So, by fluke, I discovered that Autosave files are actually huge.
I couldn’t understand why a recent score with only a few cues ended up at 48 giga.
I looked closer, and it turns out that the .bak files are about 200k + bytes each.
A folder of 17 items ended up at 3.85 giga…why are these .bac files so big?
Is there a way to change that?
Older Cubase versions created .bac files that were about 2K bytes each… why has this changed so much?
I’m on Cubase 14 - Windows 10
Cheers
As far as I can tell, the only difference between a .bak file and a .cpr file is the extension–so they are the exact size that the project-file was at the time of the autosave.
Hmmm, you are right. The question is: why are the CPR files so huge? I am not using ARA at all…
And this seems to have started with Cubase 14…
Every new file seems to be saved at 300K +
So I did a quick test. Opened Cubase 13. Empty project → inserted an audio file (stereo at 48 kHz - 24-bit) duration, about 90 minutes.
I saved with both Cubase 13 and Cubase 14
Same thing, Cubase 13 file size: 126 KB
Cubase 14 : 1163 KB
No idea why…
I was messing with an older 2015 project a few weeks ago. I can’t remember the Cubase version, 9 or 10, maybe, anyway, whatever was current in 2015.
The original CPR is 4,668 KB.
The Cubase 14 CPR is 4,676 KB.
I just saved an empty Cubase 9.5 project: 80 KB.
An empty Cubase 14 project is 93 KB.
I would imagine the extra features since 9.5 would require some kind of place-holding structure(s) in the project file.
I do find though, that the more Kontakt instances/libraries I have in a project, the bigger the CPR. EG, the last track I uploaded here, the CPR is 28,148 KB.
I don’t use Autosave!
(All “Pro” versions of Cubase.)
Well, the culprit seems to be my template file which is about 340K. I did an update for C14 and it is now saved to 300K. The tracks I have in there are all disabled, I don’t know why is it such a large file?
I hear you. With big projects, data size can spiral out of control with Autosaves.
Hmmmm, definitely not thrilled about this.
Got ya…
So, I have to remove unused channels after composition is done, to slim down the file…cheers…
