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Issue w/ saving... [ProTools M 7.1.1, MacBook, Lacie FireWire HD]
Firstly, I store all my projects, and files associated with them, in a designated folder on an external FireWire HD... not a problem. However, every so often, I'll be browsing the 1st level of my Mac's internal and I see folders named w/ names that I am using or have used for my projects. If I open these folders, they usually contain several files seperated into Audio/Fades folders.
Why would ProTools save most of the project where I want it to, and some of the project elsewhere? If I try to delete these files from the internal, the project won't open properly because they are missing. And if I relink the files to the Audio/Fades folders on my external, it usually tries to replace files [that for some reason have the same name]. They're not the same file though... they both need to be present for the project to have all the files it needs.
I don't really understand all that "behind the scenes" jazz that my computer is doing for me. Any advice on this subject would be great!
Something else I just thought of... kind of along the same lines...
Let's say I open a new session and I start my new song off with a sample.
That sample is stored in the afformentioned Audio folder on my HD, right?... So then let's say I add a bunch of other stuff- drums, bass, etc. Then I decide that the sample I used no longer belongs in this particular song so I delete it, and the track it's on... How come it doesn't get removed from that Audio folder? And if I manually try to remove it, ProTools refuses to save the session because it's not there. And if I close the session and then remove the file... guess what?! Yep, ProTools is trying to find that sample when I open the session up again!
Please tell me there's a way around these issues... I like to be very organized with my work and this is so frustrating!
Firstly, I store all my projects, and files associated with them, in a designated folder on an external FireWire HD... not a problem. However, every so often, I'll be browsing the 1st level of my Mac's internal and I see folders named w/ names that I am using or have used for my projects. If I open these folders, they usually contain several files seperated into Audio/Fades folders.
Why would ProTools save most of the project where I want it to, and some of the project elsewhere? If I try to delete these files from the internal, the project won't open properly because they are missing. And if I relink the files to the Audio/Fades folders on my external, it usually tries to replace files [that for some reason have the same name]. They're not the same file though... they both need to be present for the project to have all the files it needs.
I don't really understand all that "behind the scenes" jazz that my computer is doing for me. Any advice on this subject would be great!
Something else I just thought of... kind of along the same lines...
Let's say I open a new session and I start my new song off with a sample.
That sample is stored in the afformentioned Audio folder on my HD, right?... So then let's say I add a bunch of other stuff- drums, bass, etc. Then I decide that the sample I used no longer belongs in this particular song so I delete it, and the track it's on... How come it doesn't get removed from that Audio folder? And if I manually try to remove it, ProTools refuses to save the session because it's not there. And if I close the session and then remove the file... guess what?! Yep, ProTools is trying to find that sample when I open the session up again!
Please tell me there's a way around these issues... I like to be very organized with my work and this is so frustrating!