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A highlighting display will move across the bottom of the LCD as the file is copied. The copying
process is approximately 2-4 times faster than real-time (i.e. a 12 minute piece of audio will take
between 6 and 3 minutes to copy). The time it takes to copy depends on the speed of the disks
you are using (i.e. MO to MO is going to take longer than a hard disk to hard disk copy) and the
nature of the files you are copying (e.g. one single 12 minute piece of audio is likely to get copied
faster than 48 x 15 second cues).
At any time, you may press the ESCAPE key to abort the copy and the whole process will be
cancelled.
NOTE: In order to prevent you having an incomplete project on the destination disk, the
project selected for copying is erased from the destination disk along with all associated audio
when you press ESCAPE. This may take a second or two.
The same process is used for disk duplication.
You may leave the COPY DISK page at any time by pressing EXIT (F6).
**IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING COPY **
The COPY process copies the project/library and all referenced audio across to the target
disk. This is to prevent audio becoming detached from the project or library with which it is
associated. However, the copying process only copies across the audio associated with the
cues plus a 10% ‘handle’ either side of the cue.
For example, imagine that you have a 5 minute continuous recording of assorted sound ef-
fects and you have used a mere 30 seconds of it in a project you have chosen to copy. On the
source disk, that cue is referencing the full 5 minutes of audio (but only playing the relevant 30
seconds of it in the project). When you copy the project across, it will only copy the 30 second
section you are using in the project (plus a 3 second ‘handle’ either side) NOT the full five
minute piece of audio it originally came from. You may find therefore, that when you copy a
project from one disk to another, the project on the target disk will use less disk space than the
one on the source disk.
owever, please note one important restriction regarding copying individual projects and librar-
ies separately to another disk. Because the audio is copied each time you individually copy a
project or a library, this will take up extra disk space on the destination disk. This will happen
even when you copy two similar projects that reference the same audio.
For example, imagine you have two projects PROJECT 1 and PROJECT 2 on DISK 0 and
both projects use exactly the same audio (PROJECT 2 being just a slight variation on PROJECT
1). If you were to select SINGLE FILE as the file type and individually copy each project to
DISK 1 separately, you will find that the audio is duplicated, using up disk space. In this case,
you should use ALL PROJECTS - this would copy both projects but would only copy the audio
once.
In the event of you having, say, five projects on DISK 0 all using the same audio but you only
want to copy PROJECT 1, 2 and 5 to DISK 1, select ALL PROJECTS and copy all five projects
across in one operation (and hence only one version of the audio) and then, on DISK 1, delete
projects 3 and 4.
If the destination disk has a file of the same name as the source disk when copying, it will
prompt you to overwrite the existing file or not.
The same is true when copying libraries.
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