bobm

Thanks for your reply kennywally. In trying to work out why it didn't work for me although it does for you, I think I've now got to the bottom of it. My problem was that although I could successfully relocate the aud and grf files into an 'Audio Working Folder' of my own choosing, when I opened my original recordings, I found this TEMP1.WAV file created in my Docs&Settings folder *as well as* the aud and grf files. However, I now realise that this happens only when the original file is in WMA format: when I open a WMA file with WavePad I get a pop-up that tells me 'Decoding with DirectX'. The WAV file seems to be a byproduct of the DirectX decoding process. Since I want my edited files to be in MP3 format anyway, a workaround is first to convert them to MP3 (I use the free Koyote converter) and then work on the MP3 file. (Previously I had used WavePad to make the conversion.) (EDIT: I also tried NCH's 'Switch' for the WMA->MP3 conversion, but like WavePad it too created that huge Temp1.wav file in Documents&Settings. So Koyote it is, for now.) If I then open the MP3 files in WavePad, I still get the huge aud file, but without the equally large WAV file. Incidentally, I also often split the original recording first, so as to work on smaller, more manageable files (say the individual speakers at a conference). This used to be my first step, using WavePad - but that, of course, hit the TEMP1.WAV problem. By converting to MP3 first, one can then split the files with other applications. Interestingly, the Koyote 'cutter' application is NOT the one to use: it creates a 'tempCut.wav' file in Docs&Settings that is as big as the problem files created when opening WMA files in Wavepad. So for now I'm using the old 'Mega MP3 Splitter'. It does not give a graphical representation of the file, so finding appropriate points for splitting is a bit more fiddly, but it *seems* to work 'in situ', without any huge demands on storage. (EDIT: since first writing this, I discovered mp3DirectCut by Martin Pesch. This does offer a graphical 'waveform' display that helps to locate cuts but does not require a wav temp file - or at least not the huge files that WavePad and Switch generate. The display is rather crude, but a whole lot better than nothing.) So now instead of using WavePad to perform splitting, conversion, and then all the fancy audio editing, I now convert the orginal to MP3 with the Koyote converter, split it with mp3DirectCut (or the Mega MP3splitter) and only then, if necessary, move to Wavepad. In fact, doing it this way means that by working on the converted and split files, I no longer need to relocate the Audio Working Folder to an external drive! Thanks again, Bob

Hi I have searched the forum and found a thread with a similar title from which I infer that even having changed the 'Audio Working Folder' (to an external drive) the 'Temp1.wav' file is nevertheless created in the 'Documents & Settings' folder on the C Drive. Could someone confirm whether that is correct, please? If so, could someone from NCH indicate whether they have any plans to enable the default location for 'Temp1' to be changed in a future version? The problem, if it is not evident, is that my recordings of conferences are typically hundreds of megabytes of WMA, leading to more gigabytes of Temp1 than I have room for. Bob M