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Old 04-12-2018, 03:47 AM   #1
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Default Saving Project as 'Bundle' alla Cakewalk

Cannot find anything in the manual about saving project containing media and audio files as Cakewalk can in Bundle files .
Does Reaper have a system to do this ?
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Old 04-12-2018, 05:06 AM   #2
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Check out the user guide - 3.3 Saving the Project File

You've got options to create a subdirectory for the project & to copy or move media items into that directory.


This may do what you want.
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Old 04-12-2018, 07:37 AM   #3
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Check out Kenny Gioia's video on Project/file mgmt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjey57lAp1k
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Old 04-12-2018, 09:32 AM   #4
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Thanks for these links....back up ,back up ,back up ....and onto various drives.
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Old 04-12-2018, 01:52 PM   #5
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Once you've used the above hints to get all of the project media into one folder, you can always use your favorite file compression software to bundle it up if you think that helps. It won't likely save much space, but it can make it more portable for some situations
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Old 04-13-2018, 10:50 AM   #6
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I highly recommend not to do this. I speak from experience. I have some Cakewalk bundle files that were backed up and got corrupted. I was unable to recover them. Lost mixes and tracks from an entire project. Chalk it up to youth, the studio engineer talked me into it at the time.

Now I keep all my project files - uncompressed on at least 2 separate drives, I also save multiple versions (everytime I change it essentially) of my project files.

Storage is cheap, and as long as you keep projects/songs in a easily understandable directory structure, there is no reason to archive or bundle projects.
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Old 04-13-2018, 11:22 AM   #7
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Cockos chose not to do this for good reason. If one wrong bit gets corrupted, the whole project is lost. For sending a project to someone, just zip up the folder. If you are storing it for backup, I would just copy the folder as is.
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