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New Post 9/1/2008 1:02 PM
  ap
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GDT destroys my mp3 files!  (United States)

Sometimes when I "save song config," and accept the default name, which is usually the name of the song file being used, including the 3 letter file type suffix, i.e. roxanne.mp3, the song file itself gets ruined. A file remains in its place with the original name, folder path, file type and suffix, but the size goes down to 4 KB(suspiciously close to the size of a .gdt file) and will not play in either GDT or WMP or any other player.

 I'm not sure, but I think that if I delete the suffix from the default file name, it will not cause this problem. Perhaps GDT is saving the .gdt file in a way that makes windows think it's creating an .mp3 file, or ogg etc.

 
New Post 9/8/2008 6:02 PM
  Ryan Smyth
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Re: GDT destroys my mp3 files!  (Korea, Republic of)

Make sure that if you are prompted that you save it with the "*.gdt" file extension. You should see the file name come up as something like "roxanne.mp3.gdt". If you don't, then make sure that you add that in. The important part there is that the "gdt" file extension is present. If not, you will end up overwriting the actual MP3. This is the default behavior on Windows.

If you are prompted to overwrite something, double check that it is correct first.

You can delete the ".mp3" part of the file name, but make sure that the ".gdt" part is there.

If you have troubles still, go into Windows Explorer and set your preferences to show file extensions for known types. That way you can see the complete file name. Hiding file extensions is a poor way to handle files as file extensions don't always mean what they look like. Showing them is a better way to identify files properly. e.g. A "txt" file can be data for a spreadsheet for programs like Excel, but will usually show up as a file for Notepad or a text editor. There are other situations where this happens as well.

 

 
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