Installed Second Batch of Revised Genos1 Packs

[rattley]

Greetings!!

Last night I installed the second offering of revised Genos1 Yamaha packs.  I open YEM and imported them all one by one. Then I chose the instrument Genos2. It showed all the previous pack installed with a green check mark. I checked all the packs I just imported.  I created the install pack and saved it to USB stick, the same stick I used before. I inserted the stick into the front USB port. The bottom port has a formatted 64g stick installed that I haven't used yet. It is always plugged in.  The packs installed fine and I have used a few of them already.

When I wanted to find some other styles to play with I looked in the user area and it showed 4 USB sticks.  1 2 3 4 !!  Two of them said unformatted, one said improperly installed, the last one did nothing when pressing it. What to do?  What to do!!  I turned Genos2 off and when rebooted it showed just the 2 normal sticks. However the stick I used for the last pack installs showed it unformatted. The 64g stick on the Genos2 bottom showed it correctly having 64g but no files on it as there are none.

How am I ever going to trust anything USB ever again. Earlier I read posts about how Yamaha assigns the drives.  Depending on what is plugged in and where the same drive could have a different assignment  each session.  I had a bad feeling reading this and just knew it could be trouble. I hope I did something wrong and this doesn't happen again.  I can't believe this couldn't be fixed and we could have these drives permanently assigned once.  Maybe an older type internal hard drive wouldn't be such a bad idea??  Thanks.  -charley

[Amwilburn]

Not following; if you made a cpi install pack, it would *only* show up if you go to expansion -> Install. It will not show up if you're viewing midis, mps, styles or voices...?

Also did you plug 4 USB sticks in...?? It sounds to me like 1 of your sticks is either going (from experience, most USB sticks last 1-4 years, I'm now on my 45th stick). The moment it starts slowing down when accessing files? Or pausing when saving? It's time to transfer everything to a new stick.
Back in the Windows ME (millenium edition) era, USB sticks were split formatted with *2* drive letters, which rendered them incompatible with musical instruments. But as those are from over a decade ago, I doubt that's what you're using.

Also, for *any* keyboard, I recommend *not* leaving a USB plugged in all the time and then a 2nd one (because drive assignment is random on bootup, but *is* in order of drives detected... ie if you leave 1 in there all the time you're fine, as long as you don't reboot with a 2nd one in there) but even then, I find that your registration paths won't be compatible from 1 stick to the next anyway if you plug in both at once.

I always just use 1 usb stick, with backups.