You might be right about checking file locations, but

Louis-Laurent wrote:

 

I have to constantly monitor where the files are saved because Audition is completely erratic & untrusworthy on this aspect.

 

It's not. It's completely consistent about this. Whenever people complain about missing files, etc it turns out to be them doing something inconsistent, not the software.

Louis-Laurent wrote:

 

I am a very organized person on the computer,

and if i say that audition is erratic and writes the files anywhere on the computer,

saving them completely out of the original folder where your project is located, well it is true.

 

Then you have a very strange perception of truth, at variance with other peoples' experience of it, I must say. I have never had Audition save files randomly at all, and other people don't report this either. Whether you like it or not, the collective truth is that this simply doesn't happen. And anyway, this wouldn't be an Audition problem, even if it did - it would be entirely down to the OS with 1.5, as it uses the OS file command system for everything to do with file saving, and not its own. So if files were being saved randomly, it would have to be due to a fault in your OS.

And that's true because I said so!

Look, it doesn't do things randomly at all!

If you have an option to Save a file, then it saves it at the same location it opened it from. If you don't have this option, then you get Save As. As a function of the Windows API system, this remembers where the last place and format that you did a Save As to, and by default this is where it goes to. Yes, 9 times out of 10 this isn't what you want, but it is consistent. In multitrack you have to be a little careful about what you save, because the system errs on the side of caution, and you can sometimes be prompted to save things that you don't need to. But it still follows a set of rules reliably.

The only thing I can think of that would screw this up would be a serious problem with being able to write to the Windows Registry on your machine, or possibly an issue with writing to the system settings folder. But there is no bug - loads of us test this carefully before every release, and anything at all like this would be picked up by the entire beta team - and fixed by the developers pronto!

But Louis-Laurent, in view of the other problems you are having, I'm beginning to think that your XP system may not be all that you think it is...