So my situation is, about a year or so ago, I graduated from the pirate life and fully purchased Cubase 9.5 to run on iOS on my iMac. Prior to that, I was running a pirated version of Cubase 5 thru Boot Camp on a Windows partition for years. So when I purchased 9.5, I moved all the files from the Windows partition to an external and then to the iOS side wit the plan of eventually completely deleting the Windows partition to free up space since I only made the partition to run Cubase. Problem is, when I try to run a lot of these transferred projects on iOS, it can never find the beat of the songs and most are acapella.

Why is this happening? Because a lot of these projects are unreleased demos where I used YouTube converters off YouTube producers and dragged the beat from my downloads straight into Cubase. (Sue me. I always purchase if I end up releasing the song but in these cases I would use the YouTube rip to put it in Cubase to write and record to and build the song.)

So in a lot of these cases, I never placed the MP3s in any file other than dragging them to Cubase. Not the Cubase file but the actual DAW. Which is an extremely careless mistake of my own, but long story short, my main question is, being part of the entire project, is there not a folder that Cubase would place these beats in, jus like it automatically places any saved vocal take into, for example, Audio in Documents by default? Or would my only hope be re-finding 100s of beats on YouTube and placing them in a folder this time?

If so then my only options are either doing exactly that, leaving the partition on my iMac, which I wouldn’t prefer since it’s a 200GB partition, or simply deleting the partition and letting these records go. As I said they’re all unreleased demos that will never come out but I’m jus nostalgic about my records and even garbage ones that will never come out, I like going down memory lane sometimes and listening to my old s*** to see the progress, so I would still prefer not to lose them.