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DISK MANAGEMENT

CLEANUP DISK

CLEANUP DISK allows you to clear out redundant recordings and so save valuable disk space.

Pressing CLEAN (F4) from the DISK UTILITIES page shows this screen:

It is possible to have a disk full of unreferenced audio files. These are pieces of audio that have no

association with any project or library. These are usually created when recording. For example,

you make one recording and make a mistake. You drop in again over that, recording a new piece

of audio. If the original recording is not in a library or another project, the audio associated with the

original cue you recorded of it has become ‘unreferenced’ and is taking up disk space needlessly.

Of course, if you keep recording over and over again on the same spot, you can fill your disk up

fairly quickly. Also, if you delete a cue from a project or a clip from a library, you can end up with

unreferenced audio. Another way audio can become ‘unreferenced’ is if you make a recording and

then don’t save the project. The functions in the CLEANUP page allow you to deal with this.

The CLEANUP functions are:

CLEANUP

This will only erase unreferenced audio but will not ‘top and tail’ the cues that are valid. However,

because CLEANUP keeps all the audio that may be being referenced (no matter how small), it

could be you will see no or only a small change in the FREE ON DISK field because unlike MINIMISE,

if just one cue in one project uses one second of a ten minute recording, the whole ten minutes will

be kept. If you need to free up a further nine minutes and 59 seconds, use MINIMISE. Pressing

CLEANUP DISK (F1/F2) will give this message:

Because audio may be being referenced by the EDIT CLIPBOARD, you could try a cleanup and

end up with no appreciable increase in available disk space. This option allows you to select

whether you want the clipboard to be deleted as well. You should make your choice accordingly

using F5 or F6 as appropriate.

Pressing F5 or F6 will give this final safeguard prompt:

When performing a cleanup, you should be aware that it is possible to have a project on a removable

disk but for the audio for that project to exist on another disk (maybe the project is on an MO but

the audio associated with it is all on a fixed hard disk). If the removable ‘project’ disk is not present

on the system when you perform a cleanup, you run the risk of losing all the audio for that project.

The reason is simple...

The CLEANUP function works by searching all the projects and libraries on all the disks currently

attached to the system and it establishes what audio is being used by those projects and libraries

and what is not. It then deletes any audio NOT being referenced by those projects and libraries

from the disks.

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