Emptying Trash Deletes Undo History? Why?

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Why does emptying the Trash now delete the Undo history? This is new and I hope it’s not intended. It should be a user-selectable option. I am constantly emptying the trash on a project but i definitely DO NOT want to lose my undo history. Somebody please explain the logic behind this. And why is it considered a “feature”. I personally DO NOT want it.

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Hi,

This is interesting… There was a bug in this area, which has been fixed in Cubase 15.0.20. It might be related.

I will investigate on it.

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If you Empty trash and select Erase, then the logic is to clean Undo history, because you delete files that can be related to undo steps.

To avoid this, choose “Remove from Pool” and then erase files later in your preferred way. This allows you to undo to the state before you removed files from pool. It’s very logic.

Another way - don’t erase and don’t remove anything and don’t worry about project size. When you need clean copy of project, just use “Backup project” to new place and it will backup only necessary files. Then you can erase the sandbox of the project.

Is there any bug now? I’m not sure.

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Too much work. I don’t care about undoing or deleting a rough mix. I don’t want to lose all the undo history simply by deleting unused audio files. Which i have many files of as I’m working on vocals and guitars and drums etc.

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Thanks Martin!

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There are no problems at all - you work hard whole night, but when you close project, you go to media pool and empty trash. You will lose undo history anyway after you close project. So where is problem?

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yup. it doesn’t happen anymore with the last update

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Steinberg has put a dialog in there with a warning that the history will be deleted. Therefore this doesn’t seem like an oversight but a conscious decision. I assume they discovered that the previous behavior could lead to a program instabilty under some circumstances. So they sacrificed a feature for increased stability. My assumption, but we have seen this happening elsewhere in the program.

Still, it is totally fine to express ones opinion about this loss of a feature.