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NOTE: While the “Setup Folder
Location…” function is only available
before tracking any audio, if you
initially track audio to the default folder location
and later decide that you’d like to have it at a
different location, you can, at any time, simply
use the “Move Data Files…” function described
in the next section.
After Tracking Audio
Once you have tracked some audio using the
Track Pitch + Time function, calling up the
Data File Management Dialog will result in
something like this:
Here’s what you can do:
Find Data Folder…
This function is typically used in a situation
where Auto-Tune 7, for some reason, is unable
to find data files where it expects to find them.
That situation is covered below in the “If
There’s a Problem” section.
There is, however, an extremely unlikely but not
entirely impossible situation where Auto-Tune
7 thinks it is pointing at the correct data folder,
but actually isn’t. This would most likely be the
result of manually copying and/or renaming
data files and/or folders (yet another reason for
not doing that).
The symptoms of this situation are pretty unmis-
takable. When you play your track, you will hear
audio from another place in the track, from an-
other track, or from an entirely different 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.
•
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 7. 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 7 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 20100910163309 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