Btw, without card, files will not help. It checks for proper card
I can drag the files onto a SD CARD then use mazdatools afterwards.
I was able to do it like this on my cousins Mazda, but they were over the 62 miles.
good luck, but i would have to see that work to believe it.
What you did it sounds like is make a backup of a card locked to a car, that is different then copying s new card where the car checks the cid value of the card for unactivated cards.
CID is hard coded on the cards mazda uses.
The only hack i have seen used the old mazda toolbox. You could backup the mazda sd card with toolbox prior to driving, drive 62 miles, copy the driven mazda sd card to a new card, use mazda toolbox to fix it and use the copy. Take the mazda card and restore to pre-drive state. I think they might have closed this loophole.