User manual SONY ICD-R100PC SOFTWARE

[. . . ] 3-866-581-13 (1) ICD-PCLINK Software Operating Instructions ©1999 by Sony Corporation Notice for users Program ©1999 Sony Corporation Documentation ©1999 Sony Corporation All rights reserved. This manual or the software described herein, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced, translated or reduced to any machine readable form without prior written approval from Sony Corporation. IN NO EVENT SHALL SONY CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED ON TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS MANUAL, THE SOFTWARE OR OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN OR THE USE THEREOF. Sony Corporation reserves the right to make any modification to this manual or the information contained herein at any time without notice. [. . . ] The messages in the transferred folder will be added at the end of the selected Message File. To transfer the messages using the [ICD<­ PC] button 1 Select the folder in the "PC" Area and click the [ICD<­ PC] button. Basic Operation 2 When the dialog box shown in "If you did not specify the position" above appears, select the Message File (A or B) to which you wish to transfer the message and click [OK]. Note If there are some files in that folder that cannot be transferred due to an incompatible format, or if there is not enough memory available on the IC recorder, only the sound files that can be transferred will be transferred, and then an error message will appear. To transfer a WAV file to the IC recorder, transfer it one by one following the procedure on page 31. 35 Editing the Messages in the IC Recorder on the Computer Screen Using the main window of the ICD-PCLINK Software, you can change the order of messages in the IC recorder or delete the messages. (Adding or deleting of index is not possible. ) Moving the messages By moving the messages on the main window, you can change the order of messages in the IC recorder. You can move the messages within the same Message File or to another Message File (A or B). Example: Moving Message05 in Message File A to the top of Message File A 1 Drag the message in the "IC RECORDER" Area and drop it at the desired position. 36 The following dialog box appears. 2 Select the position to insert the message; either before or after the selected message. Click [Before] in this example. The messages in the IC Recorder will be renumbered. Basic Operation The moved message is now Message 01 of Message File A. Continued 37 Editing the Messages in the IC Recorder on the Computer Screen (continued) Deleting the Messages You can delete the messages in the "IC RECORDER" Area one by one, or all the messages in a Message File (A or B) at one time. You can also delete the ICS files, WAV files and ICB files in the "PC"Area one by one (see page 41). Notes · You cannot delete both A and B message files at one time by selecting the "ICD-R100" in the "IC RECORDER" Area. · You cannot delete folders in the "PC" Area. ·Deleting messages in the IC recorder one by one 1 Select the message you wish to delete and click the [Delete] button. Example: Deleting Message05 in Message File A 38 The following dialog box appears. 2 Click [Yes] if it is all right to delete the selected message. When deleting is completed, the following message numbers decrease by one. Basic Operation Continued 39 Editing the Messages in the IC Recorder on the Computer Screen (continued) ·Deleting all the messages in a Message File at one time 1 Select the file you wish to delete (A or B) and click the [Delete] button. Example: Deleting all the messages in Message File A The following dialog box appears. 2 Click [Yes] if it is all right to delete the selected Message File. 40 ·Deleting files (ICS files, WAV files or ICB files) in the "PC" Area 1 Select the file you wish to delete and click the [Delete] button. The following dialog box appears. Basic Operation 2 Click [Yes] if it is all right to delete the selected file. 41 Saving a Backup of the IC Recorder ("Back Up") You can save all the messages in the IC recorder to the computer as one backup file. The backup file is stored in a special format called an "ICB file". · An ICB file is Sony's original file format. All of the data in the IC recorder is compressed and can be stored as one ICB file. · It is not possible to check the contents of or play back an ICB file, unless you restore it to the IC recorder (page 45). When the ICB file is restored to the IC recorder, the information accompanying the messages (file name, message number, date and time of recording and alarm setting) is also restored. · The size of one ICB file is fixed (approx. 16. 5 MB) regardless of the length of recorded messages. Saving a backup (ICB) file to the computer Note There must be at least 16. 5 MB of space on your computer's hard disk, etc. If you wish to make another backup file of the current messages in the IC recorder when restoring the backup file to the IC recorder, you need an extra space of at least 16. 5 MB in addition. 1 Click the [Back Up] button. 42 The following dialog box appears. Destination to which the message is to be saved File name of the backup file will be as follows: Backup_ICD-R100_1999_07_07. icb Date when the backup file is saved Extension of the backup file* Change the destination and/or the file name, if you wish, before proceeding to the next step. You can also save the backup file in a newly created folder by clicking [New Folder] . * The extension ". icb" cannot be changed. Even if you delete the extension in the step above, it will automatically be attached at the end of the file name. Basic Operation Continued 43 Saving a Backup of the IC Recorder ("Back Up") (continued) 2 Click the [Save] button. The backup (ICB) file will be created and saved to the computer. Backup (ICB) file When a backup file with the same file name exists The following dialog box appears. If you wish to overwrite the file, click [Yes]. If you wish to change the file name, click [No]. 44 Restoring the backup file to the IC recorder By restoring the backup file (ICB file) from the computer to the IC recorder, you can play back the backed up messages on the IC recorder. If there are messages recorded on the IC recorder, you can make another backup file for these messages before you start restoring the backup file (See Step 3 on page 46). 1 Drag the backup file (ICB file) you wish to restore from the "PC" Area and drop it in the "IC RECORDER" Area. You can also restore the backup file by clicking the [ICD<­ PC] button. Basic Operation The following dialog box appears. Continued 45 Saving a Backup of the IC Recorder ("Back Up") (continued) 2 Click [Yes]. The following dialog box appears. 3 Click [Yes] or [No]. If you click [Yes], the messages in the IC recorder will be saved to the computer as a new backup file, and then the messages restored from the backup file will replace the ones in the IC recorder. If you click [No], the restored messages will replace the ones in the IC recorder without saving a backup. 4 · When you click [Yes] The dialog box for saving a new backup file appears. 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