I noticed in my program data folder, Cubase has the older folders for 10 / 10.5 etc.
Are they safe to delete ? I use V11 now , and I could free up a few gig by deleting them.
Old Cubase Folders
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- KVRAF
- 2050 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Germany
You don't need them anymore. A long time ago I had mit VSTs in such a Cubase folder but when you have them somewhere else, everything Cubase 11 needs is stored somewhere else
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- KVRian
- 755 posts since 20 Nov, 2000 from Valencia, Spain
If you have already uninstalled those older Cubase versions, you can safely get rid of the remaining folders, as Cubase 11 automatically makes a copy of them the first time it opens.
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- KVRAF
- 2050 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Germany
Cubase doesn't copy stuff from these folders.
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- KVRAF
- 1709 posts since 25 Jul, 2009
Any idea where?rasmusklump wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 8:25 am .... everything Cubase 11 needs is stored somewhere else
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- KVRAF
- 2050 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Germany
App data in the user directory.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
If Cubase 10.5 has been installed on a system, it has stored Preferences in the default location.
If Cubase 11 gets installed, it is going to grab the prior version's preferences as its preferences. One upshot of this is if we need to delete preferences of 11, we aren't getting fresh preferences, we're getting the 10.5 ones, so both have to be absent, here from Library/Preferences.
There are other things stored in system default locations, such as the content of its internal plugins which are 'grandfathered in' as well, ie, no need to reinstall the Halion et al. I don't know of any way in one fell swoop to clean all that out, so chances are they're still there. Once you've instantiated Cubase fully there's no need for the other version per se, ie., no dependencies, these are discrete programs.
If Cubase 11 gets installed, it is going to grab the prior version's preferences as its preferences. One upshot of this is if we need to delete preferences of 11, we aren't getting fresh preferences, we're getting the 10.5 ones, so both have to be absent, here from Library/Preferences.
There are other things stored in system default locations, such as the content of its internal plugins which are 'grandfathered in' as well, ie, no need to reinstall the Halion et al. I don't know of any way in one fell swoop to clean all that out, so chances are they're still there. Once you've instantiated Cubase fully there's no need for the other version per se, ie., no dependencies, these are discrete programs.
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- KVRAF
- 1709 posts since 25 Jul, 2009
With Windows - in C/users/app data/roaming/steinberg, I don't see any reference to any 'preferences' folder that can be deleted.
I can delete preferences by starting in 'safe mode', but if I go back and start it again regularly, the preferences are back.
I can delete preferences by starting in 'safe mode', but if I go back and start it again regularly, the preferences are back.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
it begins rebuilding them on the next launch, immediately, yes.
It rebuilds from its defaults, unless some exist somewhere expected, eg., 10.5. On windows I don't remember. Under OSX it's not in the main "Library", it's Preferences in the user name "Library".
EDIT - yeah, same: “\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\<program name>\”
So, it has this safe mode dialog after any unexpected exit: there are two ideas here; preferences accrue corruption over time, and it's a known practice to remove and rebuild fresh preferences, particularly when Cubase or Nuendo exhibits inexplicable behaviors (IME it isn't typically why projects crash, but it might be a factor). And there is safe mode which disables third-party plugins as part of its trouble-shooting.
With no preferences found there, it will rebuild its defaults from scratch (for me means changing 70 of them); if you're in 11 with 10 installed, if there is a Preferences extant for 10, it will find and instantiate those (if you're dealing in 9 and have 8 installed, etc).
It rebuilds from its defaults, unless some exist somewhere expected, eg., 10.5. On windows I don't remember. Under OSX it's not in the main "Library", it's Preferences in the user name "Library".
EDIT - yeah, same: “\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\<program name>\”
So, it has this safe mode dialog after any unexpected exit: there are two ideas here; preferences accrue corruption over time, and it's a known practice to remove and rebuild fresh preferences, particularly when Cubase or Nuendo exhibits inexplicable behaviors (IME it isn't typically why projects crash, but it might be a factor). And there is safe mode which disables third-party plugins as part of its trouble-shooting.
With no preferences found there, it will rebuild its defaults from scratch (for me means changing 70 of them); if you're in 11 with 10 installed, if there is a Preferences extant for 10, it will find and instantiate those (if you're dealing in 9 and have 8 installed, etc).