Utilizing dual Hard Drives...

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What would be the best way to organize My folders in Sonar 4?

Right now everything is saved to my main HD and only my "Global Audio Folder" and "Picture Folder" are saved to the second drive.

I want to move as many folders as possible to my second drive. Which should stay on the main drive?

Also, whats the best way to move them? Can I just move the folder and change the the folder in the Global Options?
 
Your pretty right on the money already. System files should stay on the main system drive and audio files should go on your second hard drive, and yea, you can just drag folders from one to the other. If you use "per project" audio folders you should assign them as well in your folders directory. Chances are you'll be making new audio and deleting old audio constantly, and by using the second drive only for these files you can locate them faster, cause less strain on your system drive, and defrag the audio drive on a regular basis.
 
I don't actually have any audio on the second drive. I could never get it to work.

I went Tools > Global > Audio Data and I have Global Audio Folder" and "Picture Folder" set to the Second Drive. The Picture Cache saves in the Picture Folder on the second drive, but All of the Audio files are saved to The main HD in The "Cakewalk Projects" folder in the "Audio" folder.

I tried moving the entire Audio Folder to the Second Drive but I cant figure out a way to get it to work. It doesn't know to look there.

I don't want to have to manually find every audio file for every project.

What am I doing wrong???
 
Try creating folders on the second harddrive first. Then go to Sonar folder options and make the neccessary paths to these new folders. Then copy and paste whatever audio you have on drive one over to drive two. It seems windows might not let you drag those folders over because they are registered to a program it monitors. Hope this helps!
 
If you have two HDD's, the partitions shown on the left of the Disk Manager (right click, My Computer> manage > Disk Manager) stream faster than the partitions on the right.

So a good regime would be to have your o/s and audio applications on partition 1, disk 1 and your current project on partition 1 of disk 2. Saved audio should then be on partition 2 of disk 2. Streaming and non-streaming synth libraries should be on partition 2 of disk 1. That way, once you have loaded Sonar, you can stream your audio and synth libraries at optimum speed;)
 
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