Pro Tools Tech Tip — Pro Tools | First: Save Projects Locally

Save an unlimited number of your Pro Tools | First projects, locally

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[treintje]

Why is there no 'Save As...' option? I have no control over where my projects are stored. I hate the 'cloud-first' approach. Just give me a normal 'Save As...' option. Or at least let me define the storage location and folder structure.
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[PeterGMcDermott]

This is great, but how can we define what folder that the projects are saved in? By default they are saved within My Documents in PC. Windows then automatically synchronizes these GIANT folders to OneDrive, complaining that your storage is full. What would be really helpful is if we could tell it where to save and where to look for projects when we want to open them again. Thanks for considering!

[polarnaut]

Dumb question:. What next? How do you copy the local projects? Is That even possible? Where are the files even located? I'm looking through "Pro Tools" folder and I can't find them.

[usernameihavechosen]

People are reporting locally saved projects disappearing.

[ellenvaniterson]

I accidentally moved my local cache with ptf files to another location and now when I want to open a project in PTF, nothing happens. Can anybody please help?

[JohnnySerra]

Guys, you known what would be a nice feature? Sticky track/s, be able to leave a track visible on the edit windows when scrolling to have it for some reference would be really useful

[lostsouthernboys]

Have First 2020.9. Had 2019.6. When I upgraded to 2020.9 it removed all my LOCAL projects from the dashboard. They are still in the project cache, just won't open them(wrong file type, created with newer version, etc.) Will not use a program that destroys my work at will. And just in case you think this is only the free version, I spent 6 hours working on a project on a friend's PT|Standard fully paid system. Saved the file. Reopened it just to be sure. Came back 3 days later-GONE. Not in the cloud or the local cache. Not confident in this product.

[Ababelone]

Come on guys, 8 months after Catalina and still no support for Pro Tools First!

[ashishuprety]

it would be quite good if it could be used offline ..