keith.rogers
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Seems like this thread has ceased to be of interest to the OP, and of insufficient interest to others to bother to read much more than the first post... (I still dislike Mondays )
When you hover over the file you want to share in Dropbox, there's a Share "button" to the right. Click on that, and then at the bottom of the dialog that pops up, click on Create a Link , and when it says the link is created, in the same place in that dialog, click on Copy Link.windows 10 and chrome. I add the file but I'm told my friend can't edit unless it's a folder instead of a file!! I hate being so inept.
I did that. Can't help you with getting the zip file to Dropbox, but your friend doesn't need to edit it on there. He needs to download it, unzip it, do what he wants with it, then follow the same steps to send a new copy of the whole thing back to you. Trying to share a folder and maintain version control and whatever is making it harder than it is. You can delete old versions on either end as you see fit. This makes it a "turn based game", but it's a hell of a lot easier.I will pay someone for a damn chart, i.e, record a couple of track, render as blah blah, send file like this blah blah
This is a pain in the ass.
I was trying to do it without do the zip file thing. But if that's what I have to do. This is really destroying my enthusiasm
If you don't zip the folder, you have to make sure to upload and download everything that's in the folder and maintain the same structure that appears on your own computer.You don't have to zip the folder unless it is bigger than your allowed drop box limit. It will just take longer to upload/download.
If you don't zip the folder, you have to make sure to upload and download everything that's in the folder and maintain the same structure that appears on your own computer.
The main point being that you need the .rpp and all of the .wav files that it references, and those .wavs need to be where Reaper expects to find them relative to the .rpp.
I think that was what MJB was saying. Just that the folder doesn't need to be zipped as such.
The main point that you and others have said is that the OP and collaborator need to work out between themselves a protocol.
Putting RRP and WAV files for a project all in the one folder, then popping that whole folder into Dropbox or Google Drive for the other person to drag out is one such protocol, and is not hard to organise. Making sure that each has a common set of plug-ins is maybe a bit more of a challenge.
Right, but I just want to reiterate that by "project files", we mean the .rpp Reaper Project AND the media files which are probably .wav, but also might include the orignal .mp3. It does NOT have to entail rendering anything at all as long as everybody has access to everything in that folder.Exactly ^^^ If all your project files are in the folder (which they will be if start the project out by creating a folder and saving to it), you're good to go that way.
There is an option somewhere to include those IR files in the Save As procedure so that it actually is just in the project folder with everything else, but I don't remember for sure where to find it....make sure you all have the same IR files...
Getting it off of your machine onto the thumbdrive and vice versa entails about the exact same procedure as if you wanted to upload, except for the specifics of uploading to the site you choose. That part is replaced by the logistics of actually getting the physical media back and forth.You're all giving good info but this stuff is too complicated. Too many options. We're going to swap thumb drives until I get this figured out. And, I'm sure that will have it's own set of complexities.
There's the project file itself. If you have automatic backups set up you will also have a file for every time you ever saved the project. Especially if you also have Autosave on, that can end up being quite a few files. There will be at least one .wav for each track you've recorded, but if you recorded over anything there's often a new file for each take. Then there's the peak files which tell reaper how to display the waveforms on the screen. That does start to add up, but most of those files don't actually take much space so shouldn't make that much difference.And why, when I do "save as," do I see like fifty different files for like five tracks instead of a single folder?