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Old 07-17-2018, 05:42 PM
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I just got a new computer and it has the new 2018 PT's...I saved my song to a hard drive before the old computer broke down and I am trying to recover it in PT's 2018 on the new computer.Everything shows up except the audio.I don't see any wave files on the edit screen...All tracks and plugins show up/..Do you think I didn't save it right?Don't the audio files save with the rest of the song..Thanks
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Old 07-17-2018, 06:09 PM
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They'd be in the Audio Files folder on the original hard drive unless you stored them elsewhere.
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If you were in the original session and went File>Save Session Copy, the next window would have a checkbox to include audio files. Could you have missed that? Is there an original version of the session on any other drive?
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gee I don't know.I don't understand PT's very well not sure what I did.I don't remember that check box?I saved to another drive on the old computer but not sure what I did .I thought I was doing it right .
What is the correct way to re-load a song from a drive .?Maybe I did that wrong.Maybe I was suppose to use import files.Ill have to go in and try again .I'm a little confuse as usual.Thanks
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If you were in the original session and went File>Save Session Copy, the next window would have a checkbox to include audio files. Could you have missed that? Is there an original version of the session on any other drive?
I think I went ''save as'' so I guess I did it wrong lost all my audiogee
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I think I went ''save as'' so I guess I did it wrong lost all my audio

well maybe the original session is still on my old computer hard drive...Thanks guys ..
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Any chance you still have that old computer, or at least the drives from it?
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Any chance you still have that old computer, or at least the drives from it?
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yea I have it ill take it in tomorrow and see if I can get it..Don't you think all the song data would be on my recording drive or should I have them try and retrieve the stuff on my C drive too..thanks
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yea I have it ill take it in tomorrow and see if I can get it..Don't you think all the song data would be on my recording drive or should I have them try and retrieve the stuff on my C drive too..thanks

If you open your session that's missing audio, then open the Session Browser Window (option-o) it will show you the location of the audio files for that session (even if the drive is not online) - sort by path and you should be able to quickly see exactly what drive any offline audio is located on.
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got real lucky .I took the computer in and it's ok.I had 4 drives and the last drive ,,a second backup is failing and was causing windows not to open.All my files are left just like I had them.Thanks for all the help.Ill be more carful next time and test what I have saved to my off computer drive

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