CWAF: How long does it take to run?

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Hello,

I have recently been converted by Moskus, Porter and other evil ACKUS evangelicals into using Per Project Audio folders with Sonar 3PE.

To do so, I guess I now need to use the Cakewalk Audio Finder tool as I have data scattered beyond the reaches of the CLEAN AUDIO DATA command, (if I am reading the help file correctly).

I have about 160Gigs of drive space to search through, roughly 20 .CWP files floating about and around 40Gigs of actual music data.

This seems to take about 30 minutes to complete, as compared to 30 seconds for the old CLEAN AUDIO DATA command.

Operating as designed? How long do your searches take?

:) Q.

P4 1.8GHz, 1Gig RAM, 160Gig UDMA ATA-100 HD's.
 
Operating as designed? How long do your searches take?
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Gee,I would'nt know,I use per project folders.:p

But seriously,I'm assuming the audio finder searches all of your files not just the Cakewalk files.The clean audio command only checks Cakewalk files.
 
Easiest method would be to covert all your projects into bun files (.cwb's). Then delete all the project files and audio.

When you reopen the bun files - with the "per project" checkbox checked - Sonar will unload the audio from the bun file and put them in the appropriate project audio folder (you'll get a prompt as you do this).

After that you can go back and delete the bun files if you wish (or just keep them as backups).
 
dachay2tnr said:
Easiest method would be to covert all your projects into bun files (.cwb's). Then delete all the project files and audio.
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That's actually how I converted to per project audio files - everything is running fine and all works.

It is just the length of time to operate CWAF which seems a little weird. It works fine, just takes a LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG timeto run............

:) Q.
 
I've pretty much always used Per project folders. CWAF does take a few munutes for me, but nowhere near 30 min. That seems a little strange. I suppose if yyour hard drive is fairly full of stuff, it could take the programm quite a while, since it searches ALL files and folders. My HD is only about 25% full on 80 gig, so that could be why it goes pretty quick.
 
You mean I need to actually back something up instead of just sticking it over on another drive?

Thanks for letting me know! I guess I just have to learn patience.

:) Q.
 
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