[Solved] Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive

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2015/02/13 05:45:43 (permalink)

[Solved] Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive

Very basic question, but just for my own peace of mind I thought I'd check here first. 

I have a lot of my old project files saved on my C drive. But my C drive is almost full and I'd like to move them all to my D drive. 
Can I simply cut the folders from C and paste them to D and not worry about anything getting lost or corrupted? 
Anything I should keep in mind when doing this? 
Thank you!

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/13 06:20:57 (permalink)
    As long as they are per project folders projects, you should be ok.

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/13 06:46:40 (permalink)
    I did that a while back, as I have an SSD for the OS and Sonar and a 1TB hard drive.  I moved all the Cakewalk Project folder to the hard drive.  I changed the location of the folder in Sonar and now projects get saved to the folder on the hard drive.

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/13 09:42:29 (permalink)
    Don't forget to change the folder path in preferences and all will be well with per-project folders.

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/13 10:18:11 (permalink)
    Although it isn't good if you have a lot of files, you can use SONAR's Save As to move the files wherever you want.  Once you are caught up w/ old files, that is the method to keep your new files where you want them.
     
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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/15 22:24:34 (permalink)
    Thanks for the responses everyone. I was able to move a bunch of my older work files to clear some space on my C drive. Everything seems to be fine now. :)

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/16 00:32:14 (permalink)
    I hope those are not your only copies? I would have also backed them up to a external drive. Having only one copy of each project is taking a huge risk of loosing all the files at once if the D drive goes down. 
     
     

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    Re: Moving Sonar project files from C drive to D drive 2015/02/16 00:46:00 (permalink)
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    I hope those are not your only copies? I would have also backed them up to a external drive. Having only one copy of each project is taking a huge risk of loosing all the files at once if the D drive goes down. 
     
     


    Thanks for you concern. I do regular backups to an external hard drive which I keep locked in a fire proof strong box. Haha! I know I should be backing up to a cloud service as well, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. But, yeah, all of my project files are in at least two places at all times. 

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