Deleting sessions pro tools

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If you see it again it's because something has changed so please set your preferences accordingly. Deleting unused audio files in pro tools 9. Please help!!!!!!!!!!! If that doesn't work, I usually do that process then Save Copy As in a couple of locations, test to make sure they open and delete the original big session or keep it saved somewhere.

Here we lift the lid on some essential session-smoothing tips and techniques. In this month's Pro Tools workshop, I'm going to introduce some tips that can be handy when you're really up against it.

When you're in the middle of a complex, fast-moving session and the control room is full of 'helpful advice', the last thing you want to be doing is struggling to create multiple Playlists or tracks, and I've found these techniques invaluable in difficult situations.

Pro Tools 's Playlists feature is invaluable when you're recording multiple takes, and if you're working on a complex session with multiple sources being recorded at once, it can provide a neat way of keeping track of all the takes. Before the studio recording session, create template Sessions with the appropriate number of tracks and set up the input and output routing, track names, grouping and so on.

Group all of the tracks and create a new Playlist by selecting New Playlist in one of the track name pull-down menus in the Edit window. This automatically attaches a '. The New Playlist pop-up on a track creates new Playlists for all tracks in the same active group. When you record subsequent takes, click the pull-down menu in one of the group of tracks and choose New Playlist again.

Pro Tools now advances all of the playlists in that group to '. This way, you always have a numerical ident associated with the Playlist and the audio for each take, because the track names together with their suffixes are transferred automatically to the audio files as you record. The 'helpful advice' in the control room will refer to performances by their take numbers, so you can very quickly tab through to the desired takes and assemble a composite track in the original Playlist the one without a numerical suffix.

As of v6. If you end up with problems for which the solution maybe 'trashing the Prefs' then make sure you delete all the preference files. They are in the Preferences folder in the Library folder in your 'User' folder and are:. If I do get this matter resolved, I will send you a reply. I'll probably have to get the Time Machine. For now, I'll go ahead and check the Digidesign web site. If I get any more info, I'll surely send you a reply.

I really do appreciate your advice. May 26, AM in response to weathazz8 In response to weathazz8 No problem. In the future you might want to enable auto session back-up in setup. That way if your session file ever gets corrupted or deleted and it DOES happen you can go to the latest backup and get back up and running.

The reason this notification window appears is to warn the user about deleting the track. Once the track has been deleted, there is no undo function to revert this procedure. The track is now deleted so it does not appear in the session.