Reaper from an external drive

ijonty

Hi, my mac desktop is running out of space. Can you run my Reaper files from an external drive? And if so, do I need to do something specific when moving all my files over? I don't want to just move them all then realise that Reaper can no longer access them.

Cheers!

JAYJO

Have a look at the video section on the reaper home download page. The first few vids one of them Kenny shows how to set up your external drive for all your projects etc 

ijonty

Ah thanks. I can't find it - what's the video called?

JAYJO

ijonty said:

Ah thanks. I can't find it - what's the video called?

try Reaper 5 Explained . vid 2  Starting a new project.

andy_k

I often move projects over to an external SSD, and delete from my hard drive. Opening a project from the SSD is a bit of a pain, as Reaper wants to be pointed to each projects Audio folder. I dont know if it is a setting I need to look at, and it only takes a moment to work to the correct folder, but to keep things simple I prefer to only work on projects that are on my system drive.
It might cause problems down the road-if I do any work on a backed up copy, when the original version is still on my drive.
With Reaper-anything is possible, but I like to keep things as simple as possible, backing stuff up is a necessary evil/