Home Studio 2004 help, if possible.

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2015/06/06 17:14:05 (permalink)

Home Studio 2004 help, if possible.

Hi, I'm new here. have been using Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 since, well, 2004. I know it is a very old DAW by now, but it serves for what I do.

However, I recently purchased a 1 terrabyte drive and want to keep the program on the C drive of my computer, but set it to store my projects and everything else that will eat up hard drive space in the new hard drive.

1- I cannot figure out how to do that, and the manual is no help.

2- I'm in the middle of a project and would like to be able to migrate everything , Cakewalk Project files, audio data, everything to that new drive. Can anyone help me?

 Is it as simple as going to "global options/folders", and where it says
Project files C:/Cake walk Projects
Templates
CAL files
Window Layouts
Wave Files
Video files
Sysx files
Play list
Groove quantize
Studiowaere
Patterns
Drum maps
all of which have the C:/ prefix, and changing that C:/ to a J:/ for all of them?
And are there any I should leave where they are?
Any help appreciated.
post edited by gitlvr - 2015/06/06 17:37:11
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    Zargg
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    Re: Home Studio 2004 help, if possible. 2015/06/06 17:59:19 (permalink)
    Hi. I would leave programs alone, but audio folders and project folders. you should be able to move. I do not have CHS 2004. But I know this works on later versions. You could try to copy your folder to new disk, and reference CSH to new location (via preferences). If that works, then delete old folder (C drive).
    Best of luck.

    Ken Nilsen
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    Re: Home Studio 2004 help, if possible. 2015/06/07 02:03:58 (permalink)
    Only projects, wave and video files need to go to your new drive. Things like templates and the rest don't take a lot of space.

    Mike V. (MUDGEL)

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    Re: Home Studio 2004 help, if possible. 2015/06/07 02:31:33 (permalink)
    Thanks, both of you.
    mudgel, I normally just open a new project and start recording, and let HS choose where it wants to store things. I have been doing some investigating in HS, and there is something called a Project Template, I think, which allows me to input a lot of info about the new project, including where it is stored. I think this might be the solution.
    However, I would still like to find out how to change the destination of the individual files, like project, wave, etc.
    Their destination in the folders is, for instance, C:/project Files, C:/wave, etc.
    Is it as simple as changing that letter C to J (the letter designation of the new drive), and that will create a new folder in that drive, or do I need to actually create folders in the J drive and tell Cakewalk to send it there some other way?
    I realize asking about an old program nobody uses anymore is difficult, so best guess will work.
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    Re: Home Studio 2004 help, if possible. 2015/06/07 05:41:26 (permalink)
    I would copy (then delete after you are sure it works) audio, projects and video over to new drive.
    Open CHS. Press"P" (preferences). I think you have an option there to choose project and audio files. Change that to new drive. Apply. Press Ctrl O. Go to new location for project. Open. If CSH asks for location of audio, reference to new destination.
    Best of luck

    Ken Nilsen
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