I know, "it's my lack of understanding"... but Sonar wants to duplicate my imported audio files

[dougalex]

Maybe someone has encountered this situation and tell me the "secret" to stop Sonar from duplicating all audio files when create a new project with imported audio files.

I create a new project and import 32 audio files. I think I have done this properly so that Sonar will continue to "reference the audio files from their current location".

Then at some point, after I have already named/saved the project, upon a subsequent save, Sonar decides to copy all the files to my C-drive. 

The fix is easy: I just delete the new duplicates and on next open of project I tell Sonar to find the original files on my external drive.

But I clearly need someone to explain the proper procedure that would avoid me having to delete the duplicates

[Chaps]

Maybe this?

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Chaps
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[mettelus]

Also see this thread. Cakewalk defaults to per-project audio folders and there is no way to disable that anymore. If you do any destructive editing (bounces, etc.), audio that shows up in the project audio folder may actually be an edit and not an import, so be careful with blindly deleting content from that folder.

Pointers in the past used to be a nightmare when the global audio folder was used. It is more common practice to work on a project, then remove audio that is no longer used by doing a Save As... to a new folder and check "copy audio with project" (only audio actually in use by that cwp will copy to the new folder). Alternatively, you can simply move your projects folder (in preferences, file locations) to where you are importing from. That will keep data off the C drive completely and it is common to have projects located on another drive.