Space Problem - Can I Put ACID5 on Diff Drive? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Space Problem - Can I Put ACID5 on Diff Drive? Posted by: spinweb Date:12/8/2004 7:11:41 AM I have a 40GB drive that's pretty well maxed out, thanks to my penchant for digital audio. I'm not sure how to back up the existing songs/files for creating more space. If I move the directory where the ACID files live and the directory where the recordings go, will ACID find them in the new place? I'd like to run ACID 5 from a different hard drive. Can I buy the upgrade and put it on another drive? Do I have to Install 4 first on that drive? This is a dumb question, but can I tell ACID where to put the files it creates when I record with it? I suppose I could load ACID 5 on the old directory (once I remove the old stuff) and send the recordings to the new drive. What a mess! Thanks, Rick
Subject:RE: Space Problem - Can I Put ACID5 on Diff Drive? Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:12/8/2004 7:58:45 AM Rick, The answer to all your questions is basically, Yes you can. > If I move the directory where the ACID files live and the directory where the recordings go, will ACID find them in the new place? ACID can be installed on any drive. You can move your ACID projects to any drive you want and as long as you preserve the directory structure, ACID will find all the files in your project. What it will do is complain the first time you open the project that it can’t find a file and it gives you the ability to either search for it or pointto it. Then it will ask if you want to continue loadingall the unfound files from this location and you just say Yes. Then save the project and the new locations will be saved. > I'd like to run ACID 5 from a different hard drive. Can I buy the upgrade and put it on another drive? Do I have to Install 4 first on that drive? You don’t have to install ACID 4 to install the upgrade. The upgrade will not look for a previous version ro anything. Just install ACID 5 on any drive you’d like. > This is a dumb question, but can I tell ACID where to put the files it creates when I record with it? Yes you can. ACID Pro 5 now has extensive directory mapping capability. You can have it save Record files in one place. Chop to new files in another, Extract from CD files ina third, etc. Or you can tell it to store all files under the project directory. This should help keep things neat and clean. > I suppose I could load ACID 5 on the old directory (once I remove the old stuff) and send the recordings to the new drive. This is what I would recommend: Get a second hard drive (120-160GB) and move all of your “work” to that drive. Keep all of your applications like ACID on your C: drive because they are small and don’t change much. Then when you are recording, the operating system swap file (on C:) will not be contending for disk space with the recorded files (on D:). It also allows you keep your work drive defragmented easier because it won’t be affected by Internet temp files or installing new programs. ~jr

Rick, The answer to all your questions is basically, Yes you can.

> If I move the directory where the ACID files live and the directory where the recordings go, will ACID find them in the new place?

ACID can be installed on any drive. You can move your ACID projects to any drive you want and as long as you preserve the directory structure, ACID will find all the files in your project. What it will do is complain the first time you open the project that it can’t find a file and it gives you the ability to either search for it or pointto it. Then it will ask if you want to continue loadingall the unfound files from this location and you just say Yes. Then save the project and the new locations will be saved.

> I'd like to run ACID 5 from a different hard drive. Can I buy the upgrade and put it on another drive? Do I have to Install 4 first on that drive?

You don’t have to install ACID 4 to install the upgrade. The upgrade will not look for a previous version ro anything. Just install ACID 5 on any drive you’d like.

> This is a dumb question, but can I tell ACID where to put the files it creates when I record with it?

Yes you can. ACID Pro 5 now has extensive directory mapping capability. You can have it save Record files in one place. Chop to new files in another, Extract from CD files ina third, etc. Or you can tell it to store all files under the project directory. This should help keep things neat and clean.

> I suppose I could load ACID 5 on the old directory (once I remove the old stuff) and send the recordings to the new drive.

This is what I would recommend: Get a second hard drive (120-160GB) and move all of your “work” to that drive. Keep all of your applications like ACID on your C: drive because they are small and don’t change much. Then when you are recording, the operating system swap file (on C:) will not be contending for disk space with the recorded files (on D:). It also allows you keep your work drive defragmented easier because it won’t be affected by Internet temp files or installing new programs.

~jr