When I select some recent files in the pop-up window, it proceeds to ask me to select a folder. I do not understand why I am being asked this since the file already exists in a folder. The screenshot below shows a file I attempted to open and the folder the file sits within. I was asked to select a folder after I attempted to open it.
Then sometimes, it doesn’t ask me at all. Is this a bug? A user experience decision? Any thoughts?
Not sure, but maybe this has to do with trying opening a backup, thus Cubase prompts for a distinct folder to place the backup and proceed from there?
That sounds like an interesting theory but it’s inconsistent. I tried to open that recent file and it prompted me to select a folder so I cancelled out of confusion. Then I tried again and it did not ask me. 
Your theory is the closest thing I can think of. Does this issue happen to you?
Ah, no, I never open backup files. If for whatever reason my original cpr is not working, I write a new one. Kidding, but no, I never had to open backups and I consider myself lucky 
What’s interesting about this is that I had no idea what backup files were for several months when using this software. I would just click on the recent file, which may have happened to be a backup file. Nuendo/Cubase’s user experience never explained that there may be a different situation at hand.
This is all very confusing to me.
Assuming you are performing this action in the Hub, what has actually happened is Create Empty was still technically selected. I have witnessed this before.
You should actually follow through with the prompt instead of hitting cancel the next time it happens and see for yourself.
Edit: When I say still selected, I mean, if you open Hub and press enter, you will create a new empty Project, thus I feel as though Create Empty is the default selection until you successfully select something else, which occasionally doesn’t happen when you expect it to.
Can you make a screenshot of the dialog/Explorer window that appears to let you select a folder?
Cubase distinguishes between the folder where your project file is located and the Project Folder, which if I recall correctly determines where audio recordings and edits will be stored. These two can be at different locations, thus the prompt.
This is where the option resides whether you want to be prompted for a project folder location, which weirdly is not necessarily the location of the project file.
As far as I know these two parameters refer to the creation of a new project, and specify whether the user wants to be prompted for a folder location or not after hitting ‘Create’. They should not apply in any way to the opening of an existing project (bak or otherwise).
I tried to reproduce this by opening a bak file (with ‘Prompt for project location’ selected on the Hub window). I did this repeatedly and could not get it to happen. Double clicking on the file name in the Hub opens the project as expected with no prompt.
Cubase and Nuendo 13 latest and Windows 11 latest.
This happens to me. I always select the folder that I want.
Hi,
At first it looks like a bug. A way to reproduce it would be nice as I wasn’t able to find it in our reporting system.
Cheers,
Armand
Here is a recent process.
I went to the hub and selected a project that appears to be a backup file. It also has “Prompt for project location” selected
It asks me to select a folder for this backup file even though the file exists elsewhere.
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Let’s try again
It prompted me to select a folder location
I went ahead and chose a different folder location. I saved the project after it opened.
The Pool states the new folder location.
I closed the project and there’s no evidence of that project’s files in that location. The Audio folder disappeared despite the fact that I saved the project.
Overall, I am confused.
Expectations:
First of all thank you for this amazingly documented bug report. Sorry about this strange phenomenon you are encountering. On our side we are not confronted with this problem regularly, if at all. So it’s definitely a bug and not expected. We will investigate further on this later on this year.
Cheers,
Armand
