Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Renaming files 
To rename a file, right-click it and select Rename from the pop-up menu.
This means the file on disk is actually renamed, just as if you had changed 
the name in the Windows Explorer.
Removing files
To delete a file from a group, right-click it and select Remove.
This removes the file from the Workspace but does not delete anything 
from your disks!
Moving files between groups
To move a file from one group to another, first remove it from one group 
and then...

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Using WaveLab for backup 

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Background
WaveLab features very versatile and powerful functions for backing up all 
kinds of files and folders. Here’s a brief rundown of the features:
• You can back up directly to CD or to standard media. When backing up to CD, 
you can create archives that span several CDs, if necessary.
• The archives created by the backup function are ZIP files, compatible with other 
ZIP extraction applications. They can of course also be opened by  WaveLab (as 
can any...

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Creating a Backup Plan
The Backup Plan is where you specify which folders and files should be 
backup, and make additional settings for how the backup should be per-
formed.
• To create a new Backup Plan, open the File menu and select Backup Plan 
from the New submenu.
An untitled Backup Plan window appears.
Defining which files should be backed up
The contents of the Backup Plan are defined by filters. Each filter is de-
fined for a certain folder, but you can...

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Below is a step-by-step procedure showing how to set up filters – please 
read the filtering rules as well (see “Filtering rules” on page 717).
1.Make sure the “Definition” tab is selected at the top of the window.
The other tab, “Preview”, is described in the section “Using the Preview function” on page 
721.
2.In the directory view to the left, select a folder containing elements you 
want to back up.
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This far, filtering has only been applied to specific folders and files, but 
you can also specify that certain file types should be excluded (or in-
cluded) in the backup:
6.To exclude a certain file type from backup, specify its file name extension 
by typing into the Patterns field above the “Exclude” list.
This function is available when the “Include: All files” option is activated.
Note that you should use the wildcard character * to indicate that all files...

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•If you use the “Exclude: All files” option, this automatically applies to all 
subfolders (for which no separate filters are defined).
In other words, when “Exclude: All files” is used, the “Also applies to subfolders” option is 
automatically activated.
•If you define a filter for a folder, any “inherited” filter from a parent folder is 
automatically overridden (both for that folder and for its subfolders). 
The symbols in the directory view
When you specify...

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Editing the filters in textual form
Sometimes it can be preferable to view and edit the filter definitions as 
text. This is done by selecting “Edit filters in text form” from the Functions 
pop-up menu (or by clicking the “T” icon).
In the dialog that appears, you can view each defined filter separately, and 
edit the settings:
• Use the scrollbar in the upper right corner to step between the available filters. 
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• If you have renamed or reordered folders on your hard disk since creating the 
Backup Plan, you can click the “Find and replace in all paths” button to update 
the Backup Plan.
In the Search and Replace dialog that appears, enter the previous (no longer valid) path 
name in the Find field and the new, correct path in the Replace field and click OK. The pro-
gram will search all displayed filters (taking the Display options into account) and perform 
the...