newbie question about SonicStage

[roofrabbit]

I have a new Sony MZ-RH1 recorder with SonicStage version 3.4.03.15140 connected to PC (Windows XP) via USB 2.0 port.

Recently I tried to transfer a folder (group) from the minidisc recorder -- that folder was recorded on the Hi-MD disc from an original source -- to my PC. WAV conversion was selected for the transfer. The transfer began, then stopped. The folder had been deleted from the minidisc disk, and no file was created on the PC. I think somehow the transfer process deleted the folder.

Is this behavior common?

Will I be protected from loss if before transferring from minidisc to PC, the write-protect tab is set?

Can it happen in reverse (i.e., the file or folder on the computer is deleted when transferring to minidisc)?

A piece of info: the folder on the minidisc had several tracks, each track recorded with a different compression, starting with a PCM track. Does this make any difference?

[A440]

That's very bizarre behavior. It is not at all common. This is the first report I have seen of a trashed upload in 3.4.

Had the file on the disc been transferred previously with an old version of SonicStage, before SS 3.2? Older versions of SonicStage only allowed one transfer from MD to computer, marked the file, and then, out of sheer evil, deleted the file if a second transfer was attempted.

Otherwise I have no idea why your problem occurred.

Unfortunately, the write-protect tab will prevent you from uploading at all.

A folder on the computer will not be deleted when copying to minidisc. Sony has never tried to prevent transfers in that direction, from PC to MD.

One thing I would suggest is to uncheck .wav conversion. Let SonicStage simply upload to My Library. Then convert to .wav once a copy is in your computer. SonicStage takes a lot of processing power, and perhaps, with a big PCM file that it was also trying to convert to .wav, it just freaked out.