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Old 05-10-2011, 02:28 PM
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Default Splitting a session's audio files over multiple drives

Can anyone direct me to a tutorial on how to split a session's audio files up between more than one hard drive? I've gotten in a massive session here that they want to do some edits to, but just trying to run everything off of the internal SATA drive is throwing disk errors left and right. Won't play for more than a couple beats at a time. Hoping if I split up the audio files across two drives it'll run.
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Old 05-10-2011, 02:32 PM
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Default Re: Splitting a session's audio files over multiple drives

put another internal drive in
make a session folder then an audio folder inside on the second drive
copy half of the audio files to the new folder
delete what you copied from the original drive
launch Pro Tools
make sure the new drive is set to Record in the Workspace
open the session
relink to the new location
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Old 05-10-2011, 02:32 PM
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Can anyone direct me to a tutorial on how to split a session's audio files up between more than one hard drive? I've gotten in a massive session here that they want to do some edits to, but just trying to run everything off of the internal SATA drive is throwing disk errors left and right. Won't play for more than a couple beats at a time. Hoping if I split up the audio files across two drives it'll run.
PT9, OS 10.6, 16GB RAM, Intel 8-core Xeon 3.0GHz
Just move half the files over to the 2nd drive, and then re-link them. Very quick and easy. I'm running off 3 drives for the current mix, and recording stems to a 4th drive...!

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Old 05-10-2011, 03:02 PM
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Brilliant. Thanks guys. Can't believe how simple that was. Just have to remember to bring everything back together before backing up!
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Old 05-10-2011, 03:06 PM
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Default Re: Splitting a session's audio files over multiple drives

Maybe these other guys know you personally, but since I don't I'll ask the obvious question...

... the internal SATA drive ...

That's not your only internal drive, is it?

Given you're computer's specs I would tend to guess not, but you never know...
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Old 05-10-2011, 03:09 PM
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You don't even have to remember to do that. Just use the "Save Copy in ..." command. This function will gather your files automatically from whatever drive they are on and back everything up to a single folder wherever you specify!

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Old 05-10-2011, 03:19 PM
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Maybe these other guys know you personally, but since I don't I'll ask the obvious question...

... the internal SATA drive ...

That's not your only internal drive, is it?

Given you're computer's specs I would tend to guess not, but you never know...
No, no, I've got 4 (I think). Lack of drives is not the problem
Just wasn't sure how PT would go about finding what it needed.
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