Basic file default question

Cubase
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This is rather a basic one I am afraid but I have spent a while trying to find the answer with no luck so hopefully the forum can help.

The primary location for my projects is in a folder on my E drive. At the moment when I select Open I am directed to a folder called libraries which I am guessing is on my start up drive somewhere.

I then have to find right folder in my e drive.

Is there a way of changing this so that when I click on open in the file menu I am taken straight to my Cubase projects folder on my e drive.

In other programs it is the sort thing that is under preferences but I cant find it in Cubase.

Would save me a bit of time.

Thanks

Tonfedd

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Don’t know the answer to your question, but instead of using ‘Open’, you might want to use ‘New’, and then the Project Assistant will open and give you a list of your recent projects. May be easier to use…

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Thanks for your reply Aran,

The problem is that they are not all recent files.I have lots of bits and pieces of ideas that I have put together over some time. I am now going through them to classify them, see which are worth keeping etc. It would save me quite a lot of effort if the open option took me to my Cubase projects on my E drive rather than the library file somewhere on my C drive.

I am sure the Cubase must have a setting somewhere that allows you to set a default location for the open command but frustratingly I cant find it.

Tonfedd

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I use drag and drop instead, I find it’s a lot easier. For example, I generally leave a folder window open in my Music top level dir, then when I need to open a project I navigate to the folder, make sure that I’m sorting by date descending so the latest project is at the top, then I drag and drop that .cpr file onto the Cb6 icon.

I could double click the project but I don’t use double click because I have multiple versions of Cb installed and I sometimes need to decide which version to run up. [I’ve actually associated .cpr files with Notepad so if I accidentally double click then it doesn’t start Cb at all - therefore saving me time because Cb can take a while to load a large project and if I cock up I don’t want to wait!]

Mike.

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On checking here, the last used directory is remembered here. This is one of the directories within my ‘Projects’ directory, so that seems to be what you want… Strange.

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Yeah, that’s what happened when I checked it out too…

Mike.

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Thanks everyone for your replies,

I must hast have gone to the location so often now that Cubase is starting to get it -now open takes me to the E drive. Maybe if I keep going eventually it will take me to my project file on the e drive when I select open. A bit strange.

Also thanks for the drag and drop idea. Think I will go with that for the moment.

Tonfedd