Section 8 — Send and Receive Information
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Export Data using USB Flash Drive
You can export data to an external USB flash drive. To do this:
1. Securely connect a USB flash drive to your instrument's USB host
port.
TIP: Ensure the USB flash drive you are using has enough storage
space. Ensure any write protect tabs are unlocked.
2. Press Folders & USB Export on the main menu — The USB
Flash Drive screen opens.
NOTE: if you have NOT yet attached a USB flash drive, do this now
and press USB Flash Drive.
3. Press Select Window to toggle between the available options:
• Instrument Folders screen.
• Export to Ascent folder on USB flash drive.
• USB flash drive's Import from Ascent folder.
4. Select Instrument Folders.
5. Use the and arrow keys on the left to select a folder you
wish to export.
6. Press Export Folder to export the selected folder > Press
to confirm the transfer — The data will be exported in XML format to
the SCOUT / vbSeries to Ascent folder at the root of your flash drive.
If the drive is blank, the folder will be generated automatically.
7. Import the XML file into Ascent.
MORE: See Import/Export as XML in the Ascent Reference Guide.
Export data to external USB flash drive