Specifications

Chapter 19: Shows and File Management 185
Transferring Settings, Shows and
Presets
You can copy Console Settings, Shows, and Presets to and from
a portable storage device (such as a USB flash drive) for backup,
transfer from standalone software, and transfer between systems.
Settings, Shows and Presets cannot be loaded onto the destination
system directly from the portable storage device, but must first be
transferred to the system before loading.
Transfer of Settings files, Show files, and Preset files is managed
from the Transfer tab of the Filing page. The Transfer tab shows
the system-resident files in the left column and the contents of the
portable storage device in the right column. Items are selected for
transfer in the center.
To transfer Settings, Shows or Presets between your system and
a portable storage device:
1 Go to the Filing page and click the Transfer tab.
2 Connect a portable storage device (such as a USB flash drive)
to the system. The device appears above the right column.
3 Do one of the following to select the type of data to transfer:
• To transfer all data, click the
Console icon.
• To transfer Console Settings, click the
Settings icon.
• To transfer Show Folders, click the
Show Folders icon.
• To transfer individual Shows, click the
Shows icon.
• To transfer Preset Folders, click the P
reset Folders icon.
• To transfer Presets for individual items, click the
Built-In or
Plug-In icon and choose a built-in processor or plug-in, or
Input Channel from the pop-up menu.
• To transfer Scope Sets for Recall Safe, click the
Scope Sets
icon.
4 Do one of the following to select the items to transfer:
• In the left column, select the items you want to transfer to
the portable storage device.
– or –
• In the right column, select the items you want to transfer
from the portable storage device to your system.
5 Click the Transfer button.
Large transfers may take time. Transfer status is shown by a prog-
ress bar. A transfer may be canceled by clicking Cancel.
Synchronizing Settings, Shows and
Presets
Instead of transferring data in one direction between the VENUE
system and a portable storage device, you can synchronize all
data in both columns of the Transfer tab in a single operation.
Synchronizing data causes new files to be copied and files with
the same name but a more recent modification date/time to be au-
tomatically updated.
Console Settings are equivalent to an auto-saved Show file,
and store the current state of the system. By transferring Con-
sole Settings, you can transfer the current state of the system
without having to first create and name a Show file.
File transfer controls
Preparing to transfer items to a USB storage device
Canceled transfers may result in partial folder contents,
which will have to be deleted manually.
When synchronizing data, the VENUE software replaces
data files of the same name with the file that has the most
recent date/time. Check to be sure that the system clock
times and time zones are correctly set on the system and
on the computer running the Standalone software when
preparing data for synchronization.