Clueless user fails importing tracks

[MikeDVI]

Hi all, I darn well know this has been covered about a million times, but I still managed to lose my song somehow, so started over. Would someone show me where am failing here?

Steps:

Import various .wav tracks from another recorder to a folder on my desktop, lets call the folder "Song 1".
All tracks in this folder are named by what they are, ie vocal, guitar, etc.
Open a new song in MX, drag in all tracks. Mix etc., save takes.
Delete desktop folder.
Song is gone.

So somewhere in here I am missing a save step, the problem is when I tell MX to "copy project files to" they still got lost, by me. User fail, undoubtedly, and I admit it.

Now for reference, I normally keep all my MX songs in a folder called "Mixcraft Files-safe" on my desktop, as I have a RAID type backup on that folder. Should I be starting from there instead with the whole imported tracks and folder they are in?

Sorry for beating the dead horse here.

MX 8.1 Pro Studio b418

Thanks - Mike

[Mark Bliss]

Delete desktop folder.
Song is gone.

Yeah, there could be some trouble with that.

That folder is your project. Why do you delete it?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the question.

[MikeDVI]

Why do you delete it?

Well, I "thought" it had saved everything to my mixcraft "files safe" folder. After lurking these boards I get what you are saying. If I understand this correctly, the tracks are not saved with the mix...

So, I am thinking I should have started the new song by putting the "song1" folder with all those imported tracks into my mixcraft main folder where I keep all the other songs.

Just making sure I get this so it does not happen again.

Thanks Mark

Mike

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Click on the File menu and select "Copy Project Files to..." to gather up all the files you need for a project and put them into a new folder.

Greg

[aj113]

Would someone show me where am failing here?

Sure.

It's here:

Delete desktop folder.

Don't do that, the audio files for the project are in that folder.