in the first place. It does not tell me how it got corrupted and how to avoid it.

I agree, Bernie. Many things could cause a backup failure. John gave one example. Any power failure during the process could cause it. But if we keep a copy of the private folder of the SD somewhere else, like the PC, we can always recover from that copy.

I don't use the backup process with the SD Explorer at all. I copy the Private folder of the SD card to the PC. Then if I want a second (or new) copy of the SD, I format the new SD card at the KN7000 and save a file (anything will do) to create the file structure. Then I move the SD card to the PC and copy the CONTENTS of the Private folder in the PC to the Private folder of the SD card, overwriting the file I had saved to create the file structure. That makes an exact duplicate of the original card.

One nice aspect of the SD Explorer backup and restore process though, is the ability to send files, including their long song names, to someone who also has the SD Explorer in their PC. You can't do that with a floppy disk. So, if you have some stuff you want to send to someone, you can save it to a SD card, do a backup, and then send the backup. The recipient can then restore to a blank SD card and they have the files with their long song names. Joan Banfield taught me that.

I see. Mighty good info. My next job is to make one or two good SD's out of the mix of stuff I have accumulated through the years. When memory was high I was buying smaller SD's. As you know, things are different.b
Can't you drag and drop ?

Bernie, you asked "Can't you drag and drop?"

Not sure I understand that question . . . If you are talking about combining files from two SD cards, the answer is yes with the SD Explorer but no with Windows Explorer.

I seem to remember that the little Song Manager software that comes with the KN7000 can do a merge of two cards. I've never had a need for it.