Session on foreign disk

[DanXx]

Hi All,

I have a problem and I'm wondering if anybody knows the answer to this:

I have a couple of sessions on my internal harddisk. I also have an external SCSI-harddisk.

Now when I copy my sessions to the external harddisk and try to open them, Pro Tools still uses the audiofiles, fadefiles and other files on my internal harddisk.

Is there any way of telling/tricking Pro-Tools not to access the internal disk in such a case?

I even tried renaming the internal session's folders but it didn't help!

appreciate your answer, Dan.

[obseco]

Pro Tools sessions first remember where the audio was (places in HD). Then it looks inside the session folder (Audio Files folder). If it couldn't find it that way it'll prompt you to choose a folder where the audio is.

I think you should trash your first audio material in order to force PT to look for it where you want... or make a full copy of your session using the "save a copy in..." command.

Hope this work...

[Paul Greyson]

Renaming the folder doesn't work because Pro Tools remembers the "id" of the folder rather than the name.
You can "hide" the audio from Pro Tools by moving the audio to a new folder and throwing away the original folder. The new folder can even be renamed to "Audio Files" (since it's "id" will be different.)

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Paul Greyson
Digidesign Engineering

[DanXx]

Obsesco and Paul Greyson,

Thanks a lot! I'm going to try that all out now!

greets from Holland, Dan.