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(Make sure the entire original project and all its audio exists in at least two different places).Ģ.

#32 lives v1 mac reddit archive#

Copy the full project onto an an external archive drive. Here’s the steps I followed to give me a smaller project folder for mixing:ġ. Removing the original early part of the song helped somewhat, but it was still taking up a lot of space on my hard drive, as all that now-unused audio was still sitting in the project Audio folder. Opening the song was taking ages and using a lot of the computer’s RAM. The default option is Package which seems to have come from GarageBand as it is more idiot-proof. If you do this with the Package option, it will copy all of the audio as well, taking up much more space on your drive. This option is good if you are doing multiple versions of the song – eg v1, v2, v3 etc (I do this every time I begin another session on the song) as only the project file itself is copied each time. The Folder option means it uses the old hierarchical project folder-based structure including an Audio folder that contains all of your audio. Every time you “Save-as” a project you can choose between these two options. Even using the “Folder” rather than “Package” save option was seeing some huge Logic project files, and I was up to version 13 of the song. Normally I’d just start again in a new Logic Pro X project and import any tracks we still wanted, but in this case we just appended the new tempo stuff at the end of the old version within the same project so we could copy across some textural stuff that wasn’t tempo-dependent, and also to be able to see the existing arrangement to speed things up.Īs you can imagine, that project ended up being huge – over 6GB. One of the tracks has been through several changes – including redoing it all at a different tempo and groove. Yesterday I was tweaking some mixes on a project I’m working on.