A situation has developed on my AR2 where some of the sample folders are duplicated but I can’t delete the duplicate folders. Some of the folders have different samples in when viewed on the RYTM but these are not visible when I open up Transfer so I can’t see any way to save my samples if and when I decide to start deleting projects as memory starts filling up. Another annoying thing is that one of the folders is empty on the Rytm but it won’t let me delete it because it thinks there are folders inside. If I forget and go into this folder by accident there is no way to exit so I have to turn off the machine to get out, it’s a real mess. Does anybody have any ideas how to tackle this ?
Just had another try and Transfer sees most of the sample folders on the Rytm as empty. I installed transfer on another pc and the same thing happened so it seems that something has gotten very screwed up somewhere.
You’re not the only one, as it seems. Maybe some hints to mitigate in the threads below?
Also, please file a support ticket! 
It needs a bugfix apparently.
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Thanks, I have sent them a description of the problems.
Back then the solution was to backup and format +drive. it worked for me.
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Unfortunately the transfer app isn’t seeing my samples so I can’t do that.
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Transfer 1.10.3 on Win 11 seems not to be their best work:
I have no issues to transfer samples to my Rytm MK2 and everything is OK with its folders etc. BUT(T) it immediately crashes and reboots my PC if I try to connect my og DT. 
If you export your project, samples should be saved within iirc.
Try with a dummy project first, then one with the missing samples you’re reporting, then all
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Yes I thought of saving as many samples as memory will allow into separate projects but it’s an extremely tedious process and a pain to keep track of what’s been saved and what’s where. It’s really a mess, I don’t know how the file system became so tangled up. Something weird happened when I was importing single sycle waves onto the Rytm via transfer which resulted in some duplicate folders which contain different files, most of which are not visible within transfer.
I remember being able to pull samples from the AR (mk1) only with an old copy of transfer 1.2.sth - in case you want to backup and repopulate.
And then there is still this option, perhaps:
But it has some quirks.
Thanks for your input but it seems the situation is hopeless. For whatever reason most of my samples which are visible and playable within the Rytm are not seen by the transfer app. I’ve tried copying them into fresh projects and copying those projects onto the pc via transfer but the resulting files are only a few kilobytes in size.
For some reason a couple of projects I’ve made in the last week or two are copied over complete with newly created samples so it seems that it’s only the older samples which were recorded before the mysterious incident that are trapped in a parallel dimension within the machine, it’s obviously something that’s gone wrong in the Rytm’s registry. I’ll just have to live with the situation. I can still use the Rytm, I just can’t save my old project samples unless Elektron come up with a solution and the customer support guy has the attitude that my samples must have been overwritten which is not the case. There’s probably nothing anybody can do to retrieve them.
Did you try Transfer 1.2?
I just tried it now and it’s the same, samples not visible.
That’s sad, so this leaves (last resort) only:
- internal resampling (with as few as possible influences on sound in the chain; might not work given your description of the behaviour)
- external resampling