Changing the project Pool & project folder after a project is set up

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This relates to the latest Cubase 14 in Windows 11 on a PC.

Hi All…

I searched the web/forum in depth on this but can’t find a specific solution. I asked Steinberg support about 2 weeks ago and the support request has been ignored… maybe someone on here can help.

Somehow I managed set up a project whose audio /edits / track pictures folders etc… are outside of the project folder (i.e. alongside it in the root folder alongside all my other project folders). (i.e. the ‘audio’ folder is in the same main folder as the project folder where I’m keeping the cubase project file).

I recorded some audio, realised the wav files were being recorded to the the wrong folder - so then I setup new audio / track pictures / edits folders in the actual project folder and moved the audio files into that new audio folder.

When opening the project I directed the ‘can’t find audio’ dialogue to the audio files in the new ‘audio’ folder inside the project folder - so now the pool is showing an audio folder with all the files in the correct directory.

I deleted the empty old audio / edits folder / track pictures folders.

I tried recording new audio in that project again - and strangely it created a duplicate ‘audio’ folder in that same incorrect root directory as before (i.e. it just recreated what I had deleted). It recorded the new audio files into that directory , as it had be doing prior!

So it seems I need to change the pool audio directory of the project (or what the project thinks is the project folder) so that by default any existing or new tracks will record their audio into the correct ‘audio’ folder within the project folder.

However I can’t find any way to do this. I can manually assign each track to the correct folder - but then I have to do this also for any new tracks I make - seems wrong to have to do this!

I see there is a ‘set pool record folder’ menu option in the Pool window menu - but it’s not clear what you do with that command. If you select ‘set pool record folder’ then nothing happens - and then it’s greyed out until you reopen the project.

I’ve tried selecting the ‘audio’ folder in the pool window prior to selecting ‘set pool record folder’ but this didn’t work. (that ‘audio’ folder has no clear directory location anyway - nothing to the right of it in the path column).

So I’m stuck! There has got to be a way of correcting what the project thinks is the project folder in an already set-up project.

Can you help?

Thanks

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Use “Backup Project” in the File menu.
This will allow you to select a new, empty folder as the new project folder. It will also create a new project file. When prompted you should say yes to use that as the active project.
After the backup is finished and has copied all your audio files to the new location you can then manually delete the files and folders in the previous location.

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Try this…when the project is open, right-click on an audio track (the name on the left-hand side). Click on the option “Set Record Folder” and choose the correct location. Now all future recordings for that project will go into this folder. Hope it works for you.

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thanks but this only changes the record destination of the channel selected - it doesn’t change any pre-existing channels

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OK thanks this worked - thanks a lot

I have another issue with this project that I’ve never experienced before also (and I should probably put this on another thread). The issue is that when I record an instance onto a single mono channel it creates two audio WAV files in the ‘audio’ folder. For instance - the channel is named ‘TEST’ and when I record a 5 secs test recording, in the folder appears two folder ‘TEST_01’ (which contains the sound recorded) & ‘TEST_02’, which is an empty 0KB file.
Only 1 channel was active during recording and it’s defoo just a mono channel so should only be creating one file.
Do you know what this might be?

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Yes, this one is easy and nothing to worry about.
Cubase will create these 0KBytes files in advance of an actual recording. I assume it does it to prevent any interruption to the recording process by the OS’ file system.

They should get deleted automatically if you don’t record any audio and close the project/Cubase. However, on occassion I have found such files somehow “survive”. You can simply delete them when Cubase is not running.