HD24/96 Technical Reference

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Selecting Yes clears the History list and Saves the Project, allowing you to delete all Recorded Regions not present in the Playlist.

Selecting either Yes or No brings up the Purge Current Project dialog containing a list of all Recorded Regions slated for Purge. Click OK to delete all the Regions in the list, or select the specific Regions you wish to Purge, then click OK.

Backup and Restore

Backup and Restore operations consist simply of copying a Project from one disk drive to another. When a Project is Copied, the Project folder and all its contents are copied to the target medium completely unaltered – no data compression or compacting. Projects copied to disk drives verified for real-time recording can be opened immediately, though copies to drives designated as Backup (PROJECT media and slower hard drives) must be copied back to real-time drives in order to be opened for either playback or recording.

You can’t copy a project to the disk on which it currently resides – source and destination drives must be different. If the destination drive doesn’t have enough free space to contain the selected Projects, you’ll get an error message before the copying starts.

Backup strategies are discussed in the Applications manual. Choose yours intelligently. A Copy operation can be either a Backup or a Restore, depending on what you’re doing. The operations are the same going in either direction.

If you move other project-related files, such as session notes or mixer automation data into the HDR24/96 Project folder via FTP transfer through a network, those will be copied along with the normal contents of the Project folder when you back up to another disk drive.

To Backup or Restore a Project From the front panel:

Press the BACKUP button. Select Set Source to set the drive the Project is to be copied from, and Set Dest(ination), the drive where the backup copy will go. Select Ok to get back to the Backup menu.

Select Backup. Select the Project name to back up using the << and >> buttons. Select Ok to begin the copy, or Cancel to quit without copying.

To Backup or Restore from the GUI:

Select Project Manager from the Edit menu, or use keyboard shortcut CTRL+B. This brings up the two-pane Project Manager dialog box. Click on the Project you wish to copy and drag it to the opposite pane in the Project Manager window. You can also click on the Project name to highlight it, then click on the arrow pointing to the opposite window.

Note: If file sizes are not displayed, clicking the Refresh button will bring them up.If you’ve swapped Mackie Media PROJECT disks, their files may not be visible. Click Refresh to update the file list.

A VERY IMPORTANT Reminder:

It is extremely important that you make back up copies of your Projects at the end of each session. While digital recording technology is extremely reliable and hard disk media is durable, the unexpected occasionally happens. Backing up your Projects onto two media before deleting them from your working drive(s) will dramatically reduce your risk of catastrophic data loss.