Okay, I posted about this earlier in the week, and thought it was resolved, but I'm still not having any luck with it so I'm starting a new thread to avoid confusion in the old one.
The following is a detailed description of what I did, and the results....
It begins with a 1GB .wav file that was created from a cassette transfer of old recordings. The file resides in C:\Original Songs\
Cassette 1.wav
So in Reaper I opened a new project, dragged that file into Reaper, located the one song I wanted to work on, and trimmed everything else away, leaving the one song as a standalone song (
Song1.wav)
Then I saved it as a project in a folder on my microSD card (F:\ drive), and worked on the song until it was the way I liked it. Then I saved it, keeping the entire project in F:\Song1. That folder contains the following:
Folders
Audio/
Song1.wav
Audio/Peaks/
Song1.wav.reapeaks
Files
Song1.rpp
Song1-[datestamp].rpp-bak (there are a bunch of these)
Sometime later I did some folder renaming and moving around on C:\ drive.
Much later after that I went to open the Song1 project on F:\ drive, and got an error that a file couldn't be found. It was looking for C:\Original Songs\
Cassette 1.wav, but as far as I can tell there should be no connection to that file anymore. Everything I need for the project is in F:\Song1.
So why is Reaper looking for C:\Original Songs\
Cassette 1.wav ??
Somehow I've lost my mind, lol.