Windows "Pipe"?

Hi all: It has been a while since I was a DOS geek. I run Reaper on my PC and on my laptop. When I transfer a project to the laptop, it never can find the files because there is no G: drive and never will be. Not a big deal, especially since Reaper improved the "search for file" functionality. But I remember from my DOS days that there is a way to redirect requests to a specific folder to a different folder. Is it possible in Windows 7? J

Do you have your files and the project-file in seperate folders ? I think that if you copy or move the .rpp to the folder with the files, reaper will load the project without a glitch.

Also worth a mention that Reaper project files are human readable and editable with a text editor eg notepad (so you could change the filepaths directly there). Only be careful not to screw something up, but you probably be aware of this if you're used to DOS. :)

Reaper (apparently) looks for the whole path of the file. If the project is stored in: G:\Audio\MyReaperProject and you move the whole shebang to: C:\Audio\MyReaperProject it won't find the audio files, at least if they are in subdirectories. Unless there is something obvious I am missing. Conversely, once you locate the files, save the project and move the latest version of the project back to its original location, it won't find the audio files again. J

The dos "subst" command can be used to create "virtual" drives. So, if you Store the copies on your laptop in e.g C:\ReaperCopy\Audio\MyReaperProject Use the command subst G: "C:\ReaperCopy" Then G:\Audio\MyReaperProject becomes a valid path. You may need to put this in a script that is executed at boot time to make it available to other applications. One small caveat: I've only tried this in a dos window on windows 7, where it works fine. I haven't tried running at boot up. However, I used this for years on XP and had no trouble with it. Hope this helps

I had to move things around only a little. But subst did the trick perfectly. Maybe next time I will set up the project differently, but I have a massive collection of band recordings (about 85 sessions) and everything has been put in directories the way I like it already. J