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A dialog letting you choose whether to save
Optimized and/or Render Cache media
5 Click Ok, and a dialog with a progress bar will show you how long the archive operation
will take to finish. If any errors come up, resulting from missing or offline media, they’ll
be presented at the end of the process.
The resulting archive that is written is a directory with the .dra file extension. Inside this folder
are a series of subdirectories containing all of the media that’s used by the archived project.
Each directory of media files used is saved within a directory path that mirrors the exact path it
came from, so you have a reference for where each clip came from originally.
To restore an Archived project:
1 Copy the .dra archive directory you want to restore to the volume where you want
those media files to be. Restoring doesn’t move this directory, it only adds the project
file within to the Project Manager, so you should make sure the .dra archive directory is
located on a storage volume with suitable performance for you to work.
2 Open the Project Manager, right-click anywhere, and choose Restore from the
contextual menu.
3 Choose the .dra archive directory you just copied, and click Open.
4 At the prompt, enter a unique project name for the restored project, and click OK. The
project is restored to the Project Manager, and remains linked to the media located
inside the .dra archive.
If, after restoring an archive, you want to move its media to another location, you can use Media
Management to do a move operation for all clips in that project. For more information on Media
Management, See Chapter 37, “Media Management.”
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