|
Avid Pro Audio CommunityHow to Join & Post • Community Terms of Use • Help Us Help YouKnowledge Base Search • Community Search • Learn & Support |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
moving pro tools sessions to an external drive
Greetings~
I've been using Pro Tools for about 6 months now and have been saving our sessions to the internal drive of my 2018 Mac Mini. Now I'm rethinking that decision and want to move the session files to an external SSD drive. How can I do this without losing any of the necessary interconnections between ptx and various support files? I've read that moving the session files can be a tricky thing,,, or at least it used to be tricky. Thx for your help! |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Re: moving pro tools sessions to an external drive
Assuming all your sessions are self-contained and don't reference any external audio just drag the folder for each session to the external drive. Being an external drive OSX will just copy over everything in the folder(s).
Then you can delete the sessions on the internal drive once you're satisfied the sessions on the external work okay. Another option and one I've not used is to do a 'save copy in' and point it to the external drive. But you still have to delete the session on the internal drive. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Re: moving pro tools sessions to an external drive
Quote:
thx again |
#4
|
||||
|
||||
Re: moving pro tools sessions to an external drive
Safest way to move a session folder is via Save Copy in.
In the options make sure to select "copy Audio Files" too. This way there is no risk of having offline media. |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Moving part of Pro Tools to new external hard drive | PSIII | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) | 4 | 05-17-2008 11:35 AM |
moving sessions from system drive to external HD | samuelowen | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) | 6 | 07-24-2006 04:54 PM |
Moving sessions to new drive | TULL | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Win) | 3 | 09-30-2004 01:57 PM |
Moving to external Drive | Vic D | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) | 4 | 10-22-2003 01:13 PM |
external drive was corrupt...lost 4 sessions after copying them to drive. help! | djc8902 | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) | 2 | 01-12-2003 01:27 PM |