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2018/07/21 07:49:56 (permalink)

Help - Easiest Way Of Cleaning Up/Archiving Cakewalk Projects to An External Hard Drive

Hi All,
Sorry about this question because I think it's been covered before - so my apologies in advance
My projects folder is pretty overloaded with alternate demos of songs which I do not simply wish to delete but are beginning to take up too much space.
 
Is there a very very simple way of transferring the files to an external hard drive but keep access to the files - i.e. open and play from the external hard drive - I have tried before but the files/projects did not appear to be recognised by the Sonar programme once they had been moved to a different location.
 
Any pointing in the right direction would be most welcome
 
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    Re: Help - Easiest Way Of Cleaning Up/Archiving Cakewalk Projects to An External Hard Driv 2018/07/21 07:57:54 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Zargg 2018/07/21 10:59:24
    The most foolproof method is also the most long winded
     
    For every project you want to move, first open it up in Sonar/Cakewalk, then do a "save as" and point the save location to your external drive.
     
    Make sure you've got "Copy Audio with Project" checked.
     
    This method will then only copy those audio files referenced by your project
     
    Once you've done this and verified it plays back ok, you can safely delete the original

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    Re: Help - Easiest Way Of Cleaning Up/Archiving Cakewalk Projects to An External Hard Driv 2018/07/21 08:30:40 (permalink)
    Hi Bristol - Jonesey
     
    Can't thank you enough - I was getting bamboozled by registry copying etc which I am sorry to admit is over my head
    I don't mind the hard work and sincerely thank you for providing a method I can actually do/use
     
    Thanks again - I'm gonna give it a try right now 
     
    Very best
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    Re: Help - Easiest Way Of Cleaning Up/Archiving Cakewalk Projects to An External Hard Driv 2018/07/21 10:16:53 (permalink)
    Even when using "Save As" to clean up projects, your still left with smaller fragments of audio clips in your projects.
    The best thing to do is perform some house cleaning before you begin moving projects around. This is also helpful incase a project fails to open in the future, you can drag full tracks to a new blank project and at least have a way to restore your hard work. This also avoids the head ache of trying to piece together 9 small clips on 1 audio track.
     
    - Select every track (CNTRL+A) then choose "Bounce to clips" (not "Bounce to tracks" those are 2 different things).
    This will heal/bounce all your smaller clips to one larger clip.
     
    - Optional: Drag and drop all your midi files to another folder for safe keeping. Midi files are stored within the Cakewalk project itself so if for any reason that project fails to open someday, your midi files are gone and there is no way to recover them. this is why I back up midi files to a separate folder.
     
    - Run Clean audio folder OR Save as. If your projects have a lot of audio in them they will decrease in size sometimes by as much as 50%.

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