Specifications

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Renaming a Catalog
Catalogs can be renamed at any time.
To rename a Catalog:
1 Click the Catalog item in the Workspace
browser until its name highlights.
2 Type a new name for the Catalog.
Modifying Catalogs
To add items to a Catalog, do one of the following:
 Open the Catalog and drop new items from an-
other DigiBase browser.
 Click the main Catalogs icon in the Workspace,
to expand your view of all existing Catalogs,
then drop items onto any Catalog.
To add a folder to a Catalog:
1 Open the Catalog.
2 Choose Create Folder from the Browser menu.
To delete items from a Catalog:
1 Select the items.
2 Press the Delete key, or choose Delete Selected
from the Browser menu. A warning dialog ap-
pears.
3 In the warning dialog, do one of the following:
• Click
Cancel to cancel the delete operation.
• Click
Delete Files to delete aliases and associ-
ated files from disk.
• Click
Delete Aliases to delete only the aliases
and not the associated files.
This operation cannot be undone.
Consolidating Files with
Catalogs
Catalogs are excellent tools for consolidating files
from a variety of sources.
For example, create a Catalog named “Thumps”
and fill it with sound effects from three different
volumes. You can then drag the Catalog from the
Workspace browser to another volume, and a
folder named “Thumps” is created on that volume.
All of the files referenced by the Catalog are auto-
matically copied to the volume. Folders and sub-
folders, if any, and their contents are included in
the copy.
Updating Catalogs
Since a Catalog database is not linked to any par-
ticular volume, there is a limit to the abilities of the
Update Index command. When Update Database
for Selected
is selected from the Browser menu in
a Catalog, Pro Tools searches for the items repre-
sented by the aliases in the Catalog and updates the
following information:
Metadata Metadata for all files found online, in-
cluding File comments, are updated.
Database Comments Database Comments are not
updated, because they are unique to each Catalog
and are not part of the file’s metadata.
Relinking Catalog Items
If files are ever missing from a Catalog, use the Re-
link window to locate, copy, and relink files. For
more information, see “Linking and Relinking
Files” on page 313.