u/CentralBlob

I edit podcasts, which means I'm working with lengthy wavs or sometimes mp3s of people talking on separate tracks, and I make hundreds (thousands?) of little edits throughout, tweaking timing, cutting out hesitations etc, usually with ripple edit on.

Sometimes, rarely, on certain projects, pressing undo after an action that triggered the ripple edit will take around 2 seconds to respond - which doesn't sound like much until you're doing it. I've developed an automatic response to flinch as I hit undo on the current project, because I know I'm about to take light damage.

Now, until recently, I thought this happened when I had imported a problematic file into the project. It's not unusual, for instance, for me to use a video in a podcast timeline, if YouTube was the best source for the audio of some old clip I need to use. Makes sense that a video would slow down the response time if it's a funny format.

But the current job is just wav files, which I've been sent in a batch. Why would they cause the undo slowdown problem?

This is on windows, a win10 desktop with a great CPU that means everything is usually very zippy, and a win11 laptop with a worse but tolerable one. Same effect on both. I've encountered this in enough different projects now that I wonder if it's a known issue.

I edit podcasts. I work on a desktop at home and a laptop at cafes. To make this work, I have a copy of all the big hours-long wav files saved locally on both computers (I transfer them with a usb stick at the start), but then I save the small .rpp on OneDrive. That way, whenever I switch from one computer to the other, the whole project is waiting for me, but it doesn't fill up my precious little OneDrive space.

Here's the problem.

I recently updated Reaper, having not apparently done so for a couple of years. Suddenly now, whenever I use a new file in the episode I'm working on, say I render a take or even drop a piece of music into the timeline that's in my local folder of files for the episode, I find a copy of that file in the OneDrive folder. Sometimes I find out by recieving threats that OneDrive is running out of room.

It's functionally like saving with "Copy Media" selected, but it isn't selected. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I did go googling recently and found what I thought was the answer, naturally I've forgotten what it was now so I can't tell you, but it was something in the preferences that seemed promising and sounded like it would solve it immediately, but it doesn't seem to have. So, don't be annoyed if you suggest something that's obviously the answer (as this was) and I have to tell you it doesn't work! I bet I just applied it wrong.

This is a real problem because it's filling my cloud folder up with multiple gigabytes that I can't afford - recently it did run out of space in the middle of transferring it all and I had to do a lot of emergency surgery. Can you tell what I've got set up wrong?