Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

thanks steve- will watch out for that. this is probably a microsoft thing, right? :-)

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
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> Some of you may remember that I did quite a bit of playing around with Prodatum a year or so ago. All of this was just testing. Now, I decided I want to try to make some serious use of Prodatum (v0.41) on my XPSP3 PC and ran into some issues that I thought I'd share.
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> (1) Prodatum causes error/lockup when opening a device 
> The solution that worked for me: 
> Delete (or rename as backup) the prodatum folder in the Application Data folder.
> 
> Mine was here:
> C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\prodatum
> where <USER> is the Windows Login name (aka profile name).
> 
> 
> (2) Prodatum deletes your current settings and restores Multisetup 000
> The only solution that I can see is to make sure you backup your current settings into a multisetup (possibly 000). 
> I now recall discovering this before and doing extensive testing to track down the problem. In the process I discovered that the E-Mu boxes somehow save the settings that are in effect at power down. I seem to recall this is not 100% identical with what's stored in a multisetup. For more info, see the discussion in this thread:
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> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/20136 .
> 
> Fortunately for me, I saved my settings (as a multisetup) last night before installing/firing up Prodatum v.0.41 today.
> 
> --Steve
>