Just lost my entire sample library!

[Sonika]

Thinking it was another folder, I threw it in the trash by accident!!!!!


I'm on a mac. Is there ANY way to get it back? The undo button is that grayish color when you can't click it. FUCK.

[overture]

Shit, that's rough! Sorry i can't help you i don't have a mac. Won't the files be stored somewhere else incase something like this happens? I'm sure someone here will be able to help.

[Eat Bass]

have you ever backed up your data using time machine? just try opening up time machine and seeing if the folders still there.

[Sonika]

YES! easy fix. Time Machine isn't working right now because I don't have my external hard drive, but I just realized I backed up my hard drive about a week ago. I've only done some organizing since then, haven't added any new samples. Just a little bit of a pain in the ass, not a huge loss.

Why didn't I think of that before? Duh.

Anyways, it turns out to be not as much of a horror story Carry on.

[Eat Bass]

right on brother man

[Electric_Head]

my samples are in a folder called samples
the chances of me deleting a folder called samples is well O%

just saying

[ogunslinger]

my samples are in a folder called samples
the chances of me deleting a folder called samples is well O%

just saying

[Sonika]

Yeah but I thought I was just deleting it from that one place (you know like when you delete a file from the folder downloads it doesn't delete from the entire drive), but it turns out I was deleting it from the entire drive

[Gurnumsbug]

Step 1: Get External HD (Hard-Drive)
Step 2: Name Folder "Samples"
Step 3: Never Delete

[Depone]

Time machine has saved my ass soooo many times, I highly recommend it for your backup. You can fully restore your mac from it too. It does smart bqackups after the first main one, and only backs up what you have changed in incremental daily backups. actually I have it set to backup every hour. I one had a project corrupt on me, and I was able to restore it with only 10 mins of work missing.

Do it!

PS: your sample library should be on an external or second HD. Makes your system run smoother to keep your OS on one HD and samples/files/ect on another.

[Pedro Sánchez]

PS: your sample library should be on an external or second HD. Makes your system run smoother to keep your OS on one HD and samples/files/ect on another.

And then a backup of the sample HD incase that one bites the dust, and place it in a fire-proof tin incase your house sets ablaze, then bury it, incase thieves break in and think it's money.

[DJ Crackle]

Step 1: Get External HD (Hard-Drive)
Step 2: Name Folder "Samples"
Step 3: Never Delete

Haha, we have a winrar!

[Electric_Head]

PS: your sample library should be on an external or second HD. Makes your system run smoother to keep your OS on one HD and samples/files/ect on another.

And then a backup of the sample HD incase that one bites the dust, and place it in a fire-proof tin incase your house sets ablaze, then bury it, incase thieves break in and think it's money.

And then record it all to dvds that`ll last for a month
just to be sure

[Depone]

If you can, grab an app for mac called Gobbler. Its a cloud backup service for the most popular DAWS. Its really good.

[RandoRando]

all my samples are in C:// , program files, image line, fl10, data, packs....

and if i move them from there i wont be able to open any old projects anymore : /

[Electric_Head]

Mine are all in D:\samples

any projects have all the samples self-contained within the project folder under d:\Reaper Tunes

no problems what so ever

[RandoRando]

Mine are all in D:\samples

any projects have all the samples self-contained within the project folder under d:\Reaper Tunes

no problems what so ever

im pretty sure ableton does the same thing, but if i wanted to open a FL project after moving all the samples, FL would shit itself.

[Electric_Head]

that`s why i love Reaper

it asks where the files is now located and searches the path for all other lost files

don`t other daws do the same?

[Ghost of Muttley]

Just drag it back out of the trash....

[AxeD]

Just drag it back out of the trash....

Hehe exactly