User manual

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File handling
Other Import/Export functions
• For exporting scores, see “Exporting” on page 504.
• For exporting and importing tempo tracks, see “Expor-
ting and importing tempo tracks” on page 405.
Cleanup
The Cleanup function on the File menu helps you to save
hard disk space by locating and – if you like – deleting un-
used audio files in the project folders on your disk.
1. Select “Cleanup…” from the File menu.
If there are any open projects, an alert shows. Clicking “Close” closes all
open projects and brings up the dialog “Cleanup Cubase Project Folders”.
2. To restrict the Cleanup function to a certain folder, click
the “Search Folder” button and select the folder.
The default setting is that the Cleanup function is applied to all folders on
all hard disks. You should only select a specific folder if you are certain it
does not contain audio files used in other projects (outside the folder),
see below. You can reset the function to search all folders by opening
the “Search Folder” dialog again and clicking “Cancel”.
3. Click the Start button.
Cubase will now scan the selected folder (or all hard disks) for Cubase
project folders and check for audio and image files (in the Audio, Edits
and Images subfolders) that are not used by any project. The found files
are listed in the dialog.
4. When the scan is complete, you can select files by
clicking in the list.
Use [Ctrl]/[Command]-click to select several files, and [Shift]-click to se-
lect a range of files. You can also click the Select All button to select all
files in the list.
In the following situations, the Cleanup function will list
files that are not unused:
• If you have moved or renamed files or folders (without updat-
ing the project files to use the new paths), there is no way for
Cubase to know that these files are used in a project.
• If you perform the Cleanup function on a folder in which there
are audio files belonging to other projects (outside the folder),
these files will be considered “unused”.
• Also, make sure you do not delete any files used in other
applications, or files that you generally want to keep!
However, you can always safely delete image files since
these can be reconstructed by the program, if necessary.
5. Delete any files you do not want to keep by selecting
them and clicking Delete.
6. Close the dialog by clicking the Close button.