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Deleting published track deletes the whole project

Larrentawn · started 2020-04-27 06:24 · updated 2021-07-02 18:52

Hi, I hope this is the right section for this.
Trying to bounce an mp3 of the track I was working on, I published it and then tried to unpublish it. I deleted the track in the profile section, and it deleted the whole project.
I hope this way of linking the delete option between the project and the published track in profile section, gets done different or at least only unpublish it, because I've seen it happend to others after searching if it was a way of reversing it. If it is retrievable it would be even better.

Thanks for your work in this platform, I really like it. Cheers.

Comments (4)

Jordi Moragues
2020-04-27 12:32 · 2020-04-27

To my knowledge, there is no real way to "unpublish" a track; that is, returning it to the state of being just a draft on your Drafts section. The way to achieve this is to "hide" the track by using the eye icon on the Tracks section or the "Hide" item in the settings menu on the track page. This is similar to the "hidden" option of YouTube videos. Deleting the track will delete its associated project.

Larrentawn · reply
2020-05-02 22:13 · 2020-05-02

Yes, you're right. My instinct was just going to do that like in any other daw. I treated the 'project files - track' relationship as if they were separate things.

SOLACE
2020-05-09 20:54 · 2020-05-09

perhaps you've figured it out by now but you can get around this:

  1. save a bookmark of the draft (the moment before you publish it so that you have the latest version of it)
  2. open the bookmark and save it as a copy
  3. publish the draft you were originally opened to under it's real name (or whatever that's just how i work)

now you should have both a draft in your drafts and a track in your tracks. you can delete the track and keep the draft. bars

awk · reply
2021-07-02 18:52 · 2021-07-02

While I get that this is a workaround - this isn't a real solution to the problem. The reality is - it shouldn't be this complicated. There should be a simple process for "Unpublishing" or essentially removing from being in a published state, tracks that you have published up, that do not affect the locally saved draft. It shouldn't be this way.