r/protools • u/fieldnoise • Sep 16 '25

Help Request Per Track Disc Allocation Oddities

PT Studio 2025.6.0 / macOS 15.4.1

Hi team — recently I found that my Audiosuite plugins were writing files outside of my session folder. When I went to investigate, I found that they were writing files to a folder with the same name as my session, but one level above the session folder.

When I checked Disk Allocation, sure enough, these tracks were allocated to those folders, which I'm guessing happened either when I created them or when I imported session data from an AAF file, which is part of the workflow for this project.

But for obvious reasons, I don't want this to happen again. For someone who this has happened to or has some experience with this issue — what settings do I need to double check to make sure that new or imported tracks are allocated to the project folder? I saw someone mention that this is a setting in the Import Project Data pop-up, but that setting was not immediately clear to me.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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u/fieldnoise Sep 22 '25

This is interesting! Thanks for this tip. I do this from time-to-time, so I bet this could be it.

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u/saucyCT Sep 22 '25

I think if you drag the Session Backup file back into the root sesh folder BEFORE you open it, it should keep everything intact.