Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space

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2012/09/02 01:28:53 (permalink)

Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space

Here's an In Case You Didn't Know tidbit:
 
Everytime you "bounce to clips" with an audio track, it creates a new audio file in the Audio folder for that song.
 
This renders the previous audio files unused by the project.
 
To save space, find out which files they are and delete them.
 
Go to "Project - Audio Files..." for a list of used files. Any not listed there are safe to delete.
 
 
Also remember to empty the Picture Cache folder regularly.
 
Steve
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    tomixornot
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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 02:17:14 (permalink)
    Thanks Steve,

    That got me to tweak the idea a bit.. You can do a 'Save As' to a new folder and X1 will copy all the latest audio with it. Then delete or zip the old project folder for backup.



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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 03:12:32 (permalink)
    Thanks Steve. And thanks Albert for the mod of the original tip. 

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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 10:03:18 (permalink)
    Yep, just resave under a new name/folder and SONAR will automatically parse out the unused files.

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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 18:54:25 (permalink)
    ... then, if the previous project folders are not needed, just delete them with no worries. 
     
    Of course this all assumes you're using per-project-audio-folders. If you're not, Sonar places all of them into one big folder making things a bit harder to manage.
     
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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 19:42:14 (permalink)
    since you are being frugel , you might like this (as well as ccleaner)

    http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

    :)


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    Re:Tip Of The Day! Saving Hard Drive Space 2012/09/02 19:47:03 (permalink)
    You can also go through the Utilities/Clean Audio Folder routine....
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