How do I structure my folders to make it nice and easy to find files I'm working on, as well as finished song files. As it is now I have my files spread over many folders on more than one drive, have a hard time finding what I recently worked on, ..... I guess you're getting what I mean, advice please !

Strat

I keep work-in-progress folders on my desktop. Everything associated with the project goes inside the folder including sgu files, seq files, doc file for lyrics and a txt file for any project notes I have. The project folder normally has sub folders I create periodically to back up where I'm at; that way I have a known good point to return to when I mess up and start down the yellow brick road. I mess up a lot.

Once a project is completed I move the folder to my storage drive under a folder I call "My Recordings". My storage drive is automatically backed up to a recovery drive.

I only use 1 folder and back it up to a external drive once a week in the folder when I have my first part of the song down then each time I make a change I save it as a versioned number with the changes above

This way if I screw something up I just load up the last version. I also do this when I change keys (transpose) this way I can try out different keys

How do I get RB to point into a specific destination folder for "open" as well as "save"?

Right now, I have my structure set up as:
Songs
- song title
------BIAB
------RB
------WAV

I am not sure about your second question.

Marty

I set up a new desktop folder every year. This year's is called SONG TANK 2014

I keep the songs and WIP songs in there BUT each one has it's own subfolder. ALL files related to that song are in that folder.

If I want to remix something from the past, a simple easy search of the TANK folders is all it takes to find the song in a few seconds. They go back quite a ways.

I don't worry about what folder BB points to when it opens....I click and navigate to the proper folder in a few seconds.

Go to Preferences and then the File tab.

Tinker with the check boxes for 'Long File Names use Custom Open/Save dialogue'
and
'Bootup in folder of last session'
and
'Open and Save As dialogues remember last folder independently'.

Depending on your intent these can help.

Thank you all, I'll try out your suggestions!

Strat

Hey Strat, I commented on this post a few months back:

Managing Files

There's some good stuff there on organizing if you care to take a look.