Where there issues with Clean Up.....

Hi Neil,
did you do anything different? To get it to work?

rsp

Not that I am aware of, no.
I just tried it without really thinking as I had created a whole bunch of edits that were frozen in on “Prepare Archive”
(a stack of 5.1 mixes that had horrendous DC offset) and without thinking about it I closed the project & hit the “cleanup” - and up they all came!!!

thanks.
let me try too.
rsp

I have been a dunce - there IS a difference between this system and the old one…
Cleanup refused point-blank to work at all on my XP system, where N5 was officially “unsupported” from memory, and that system had N3, N4 and Uncle Tom Cobley & all installed on it.
My new W7 setup has never gone below N5 - I wonder if this makes the difference?

It shouldn’t, of course, but maybe it does?

hmmmmm…I wonder
rsp

Cleanup still not working here, Nuendo 5.5.5

What a mess,I’m just filling my backup HDs more than I should.

Could we have some feedback from Steinberg, is it a bug, is it related somewhere ???

Still nothing about ??

Same here since Nuendo 5.
Ongoing problems with “prepare archive” and “save backup into new folder”.

Last cleanup-issue 20 minutes ago.

yes it has been completely broken throughout the Nuendo 5 cycle… very disappointing to say the least… hopefully it is fixed in Nuendo 6…

I keep Nuendo 4 installed for that sole purpose.
rsp

I’m doing the same… Cleanup with N4.

I unfortunately cannot open and cleanup N5 sessions in N4 after mixing, because

a) the surround panner doesn’t exist there

b) incompatibility of file- and marker-names concerning the unicode-reprogramming

So I’m copying complete project-folders on OS

Hi Domilik, are we talking about the same thing? I think panners don’t have anything to see with cleanup feature. What do you mean by file/marker names? Cleanup is only scanning unused files in a project folder and wipes them, nothing else.

Hello
Yesterday I attempted to cleanup a folder with a few hundred GB from Kennedy Center. When it didn’t do anything I deleted all the .bak files then opened each project in the folder to confirm at least some of the files were truly unreferenced. Still nothing, 256 files were unreferenced but cleanup doesn’t find them. Used to work, don’t know what happened.

:slight_smile:
When last did you get it to work?


It was broken for the entire Nuendo 5 cycle.
Last time it worked was in Nuendo 4.
rsp

Hi guys,

As a temp solution, you can use backup to new folder, with “remove unused files” flagged.
No risk factor at all.

Fredo

Hi Fredo, sure we can… as far as there’s only one single project in folder. If not, we’re back to starting point as one should have to create one new folder per project… If ever those projects share a certain amount of audio files, these files will be duplicated in the new folders, loosing the cleanup benefits then…

Hello Fredo,
That’s what we’ve been doing, it just chews up a lot more disk space obviously and takes quite a bit of time with a few hundred GB per project. Here’s a glass raised to hoping SB finds the issue.
Hugh

Some update about cleanup issue. I had some turnaround, working with N5.5 and cleaning with N4. It works. Well I mean, that’s what I thought…

I had a cleanup on 2 whole years projects and backup then. I’ve been opening some of these projects yesterday and here’s what I got: on some projects, some files are missing, I even have one project folder with an empty Audio folder, not one single audio file, project is gone :frowning:(

Let me say I’m used to cleanup feature, I’ve been using that for many years and I know about archiving before cleaning so that all files are located inside project folder, no faulty process here. But it looks like cleaning with N4 can cause errors and delete useful files.

Once again, I can’t understand why this feature doesn’t work anymore with N5.5… This is a main feature, not a daily one, but a fundamental one for a professional use of Nuendo.

5.5.6, nothing new.

STILL NO CLEANUP FEATURE…

It really is just pathetic.
Maybe they should just create a separate app that does it and remove it from the N5/N6 menu.
really really pisses me off.
rsp