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422 Chapter 12 Project Manager

Scan

Select Browse mode via the selector to the top-left of the Project Manager (not Find

Mode or Scan Paths). If you don’t select a specific folder in the left half of the Project

Manager window, the scan process will scan all disks—according to the defined

exclude and include paths, if any. If you can’t recall the locations that you may have

previously saved any of these file types to, you should perform a global scan.

You can start the scan process with Functions > Scan. The scan process can take some

time, depending on the amount of data, and number and size of your hard disk drives.

You can continue working in Logic’s other windows during the scan process.

When the scan is completed, a folder structure appears on the left side of the Project

Manager window, if Browse mode is selected.

Following this initial scan, please select Functions > Save Project Manager data at once.

This ensures that—barring unforeseen circumstances—this time-consuming scan

procedure will never need to be repeated. The Project Manager’s database is

automatically saved every time you quit Logic.

During the scan process, the Project Manager checks every filename suffix (“.aif(f)” for

audio files in the audio interchange file format, for example) and the file type of every

file on your disks. Every file that appears to be an audio, song, EXS Instrument, setting,

or Quicktime movie file will be analyzed for its relationship to other files. As an

example: the relationship could be between a song file that points to an audio file

used as a Region within the song. This is the type of information the Project manager

deals with, and stores in the Project Manager database.

You can rescan at any time. As a tip, we recommend that you only scan specified

folders, where you expect to find these files. This saves time. You can choose the

desired folders directly in the browser, and select Functions > Scan, or, if the respective

folder does not yet appear in the browser, select Functions > Scan folder.

Expanded Scan

Functions > Expanded Scan works much like the standard Scan, but there’s a difference.

Expanded Scan analyzes absolutely every file, regardless of whether or not the file type

or suffix matches one of the file types being searched for. This allows you to select any

file, even if its suffix was changed manually in the Finder, or if the file type information

is invalid. The expanded scan takes much longer to analyze a file. We only recommend

the use of this function on folders where you expect to find such files. The function is

especially useful in cases where specific files you expected to find during the normal

Scan don’t show up.

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