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Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:57 am
by Sonika
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:01 am
by 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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:09 am
by 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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:20 am
by 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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:31 am
by Eat Bass
right on brother man
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:42 am
by Electric_Head
my samples are in a folder called samples
the chances of me deleting a folder called samples is well O%
just saying
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:00 am
by ogunslinger
Electric_Head wrote:my samples are in a folder called samples
the chances of me deleting a folder called samples is well O%
just saying
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:04 am
by 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
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:27 am
by Gurnumsbug
Step 1: Get External HD (Hard-Drive)
Step 2: Name Folder "Samples"
Step 3: Never Delete
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:19 am
by 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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:50 am
by Pedro Sánchez
Depone wrote: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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:00 am
by DJ Crackle
Gurnumsbug wrote:Step 1: Get External HD (Hard-Drive)
Step 2: Name Folder "Samples"
Step 3: Never Delete
Haha, we have a winrar!
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:04 am
by Electric_Head
Pedro Sánchez wrote:Depone wrote: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
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:12 am
by Depone
If you can, grab an app for mac called Gobbler. Its a cloud backup service for the most popular DAWS. Its really good.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:55 pm
by 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 : /
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:59 pm
by 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
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:04 pm
by RandoRando
Electric_Head wrote: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.
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:21 pm
by 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?
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:31 pm
by Ghost of Muttley
Just drag it back out of the trash....
Re: Just lost my entire sample library!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:58 pm
by AxeD
Ghost of Muttley wrote:Just drag it back out of the trash....
Hehe exactly
