wooah, straighten me out here. i thought the norm for saving a file to hard copy was burning a bun. file. is this not so? can you burn a cwp to data cd as well and more reliable? sorry for the dummy question. i guess i should only clean audio folder after a project is finished seeing as it clears history?

You burn the CWP AND the project audio folder to the CD(s) or DVD.

ORIGINAL: sammyp

wooah, straighten me out here. i thought the norm for saving a file was burning a bun. file. is this not so? can you burn a cwp to data cd as well and more reliable? sorry for the dummy question.

Backing up the cwp file and the "Audio" folder for that project, as data, is the process. The cwp files contains the project info. The Audio folder contains, well, the audio.

You burn the CWP AND the project audio folder to the CD or DVD

so: better then a bun? what i'm talking about is burning/saving a projects progress once every couple of weeks

ORIGINAL: sammyp
so: better then a bun? what i'm talking about is burning/saving a projects progress once every couple of weeks

IMO, yes.

ORIGINAL: sammyp

You burn the CWP AND the project audio folder to the CD or DVD

so: better then a bun? what i'm talking about is burning/saving a projects progress once every couple of weeks

A few people have had complaints regarding bundles getting corrupted. If you use per-project audio, you can just copy off the folder where the project lives. Or zip/rar it.

Whoa! What a mess now.. I tried saving my last project.. as a cwp. Well the wavs associated with this were a wopping 650MB. The cwb file for this same project previuosly saved as cwb was only 93MB. Also, when I tried to open the .cwp file it took even longer to open than the usual 30 seconds or so that it took to open the cwb. Not so tidy and efficient after all. Something here is not right. I'll check further..

ORIGINAL: Brad

Hi,

I'm wondering if people have a preference and why. I've always just saved my Audio w/Midi projects as .bun files cuz it all stays togethter and is unclutterd. I never bother saving as .cwp. Why save the audio in a different place than the rest of the data? But now, somehow I'm getting the feeling that this may be an unorganized way of doing things.. Any suggestions out there one way or the other?


Thanks
Brad

i used to do buns (that could sound weird right ?) but i had a bun get corrupted and after posting this same question on the old version of this forum was set straight by the solid advice from forum members....

.cwp for me.

ORIGINAL: Brad

Whoa! What a mess now.. I tried saving my last project.. as a cwp. Well the wavs associated with this were a wopping 650MB. The cwb file for this same project previuosly saved as cwb was only 93MB. Also, when I tried to open the .cwp file it took even longer to open than the usual 30 seconds or so that it took to open the cwb. Not so tidy and efficient after all. Something here is not right. I'll check further..

2 things...

for .cwp
make sure your audio drive isn't fragmented.....if your wavs are all over the drive & sonar has to hop around to get to them it could take some time to open....650MB will take some time anyways.

for bun
i could be wrong here but i think saving as a bun does some kind of compression...which could be some of the reason they are more susceptible to getting corrupted....just guessing.

ORIGINAL: Brad

Whoa! What a mess now.. I tried saving my last project.. as a cwp. Well the wavs associated with this were a wopping 650MB. The cwb file for this same project previuosly saved as cwb was only 93MB. Also, when I tried to open the .cwp file it took even longer to open than the usual 30 seconds or so that it took to open the cwb. Not so tidy and efficient after all. Something here is not right. I'll check further..

Two possible problems here. First, are you using Per Project file storage? If not then it's likely the wave files you were saving were from this AND other projects as well.

Second, if you ARE using Per Project storage, it is possible you have a lot of "unused" audio in that folder. For ex., takes that you later deleted, etc. Deleting them from the project does not remove the audio files from your drive. However, you should be able to get rid of that clutter with the Clean Audio Disk tool.