peterlemer 14 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 I have made a table of compositions that are works in progress (WIP), and evey row contains a column with MP3 snippets of each composition. Works beautifully. I am also preparing a gig, where I want to do a similar job, but with compositions that I want to perform. Some of those tunes are in my WIP table, some older ones are not, If I copy an MP3 from my WIP table to to my gig table, have I created a second MP3 somehere on my local drive, or are they all aliases of the original MP3 on my local drive? pete Link to comment
Evernote Expert agsteele 3,059 Posted July 31, 2023 Evernote Expert Share Posted July 31, 2023 It will be a second copy of the MP3 file. 1 Link to comment
peterlemer 14 Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 5 hours ago, agsteele said: It will be a second copy of the MP3 file. Thanks: Where can I find these files? Link to comment
laurence.glazier 144 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Click on the audio control and a download button appears above. Link to comment
peterlemer 14 Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 14 hours ago, laurence.glazier said: Click on the audio control and a download button appears above. Thanks for replying, but I want to know where the file actually lives. pete Link to comment
Boot17 1,536 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 On your local Mac or PC they live in a local cache structure of directories and files. It's not really straightforward to find though (as far as having file extensions and names that match what you see in the note). For example -- this sample note with an image and one MP3: has blobs/attachments in a folder structure like this: (Note this is on MacOS, but it is similar for Windows.) /Users/[user_name]/Library/Application Support/Evernote/resource-cache/User9999999999/5e123435-3dcf-bd09-a871-585144e1d9cd/ where 5e123435-3dcf-bd09-a871-585144e1d9cd/ is the globally unique ID for that note. The image and the mp3 file will then also have a globally unique ID for a file name in that directory without having an mp3 or .jpg file extension to easily identify them. I copied my 10 MB mp3 to a new note and noticed that the globally unique ID for that mp3 object was the exact same as the original note (albeit now existing in two separate directories). So, while there is secondary file in the local cache (your computer) in a different folder, the globally unique ID is the exact same and I suspect that only one actual copy of that mp3 file is kept on the server. Edit: Also -- so if you have two copies of the mp3 in the same note, it would only show as one file in the note directory on disk. 1 Link to comment
peterlemer 14 Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Boot17 said: On your local Mac or PC they live in a local cache structure of directories and files. It's not really straightforward to find though (as far as having file extensions and names that match what you see in the note). For example -- this sample note with an image and one MP3: has blobs/attachments in a folder structure like this: (Note this is on MacOS, but it is similar for Windows.) /Users/[user_name]/Library/Application Support/Evernote/resource-cache/User9999999999/5e123435-3dcf-bd09-a871-585144e1d9cd/ where 5e123435-3dcf-bd09-a871-585144e1d9cd/ is the globally unique ID for that note. The image and the mp3 file will then also have a globally unique ID for a file name in that directory without having an mp3 or .jpg file extension to easily identify them. I copied my 10 MB mp3 to a new note and noticed that the globally unique ID for that mp3 object was the exact same as the original note (albeit now existing in two separate directories). So, while there is secondary file in the local cache (your computer) in a different folder, the globally unique ID is the exact same and I suspect that only one actual copy of that mp3 file is kept on the server. Edit: Also -- so if you have two copies of the mp3 in the same note, it would only show as one file in the note directory on disk. good grief! Life's too short... 😉 Thank you, at least I know now pete Link to comment
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