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Apologies if I expressed myself rather forcefully - the timing was bad, because someone asked me to share one of my custom modes, I wrote the custom mode to a memory file, he inserted it in his camera, formatted the card, then complained that he couldn’t find the file. I asked why he formatted the card, and he said “I always do that when I put a card in the camera”…

I try to cover all the edge cases (like those weird “extra custom modes”), but they are very rarely encountered. The custom modes are covered briefly here: https://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/2110/v1/en/contents/TP1000617341.html - it talks about settings stored against positions 1, 2, 3 on the PASM dial, and the ones stored on the memory card.

Here’s the page on saving all your settings in a file: https://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/2110/v1/en/contents/TP1000656910.html?search=Saving settings - this is the one I recommend saving to a dedicated card - it can be a small one, because the files are tiny, and you can only store ten on the card. It lists the things that won’t be saved, and I am pleased to see that I was right about the copyright info, but there are several more that aren’t saved - some of them make a lot if sense because the relate to security.