Moving Cakewalk projects

[charles kasler]

My c drive is filling up and I need to move some folders to the d drive. Is it safe for me to move my cakewalk projects, IE will Cakewalk still be able to find and load them? That would be the biggest and most practical set of folders for me to move and free up space. It's confusing to me because some programs like Cakewalk  install in more than one place, not just in program files. I don't know if that makes any difference or not. Thanks.

[David Baay]

Perfectly safe and fairly common. Just move the entire Projects directory in one go with Sonar shut down. After restarting, go to Folder Locations in the File section of Preferences and change the path for Project Files.

The greates drawback to this is that the Created/Modified dates of all the folders will change to the date and time you make the move. If that matters to you, there are 3rd-party file management tools that can preserve the timestamps

Note that it's also possible to move whole program directories  and things like Cakewalk Content and sample libraries to another drive and create a symblic link from the old location to the new one using mklink at an administrator command prompt:

mklink /d "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk Projects" "D:\Program Files\Cakewalk Projects"

Any reference made to the original location in the registry or by Cakewalk installers will automatically and transparently be referred to the new location with no performance  impact. If the new drive is faster, performance can even be improved. I did this on my old desktop DAW when I installed an SSD in it and didn't want to bother migrating the whole C Drive and OS to it. I just individually moved projects, program directories, plugins, samples and the global Audio Data and PIcture Cache folders to it and created symbolic links as necessary. Works completely seamlessly.

 

[charles kasler]

Thanks so much!