Simply want to rename a session in PT8?

[Peteresat]

I've looked everywhere...books, Internet, forums...I can't believe I'm the only one who simply wants to know how to rename a session in PT8! Anyone able to tell me how the frig to do this? I understand I can use "save as" but doesn't that create a new session but still keep the old one?

[Edo Peters]

Why don't you just rename the folder in which the session resides and the xxx.ptf file containing the session? You don't need PT to do that, it can simply be done within your operating system.

Or try SAVE COPY IN and name it any way you want it...

[Peteresat]

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I don't understand. I'm using an iMac, and all my sessions are stored in a Glyph hard drive, which, when I open and try to resave or rename anything, doesn't even give that option when I right-click it...help? I tried "save as" and all that does is rename a new file but keeps it in the folder under the name in which I initially created the session...What I want to do is rename the initially created folder.

[Edo Peters]

In Finder, open the folder with your file in it. Find the icon for your file. Click once on that icon then click and hold the mouse button down on the filename below it. After about a second of holding down the mouse button the text will become editable and you can type over the filename.

Or you can select [show info] for that file, and rename the file in the window that opens up next.

[Peteresat]

Thanks. I tried the first option but nothing happened when I held down the mouse, so I hit "return." That enabled me to rename the folder, and then I did the same thing with the .ptf file. Seems to work. Thank you. Bought this Mac when I got my ProTools and haven't quite figured out all the differences from a PC yet. Cheers...