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DISK MANAGEMENT

**IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING COPY **

The COPY process copies the project/library and all referenced audio across to the target

disk. This is to prevent audio becoming detached from the project or library with which it is

associated. However, the copying process only copies across the audio associated with the

cues plus a 10% ‘handle’ either side of the cue.

For example, imagine that you have a 5 minute continuous recording of assorted sound effects

and you have used a mere 30 seconds of it in a project you have chosen to copy. On the

source disk, that cue is referencing the full 5 minutes of audio (but only playing the relevant 30

seconds of it in the project). When you copy the project across, it will only copy the 30 second

section you are using in the project (plus 3 a second ‘handle’ either side) NOT the full five

minute piece of audio it originally came from. You may find therefore, that when you copy a

project from one disk to another, the project on the target disk will use less disk space than the

one on the source disk.

However, please note one important restriction regarding copying individual projects and libraries

separately to another disk. Because the audio is copied each time you individually copy a

project or a library, this will take up extra disk space on the destination disk. This will happen

even when you copy two similar projects that reference the same audio.

For example, imagine you have two projects PROJECT 1 and PROJECT 2 on DISK 0 and

both projects use exactly the same audio (PROJECT 2 being just a slight variation on PROJECT

1). If you were to select SINGLE FILE as the file type and individually copy each project to

DISK 1 separately, you will find that the audio is duplicated, using up disk space. In this case,

you should use ALL PROJECTS - this would copy both projects but would only copy the audio

once.

In the event of you having, say, five projects on DISK 0 all using the same audio but you only

want to copy PROJECT 1, 2 and 5 to DISK 1, select ALL PROJECTS and copy all five projects

across in one operation (and hence only one version of the audio) and then, on DISK 1, delete

projects 3 and 4.

The same is true when copying libraries.

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