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Chapter 12 Project Manager 421
Scanning
Before you can make use of the Project Manager, you must first scan your disks. This
process will retrieve all relevant information from all relevant files: all audio files, all
songs, all EXS instruments, all Settings (plug-in/software instruments) and all Quicktime
movies.
Scan Paths
It is recommended that you define Scan Paths prior to the initial Scan. Select Scan Paths
(not Find Mode or Browse) in the pull-down menu to the top left of the Project Manager
window. Any drive or folder excluded here will not be scanned. Two buttons allow you
to define paths which should never be scanned (Add exclude path). Within these
excluded paths, there may be specific sub-folders that you wish to scan, despite the
folder that is higher in the hierarchy being excluded (Add include path). If you define
nothing, all local volumes will be scanned in their entirety. Dependent on the number
and size of the drives, and the number of files contained on these volumes, this may
take a while. In using Scan Paths, you can speed up the scan significantly. As an
example, you can exclude folders that contain thousands of “business” files, that have
nothing to do with your audio and music applications.
• Use Add exclude path to define hard disks and folders that are never used for media
files—Library and System folders, or irrelevant volumes.
• Define Add include path, for the Logic folder (for global EXS Instruments), your global
sample library folder, and the folder or volume used for your projects and songs. This
path will be scanned, even if inside an excluded folder or disk.
Please note that you can include sub-folders of excluded folders, or exclude sub-folders
of included folders. Put another way: sub-folders can have priority over folders higher
in the architecture. This means that you can define the “Applications” folder as an
excluded path, but define the “Logic” folder (inside the “Applications” folder) as an
included path, as an example. In this case, the “Logic” sub-folder will be scanned, while
all other sub-folders inside the “Applications” folder won’t be scanned.
• If you wish to remove a defined path, select it and click Remove Path.
Included paths will be displayed on the right-hand side of the Project Manager
window.
• Included paths are indicated by a (+) icon that precedes the path name.
• Excluded paths are shown below, and are indicated by a (−) icon that precedes the
path name.