Vegas 9 Propperties And Windows 7 Problem

Sparrow wrote on 7/8/2010, 3:48 PM
When you are doing overdubs with Vegas 9 and Windows 7 and jump from song
to song, the recorded files sometimes default back to the C drive, or forget
the true folder destination (a common problem with Vegas 5). Today , for some
reason when I go to properties and hit browse, Vegas 9 will not let me open
the correct folder for the song? Did I hit some strange switch? Is Windows 7
being protective?

sparrow in Chicago

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 7/8/2010, 7:08 PM
Remember that the 'user folder' path stucture is a little different in W7.

Try setting all paths in Options|Preferences|General|'Temp File', to a real folder off the root of a data drive. And also the default project Properties|Audio|Recorded Files Folder similarly - each 'song' with a unique sub-folder.

The behaviour of Vegas when setting new paths - always reverting to 'My Docs' to start browsing, rather than starting browsing from the previous current location, has always been an annoyance - at least to me.

geoff
Sparrow wrote on 7/9/2010, 5:26 AM
geoff,

Thanks for the feedback on my file problem. Your first point about Windows
7 is correct, once again Windows has added some new file options with
regards to security that I think are in the way. The funny thing is that I can
render a file into the correct folder on the data drive, but I still can't put
a newly recorded file in the Vegas folder on the data drive. Can I ask what
file save settings are you using so that your C and D drives can work together?
Once again, thanks for the time.

sparrow in chicago
rraud wrote on 7/9/2010, 8:17 AM
I normally put audio and video files on drive(s) other than 'C' where the application resides in Program Files. (On single drive PCs, one of the 'User' folders.)
Even in Vista, the 'Windows', 'Program Files' and other System folder files are 'restricted' to an extent. You can't alter or delete some files... as administrator or not, even in 'Safe Mode' their protected. How it determines which files are protected is beyond me. I have inadvertently put a file in a system folder and it's stuck there for good, you can copy it, but not change or move it.
Chienworks wrote on 7/9/2010, 1:14 PM
Way way back in DOS 3 days i started creating a "C:\home\" directory and put all my stuff in a tree under that. I've kept that up even now and it's served me quite well. Of course, with multiple drives i'll store stuff most anywhere except C:, but even on the C drive or on a system with only one drive, whenever given the choice i simply *refuse* to put anything in Windows' idiotic "Documents and Settings" tree. It's just so easy to get things mixed up and confused in there, and it's so easy to make your own logical tree elsewhere, it just seems a no-brainer to me.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 7/9/2010, 4:32 PM
On my main audio machine I have 2 data drives, E and F.

On these I have a folder called TEMP with separate subfolders for my different audio apps temp folders, set in Options|Preferences.

I have a folder for each client with a default project - blank except for the basic track setup . Used as a' template' cos we don't have templates ;-( , and a subfolder for each song set in each project Properties | Recorded Files Folder.

At the beginning of each new song I Save As the default 'template' project in the new song folder with the new name.

geoff
Sparrow wrote on 7/10/2010, 5:43 AM
Thanks for all the advice. It looks like my problems with sending new files
into my data drive, or D drive was my fault. You need to us All Files (**), not
all Project and Media Files. Even if you created the new wave files with Vegas
or Sound Forge, Vegas will not see All Project and Media Files. Somehow,
perhaps with another engineer, the default changed. Looking at my notes
from years back, Vegas 3, I had the same problem! Thanks for the tech tip,
Kevin in Sony support!

sparrow in chicago

ps: in the file name drop down that is!