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The symptoms of this situation are pretty
unmistakable. When you play your track,
you will hear audio from another place in the
track, from another track, or from an entirely
dierent session.
To correct the problem, click the “Find Data
Folder…” button, dismiss the resulting alert,
and navigate to the correct data folder.
Move Data Files…
To move the folder containing the data files to
a new location:
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Click the “Move Data Files…” button. An
alert message will appear (more about that
in a bit). Assuming that you click “OK,” a
navigation window will appear.
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Navigate to your desired location and click
Choose. An alert message will confirm that
you have changed the folder location.
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Your new location will now be displayed at
the top of the dialog window.
About that alert message: Assume for a
moment that you have created “Session 1” and
tracked some audio in Auto-Tune 8. You save
Session 1 and then do a “Save As…” to save a
copy of Session 1 as “Session 1A.”
At this point, both sessions are pointing at
the same data folder. If, while in Session 1A,
you move the data files, the next time you
open Session 1, it will not find its data where
it expects at the original location and will
generate an error. In this case, you can simply
use the “Find Data Folder…” function to point
Session 1 at the new folder location.
Rename Folder
When Auto-Tune 8 creates a data folder, it
gives it an initially incomprehensible-looking
14-digit default name that actually defines the
date and time of its creation. The format is:
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
So, getting out your secret decoder ring, a
file named will have been
created at 4:33:09 PM on September 10, 2010.
For ease of data housekeeping, we
recommend that you rename your data
folders in such a way as it will always be clear
which sessions and which tracks they belong
to. Examples might include:
MyProject Track 3
MyProject Lead Vocal
To rename a data folder, simply type the new
name in the folder name field and click the
Rename Folder button.
Delete All Data Files
It is important to note that deleting an
instance of Auto-Tune 8 (after bouncing
or freezing a processed track) will not
automatically delete any associated data files.
Similarly, deleting an entire session (after
archiving it, for example) will not delete any
data files associated with instances of Auto-
Tune 8 in the session.
As a result, if you take no action, data files that
are no longer necessary will build up on your
computer, needlessly taking up disk space.
You can, of course, delete such files
manually, but doing so always carries the
risk of accidentally deleting the wrong files
(especially if you haven’t clearly renamed them
as recommended above).
A better practice is to get into the habit of
using the Delete All Data Files function as the
last thing you do before deleting an instance
of Auto-Tune 8 or deleting an entire session (in
which case you should use it in each instance
of Auto-Tune 8 in the session).
Simply click the Delete All Data Files button,
confirm that you’re sure, and you’re done.
When you have finished all your Data
Management tasks, click “Close” to dismiss
the dialog and immediately save your session.
(If you close your session without saving, your
changes will not be retained the next time you
open the session.)