murph16
05-19-2002, 09:19 AM
Can someone explain this disc allocation stuff to me?
I bought a second audio drive (E) and I wanted to free up some room on my old drive (D), so I used Windows Explorer and moved some ProTools session folders (including audio files) over to the new drive(E).
Now, when I open any of those sessions and check disc allocation, it looks to me like all of the tracks are still on the first drive (D). When I select Custom allocation and try to change them to a new directory, nothing happens. All of the tracks are still showing up with (D) at the beginning of the track name.
Root media folder says :E, but the individual tracks all start with D.
What am I not understanding? Do those files (tracks) still retain the name they had on the original drive? When I record new tracks on those sessions, are they going onto the new drive?
Just for the record, after I "moved" the session folders with Explorer, I checked the properties tab of the drives and the "Free space" had changed accordingly, so I think I did that part right.
What gives?
I'm so confused.
I really couldn't find an explanation in the manual or in a DUC search.
You guys are so good at this stuff...what am I missing?
Feeling clueless,
Bill images/icons/confused.gif
I bought a second audio drive (E) and I wanted to free up some room on my old drive (D), so I used Windows Explorer and moved some ProTools session folders (including audio files) over to the new drive(E).
Now, when I open any of those sessions and check disc allocation, it looks to me like all of the tracks are still on the first drive (D). When I select Custom allocation and try to change them to a new directory, nothing happens. All of the tracks are still showing up with (D) at the beginning of the track name.
Root media folder says :E, but the individual tracks all start with D.
What am I not understanding? Do those files (tracks) still retain the name they had on the original drive? When I record new tracks on those sessions, are they going onto the new drive?
Just for the record, after I "moved" the session folders with Explorer, I checked the properties tab of the drives and the "Free space" had changed accordingly, so I think I did that part right.
What gives?
I'm so confused.
I really couldn't find an explanation in the manual or in a DUC search.
You guys are so good at this stuff...what am I missing?
Feeling clueless,
Bill images/icons/confused.gif