On 26 8 2004 at 6:44 pm -0400, Mike Carlyle wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, a user is prompted to locate the files anyway, so it doesn't really matter where they are. Ben, please correct me if this is not true.
You are correct. It should not matter where the samples are, at all. Upon opening a song that uses a linked kit, DB will attempt to ensure that all of the linked sounds are available. If any are missing or not immediately found, the user is prompted to locate them by choosing a folder in which they reside. What DB actually does here is scan the entire contents of this folder and all of its subfolders, looking for filenames which match the base part of the original filenames (e.g. "something.wav"). This way, even if your samples are organized amongst various subfolders, it will still work. Theoretically you could choose the root of your hard drive to begin the search, and though it might take awhile, the result should be the same (unless you have several files of the same name on your disk somewhere, in which case the first one will be used). Once all needed files have been found, DB then in fact silently re-writes the .dbkit file (if it resides on a writable disk/partition) with the updated paths, so that next time you open the kit they need not be searched for. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca