Please make a Backup Folder in your Project folder and have all backups go in that folder. Its So annoying having tons of .bak files in the same folder as my project file. I know you can do this. If you were able to make an automatic mixdown folder appear you can make an automatic backup folder appear. No one likes seeing tons of .bak files next to their regular session files.
Please Steinberg, people have been asking for this for quite a while. Here are some other requests for a backup folder - oldest one dating back to 2012
you know, just to keep the mess out of your project folder.
I’d be a happy camper if Cubase automatially saved the backups like this:
X:\Songs\mySong\mySong.cpr
X:\Songs\mySong\Backups\mySong.bak
That’s it folks
PS There is a prompt popping up in your face when you open a *.cpr and there is a newer *.bak file present. This [FR] would mean there will be two places for Cubase to look for *.bak files, in the project folder and in the project\backups folder, but in 2012 it’s possible for comput…
I absolutely hate the way my Cubase project folder looks when I open it. Tons of .BAK files. Please don’t tell me “You shouldn’t have that many .BAK files, change your preferences.” I want my .BAK files, and I want them in a subfolder.
Here it is, almost 2022, and we still don’t have the ability to auto save .bak files for a project into their own folder. I have wasted SO MUCH time over the years searching through a myriad of .bak files to find the Nuendo project file to load.
Please help, Steinberg. Thank you.
I know this idea has been floated in the past but here I am in 2022 talking about it again!
We love BAK files! But I think it would be beneficial to everybody to have them in their own dedicated “Backup Files” folder.
So to recap, session folder heriarchy:
-Audio
-Images
-Mixdown
-Track Pictures
-Backup Files
-sessioname.CPR
Thoughts?
***I know I am about to get inundated with solutions such as running scripts or third party app that put the bak files in folder, hide files with certai…
I’d really really like to have an option of putting backup files into a separate folder. When I have multiple versions of a project (and therefore multiple sets of .bak files) it makes folder organization really cumbersome.
Separate folders for backups is how almost any other program I can think of works (Logic, Sibelius, Pro Tools, Adobe Premiere) and it seems like a better way to go.
Hello,
Is there any way to automatically put .bak files into their own folder? I hate having hundreds of .bak files messing up my project folder.
Thanks.
Separate folder for “.bak” files
Perhaps it doesn’t seem as such an important feature but it would clear up a lot the song project folder.
A 2nd one new feature should be when exporting the final mix, Cubase will create automatically a new folder for this case inside the generic folder of the working project, instead of placing it inside the “Audio” folder with all the audio tracks.
I think these 2 things could speed up the workflow significantly.
Is there a way to change where Cubase saves the bak files to? It really doesn’t make any sense that it just dumps them into my project folder (and not, at least, into a subfolder). It makes a mess of an otherwise organized folder structure.
Hi there.
I was wondering, if it is possible to tell Cubase to save the auto-save (.bak) files into a seperate folder.
I always have about 20 .bak files in my project folder and I don’t really like having a mess like that.
Any possible way? Thank you for your help.
Hi Guys,
Is there a way to, automatically, create a folder and send the BAK files to it?
Pro Tools creates a folder called Session File Backup and keep these files there. I would love to do something like this in Cubase.
How do you guys organize this type of files?
Best!
My folders have a massive amount of backup files, which I need to scroll past everytime I want to open a project. How can I specify where these .bak files are stored so I don’t have to scroll past the many, many files everytime? Thanks -
I love the backup feature, but I hate that it puts it in the same folder as my main session. Two suggestions that would be really nice.
Just like you have a Mixdown Folder, Track Pictures Folder, ect… Make a Backups Folder automatically whenever automatic backups are on. Place backup project files in that folder.
Give users the ability to change the file path of backups if they so desire.
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Yeah! Great topic! Steinberg added a MixDown folder not too many versions ago. They can do it for backups to.
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+1 for this as well. Especially because when you open a project, it doesn’t even load right away since it detects a backup file in the folder. From here, I need to say that WOULD NOT rather open the backup file, and that I want to KEEP the backup file. Every. Single. Time. QUESTION: Am I the only one having to do this?
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I fully support this. Add an option to the Preferences to choose a custom folder to which the .bak files go.
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