Copying the Contents of Several Small SD Cards to a Larger Card

It is possible that you may have a collection of small capacity SD cards – say 8Mb, 16Mb, 32Mb and wish to transfer their contents to a larger SD card. This is basically a process of merging the content of the smaller cards, into one file and then transferring that file to a new larger SD card.

Obviously, you will have to determine how many cards’ content can be transferred to the larger card and this will also depend on how much of the smaller cards’ capacity, has been used up. You should be able to transfer 3  full 32Mb cards to a single 128Mb card but you could not transfer 3 full 64Mb cards to a 128Mb card !! A little basic calculation should help in this matter and the reported ‘Used %’ on the KNxxxx display will give you an idea of  how full any particular card is.

Alternatively, you can plug the SD cards in question into the Panasonic Card Reader, connect to your PC USB port, Double click on My Computer, then Right click on ‘Removable Disk (Drive)’, click on Properties and the ‘Used capacity’ will be reported.

Your new SD card will have to be formatted before you can transfer the files, so I suggest you do this first, in your KNxxxx, by following the procedure in the User Manual.

Initial Set-up

1. Create a new directory on your PC hard drive – suggested name ‘SDtransfer’.

2. Open ‘Song Manager’ and at the top Right corner of the ‘Technics’ section of the window,  Left click on the small Folder Icon.

3. Navigate through the drives and folders until you see the ‘SDtransfer’ folder. Click on the folder to highlight it and then click the ‘OK’ button.

Procedure
 
1. Plug the Panasonic Card Reader into your PC USB port.

2. Insert the first SD Card in the reader and in the Menu at the top of the screen, click on SD Manage.

3. Click on SD Backup from the drop-down Menu and follow the instructions.

4. When you get to the 'Save as..' screen, name the file as  ‘Card1’ and click on Save.

5. On the 'SD Card Selection' screen, choose 'Card in Reader/Writer'.

6. On the 'Browse for folder' screen, click on 'Removable Disk' - the backup process will start and activity will be shown by the yellow LED on the Reader/Writer.

7. When the backup has finished, it will indicate 'Completed' on the PC screen - click on 'OK'

8. Remove the first SD card from the Card Reader/Writer and insert the next card.

9. Repeat the process as necessary, from Step 3, entering an appropriate filename for the next cards (Card2, Card3 etc.)

10. When all the cards have been backed up, you will have a series of files, each with an .SDB extension, on your PC. 

11. Remove the last card from the Reader/Writer.

12. The group of '.SDB' files which have been created in the ‘SDtransfer’ folder, can now be merged into one file in the same folder, using the ‘Song Manager’ program and then transferred to the larger SD Card. For the purposes of this explanation, we will assume that you are transferring the contents of 3 SD cards to a larger single card. However, the process can easily be expanded if you wish to transfer more than three cards, once you understand the procedure.

13. Click on 'SD Manage' but this time click on 'SD Merge'.

14. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Source 1' box and navigate to the first '.SDB' file (Card1)

15. Click on the filename to highlight and then on 'Open' - the filename should then appear in the 'Source 1' box.

16. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Source 2' box and navigate to the next '.SDB' file (Card2).

17. Click on the filename to highlight and then on 'Open' - the filename should then appear in the 'Source 2' box.

18. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Destination' box.

19. In the 'Save As' screen, enter a filename (Card1&2) then click on 'Save' 

20. The 'SD Merge' screen should now show - 'Source 1 - Card1' : 'Source 2' - Card2' : 'Destination - Card1&2'

21. Click on 'OK' and the files 'Card1' and 'Card2' will be merged into the new file, 'Card1&2'. When the 'Completed' window appears, click 'OK'

22. Now the third file should be added....

23. Click on 'SD Manage' and again, click on 'SD Merge'.

24. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Source 1' box and navigate to the third '.SDB' file (Card3)

25. Click on the filename to highlight and then on 'Open' - the filename should then appear in the 'Source 1' box.

26. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Source 2' box and navigate to the next '.SDB' file (Card1&2).

27. Click on the filename to highlight and then on 'Open' - the filename should then appear in the 'Source 2' box.

28. In the 'SD Merge' screen, click on the small Folder Icon, to the right of the 'Destination' box.

29. In the 'Save As' screen, enter a filename (Card1&2&3) then click on 'Save' 

30. The 'SD Merge' screen should now show - 'Source 1 - Card3' : 'Source 2' - Card1&2' : 'Destination - Card1&2&3'

31. Click on 'OK' and the files 'Card3' and 'Card1&2' will be merged into a new file 'Card1&2&3'. When the 'Completed' window appears, click 'OK'.

32. The three files have now been merged into a new single backup format '.SDB' file, named ‘Card1&2&3’, which can now be transferred to your new larger card.

33. In the Song Manager screen, click on 'SD Manage' and in the dropdown menu, click on 'SD Restore'

34. In the 'Open' screen, navigate to the file 'Card1&2&3'. Click on the file to highlight it and then click on 'Open'.

35. A warning screen will appear - click on 'Yes' and then 'SD Card in Card Reader/Writer'.

36. Insert the new Formatted blank SD card in the Reader/Writer.

37. In the 'Browse for Folder' screen, click on 'Removable Disk' then 'OK' - the transfer of the file will start and the LED will indicate the transfer activity.

38. When the transfer has completed, click on 'OK'.
 
That completes the process - remove the card from the Reader/Writer and close Song Manager.
Insert the SD card in your KNxxxx and you should now be able to see all the files from the three original cards. You can delete the original files on your PC if you wish or just leave them as backups.

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