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Post subject: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:37 pm
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I was looking for a workaround to print presets, and discussing it with my son. I told him I could get at the files (via the Backup folder), but didn't like the "one at a time" copy and paste method. He told me he would write a simple script to help out and he did! The script will extract all 100 presets and backing tracks in one swoop, number them, drop them into an Excel file (.xls), and place it on your desktop.

Before I continue, let me throw this out: I offer this "as is", free and clear. Also, if you're not geekily-inclined (you will need to enter lines into Terminal), then stop reading and wait until Fender provides the functionality within Fuse. If you choose to try this, and something, however unlikely, happens to your system or Fuse or life as we know it, you're on your own. Lastly, I'm a Mac guy, so that's what my instructions pertain to. Maybe this will work with Windows, maybe not. I don't know.

Let's get started:
First of all, make a copy of your backup file that contains the info. (better safe than sorry). You can find the folder by following the path: (your username)/Documents/Fender/FUSE/Backups/(pick a backup)/Presets

IMPORTANT: Inside the backup folder you choose (for ex: 2012_06_14_08_08_55) there is a FUSE folder and a Presets folder. You want Presets.

Copy that folder to your desktop to make things easy. It says "Presets" and not "FUSE", right? ;)

Next, download this tiny script. It's zipped up, so once it is downloaded, unzip it, and put the file (it will say amp.sh) into your newly created Presets folder on your desktop.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3878680/amp.sh.zip

OK, time to stretch your geek muscles. Fire up Terminal. The three lines of code we enter change permission, change directory, and then run. (Again, if you're not comfortable, then don't do this!)

Type
Code:
chmod +x
Note that there is a space after chmod and after x and don't hit return! (yet)

Now, click and drag the amp.sh file into the Terminal window. It should look something like this:
Code:
chmod +x /Users/(yourusername)/Desktop/Presets/amp.sh

Hit return. It will look as though nothing happened. That's cool, it's supposed to.

Next, type
Code:
cd
(again, space after cd) and this time, drag the Presets folder into the Terminal window, should look like this:
Code:
cd /Users/(yourusername)/Desktop/Presets

and then hit return. (Again, it will appear that nothing has happened.)

Lastly, type
Code:
./amp.sh
and hit return.

If you've followed the instructions correctly, a message will display in Terminal:
Code:
All set! Just open the songs.xls document on your desktop. Track number will be on left, the song name will be in the middle, and the effect on the right.


And you should have a "songs" file on your desktop! Takes longer to explain it than to do it! You can now open up the Excel file and format the columns, rows, etc., to your liking.

Oh, in case anyone is leery of grabbing this script (no, I'm not evil, and this is not an evil script) here's the whole script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for file in *.fuse

do

echo "$file" | cut -d"." -f1 >> results.txt

egrep "(SongFile Location)" "$file" | cut -d">" -f2 | cut -d"<" -f1 >> results.txt
egrep "(Info name)" "$file" | cut -d"\"" -f2 >> results.txt

done

echo "Track #   Song Name   Effect" >> ~/desktop/songs.xls

cat < results.txt | paste - - - >> ~/desktop/songs.xls

rm -Rf results.txt
echo " "
echo "All set! Just open the songs.xls document on your desktop. Track number will be on left, the song name will
be in the middle, and the effect on the right."
echo " "


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Post subject: Re: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:41 am
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This doesnt work in a Windows Command - Teminal. Other syntax and some commands missing.
But I can see the idea.


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Post subject: Re: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:47 pm
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Works great on my Mac. Thanks for this!
I don't understand how it works but following the instructions gets the desired results.
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Post subject: Re: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:10 pm
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@Frente: Yeah, like I mentioned above, no idea if it would work in Windows. Thanks for giving it a shot! 8)

@Strat Cat: Glad to hear it worked for you! :D

Really, takes longer to explain it all than to do it. All you're really doing is making a copy of a folder, dropping a script in it, entering three lines in Terminal, and you're done!

Our next step is to turn this into a standalone app that won't require unnecessary steps. In other words, double-click to launch it, let it run, and done.

Slightly problematic so far, so we'll see...

Thanks again for trying it out!


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Post subject: Re: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:49 pm
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It's a simple old style Unix shell-script. Works for Linux and Mac (Unix inside!). I'm sure with some open source software, you could make it work in Windows too. Unfortunatly it not my main topic on PC (just boring databases ;)


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Post subject: Re: Here's how to print your presets from your Backup file
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:56 pm
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I'm hoping that we can create a standalone app on the Mac side. If we get that knocked off, I'm thinking it can't be that hard to port over.

(famous last words) :lol:

And don't knock databases! So much power in that app regardless as to the maker of the app or which platform. 8)


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