Forcing a Relink to an edited (or different) audio file

[Steve MacMillan]

Forced relink. This is perfectly described in the reference manual, but its still a cool tip.

If you have edited a referenced sample with a third party software like Peak or Sample Manager. ProTools will lose its reference and id number for that region. The next time you try and load the session that references that file, ProTools will not find the file. Because the id number has changed and in spite of the file name being the same it may not find it in a candidate search. You know what it is meant to be, so you need to force a relink. Another application would be if you carefully pasted a snare sample over and over again and wished to change the sample. You can do this by forcing a relink provided that the new sample is at least as long as the original.

step one: Open the Project Browser under the Window pulldown. In the Audio Files folder, select the audio file you wish to force a relink on. In the toolbox pull down, click relink selected. This will automatically place that file into the Relink window.

step two: Open the Workspace Browser and find the file you wish to link to. Click and drag that file into the candidates area of the Relink window. Click the relink check box to the left of the new file, and then click the Commit button at the top of the window.

step three (optional): Open the Project Browser and select the relinked audio file, click copy and relink from the toolbox pull down to copy the newly linked file into your song's audio folder (if you linked to a file outside of the song folder).

STeve

[J-Hi]

17 years later, this tip still shows up in a google search for "force relink". Now that there is no Project Browser window, how do we do this?