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[paresh]

Hi guys - Maybe this should be a newbie question... I'm recording w GT Pro on a laptop & suddenly my hard drive is filled. I checked the audio file folder in GT & it has 15 gigabytes of wav files. I need to delete those to create space on my hard drive but don't know the best way to back up to CDRW.
My questions: If I create a bun file & send to CDRW can I then delete the wav files?
Are bun files smaller than wav files - the wav files are too large to store on a CD?
Mainly - I'm working on a large project - 2 - 30 min sound tracks. When they are all mixed down they will fit on a CD but I want to save a premix version as well - 32 tracks each 30 min long. What should I do? Thanks!!

 

[Qwerty]

The first thing I would do is to grab the Cakewalk Audio Finder tool from their website and run it. It will go through and find any unused .WAV files from dodgy takes, (listed as 'Orphaned'), that you can safely delete. Just doing this can give you some breathing room.

I would do this -

1. Run the CWAF tool to get some space
2. Create .BUN files for all your projects
3. Open the .BUN files to make sure they work
4. Burn .BUN files to CD
5. Open .BUN files from CD to make sure it worked
6. Delete, or backup and remove, your .WRK files
7. Re-run CWAF, this will now find all the .WAV files as being 'orphaned' and you can safely delete them
8. Re-open each .BUN file as you need it and do a SAVE-AS .WRK

That should do it. Unless of course any of your .BUN files are bigger than the size of a CD in which case you will need to split out into two sub -.BUN files.

Alternatively, (and I don't know if GT Pro has this feature), you can use Per-Project Audio folders. If you are doing this, each project has it's own \Audio Data folder which makes things much easier to manage. Just keep copying files out to your CD-R. If you want to do this, it's best to go through the steps above and before you do step #8, you should enable Per Project Audio folders.

You can safely ignore that last paragraph if GT Pro doesn't have the Per Project Audio feature - it's no big deal.

Ciao,

Q.

 

[paresh]

thanks, mate!

Awesome! I'll get started right away.