Project Folders Anomaly?

Whenever I open an existing project where I have the song set up to store in its own project folder, I have to untick the box that says to save the project in its own folder! If I do not, it tells me that the folder already exists as if I was trying to save to that folder. All I am trying to do is open the song, not save it. What gives? Is that normal?

metal_bassist


Whenever I open an existing project where I have the song set up to store in its own project folder, I have to untick the box that says to save the project in its own folder! If I do not, it tells me that the folder already exists as if I was trying to save to that folder. All I am trying to do is open the song, not save it. What gives? Is that normal?

How are you getting to this dialog box?  When you try to open a project, from where and how are you doing it?
 
Brian

Is it possible that you changed your folder preferences after the song was created so that it is in a folder that is different than your current default folder?  I think X! created a new default location for project files than what 8.5.3 and earlier used.  Under Preferences - Files - Folder locations - Project folder  is that location different than where the project file for the song you are working on is?

Maybe you are loading a cwb (bundle) and not a cwp (project) file? Bundle files need to be expanded before they can be opened. If you save a bundle for backup in the same location as the project file and then you open the bundle by accident, you will get that exact behavior. X1 will try to expand the bundle version and complain that the directory already exists.