Steve, If you save your project to another location and if you use the Per Project setting then a new folder is created on your backup drive with all the files you need. However using any other backup software to copy .CWP files to some other place will not automatically copy the relevant audio and wave files with it. I don't use the Per project feature and so when I back up my drives, I back up my "Cakewalk" folder (where all MIDI and Cakewalk files live) and the Sonar folder found on my audio drive. To save space on the backup, I first use the Sonar cleanup tool to clear out any project wave files that are no longer needed. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wicketts To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 14:47 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: clearing folder Hi all, This maybe an obvious question but, if you back up all of your projects, does the computer take all the deleted audio files and save them to your back up drive or does it know just to save the audio files necessary for your projects? Steve W ----- Original Message ----- From: Farfar Carlson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:25 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: clearing folder They are the graphics that appear in your project such as the envelopes, etc. that we can't use with traditional access tools. I delete them all every few weeks or so. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tyo To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 14:07 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: clearing folder Hi Phil, I trust all's well with you. I've got a question; Just what is this picture cash folder anyway? I've got almost 2000 files in there; when I scrolled through it to see what sorts of files I had, they were various extensions, but they were names of past projects I had since moved to a storage drive. Many of them represented edits and recordings of tracks and so forth. I didn't dare delete them because I didn't know what I might do to mess up projects. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 03:54 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: clearing folder Open up the picture Cash folder in Windows Explorer and press control A to highlight everything then, Shift Delete to get rid of everything. Also, James is correct. You should periodically use the clean audio folder to clean out deleted audio that you have used in projects. Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5943 (20110310) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com