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File handling
Back up Project
This function is very useful if you want to move or backup
your project.
1. Select “Back up Project…” from the File menu.
A file dialog opens in which you can choose an existing empty folder or
create a new folder to save the project.
2. Click OK.
The “Back up Project Options” dialog opens.
This dialog contains the following options
3. Make the desired settings.
4. Click OK.
A copy of the project is saved in the new folder. The original project is
not affected.
Auto Save
If you activate the Auto Save option in the Preferences
(General page), Cubase will automatically save backup
copies of all open projects with unsaved changes.
These backup copies are named “<project name>-
xx.bak”, where xx is an incremental number. Unsaved
projects are backed up in a similar way as “UntitledX-
xx.bak”, with X being the incremental number for unsaved
projects. All backup files are saved in the project folder.
• Use the “Auto Save Interval” setting to specify the time
intervals in which a backup copy will be created.
• Use the “Maximum Backup Files” option to specify how
many backup files will be created with the Auto Save
function.
When the maximum number of backup files is reached, the existing files
will be overwritten (starting with the oldest file).
Ö With this option only the project files themselves will
be backed up. If you want to include the files from the Pool
and save your project in a different location, you need to
use the “Back up Project” function.
Startup Options
The “On Startup” pop-up menu in the Preferences (Gen-
eral page) allows you to specify what should happen each
time you launch Cubase.
The following options are available:
Option Description
Project Name Enter a project name if you want to change it from the de-
fault (the current name of the project).
Keep Current
Project Active
When this option is activated, the current project will still
be the active project after clicking OK. If you wish to
switch to the new backup project instead, you need to
deactivate this option.
Minimize Audio
Files
If this is activated, only the audio file portions that are ac-
tually used in the project will be included. This can signi-
ficantly reduce the size of the project folder (if you are
using small sections of large files), but it also means you
cannot use other portions of the audio files if you con-
tinue working with the project in its new folder.
Freeze Edits This will perform a Freeze Edits operation, making all pro-
cessing and applied effects permanent to each clip in the
Pool, see “Freeze Edits” on page 215.
Remove
Unused Files
When this is activated, only files in the Pool that are actu-
ally used in the project will be stored in the new folder.
Do Not Back
up Video
When this is activated, any video clips on the video track
or in the pool of the current project will not be included in
the backup project.
Option Description
Do Nothing Cubase launches without opening a project.
Open Last
Project
The last saved project is opened on launch.