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February 6, 2020
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Restoring Audition files to Local Hard Drive from Mac iCloud

  • February 6, 2020
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I am working with Audition CC2020 on an iMac.  I had all my files properly located on my local HD Documents folder.  But yesterday, trying to fix a sync issue with my calendar, I closed and restarted the iCloud.  I was marginally aware of the Mac iCloud app resetting itself but I was laser-focused on my Audition project.

When I went to save a session, Audition came up with a warning -- "the folder no longer exists."  I checked, and sure enough -- no local documents folder.  Horrors.

I realized that iCloud had relocated ALL my documents -- including my Adobe folder -- to the Cloud, where I know Audition cannot find it.    

I have been here before.  I specifically set up my HD so that the local documents folder contained ONLY the Adobe folder -- which has grown quite large, filling up more than 300 gb of my 500gb internal HD.    Everything else I set for the Cloud to upload.  Now, it has grabbed my Adobe folder as well.

I was able to locate my Adobe folder, and have backed it up to a 5TB external Drive.  Now, I want to carefully restore the Adobe folder on my local HD, and drag my Audition files back into it.  

My question:  Will Adobe Audition recognize a folder named "Documents-local," and can I SELECTIVELY move only those project files that I need into it?  I have done mixdowns of separate tracks so I shouldn't really need all those old multitrack versions, copies and packages that have overstuffed my session folders.  

Thanks!

 

 

Rob

Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

I have to preface this by saying that I'm not a Mac user, and that any comments have to be seen in that light. But - if you have a local drive connected directly to your machine, and that the session folders contain both the sesx files and the audio they use, then Audition should be able to see them and open them without any difficulty. Well, you would have thought so... But in the same breath I have to report that this may not work with Catalina, because Apple have seen fit to 'harden security' on any drive that isn't internal to your machine.

 

This appears to have very significant consequences, and it's going to take a lot of work on the developers part to produce a fix that's going to work with all of the affected software. They are working on it, and yes I'm actually allowed to tell you that (normally I can't, as I'm under a NDA but this is serious, and they've made an exception).

 

So what do you do? Firstly, you try this with a single folder and see if you can open the session file and the audio. If you can, then great. If you can't, then you could try rolling back the OS to the previous version, or just wait until the devs have produced a workable fix.

 

But be very clear; Adobe didn't do this to you, Apple did.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community ExpertCorrect answer
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February 6, 2020

I have to preface this by saying that I'm not a Mac user, and that any comments have to be seen in that light. But - if you have a local drive connected directly to your machine, and that the session folders contain both the sesx files and the audio they use, then Audition should be able to see them and open them without any difficulty. Well, you would have thought so... But in the same breath I have to report that this may not work with Catalina, because Apple have seen fit to 'harden security' on any drive that isn't internal to your machine.

 

This appears to have very significant consequences, and it's going to take a lot of work on the developers part to produce a fix that's going to work with all of the affected software. They are working on it, and yes I'm actually allowed to tell you that (normally I can't, as I'm under a NDA but this is serious, and they've made an exception).

 

So what do you do? Firstly, you try this with a single folder and see if you can open the session file and the audio. If you can, then great. If you can't, then you could try rolling back the OS to the previous version, or just wait until the devs have produced a workable fix.

 

But be very clear; Adobe didn't do this to you, Apple did.

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    calaverasgrande
    Participating Frequently
    January 4, 2025

    I think the problem here is that iCloud has a finite amount of space, and Adobe is filling it every time you press record.

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