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  • Help - How Do Your Organize Your Projects? (p.6)
2018/02/22 13:11:20
msmcleod
Funny this thread has just been resurrected - today I set up a method of syncing my two main DAW pc's so my projects are available on both, as well as having a cloud backup.
 
Currently I've got 4 folders that are different from the standard Sonar ones:
E:\TEMPLATES
E:\SEQUENCE  [ contains old .wrk files as well as newer .cwp files ]
E:\PICTURE [picture cache]
E:\WAVEDATA  [ set as my global audio folder as my .wav file folder for older cwp files]
 
I've now got a new folder E:\Projects which has copies of these folders (using the batch files described later on)
 
What I did:
1. Set up an account with Mega.nz ('cos you get 50GB free)
2. Set MegaSync to sync the E:\Projects folder to/from the cloud
 
The reason for having a copy of the folders is so Mega doesn't try to sync my main WAVEDATA/SEQUENCE folders while Sonar is writing to them - this would be BAD, and no doubt crash Sonar.
 
I've got two batch files:
 
CopyToMega.bat
ROBOCOPY E:\SEQUENCE E:\Projects\SEQUENCE *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\PICTURE E:\Projects\PICTURE *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\TEMPLATES E:\Projects\TEMPLATES *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\WAVEDATA E:\Projects\WAVEDATA *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
 
CopyFromMega.bat
ROBOCOPY E:\Projects\SEQUENCE E:\SEQUENCE *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\Projects\PICTURE E:\PICTURE *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\Projects\TEMPLATES E:\TEMPLATES *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
ROBOCOPY E:\Projects\WAVEDATA E:\WAVEDATA *.* /S /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
 
The /COPYALL option ensures all file attributes are preserved (like Last Date Modified etc), and /DCOPY:DAT does the same for directories. The /S option just means copy all the subdirectories too.
 
I created shortcuts to these on my desktop, so I can run them as Administrator - this is needed in order for all the the above options to work.
 
Now when I start a session, I run CopyFromMega to get all my latest projects.
 
When I've finished, I run CopyToMega and my new material gets copied to the Projects folder and synced to the cloud.
 
Obviously the first run takes a while, but running the two sync batch files afterwards takes seconds.
 
M.
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