Audio files landing in the wrong place now..??

[mixsit]

In ACKUS-2, I set my 'global' 'audio' to a project sub-folder on the audio drive as allways, but now all of a sudden the track files are showing up on (in?) the drive's route directory instead. (example; F:\voc-1.wav) They play fine where they are even though global-audio is pointing to the sub-folder.
I can move them in explorer to the song folder, then when I re-open the project, re-direct the 'missing audio' box to the folder and save, ok. But I can't find what's changed.
Anyboddy seen this?

Wayne

[mark4man]

mixsit,

If the data paths haven't changed on the Folders Tab, they must have been changed inadvertently at the Project level.

In Global Options > Audio Data Tab, select "Use Per Project Audio Folders" (under "Per Project Audio".)

In this way, the user is always prompted for data paths [when Saving & Opening (new Projects/Bundles), Saving As, etc.] at the Project level.

You can always perform a "Save As"; & redirect the data paths.

mark4man

[mixsit]

Thanks Mark4Man. I have always made my own per-project folders prior to starting a new project (an old habit from befor the automatic per-project-folders versions )
You mentioned the 'Folders Tab' -would that be the =other= data path box (not 'global' 'audio data')?
And what did you mean 'changed at the project level'?
Wayne

[James Argo]

Yeah, I think mark4man hits the point very good...

[mixsit]

Originally posted by James Argo
Yeah, I think mark4man hits the point very good...

Which point please?

[James Argo]

Ugh, we should be in the chat room... you reply very fast, mixsit

Have a look in Options --> Global, you can assign the path in "Audio" tab, and also in "Folder" tab.

The Folder tab is used as initial folder when you open such particular files as default.

e.g. if you insert wave files through File --> Import --> Audio, then you'll be prompted to open the wave from the folder pointed in Options-->Global-->Folder-->Wave files field.

Change this option to (for example) F:\ will open the F:\ as default whenever you tend to insert wave file into the project.

I don't know if it has something to do with your problem, but it's worthy to know, I think

And if you use secondary HD for audio data, don't put your Picture Cache in the same drive as audio data. Let it be in the first HD with SONAR installation drive.


Jaymz

[mark4man]

mixsit,

You mentioned the 'Folders Tab' -would that be the =other= data path box (not 'global' 'audio data')?

No . . . I mistakenly mentioned the Folders Tab, when I should have mentioned the Audio Data Tab (I kinda' misunderstood what you meant by *song folder*, which I took to mean Project Folder . . . the data path of which is mapped under the Folders Tab.)

But this is what I was getting at . . .

The Global Audio Folder is where all audio files are stored when Per-Project Audio is not switched on.

That's all you really need to know to figure it out.

When Per-Project Audio is switched on, any action taken within the program relative to the storing of audio data brings up a prompt where the data path to both Project files & audio data can be mapped (overriding the default "global" setting.)

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1) If you want to create specific folders for the audio data contained within each Project, leave it on; & map accordingly (which is what I meant by "at the Project level.")

2) If you want *all* audio data to be referenced from a single "default" folder, turn it off.
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When you said you "set my 'global' 'audio' to a project sub-folder on the audio drive", well . . . that's a misnomer of sorts. You would not want the Global folder within a Project folder . . . they're two completely different animals.

Follow 1) & 2), from above; & you'll be OK.

Hope this helps.

mark4man

BTW - Jaymz had a good point about the Picture Cache. Always use that secondary drive for audio data only.

[mixsit]

It seems the problem came from making a Template from a Project, although I thought I had done this before without running into this.
The clue is in 'File>Project Audio Files'. The box has 'Project Audio Folder' which is a path that gets locked in when a project is first saved, and 'Global Audio Folder' which just shows where 'Options> Global> Audio' is currently pointed.
On a normal project, (all this is with 'Per Project Audio' off by the way) they both show the same location. When you open a template, they also show the same. But my template-from-a-CWP locked the Project Audio path to all the subsequent projects, all audio was put in that location regardless of how i set the Global Audio path.

I thought I had used this CWP to template to CWP method a few times before when there are a group of songs from the same set (a live gig in this case) but apparently, I didn't see having to stay in the same audio folder. But I'm still a little puzzled because I have always used a new audio folder for each song/project. But it is a nice way to transfer improvements made in a mix (effects, plugs, settings, ect.) to other songs, guess you just have to stay in the same folder.

Wayne

[mark4man]

mixsit,

So you're saying the Templates are locked in? I'll have to remember that.

Glad you've got it figured out . . . but it seems to me . . .try this:

Open your Template; & "Save As" another name. Close it. Go to that Template's Audio Folder in Windows Explorer . . . Cut it . . . & Paste it where you want (this won't rewrite the files, it will just remap the path in Explorer.)

Then open that Template; & the "Find Missing Audio" dialog will pop up. Remap to your new Audio Folder (& referrence the audio from it's current Folder . . .don't move or copy the audio data to the Project's Audio Folder.) See if that (using "Find Missing Audio") remaps the Template's Audio Folder to your desired location.

mark4man

[mixsit]

Originally posted by mark4man
mixsit,

So you're saying the Templates are locked in? I'll have to remember that.

mark4man

Hey Mark4man. No, slight correction. Normally Templates are not locked in. That's the point. You can open a template, save-as a CWP, that only locks the project. But my Template came from a CWP, so... I now have projects that don't care where the Global-Audio' is pointed. Very weird but everything still works.
I'm fairly sure that's what's going on, but not a 100%.
Wayne