Yes i agree that trying to open from backupfolder did not make any sense at all to you.

English is not my native language which you may have notice so i have to do a lot of "updating" in my post.

I can totallty see that your confused

But i did not tell the whole story.

Which was a big mistake i can see that now.

And yes i know that sometimes renaming or changing the file extansion dont make a file compatible to another program i´m not stupid.

Just like you said in picture files you can´t change it to an avi BUT you can change a jpg to a png.bpm.gif

And you can still open the file in almost all photo editor softwares and you can see a picture.

The same with text files software like office and adobe reader i.e doc. to pdf.

But you cant rename it to something like mp3 and open it in winamp and you will here music.

But here we talking about two software from the same manufactor who is very very similar and two hardware with very similar "specs"

And a history of softwares that could open patch from almost ebvery product ever made from Line6 Gearbox and Line6 Edit i.e you could open a patch made with Vetta Amp in gearbox even if you only have a guitarport hardware.

But THEN they made them so that you can´t open one file made for one particular soft with that other very similar soft with a slightly different name.

That was very strange for us who have been using Line6 products for a long time.

As i said earlier i have already dl ALL HD 500 patches from custom tone.

If you have to rename 2500+ patches from h5e to hbe theres a lot of work to do so if you can have a software that can do that for you it make perfectly sense.

So here is what i did

I created a folder and copy two patches to that folder and converted those two files with your tool.

I noticed that it created a backupfolder but i did not see any hbe files however

If i use a converter program i simply believe it will convert my files to somthing else like avi to mpg or mp3 to wav Doc to Pdf or whatever but i know it has to be in the same sort of "genre"

So i deleted the backupfiles and rename the remaining two files and tried to load ONE of them without any luck.

Then i tried again and used all the option in your tool and still no hbe files

So i try that thing with dragin the HD 500 Edit and drag the file to HD Edit and tried to see if i could tweak the patches as i said above

Then i wrote this post in here about your tool above

By then i was confirmed that you have to rename the file extension yourself

I then read here that it worked for someone else so i tried again.

I must have done something wrong as it did rename the file extension to hbe but i could not load a patch in HD Edit.

I deleted all my patches in the "backupfolder" copy the original patches again to the folder convert and rename all my patches again and now it worked.

So i must have done somthing wrong the first time i tried to rename them with the rename program.

Anyway many thanks for your hard work to make this tool

I did however noticed that some patches did not open in HD Edit after all one of those was the first the first patch i loaded after trying your tool.

But this is not your tools fault

It probably it has to do with compability issues with patches made with old versions of the HD 500 Edit software

I did notice that some of the very old hbe patches i dl for the HD Edit did not open in HD Edit it said that "new tone reset" so that can be the case in those files.

I miss the old days with Gearbox (well i still use it to tweak patches on my Pod XT) who could handle many different file types for Line6 products and simply just pointed that the patch will not sound as it suppose to do

As something is missing (an amp effect or whatever) but you could still open it.