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By examining the le list in Media select you will see that the SAVE command created
the le TheSpectrum_WR.tap.
There is one lename rule that overrides everything else, and that is if you have attached
a writable cassette le (one with a _WR lename sufx) then all SAVE operations will be
written to that cassette le. Thus if you want to explicitly control which writable cassette
tape le The Spectrum writes to, you must attach it.
You can do this by dipping in and out of Media select as needed, or by adding the
writable cassette tape le to a playlist along with any other tape les you need, and
use media swapping to exchange them.
If The Spectrum detects an error which prevents it from saving to the USB stick, for
example the USB stick being removed, then it will temporarily set the ZX Spectrum
border to red.
Note: Programs which have custom save routines and do not use The Spectrum
operating system routines to save data will not have that data captured and stored
on a USB stick.
The cassette tape le naming rules used by The Spectrum to decide which tape le to
write information are described by the owchart.