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francisc2017
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March 27, 2017
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Moving Media Cache

  • March 27, 2017
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Im having a terrible time trying to understand how to move the location of my media cache folders. I just installed Audition and havent attempted a move yet in fear of messing something up. Can someone help or point me to some help?

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    Correct answer ryclark

    All the Media Cache files and folders are only temporary locations for files that Audition uses whilst you are editing. They can be anywhere you want to put them that has space. But, of course, they need to be paths that are always present when you start your computer, ie. not an occasionally attached USB drive. Just use the Browse box to go to somewhere available on any of your hard drives. It is quite a good idea to use a Temp folder not on your system drive for Audition's Primary Cache. I choose my fairly fast Audio drive where all my audio files and Audition's sessions are stored. The Secondary one isn't really needed as it will only be used if there is a problem with the Primary cache location.

    The Shared media caches are, I believe, only needed if you are interchanging files with Premiere or After Effects. Once you have finished your editing sessions and close Audition it should clean up most of those files as they are usually no longer needed. Unfortunately though a few temp files do tend to get left behind. So it is occasionally good to go into the Cache folders and empty them of any old leftovers..

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    ryclark
    ryclarkCorrect answer
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    March 27, 2017

    All the Media Cache files and folders are only temporary locations for files that Audition uses whilst you are editing. They can be anywhere you want to put them that has space. But, of course, they need to be paths that are always present when you start your computer, ie. not an occasionally attached USB drive. Just use the Browse box to go to somewhere available on any of your hard drives. It is quite a good idea to use a Temp folder not on your system drive for Audition's Primary Cache. I choose my fairly fast Audio drive where all my audio files and Audition's sessions are stored. The Secondary one isn't really needed as it will only be used if there is a problem with the Primary cache location.

    The Shared media caches are, I believe, only needed if you are interchanging files with Premiere or After Effects. Once you have finished your editing sessions and close Audition it should clean up most of those files as they are usually no longer needed. Unfortunately though a few temp files do tend to get left behind. So it is occasionally good to go into the Cache folders and empty them of any old leftovers..

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    francisc2017Author
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    March 28, 2017

    Thank you so much for your help. I'm most concerned that I write the correct file path. I have both Audition and Premier on my system and wouldn't want to make a mistake. I had thought of creating a path in my extra drive like this, Adobe/Audition/Media Disk Cache, and doing the same for Shared Media Cache Files and Shared Media Cache Database. Does this seem correct?

    ryclark
    ryclark
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    March 28, 2017

    As long as the correct path to them is entered into Audition or Premiere by using Browse to go to the correct place then there shouldn't be any problem. It doesn't matter what it is called but obviously it is easier if you call something that you can recognise should you need to access the data cached there. Normally once set up you shouldn't need to worry about where it is, Audition should look after it.

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