Hey all,
 
So I just upgraded to X3 from 8.5, so maybe after a couple more restarts this will all fix itself, but in the process I moved my global audio folder from D:\Cakewalk Projects to G:\Cakewalk Projects. It's right there in preferences I can see that it's staying, yet when I open an old project from before made the move, it looks in D: and says it can't find the folder and prompts me to locate it.
 
Any idea if I'm doing something wrong? Is there an option somewhere I'm not seeing to force projects to check the global setting before asking me for help?
 
Thanks!

IDK but maybe creating a junction to the real location may suppress the message, from the DOS prompt:
mklink /j "D:\Cakewalk Projects" "G:\Cakewalk Projects"

 when I open an old project from before made the move, it looks in D: and says it can't find the folder and prompts me to locate it.

 
That's because it was last saved on the D drive. All you need to do is open the sonar project by clicking your CWP icon below the folder and do not open it from within Sonar. Then do a save as to your new drive.
 
Thank me
CJ

so every project i've ever made will need to be resaved? kinda annoying right? you'd think there's a way to just make it automatically know that you moved the audio folder...
 
i still gotta try scook's suggestion too...

No, You just need to put them where you want them and they will be there. 
But if you are storing your audio folders separately etc you'll have a mess. 
If you have been using "per project folders"  Then you only need to move them all to the new location, Changing the file path has nothing to do with this. That only tells Sonar where to store your new stuff. 
 

Oh yea, I'm not using Per Project... I probably should have been for all these years, but it's a remnant of the days before Per Project Audio folders as an option that I never changed haha.
 
You know what, I'll change it from here on out, but there's still gotta be a way, right?

Hey guys, quick followup question to this thread...
 
So if I switch to using per project audio folders... Obviously it asks you to name the project before you start... Is it possible to rename it then after? A lot of times I don't know what I'm going to do when I start you know... So I was wondering if I could either a) rename it from within Sonar which would change both project file and project folder names automatically, or b) I could just rename the project file in Windows... But I feel like that would probably cause some kind of problem with it finding the corresponding per project audio folder...
 
Thanks!

Use the "Save As" function to rename a project within SONAR. You can also rename using Windows, the audio references are stored relative to the project file, not in absolute paths. The best thing to do is create a small project and test per-project folders to see how they work and get comfortable with them.

ok cool, so if I was to say just start a project with todays date as the name.... then it gets to be this big electro rock epic haha, and I hit Save As and change it to "Electro-RockEpic1" I'll get a new project file AND project audio folder called "Electro-RockEpic1" and could then just go delete the original project and audio folder I'm guessing?
 
i'll play around with it. seems like that would work.

Yes, there an option in the "Save As" dialog to copy the audio with the project which should be enabled. This has the side effect of only copying the audio referenced in the project. It is also possible to save multiple versions of a project within the same folder. The projects will work from a common set of audio files (similar to working with audio in the Global audio folder).
 
The "Save as" function may also be used to clean up the existing library of projects using the Global audio folder.