SD Card Manager

The SD Card Manager acts like any other file manager and allows you to do file operations with:

  • Local PC drives

  • Internal SD card of the MEGA65

  • Local attached SD card

  • D81 image files

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Left window

The left window represents your PC.

A - Select drive/folder

Select a drive or key directory from the dropdown list you want to see its content. The content will be displayed in B.
If you have set a default directory in menu Settings > File Paths > Default it will be listed too.

B - View content

The content of the selected drive or directory from A will be displayed here:

  • Filename

  • File extension

  • File size

  • Last modified

  • Command

You can click any header column to get the file list sorted in alphabetical order. Click again to flip the sort.

Navigation

You can head into any listed directory (see DIR in header Size) by double clicking on its entry. Whenever you are in a subdirectory you will see an entry “..” (two dots). When you double click this entry you head a level up.

Rename file

If you double click a filename you can rename it. To take effect press ENTER or TAB key.

D81 image files

Any D81 image file will have an Open button in the column Command. When you click on it the content of the D81 image file will be shown in the right window.

C - See/modify current path

The path shows you were you currently are. You can manually change or copy another valid path into it.

D - Create D81 image file

Click the button + D81 to create an empty D81 image file. You will be asked to enter a filename. When you press the OK button the D81 image file will be created in the directory you are currently located.

Right window

The right window can show different conent:

  • The internal SD card of the MEGA65 (requires a connection)

  • A local attached SD card (requires a connection)

  • An opened D81 image file

E - Select SD card

M65Connect permanently checks the presence of connections and drives. Whatever is available will be displayed in the dropdown list:

  • Active connection: When you have an active connection to the MEGA65 you’ll see an entry called MEGA65 internal.

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    Click the information) button next to the dropdown list to get some information from the SD card.

  • Local SD card mounted: You will see an entry with the label of the SD card (Windows shows the drive letter in addition).

    The eject button next to the dropdown list unmounts the SD card in order to properly remove the SD card from the PC.

F - View content

Shows the content of the selected SD card or opened D81 image file.

All offer the same base functionality:

Navigation

You can head into any listed directory (see DIR in header Size) by double clicking on its entry. Whenever you are in a subdirectory you will see an entry “..” (two dots). When you double click this entry you head a level up.

Rename file

If you double click a filename you can rename it. To take effect press ENTER or TAB key.

Specific functions

Each view has some specific functions:

MEGA65 internal SD card

Each D81 image file has a Mount button. It will be mounted on the MEGA65 when you click it.

The mount function works only in the main directory. That’s why you see this button only there.


The Info button is available for each file. It tells you whether the file is fragmented or not. A defragmented file shows a hex number followed by one or several dots:

A fragmented file shows several hex numbers and therefore critical from MEGA65 perspective. In most cases the MEGA65 can handle fragmented files except image files (D81).

Copy/delete files only with mega65_ftp or M65Connect onto an SD card else you may create fragmented files causing weird issues.


Local attached SD card

Each D81 image file has an Open button in the Command column. Click it to see the content of the D81 image file.


D81 image file

Whenever you press the Open button of a D81 image file its content will be shown:

You can change the Diskname (16 chars) or the Disk ID (2 chars). Any changes (also copying or renaming files) will be stored in capital letters.

You can delete or extract (copy) files of an opened image file.

You have two options to copy image compatible files into an opened image.

Option 1 - copy single file(s)

  1. Open the image file you want to copy file(s) into

  2. Head to the local directory where the files to be copied are located

  3. Select the file(s) you want copy into the opened image file and click the copy button

Option 2 - copy image file(s)

  1. Open the image file you want to copy another image file into

  2. Head to the local directory where the image file to be copied is located

  3. Select the image file(s) you want copy into the opened image file and click the copy button

When you’re done save and close the image file with the close button (x) in the upper right corner.

G - View path

Shows you where the right window is currently located or which image file is currently opened.

H - Head to root

Available in SD card views: Press the button with the slash (/) in it to head back to the root directory.

Commands

Here you have all functions to interact between the left and right window.

J - Copy file(s)

Select the file(s) in a window you want to copy to the other window. This also works for opened D81 image files: You can copy files from or into D81 image files (REL files not yet supported).

Directories are not (yet) considered and therefore ignored

K - Delete file(s)

Select file(s) in a window you want to delete. Be aware: You wont get a delete warning!

L - Copy to uppercase

This is a toggle button allowing you to copy files to filenames with capital letters. By default its off(filenames are copied as they are). The button turns dark (Mac, Linux) or blue (Windows) when the uppercase function is active. You can turn it off anytime by clicking the button again.

Status bar

The most operations will return a result and displayed in the Status bar.

The progress bar lets you know how long an operation will take. The operation is complete when the progress bar is filled up.

Press the Close button to hide the SD Card Manager.