Cleanup Disk - Akai DD1500 User Manual

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CLEANUP DISK

CLEANUP DISK allows you to clear out redundant recordings and so save valuable disk
space. Pressing CLEANUP DISK shows this screen:
It is possible to have a disk full of unreferenced audio files. These are pieces of audio that
have no association with any project or library. These are usually created when recording.
For example, you make one recording and make a mistake. You drop in again over that,
recording a new piece of audio. If the original recording is not in a library or another
project, the audio associated with the original cue you recorded of it has become
'unreferenced' and is taking up disk space needlessly. Of course, if you keep recording
over and over again on the same spot, you can fill your disk up fairly quickly. Also, if you
delete a cue from a project or a clip from a library, you can end up with unreferenced
audio. Another way audio can become 'unreferenced' is if you make a recording and then
don't save the project. The functions in the CLEANUP page allow you to deal with this.
The CLEANUP functions are:
CLEANUP DISK
This will only erase unreferenced audio but will not 'top and tail' the cues that are valid .
However, because CLEANUP keeps all the audio that may be being referenced (no
matter how small), it could be you will see no or only a small change in the FREE ON DISK
field because unlike MINIMISE, if just one cue in one project uses one second of a ten
minute recording, the whole ten minutes will be kept. If you need to free up a further nine
minutes and 59 seconds, use MINIMISE. Pressing CLEANUP DISK (F1/F2) will give this
message:
Because audio may be being referenced by the EDIT CLIPBOARD, you could try a
cleanup and end up with no appreciable increase in available disk space. This option
allows you to select whether you want the clipboard to be deleted as well. You should
make your choice accordingly using F5 or F6 as appropriate.
Pressing F5 or F6 will give this final safeguard prompt:
When performing a cleanup, you should be aware that it is possible to have a project on a
removable disk but for the audio for that project to exist on another disk (maybe the
project is on an MO but the audio associated with it is all on a fixed hard disk). If the
removable 'project' disk is not present on the system when you perform a cleanup, you
run the risk of losing all the audio for that project. The reason is simple...
The CLEANUP function works by searching all the projects and libraries on all the disks
currently attached to the system and it establishes what audio is being used by those
projects and libraries and what is not. It then deletes any audio NOT being referenced by
those projects and libraries from the disks.
If the audio associated with a project on a removable disk is on another hard disk and the
removable disk is not in the system when you run CLEANUP, what will happen is that the
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