Heyooo. Hopefully someone can help with this problem I’ve got. I really just want to organize all my samples I have on an SSD drive so I think renaming them something that works for me would be nice. I would also like to organize them into genre and not just kicks, snares, and 808s or whatever.
However, I am a project HOARDER. I have lots of old and current projects that have those samples in there. Sadly I know renaming them will cause Cubase to not know where they are and renaming them I’m sure I wouldn’t even know which ones are which, so if there’s a workaround for this, I’m all in. If not, I guess I’ll continue using the names they already have.
In either case I’m having a lot of fun but I don’t want to spend more than the time I need to find what I’m looking for.
Thank you!
moving the samples to different folders takes minimum effort to fix when reloading projects. To expect a program to guess your new file names would be a bit too much to expect or what? I do not see how that would work. maybe in the future some AI to analyze a file or some digital footprint would do it.. but it sounds like some future voodoo to me 
I’m thinking of a workaround. What if I went ahead and just copied the folder with all my samples (that I like) and organize them for future use so the originals stay where they are unnamed? Then for future reference I can name it accordingly and just use the new folder instead of the old one. Just a thought?
of course that would work. you then bascially have 2 copies, 2 different names and locations.. so all is as before and you just edit the new versions for future operations.
ofcourse there are options to backup your projects. Use the “backup projects” option to backup the project including audio etc. then all your audio files will go in your new project folder location and you could eventually even delete old sample locations if you do not want them. Just be aware there are som pitfalls with the backup project as it wont backup the new drum track, or sampler track. Also it will not backup Kontakt or battery libaries etc. so this is a bit of a trial and learn process. It can be a bit tricky to get everything included. There is also something called “prepare archive” which you should look into.
Thanks Glenn! I’ll look into it.