You should always have backups, and they should always be on a different drive. So having the second drive will still not take the storage problem away from your C drive. You will need 3 drives if you want to start deleting files. In other words, you should have 3 copies of each project.
With and external or internal second drive you can do 2 things. Each gives a different result.
"save as" with copy all audio checked will create a back up and remove all unused audio from the project. This is a good way to clean up the files.
But there is a small danger you might leave behind something you want later down the line.
So the second method, a Drag and drop of your entire Sonar Project folder, makes a solid back up with all data kept. If your new drive is a 2 TB then why worry about space.
My set up:
C drive is partitioned with 2nd partition "E" Then a second drive is "H"
C = 100 Gig.-is OS and programs files,, very little data is stored here
E = 850 G is where all projects stream to all Data stored here.
H = 1000 G is Back up # 1
External drive 2 TB back up #2.
At random as I work I'll do a "save as" to the "H" drive.
I always do this before I shut down.
I will do a drag and drop of "E" drive to the external drive at least once a week if I have been doing a lot. It depends on the importance of the files.
post edited by Cactus Music - 2014/01/11 13:18:49