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Controlling playback
Locating missing audio
Locating missing audio
If you try to open a project and SONAR is unable to locate all the audio files that the project
references, the Find Missing Audio dialog appears. The Find Missing Audio dialog helps you find
any missing audio in your project.
See:
“The Find Missing Audio dialog” on page 242
“Restoring missing audio files” on page 242
“Managing shared and external files” on page 243
The Find Missing Audio dialog
Use the Find Missing Audio dialog to find missing audio in your project. The following is a brief
description of the options you have in this dialog:
• Open. Click this button once you have searched for and found the missing audio file.
• Skip. Click this button to move to the next missing file. When you skip and audio file your project
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 dialog” on page 1512.
Restoring missing audio files
When you open a project file that references audio files which SONAR can not find, the Find
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 Find 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.