I keep them because they all represent pieces of my own creative effort.
 
 
Considering the rareness of such stuff, I figure they are incredibly valuable!!

Rimshot
I can't toss them out. 
I have learned to convert all tracks to waves files so I never need to rely on midi or internal instruments. 
It's rewarding to go back and remix them which I have recently done on a couple songs. 
I use a 1 trig HD for all my music files which gets backed up to a 1 1trig backup drive so I will hopefully alwasys have these old guys around.

That's what I do if I want to keep something. Bounce everything down to waves. Then one copy goes onto CD and another to external harddrive.
 
I don't really ever revisit any of it though. I don't go looking at old photos much either. Different strokes for different folks.

Oddly, I have almost zero interest in old photos and memoribilia. Again, go figure.

Geeze. This is the digital age. You can keep audio stuff almost forever in less space than a pair of socks and use a computer to search for it when you misplace it. Your use once and throw away system is better suited to condoms than Sonar projects. 

yorolpal
Oddly, I have almost zero interest in old photos and memoribilia. Again, go figure.

Yep, me too.

backwoods
This puzzles me because I finish something, bounce it and then I'm done. I move on. Last week's work is done and forgotten about like last night's dinner. Often I delete the project because I know I can recreate it quickly again if need be.
 
Why do people hold onto DAW music projects and test them with latest builds when they are several years old?
 
What is going on???
 
To quote the great Gottfried: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!!!???

When I finish a project and export it I burn the entire PC and blow up the hard drive....
 
Art....

Doktor Avalanche

backwoods
This puzzles me because I finish something, bounce it and then I'm done. I move on. Last week's work is done and forgotten about like last night's dinner. Often I delete the project because I know I can recreate it quickly again if need be.
 
Why do people hold onto DAW music projects and test them with latest builds when they are several years old?
 
What is going on???




 
To quote the great Gottfried: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!!!???

When I finish a project and export it I burn the entire PC and blow up the hard drive....
 
Art....

That's how Hilary Clinton answers emails too. But it does make it difficult to update all drivers, reset BIOS and list system specs.

slartabartfast
Geeze. This is the digital age. You can keep audio stuff almost forever in less space than a pair of socks and use a computer to search for it when you misplace it. Your use once and throw away system is better suited to condoms than Sonar projects. 

I'm not exactly in the tremendous artist category so it would feel like I was collecting c--p. If I had the talent of the Beatles it would be nice to rerelease a slight variation every five, six years and pretend that the new one was the definitive and final one and make mega bucks :)

Not sure the condom dispersal systemcan't also be applied to the sock (full of data)

Occasionally i reload old mixes from 10-12 years ago and the remix results are always better,to my ears anyway-whether it`s the hands on experience gained or the judicious use of new tools i dont know but but some of my early drum tracks have benefited enormously from Drumagog and modern compressors and limiters are far more accurate than 10 years ago with Sonar 2!!
Plus,i dont know how many times i have had to recover projects(CWB's before i switched to Project files)from backup when artists decide to revisit and remix earlier work-(sometimes their best),years later.
interestingly i cant imagine an artist "digitally remixing and remastering" a portrait or landscape whereas,is there such a thing as the "perfect mix"?
cheers  

Interesting comparison webbs hill. I suppose fine arts guys sometimes do the same object over and over and over again- Monet and his haystacks, the schizophrenic guy and his cats and some start over without finishing first attempt. probably some keep early drafts/concept sheets, others not.

I actually do load a track made of wavs when I want to trial or learn another daw.