well that does sound like a bug!

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, I do see a progress bar in the bottom right when it happens.
>
> I know it's a buggy revision but I'm just having fun playing with it.
> Other than this oddity I've had great success with it.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> On Nov 11, 2017 2:16 PM, "Stephen Adolph" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ok.
>> thanks for the report.
>> When REX writes to flash you always get the progress bar.
>> Do you see the progress bar when you suspect rex is writing the RAM to
>> the backup image?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply Stephen,
>>>
>>> Short version is if you follow the steps above REX will overwrite a RAM
>>> image before prompting you to ask if it's ok and when you first launch
>>> REXMGR before you've selected any options.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2017 11:36 AM, "Stephen Adolph" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian can you more clearly lay  out the issue?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Found an interesting little condition today utilizing the Quick Menu
>>>>> Features with REX to backup RAM. If you do things in this order REX will
>>>>> write over the current RAM image before asking permission. I doubt this
>>>>> would cause any major issues for anyone but it's interesting none the 
>>>>> less.
>>>>>
>>>>> Select a RAM image, let's call this RAM-A. Do a total wipe / reset of
>>>>> the M100 then reload REXMGR but this time select a different RAM image so
>>>>> say RAM-B.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you at any time hit CTRL-B to backup RAM the image will be written
>>>>> immediately then you will be prompted for confirmation. If you say no - 
>>>>> too
>>>>> bad, it already happened.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I tested a few more times just loading REXMGR and noted that the
>>>>> progress bar did it's thing in the right corner of the screen when loading
>>>>> REXMGR. So started over, switched to a different RAM image again and
>>>>> created a file. Verified that indeed just going into REXMGR was causing a
>>>>> write to the RAM image without selecting it or requesting a backup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems to be somehow related to REX remembering the last image you were
>>>>> in? The one with the asterisk? If I do a refresh of the one with the
>>>>> asterisk everything works as it should.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just figured I'd throw that out there in case it wasn't known.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Brian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>

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