Wav folders

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Alan McGuinness

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Long story short (ish).

I have recently had a major move around within the PC (new drive, dual boot blah blah blah) Anyway, I copied all the relevant stuff from one drive (C) to the other (D) then after double checking everything was where it should be deleted the whole nine yards from the original drive, plus reg cleaner and a defrag.

The problem: (I could and probably should kick myself for this!!!)
All the projects where “NOT” saved as bun files, so now when I go to open a project it looks for the wav info in the “C” drive but the wav folder is now in “D” drive.
I can of course just locate the wavs manually (so to speak) but this is very time consuming, not to mention being a pain in the ass.

Is there some setting that I can apply that will make CW look in “D” for the wavs instead of “C” as this would really help.

Alan.
 
Very easy to do. Look in the Global Options dialog box.
 
No Joy

Thanks for the response,

I’ve already checked the “options” “global options” and any other options that might help, but no joy. The global options is set up to look in the wav folder in “D” but at the moment this just saves and opens “new” stuff to and from said folder.
Problem is I want to open projects that where initially saved in the wav folder in “C” then copied to “D” (the whole folder was copied not just individual wav files)
I have even checked the properties of the individual wav files and they all seem to be set as “D” which you would think would do the trick. Alas not, every time I try to open a project that was originally on drive “C” that is where CW try’s to find it, with the usual accompanying error message. I know this is a bit of a head scratcher, and of course at the end of the day it no biggie as I have not lost anything. I just thought somebody may have come across this before and found a way round the manual version.

By the way, once the individual wav are found and opened within the project (the browse and find them yourself method) the project opens as normal after that.

Alan.
 
Alan,

You should check under 'Audio' options, 'advanced', and then direct your 'data directory' to the folder you mentioned on your 'D:' drive

greets, tab
 
Yeah, Alan. Doesn't matter where the files were when you originally recorded them. CW looks for them in your default directory everytime you open a project (new or old).

I'm not sure I understand your comment about,

"Problem is I want to open projects that where initially saved in the wav folder in “C” then copied to “D” (the whole folder was copied not just individual wav files)"

Are you saying the wave files are in a subfolder? It still doesn't matter, so long as your CW default directory is pointing to the subfolder.

Go to Options -> Audio -> Advanced, and point your Data Directory to where the wave files are currently located. (You can even do this by navigating to it if you click the button immediately to the right of the data directory name.)
 
Thank You!

Yep, that did the trick.
Audio - options - advanced.
Good job guys and thank you.
Dont ya just love this site?????

Alan.
 
The question threw me too when you mentioned wave files, with the data files being 'wa~'s.

Does anyone know what the 'wave' folder under 'global' is for?
When I export to make a 'wav' it still end up in the data directory.
 
Does anyone know what the 'wave' folder under 'global' is for?
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It's the default directory for where Sonar will look for .wav files when importing them into a project (File -> Import Audio).
 
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