I just received my DTII and I’m having some troubles with the Transfer app. I’m using a Mac and I have the most up to date version of everything. When I try to upload my sample folders, I get the pinwheel of death and the app stops responding, so I have to force quit. I can upload individual samples, but when I try to upload all the samples within a folder (not the folder itself), it gets halfway through and then the app quits unexpectedly. The samples that finished before it quits are still available on the DTII, but this is gonna be a very annoying way to get my samples on it.
Anybody else have this problem?
edit: I should mention I was having problems before due to the app not being up to date, so I downloaded the newest version. In my attempt to troubleshoot during that problem, I formatted the +Drive. Just figured I should mention that.
In the end, the file system was corrupted (data garbage, unreadable files, permission problems, undeletable files)
⇒ I formatted +Drive and made factory reset
now I am retransferring samples
like the first time: no problems, even with nested folders in the beginning
thinking of staying below 8GB and waiting there for firmware update
secretly hoping that formatting the drive with 1.01 may have solved the issue but don’t want to push it because it takes days to fill or backup the whole drive (and this is no exaggeration)
interesting… i don’t think that was the problem in my case.
UPDATE:
I was able to transfer the samples I wanted in smaller batches with little problems. The app stopped responding twice when I overloaded it with tasks I think. I was still not able to upload my own folders, so I created a new folder structure in Transfer. Turned out to be a better idea anyway, more organized.
I wonder if there’s a hard limit on the number of items (or size) per folder… maybe this was never encountered before because of the smaller storage. Watching this closely, will test when I receive mine.
that could be, but the “not responding” thing was happening no matter what folder i tried to upload. some of the folders i tried had like 15 samples in them. there may be a limit to how many samples you can task it with uploading at once tho, it seemed to not like it when i tried a lot of longer loops.
Just uploaded 7,700 samples (6gb) on 1.01A and 1.8.6 Transfer using a 2012 MacBook with 16 gb ram.
It took a magnificent 6 hours but with 0 crashes, 0 dropped samples, and I could fiddle a little on the preset projects while it uploaded without freezing up.
If i don’t have enough samples to make whatever sound I can dream up, it’s on me at this point.
My Transfer keeps crashing while uploading samples. This morning it has crashed at least 8 times in a period of 1hr loading samples. It takes FOREVER to load the samples to the DT MK2 and i dont stay and stare at the screen all the time and suddenly this stupid program crash and all samples lost and dont know which transfered or not…
Yes … for now. (Check the thread Iinked above.) It’s known that Elektron are working on some fixes, but I think they’re trying to fix as much as they reasonably can in one firmware release.
Yes this was happening to me too. I ended up making folders within Transfer and uploading samples in chunks, and it ended up being more organized that way so I guess it was a blessing in disguise. It takes a lot more work and mental energy though obviously.
Looks like you’re copying straight onto a mountable drive ? Try copying to your hard drive as an intermediate step to see if you get a different result.
