Missing files

[mettelus]

6 hours ago, David Baay said:

So long as all the projects are on the same drive as the audio they reference, CWAF should not mis-identify  files as Orphaned.

I do not remember the details of the event, and don't think I changed anything from the default settings to be honest. Some had been wrk files carried forward from other machines. IIRC, the default pops up to scan projects on all drives versus the global audio folder (has been 15+ years now so no clue), and some older Cakewalk versions named audio files limited to 8 characters (so they were not track names). Prior to per project audio folders this was quite a mess, but the lack of track names also made them impossible to visually verify during the process. Fortunately I back up things prior to testing file utilities, but it only takes a single event never to trust them again.

[charles kasler]

I do back up once a month, I'll check that but it may have just backed up the corrupted files. I'll try to restore and see what happens

[David Baay]

20 hours ago, charles kasler said:

how else do you delete clips that are no longer needed?

There's also the per-project Clean Audio Folder option under Utilities. It cleans tha audio folder of only the currently open project.

[sjoens]

I used to have all project iterations in one folder, up to 50 in some cases, which meant several cwp's were using the same audio files as well as adding their own making one huge audio folder.

Now I save each project iteration in it's own folder so older project folders and audio can be removed easily without fear.