Audio folder is Empty?

Cubase
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I did upgrade to Cubase 14 pro and did some nice tracks last week. today I open my project file, and all my audio folder are empty ?

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Hi and welcome to the forum!
You audio files should still be where they are assigned to when you created the project - no matter if you upgraded to C14 or not. Are your assigned audio folders literally empty? So no way to manually assign the paths to the missing files in the warning dialogue if you launch the project?

Have you by any chance not saved your project and thus deleted the audio files and leaving empty folders? Please do a test run with a new project and create a test audio file that is saved in your project folder. Does it show up again after proberly saving, quitting, and reopening your project?

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Hi

I have had a similar problem. I was working on a project earlier today. I saved and shut down as usual, and had previously saved, shut down and re-opened earlier on successfully.

When I tried to load the project again after a break, it crashed at the stage where the message ‘Loading rythym channel’ (Rythym being one of the track names). I tried re-starting the computer and trying again. I tried opening from an earlier autosaved backup. I tried opening in Cubase 13.

I looked in the audio folder and it is now empty. None of the files are in the Windows Recycle Bin and I have done nothing to delete them.

I have auto-sent log files to Cubase after each crash.

Can any one shed any light on what might have happened?

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One possibility is that there’s a hardware issue or some operating system corruption.

If this kind of thing happened to me, I would check the disk/ssd / file system integrity right away.

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Cheers.

I did do a disk check on my Audio Drive and it reported no errors.

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I should say that I have an SSD for system files and an 2TB Hard Drive where the projects are stored

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If you’re on a Mac, there’s a chance that there’s a Recovered Files folder somewhere:

On Windows, there’s this:

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I reinstalled Cubase 14 and now it’s working

It was an old song that I was working on, and now that I have got the song loaded again, and have looked in the pool window, it turns out that the audio is saved in the wrong place.

So, it was two separate problems. User error and Cubase 14 crash, I believe

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