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Working with projects
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.
Cleanup (Cubase Elements only)
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. 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 that 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.
Startup Options
The “On Startup” pop-up menu in the Preferences dialog
(General page) allows you to specify what happens when
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, deactivate this option.
Minimize Audio
Files
If this is activated, only the audio file portions that are actu-
ally used in the project will be included. This can significan-
tly 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 continue 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 171.
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.
Open ‘Default’
Template
The default template is opened, see “Setting up a de-
fault template” on page 41.