Been a long time since I used XCOPY, and I see that ROBOCOPY is the new guy in town, with a whole host of extra cmd line switches!  Good advice.

ROBOCOPY  is better, but has more confusing switches.  I think XCOPY runs out of gas with v large files (~1Gb or so).  So if your files are in the Mb range, XCOPY should do the job.  

NICE car - they floated!

Bob Bone

I don't use any special program when I copy projects to a separate drive.  Just the built in Windows copy/paste.  I make a folder for each recording project and name it "bill 2012"  or whatever.  Then I copy the "bill 2012" (for example) folder to the separate hard drive.  If this is an update (changes) in the project(s) in the folder, I first delete the old backup folder on the target drive then do the paste to the second hard drive.  That is one copy backup.  I also do frequent (nightly if there have been recording projects) Acronis True Image full hard drive backups to a separate "acronis backup" hard drive.  That may seem like overkill but that produces the "original" and 2 backup copies.  If Murphy's Law comes into play and the original hard drive and one of the other backup drives fails as the same time there is still the 3rd copy.

Mind you maybe he has a slight point.

I was playing music into it the other day and I didn't like the way it sounded. The verse and chorus wasn't quite right either.

I BLAME SONAR! ;)

There is only 10 weeks until Chrstmas 


Just keep that in mind 

miguelito

You're almost always better learning the quirks of one software really well, than jumping around.

 
This is some of the best advice I've read on this forum.
 
As to the OP: Hope you get it all straightened out.
 
Regards.

Which is why I just do things like this...  
 
Sonar X1 : The "0" Bar and Markers Problem

http://gearandguitars.blo...d-markers-problem.html

I am going out dancing as soon as my gout is more better 

gearandguitars

miguelito

You're almost always better learning the quirks of one software really well, than jumping around.

This is some of the best advice I've read on this forum.

As to the OP: Hope you get it all straightened out.

Regards.

Which is why I just do things like this...  

Sonar X1 : The "0" Bar and Markers Problem

http://gearandguitars.blo...d-markers-problem.html

Great tip!

robert_e_bone


Good point.  I myself do not use auto-save, because I like to know precisely where I was when a save took place.

It took me a while to figure out auto-save does not override (or overwrite) anything you do. For example, if you're working on SongVersion7.cwp, it will remain undisturbed. A new copy called "Auto-save copy of Songversion7.cwp" will be created when auto-save kicks in. You can always revert back to what you saved, but if you hadn't saved recently and there's a power failure or whatever, you'll be happy Sonar created a newer copy.


As to the OP, I'm sorry, but trusting a piece of metal spinning at 7200 or 10000 RPM that was delivered via a truck subjecting it to more Gs than you'd like, and using parts from the lowest bidder...well, you know the rest. Doing work on a computer without making backups is asking for trouble, and you can be guaranteed to receive it, sooner or later.