anyway to avoid the creation of folders by digi on all my drives?

[Logic Pro]

Its very generic and rude, why not invisible folders¿
all these "Digidesign Databases" folders on all my drives is annoying, anyway to prevent this from happening?

[joeydego]

anyway to delete all of them at once? Good question. What is the purpose of these database files everywhere? They are like digital roaches.

[Ang1970]

Ya, they're like spam for hard drives. Very annoying.
And they also have a way of creating themselves on all removable media too.
I don't plan on running sessions off my mp3 player anytime soon.

[Eric Seaberg]

They need to be there to tell Digi what's on the drive. We rebuild the databases on a regular basis to keep things happy on our HD systems. If they show up on a drive you're not going to use anymore with PT then delete it AFTER you've shut down PT... you can't delete them while PT is running.

[Ang1970]

Originally Posted by Eric Seaberg

They need to be there to tell Digi what's on the drive. We rebuild the databases on a regular basis to keep things happy on our HD systems. If they show up on a drive you're not going to use anymore with PT then delete it AFTER you've shut down PT... you can't delete them while PT is running.

The point here is that digi doesn't give you the option to not create them in the first place on drives that you know you're never going to use for PT. Instead of constantly scouring your system for new drives to sink it's teeth into, digi should instead assume that NO drive on the system is going to be used for PT until you tell it otherwise.

This would also help with a lot of people who unwittingly record audio to alternate drives and then have missing audio files when they arrive at a different studio. I feel their pain when I have to tell a client "Dude, there's no audio in this folder. It says these were originally recorded on your system drive, not your fw drive." Why should PT EVER assume by default that it would be recording audio on a system drive????

[Logic Pro]

He said HD system, is this not the M-powered pro tools section?

these "SPAM" folders should be invisible to us if digi thinks they are necessary, why do we need to see them if they are there to allow Pro Tools to seek on a drive, absurd!

[ejwells]

Originally Posted by Logic Pro

Its very generic and rude, why not invisible folders¿
all these "Digidesign Databases" folders on all my drives is annoying, anyway to prevent this from happening?

How about THIS for a simple answer: No. There's no way to prevent it from happening, and no amount of whining and sniping is going to make the answer any different.

[joeydego]

jeez, wheres the love? Its christmas! Were talking about a few lousy folders here and there, just delete them. It really isnt that big a deal is it? You guys are ready to kill each other over FREEGIN FILE FOLDERS!!! There are kids dying of cancer with REAL problems, put this in perspective.

[DigiTechSupt]

Just wanted to let everyone know that, yes, we're aware of the problem with Pro Tools creating database folders on other media that wouldn't be used for Pro Tools purposes and we're looking at ways to work around that.

As mentioned above - we could make these invisible, but it would make trashing them, in the case of problems, difficult.

FWIW - other applications (Logic, for instance) create database folders as well - they just use a master database, rather than one on a drive by drive basis. We thought our method would be better since many people take their drives from system to system and, with large drives, creating a new database every time could take time. With them on the drive, it's pretty much plug and play.

We do value your feedback on this and are always looking for ways to improve things.