I’m not sure… but this is part of the reason I once lost all of my projects when I had to sell my MKI RYTM due to financial struggles.
I made SysEx and sample folder backups of everything before selling. I later purchased a MKII RYTM, yet somehow the SysEx data didn’t quite line up when I attempted restoring. Maybe user error in my case?
With the samples back in place in the same structure as on the MKI, I hoped that I would at least be able to use Overbridge 1 or 2 in Ableton Live to open all of my old Total Recalls to recover my projects, but I was very sad to find that would not become possible.
I even went so far as to order a used MKI RYTM from Guitar Center to use Overbridge 1 to recover what I could. The RYTM arrived and it refused to boot. Sent it back, gave up on the old projects.
I am starting to see this as a feature instead. It forces you to make your current project all the more amazing, if not only to compensate for the difficulties of starting a new project?