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Applications

Selecting certain tracks for import/export

When you’re working in the Track window, you don’t have to select

only tracks or files that are all in a row. If desired, you can

“leapfrog” over tracks which you do not want to import or export.

To choose specific tracks, click on the ones you want to transfer

while holding the Control key.

Another selection shortcut is to Select All (Control A) and then

de-select the tracks you don’t want to transfer by clicking on those

tracks while holding the Control key.

Making imported tracks go where you want

An easy way to tell FST/Connect where you want certain tracks to

be placed on the FST drive is to navigate within Windows to the

folder that contains them, and then rename them using the desired

track numbers somewhere in the file names (before the two- or

three-letter extensions).

Useful Information

How the PC views your FST Drive

When you start using a hard drive with FST/Connect for the first

time, you should use FST/Connect to format it. If you use

Windows’ Disk Management utility to format the drive, you will

still need to format it using FST/Connect before you will be able

to use it with FST/Connect.

Once you have used FST/Connect to format the drive, it will show

up as an unrecognized drive in Windows. This means you will not

be able to locate it using Windows Explorer. Also, your PC will not

recognize the FST drive’s format when you look at it using the

Disk Management utility. It will be identified as “Unknown.”

After there is FST data on the drive, you should not attempt to

format the FST drive using Windows. If you do you will destroy

your adat FST data.

It is also not possible to partition the hard drive so that it contains

a combination of an FST partition and a Windows partition. The

two formats are incompatible.

Neither should you attempt to defragment the FST drive using any

form of disk utility. The Alesis file system was designed to keep

file fragmentation to the absolute minimum. Besides, the FST drive

has a proprietary method of file organization that a third-party

disk utility would be highly unlikely to interpret properly.

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