Reopening old projects

[Watchful]

I used to know how to do this.

I've moved to a new Windows 11 computer in the studio, and now my projects--stored on an external drive--are showing up as gray in the Projects tab's browser of Waveform 12.

How do I get Waveform to realize the old I:\ drive is now a D:\ drive? It looks like I need to close every single project (there are many) and manually reopen them to get the to appear in the browser.

I've done this before, years ago, and I can't for the life of me remember how I did it fairly easily.

Worse, I experimented by double-clicking on one of the gray entries, and the project has "disappeared" from the browser. (It's still there, safe and sound, on the external drive...Waveform just refuses to see it)

[Peter Widdicombe]

subst i: d:\; or if it's got other things in it as well subst i: c:\tracktion\projects, etc? Not sure if this needs to be done every restart.

Make sure i: isn't your USB stick or digital camera...

There's also a MOUNT command, but it's more for mounting ISO images as though they were local drives.

[Watchful]

No, I used to be able to click on the grayed-out name, click the 3 dots to the right of the file name and edit the folder's path.

It clearly no longer does this...and every time I click on an old project name (grayed out), it vanishes from the browser.

Sigh. Looks like something else wasn't finished between v11.5 and v12. I'm afraid I have to figure out how to rebuild a list of hundreds of projects from scratch, because nothing is working.

It would be great if anything on this tab was documented, but it never was.