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Locating missing audio
Controlling Playback
opens without that piece of missing audio.
• Skip All. Click this button to skip all missing audio files. When you skip all missing audio files,
you project opens without those pieces of missing audio
• Search. Click this button to begin a search of all available hard drives for your missing audio
file.
• After locating the file Options. You can choose to either move an audio file to the project’s
audio data folder, copy an audio file to the project’s audio data folder, or leave an audio file in its
current folder.
For more information, see Find Missing Audio File dialog.
Restoring missing audio files
When you open a project file that references audio files which SONAR can not find, the Locate
Missing Audio dialog appears. Use the following procedure to restore the missing audio files to
your project.
To restore missing audio files
1. In the Locate Missing Audio dialog, click the Search button.
The Search for Missing Audio dialog appears and SONAR begins searching all available hard
drives for the missing file or files.
2. When SONAR is finished searching, the files that it has found appear in the dialog.
3. Select the file or files that SONAR has found and click OK.
The Locate Missing Audio dialog appears.
4. Select one of the following options:
• Move file to Project Audio Folder. Use this option if you are sure that no other projects are
referencing this file in its present location.
• Copy file to Project Audio Folder. Use this option if the missing file is shared with another
project and you want to keep all of your project’s audio files together.
• Reference file from present location. Use this option if you want to leave the missing file in
its current location now that SONAR knows where it is.
5. Click Open.
SONAR moves, copies or references the missing file or files as you instructed.
Managing shared and external files