Every single time I have a question about Reaper I find two things. The first being, 'can it do this?' And the answer is always yes. And the subsequent one, 'how do I get Reaper to do that?' And the answer is on this channel, every single time.

As much as I love Reaper, some default behaviours are unfathomable. The folder organisation that Kenny describes here should be default. I can't see any reason that it isn't.

Your tutorials are so valuable to me! A million thanks for sharing them!

I'd never be able to learn Reaper if if wasn't for these tutorials, plus they're a pleasure to watch -- so well laid out and organized...

With every one of your tutorials I fall deeper and deeper in love with this amazing DAW. 😍

Kenny, your videos are invaluable. Thanks for creating them and helping us novices

I just about had a meltdown because hours of work seemingly was gone because of moving some stuff. I should have watched this video when I first started using Reaper. Reaper 7 just came out and as far as I can tell a few things have changed location. (I'm new to Reaper though less that a month) so it might be time to do an updated version of this. However I believe I was able to find everything by searching a bit for it. I want to say Thank you so much for this video. I am no longer stressed trying to find my stuff in the folder and it is already way better. You got yourself a sub. You're appreciated! Thank you!

My very first job a zillion years ago was secretarial and involved a lot of file management. File organization can be a beautiful thing and what you suggest is logical and clean. Thanks again for another perfect video!

I had several days of utter frustration trying to work out what you shared in a clear easy to follow 11 minute video. You rock - I'm a follower!

Thanks for this Kenny, when I was a Reaper newbie I found myself saving everything very messily now I'm overwhelmed with a bombsite, time to dedicate some time digging them all out and reorganising!

Thank you Kenny for your response. I appreciate all that you do for all of us.

Gold dust!! Thank you so much.

Great stuff. I've watched this 2 or 3 times setting up my prefs. I'll add one. Change the default render path so all your renders go into a separate sub folder like "renders" or something.

Thank you Mr. Gioia! Your teaching-style is excellent!!

This video is a must and I always search for it to send to new Reaper users

You are a dear music making companion Kenny bro. Thank you from the heart. May God bless you and those you love.

Man, you make the most actually useful videos that I have found on Reaper. You focus on practical stuff and most other videos just don't. Thanks a lot!

I want to warn against having only single backup file. I've had instances where the file was corrupted and then you lose all the backups. I use separate backup files just to fight against the possibility of having a corrupted backup. I wish REAPER allowed you to have separate folder for "manual" backups as you can have for auto backups...

Lovely, this is going to make a huge change in my production and mixing workflow as I'm prone to keep dated backups for all music related stuff so project folders tended to end up incredibly messy. Now everything is tidy and satisfying, thank you Kenny!

This video is great because it will help me organize all my VO projects and not find a mess every time I look for something!

as usual, very clear and helpful explanation - thank you.

I don't know how to thank you enough. Your videos have helped me immensely

I used Reaper for 3 years and I didn't know how to do that. Thank you, Kenny! :)

Respect from India. You're the best, bro. Thank you so much for your valuable lessons.

Your videos are simply amazing and you really know how to get to the point quickly and accurately and with much fineness! Thank you for helping us to navigate these new waters and for getting the most out of reaper. You should put on online classes as I would line up for that! Thanks again

Thank you. You answered my most pressing problem in the first few seconds of your video. I solved that an then decided to watch the rest ...

This is really useful for newcomers to REAPER. I just wonder why its default setting is just so bad although there are better ways offered. For certain times, Bravo Kenny! YOU ROCKS!!!

This was excellent, thank you.

Thank you so much Kenny for your short and very structural learning videos! You are a teacher from God!

I was doing some of it but you really helped me with the stuff I needed to do more. Thanks again Kenny your videos are a great help to me any many people.

I changed over to a new computer one this video is must have thanks for the excellent info you are the best resource for reaper ...

Best Reaper Content...Thanks Kenny.

Kenny, Your videos are really top-notch!!!!!!

omg! You just made my life so much easier!! I now have my peaks in a separate file so its easier to hunt down my takes to send to my producer!! Thank you Kenny, all the best

fabulous clear tutorials many many thanks.

As always writing a comment to support the channel

Man this was pure gold!

You've yet again saved me from losing my mind. Thanks!

I can't tell you how helpful this video was!

Kenny is the man

You are the most clear reaper mentor! thanks a lot!!!!!!

Que información tan valiosa amigo Kenny ... Mil gracias

mate, that is the exact content I was looking for.. cheers

Your tutorials are the best

Thank you. Really helpful for a newbie.

Awesome video! Thank you Kenny!

I can't believe how awesome Reaper is.

Brilliant man, just starting to get my head around Reaper after many years on a port-a-studio. Your tutorials and concise and invaluable. Oh, and I live your accent :)

Thanks Kenny.

I love your videos dude. so clear. to the point. well thought out. perfection.

Thanks! You explained that crystal clear. I was confused before.

Your tutorials are awsome , thank you...

Bro, you're a legend 🙏

Thanks Kenny!

It's been a while since you made this video, and I hope you still check your comments because I want to send you a great big THANK YOU! This is great! I am subscribed!

Thanks so much Kenny. Very helpful. As others have mentioned, some of these settings should be default!

Brilliant video and tips Kenny, I'll be using all of them!

Absolutely love your videos Kenny, and this one especially!! However, is there some way to tidy up up existing projects that have been previously saved without the “audio” folders and “peak” folders features turned on? I can’t seem to figure that out. :)

thx that was what I was looking for to get started !

This was extremely helpful thank you!

Your videos are so helpful thank you man

Hi Kenny... your videos are great!!! ... however now that I'm working with Reaper 7 this file organization vid is a little long in the tooth. Granted the principles are virtually the same but the layout of the backup section in preferences has changed since three years ago. I would love it if you could revisit file organization... going through the setup with the newish Reaper 7 preferences window. Also would be great if you could spend some time walking us through how autosave works behind the scenes. I've seen Reaper Forum posts from folks such as IDDOD indicating that if you don't specify a file path for autosave it won't put the timestamped saves where you might expect. With Reaper 7 I currently have a situation where auto save will put several backups in the autosave folder (3 mins apart) then it just stops providing new saves... even when changes are made to a project. An in depth explainer on exactly how autosave is supposed to work would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for all you do for the Reaper community!

Thanks for all your videos. They are SO good!

Great video, the only issue I had was the last step. Clicking on 'Save as default project setting' (in File > Project Settings) didn't save the sub folders. I ended up getting it to work by using File > Project Templates > Save project as template

Fantastic video man. I'm using all of these settings from now on!

Sensacional!!! Kenny, seus vídeos são excelentes! Greetings from Brazil!!!

I should've know about this two years ago lol. I have such a huge mess of projects with hundreds of retakes and tracks. Oh, man 😂

This is awesome. Thank you!

I'm new to Reaper thanks for this vid, it has been very informative

awesome hints...thanks a lot. I learn everyday new things in reaper :-)

thanx joe big time man u de best

This video is a MUST WATCH for anyone starting out using Reaper. I cant believe theses settings are default, i love Reaper and all but Reaper makes files VERY cluttered if you dont know these File Oranization settings i tell you! After many years of using reaper :D

So valuable, THANKS!!!

Had to find this out because my files were saving in iCloud by default which was auto deleting them without warning as I was adding more... at least I learned this now

I prefer having my peaks in a dedicated folder, otherwise anything you drag into a project before saving gets a peak file next to it, whether in your downloads folder, your sample/loop libraries, or a client's USB stick. It can get cluttered quickly.

Great video, as always. Thank you very much!

Thanks so much for this.

Who the heck presses thumbs-down on Kenny's videos???

Thank you!

Also Remember to set up a directory for all your Rendered Audio Files.

great video man wish I'd run into this one sooner :D

Thank You!

Very good video, many thanks

Thanks Kenny,it's very useful for me.

Useful gide. Many thanks from beginner to prof.

Super helpful, thanks!

thanks! great video and well explained

Great video, man!

Great! Works for me...Thank you!

clear and easily understandable ..thanks

Who gave this a thumbs down? Long time user and I learned a few things.

thank you so much bro!! i'm totally sending this to all of our people! #QuestionableAudio

THANK YOU

THANK YOU!

Wicked video again . Will do this!! :)

Thanks!

Thanks, man! It helped a lot!!

I have a question: according to my preferences, every time I move an audio file, reaper makes a copy in the project's folder. BUT it also (somehow) creates a folder "Peaks" in the original folder of the file (the folder is empty), and so my computer is full of empty Peaks folders. How can I solve this problem without cancelling the creation of 'Peaks' folder into my project's folder? And thank you for this video!

you saved my projects dude! thanks

You're Awesome!