What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders(FIXED)

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2015/07/05 02:21:02 (permalink)

What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders(FIXED)

Open Sonar,
Start new project by selecting a template from the default lot that come with Sonar.
Give the project a name select Use per a project folders save and away I go.

When I look at my projects directory I have the following:
My Projects
My Projects/my song.cwp
My Projects/Audio
My Projects/Audio/my song1.wav
My Projects/Audio/my song1a.wav


If I now create another project using Per Project folders
I end up having the audio go to the same audio folder as in the above example

And I end up with the audio from multiple projects in the same audio folder.

I have to manually create the project name folder myself.

I don't ever seem to get a folder named My Projects/My Song by selecting use per project audio folders.
What's going wrong? I'm having a brain freeze and I fully expect someone to make it go click and after a face palm and a firm DOH! I'll be good to go.
post edited by mudgel - 2015/07/05 06:34:22

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    BRainbow
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    Re: What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders 2015/07/05 02:41:35 (permalink)
    I always create a new sub-folder for the project withe the project's name and save to that.  Then when I open it, there is an "Audio" sub-sub-folder with all the project audio in it.  Every version I save in that sub-folder has its audio go into that Audio sub-sub-folder.

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    Re: What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders 2015/07/05 03:07:50 (permalink)
    That's not the way it's supposed to work. It's supposed to create the folder for you.

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    Re: What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders 2015/07/05 03:11:02 (permalink)
    mudgel
    That's not the way it's supposed to work. It's supposed to create the folder for you.



    It does, that's what I do, new Project, give it a name, the Per project audio folder thing, done. Project name folder created with it's own audio folder inside.
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    Re: What am I doing wrong? Use per project folders 2015/07/05 04:31:27 (permalink)
    Perhaps I've misunderstood the wording in BRainbow's post as its a little ambiguous when he says
    "I always create a new sub-folder for the project withe the project's name and save to that. "

    anyway all solved.
    There are 3 fields in the create New Project Dialog:

    Project Name: Enter <My Song>
    Location: Sonar automatically appends the project name to this path eg Cakewalk Projects/My Song
    Audio: Sonar automatically appends the Audio folder the full location path eg Cakewalk Projects/My Song/Audio

    I don't know why but after I entered a Project Name, it didn't automatically populate the information in the Location field and Audio folder fields. I hadn't noticed. Consequently I would only get a new My Song.cwp with all the audio going into an Audio folder at the same level.

    It's been bugging me for about a week now (just before Foxboro). So I went in and reset the default project location, closed Sonar, reset the location and on re-opening nothing, still the same. This time I tried a reboot after which everything works as its supposed to. Phew!

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