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Organising your audio files - I'm doing something very wrong here.
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| Richard Butler |
Ok, I'm wondering if some advice here could point me in the right diection so I get a more proficient setup.
I have a powerful Digital Village PC, but I keep getting this message I've run out of space.
This makes no sense.
I have;
A 'C' drive - this is the one thats full of audio and projects
An 'E' drive - seems like nothing is on it. It seems I should have been storing all samples and other audio to this maybe? It has masses of space.
PROBLEM - when I save audio or samples or freeze lanes, it all gets saved to the c drive. I didn't arrange for this, everything just always defaulted to being saved to this c drive. Samples in fact get saved to a word document!
How do I get all this audio (most of it contained in a place called 'Cubase projects, my DAW template, c drive'), into this e drive thingy?
Will it cause problems with existing projects for example where a drum machine used a kick sound from the c drive?
My Dad is staying over and he revels in tedious tasks like this, so as long as I have a rough idea what needs to be done, he should be able to sort it all as he loves this sort of thing. |
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| tehlord |
Do you know if the drives are physically separate, or a partitioned single drive?
Either way you should be able to shift samples across to another drive and then point your projects to the new location when you open them up. Once you resave that project it will remember the new location. |
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| chris marsh |
you can check how much space you have on the c drive (right mouse click/properties) You don't want to get too low it will give you problems.
it sounds like c is your system drive (normally is anyway) and e is supposed to be your audio drive perhaps but your not using it as such
the default folder for saving cubase project files is normally on c, but as tehlord said, when you save your project go to save as to save your project in a particular place. I always keep audio files specific to a project, ie bounced files, in a sub folder called audio
you could keep all your sample libraries, including any rompler or sampler instruments on the audio drive which is probably a lot bigger
you can move all files in a project to a new folder by doing this http://www.steinberg.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=50841
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It appears most of the responders here have missed what looks like one important piece of the puzzle: naming the new Project.
If you create (and name) a new folder via Backup Project and don't give the actual Project a new, unique name, it will continue to save to the old folder. There is no need to close and reopen if you give the thing a new name after creating the new folder.
After you create the new folder, you should get this dialog:
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Just put a new unique name in and you're good to go."
I think by saving as and choosing a specific location for your project, your audio files should also be saved to this place |
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| dj_alfi |
| I'm guessing somewhere in the options menu youll have something called default save/project folder, changing that to a folder on the E drive should sort out the files being saved on C. You should be able to just copy the contents of the old folder into the new and cubase will load projects without a problem. |
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