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Working with projects
The Archive and Backup functions
This dialog contains the following options:
3. Make the desired settings.
4. Click OK.
A copy of the project is saved in the new folder. The original project is not affected.
Cleanup
The Cleanup function on the File menu helps you to save hard disk space by locating
and – if you like – deleting unused audio files in the project folders on your disk.
1. Select “Cleanup…” from the File menu.
If there are any open projects, an alert shows. Clicking “Close” closes all open
projects and brings up the dialog “Cleanup Cubase Project Folders”.
2. To restrict the Cleanup function to a certain folder, click the “Search Folder”
button and select the folder.
The default setting is that the Cleanup function is applied to all folders on all hard
disks. Only select a specific folder if you are certain it does not contain audio files
used in other projects (outside the folder), see below. You can reset the function
to search all folders by opening the “Search Folder” dialog again and clicking
“Cancel”.
3. Click the Start button.
Cubase will now scan the selected folder (or all hard disks) for Cubase project
folders and check for audio and image files (in the Audio, Edits and Images
subfolders) that are not used by any project. The found files are listed in the dialog.
4. When the scan is complete, you can select files by clicking in the list.
Use [Ctrl]/[Command]-click to select several files, and [Shift]-click to select a
range of files. You can also click the Select All button to select all files in the list.
Option Description
Project Name Enter a project name if you want to change it from the default (the
current name of the project).
Keep Current
Project Active
When this option is activated, the current project will still be the
active project after clicking OK. If you wish to switch to the new
backup project instead, deactivate this option.
Minimize Audio
Files
If this is activated, only the audio file portions that are actually used in
the project will be included. This can significantly reduce the size of
the project folder (if you are using small sections of large files), but it
also means you cannot use other portions of the audio files if you
continue working with the project in its new folder.
Freeze Edits This will perform a Freeze Edits operation, making all processing and
applied effects permanent to each clip in the Pool, see
“Freeze Edits”
on page 316.
Remove Unused
Files
When this is activated, only files in the Pool that are actually used in
the project will be stored in the new folder.
Do Not Back up
Video
When this is activated, any video clips on the video track or in the
Pool of the current project will not be included in the backup project.