I have used the default Cubase folder path for saving projects, ie. ‘OneDrive Document’ etc. Stupidly I have not backed up. Now I discovered that my folders and projects are gone. I cannot understand why as I have actively delete anything. When I look in my OneDrive Trash Can I can see something happened about 22 days ago, many waw files and other Cubase related files. But I cannot find my project as all the waw files seem to be just individual tracks from my projects, e.g. Drums Chorus etc. I am trying to restore OneDrive without success. As a context, I can find the project folders in OneDrive trash but the folders are empty.
Any thoughts and advice how on how to retrieve the projects, why this happen in the first place and how to avoid in the future?
What Cubase related files do you see? Do you see any .bak files in there?
In your OneDrive web UI, check the version history for the project folder to see if any files are present for earlier versions.
Do you mean using “Restore Your OneDrive”? What happened when you tried it?
Depends on if you’re already tried “Restore Your OneDrive”.
Hard to say.
Never use OneDrive or any other kind of cloud-based service as the primary or default storage for your Cubase projects and preferences. Use local storage such as an internal or external SSD you physically control–and change your default Cubase folder path away from “OneDrive Documents.”
I use Onedrive, my advice you should use it as a separate entity never have it on your Desktop OS.
I disconnect it from my OS Desktop and if i want to upload to it i manually do it via the website.
Onedrive if connected to your OS has the ability to delete from both ends, so what you delete Desktop side will delete on Onedrive also, but by disconnecting it from your OS you can just manually use Onedrive with no danger of OS malfunction, deletion affecting the Onedrive.
Regarding Cubase files in general, this is a bad practice, because cloud storage takes a long time if you have a large file and slow internet upload speeds, if you are in a project and you have a 1 gig audio folder, it may take 1 hour or more to upload across the net if your internet upload speed is choked.
Cloud storage is usually for small size document files that upload in seconds.
This is why if you do use Onedrive for audio, disconnect it from your OS and use Onedrive as a separate entity to be uploaded to manually.
I have 185 gig of audio on my Onedrive, it took me days to upload all that !!!
Hi XLColdJ and thanks for your help. I have progressed somewhat and found the projects files, resaved them in a folder on my desktop. For a while I could play in Cubase. But now, after restoring my files to yesterday’s OneDrive back up plus saving the projects on the desk top, they do not load when I try to launch them. After loading to approx 70-80% a screen opens and the process stops. I am currently waiting for OneDrive to sync and then try to open a project again and see what happens. TBC, and thanks
I record directly to OneDrive since years. Perfect imho. If something got deleted, then someone must have deleted that, and that could happen on local storages as well.
Hi all. I am not sure exactly how I did it but with a combination of finding and repairing old versions, I managed to recover the projets. The advice I got to use Cubase file finder for missing files did the trick. Thanks for your kind help .
What connedtion do you have for the Internet, this sounds like a phone line access. Assuming it took two days you have an upload speed of 9 Megabit/Sec, so what kind of line do you have?
I live in essex near london, i use an old i7 intel pc to upload, hooked up to my tv, i dont use my audio pc. I use wifi broadband, says 100mb upload but it obviously oversells in the upload speeds.
The wifi connection makes it slow, if you have a broadband connection use a cable to connect to your line directly. I’m pretty sure your pc has not the latest wifi standards, making it slow like a dog.
The primary storage is the hdd in my laptop. Additionally it gets uploaded to OneDrive and instantly downloaded to my home PCs hdd, nothing unprofessional there.
That’s not how OneDrive works. It’s file synchronization to the web, not moving primary storage to the web. Everything exists first on your own PC. It’s not really a backup scheme, not in its default form, because synchronization includes deletes, both ways. However, you do have a level of recovery available to you that can help.
Personally, I don’t recommend that folks do any live recording into a OneDrive-managed folder simply because it causes a lot of background file sync IO, which could, depending on your workload, result in DPC latency spikes. But if it works for you, excellent.
@ALEXANDER_OLZEN your desktop folder is typically OneDrive managed as well. I recommend creating a completely separate folder off the root of your drive if you want to avoid OneDrive. But more importantly, I would look to see what happened to cause your files to disappear – that’s not something that happens without cause.
I have been using Onedrive as the destination for my Cubase project folders for years and never had a single problem.
The projects are saved into my SSD, which is the primary location of the Onedrive folder, and automatically Onedrive makes a copy on the cloud. My two computers are connected to Onedrive, so I can keep working on my projects changing from one computer to the other with no trouble.
Besides, I do regular backups to an external disk, so I think it will be hard to loose any information, if not by a very unfortunate accident.
It’s probably not a good idea to sync the documents folder with one drive just in case. And make backups regularly on at least one external hard drive. Maybe one drive has a trash folder or restore point?
