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Files missing in DAW after dragging them From Band in A Box #585206 03/11/20 07:30 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 81 San Diego, California D dunbar7376 OP Enthusiast
OP dunbar7376 Enthusiast D Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 81 San Diego, California	Hello All, sometimes I love this software, sometimes it can really be frustrating. I have the latest audiophile version which I plug into my USB on my laptop. I have all my files pointing to the E (external) drive. My DAW is Mixcraft 9 full, latest version. I often will generate songs in Band In a Box and then drag the individual tracks into that conversion box thingy at the top left as WAV files. I have done this before with success, but lately - after a Band In a Box and Mixcraft update - when I drag the tracks this way, and the resultant WAV files into the DAW tracks, when I reload the Mixcraft file, I get an error message. It says it cannot find the tracks, and is looking for them I think in the temp folder on the E drive, but they are not there. Any suggestions? Dunbar7376 / Tom Marvan, San Diego. Tom Marvan Dunbar7376 San Diego, CA Band in A Box Audiophile 2023 MSI GE66 10SFS 15.6" Laptop (Model GE66048) Intel Core i7 10th Gen i7-10750H 2.6ghz 32GB DDR4 RAM 2666mhz 8GB GDDR6 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 1920 x 1080 Full HD LED 1TB NVMe SSD PCIe

Re: Files missing in DAW after dragging them From Band in A Box dunbar7376 #585213 03/12/20 12:34 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 19,002 Australia	Hi Tom, If you use BIAB's Dropbox to drag you files, they will get saved to \bb\DragDrop. When you reload Mixcraft, do you have the BIAB drive plugged in? It might be the updated Mixcraft that you now have doesn't copy the files from\bb\DragDrop but just works with them in the \bb\DragDrop folder. If this is the case, it will be looking for the files in that folder. I use Reaper and there is a setting in Reaper's preferences that instructs the program to move/copy files to a song folder rather than leave them in the original location. It might pay to see if Mixcraft has a similar setting. This would be useful. For example, I recently wrote a song called "In The Still Of The Gentle Night". I created a folder for that song especially for the Reaper files. Then when I loaded my audio files into Reaper, Reaper automatically copied them across to that directory rather than leave them in the original BIAB directory that I saved them to. I hope this helps, Noel MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2024 audios on Soundcloud

Re: Files missing in DAW after dragging them From Band in A Box dunbar7376 #585380 03/12/20 01:48 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Bunyip Enthusiast B Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 52 Brisbane Australia	I just drag the master tag directly into the DAW (Cakewalk) and this seems to work. I'm probably doing it all wrong, but it works.

Re: Files missing in DAW after dragging them From Band in A Box Noel96 #585421 03/12/20 05:16 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP dunbar7376 Enthusiast D Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 81 San Diego, California	Noel, Thank you for your response. I think you may be onto something when you say, "I use Reaper and there is a setting in Reaper's preferences that instructs the program to move/copy files to a song folder rather than leave them in the original location. It might pay to see if Mixcraft has a similar setting. This would be useful." I bet you there is a similar setting in Mixcraft. I will look for it tonight. I have other songs that work fine in Mixcraft, before the double software upgrade, so I will check the behavior in the previous, successful iterations. Tom Marvan. Tom Marvan Dunbar7376 San Diego, CA Band in A Box Audiophile 2023 MSI GE66 10SFS 15.6" Laptop (Model GE66048) Intel Core i7 10th Gen i7-10750H 2.6ghz 32GB DDR4 RAM 2666mhz 8GB GDDR6 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 1920 x 1080 Full HD LED 1TB NVMe SSD PCIe

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