360 Systems Short/Cut Editor - Manual (Page 27)

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Shortcut 2000 Editor Owner’s Manual
When a new disk is first used it must be formatted. When the External drive is first
selected (as described above) the Shortcut Editor will recognize that the disk is unformatted
and offer an opportunity to format it, or abandon the operation and return to the internal drive.
There is also a F
ORMAT E XTERNAL D RIVE command in the Directory Menu to allow reformat to
be used to erase a disk. Note that disks that are write protected in software, such as the Tools
disk that comes with some versions of Zip
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drive cannot be formatted in the Shortcut.
When copies of files are made between directories on the same disk, the audio data is not
copied, only the edit lists are. However, when a file is copied from one disk to another, all
audio data is always copied for each file, even if two versions that are largely the same are
transferred to the same directory. This means that two or more files that share audio will take
more disk space when copied to another disk because the shared portions are recreated as
separate data. For more information on Copying files, see page 56