The Wonders Of Modern Technology II

I've been loading and re-saving all my old Acid projects.  The problem is that the loop files are not saved with the project, and when you come back 8 years later and re-install everything with later versions of the software on a different operating system on different hardware* it can't find the loops any more.

It has a built in search function that activates on load when it can't find a loop in its old location, and it's reasonably smart.  If you have, say, 20 different loops drawn from five compilations, once you've found the five main directories it will sort the rest out itself.

The only problem I had was with the "Short_technology" loop I used in Film At 11.  I actually edited that one in Sound Forge to get it just right, and I haven't seen the edited .wav file since 2001.

So I tell Acid to search all local drives, and after grumbling for two or three minutes, it actually found it.  I don't know how many files there are on Nagi; there's no convenient Windows equivalent of the df -i that tells me I have 3.5 million files on Yurie.  But there's at least 600,000 files on my C drive alone.

And yet, I was able to find the right one.

* We're talking about Acid Music 2.0, Windows Me, and a 1.2GHz Athlon vs. Acid Music 7.0, Vista 64, and a quad-core 2.4GHz Phenom.

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