Today I learned that if you open a powershell/Terminal and paste this


$sample = "YOUR SAMPLE.EXTENSION"
$ruta = "FULL DIRECTION OF PROJECTS FOLDER "

Get-ChildItem -Path $ruta -Filter *.als -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
$als = $_.FullName
try {
$fs = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead($als)
$gz = New-Object System.IO.Compression.GzipStream($fs, [System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Decompress)
$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($gz)
$xml = $sr.ReadToEnd()
$sr.Close(); $gz.Close(); $fs.Close()
if ($xml -match [regex]::Escape($sample)) { Write-Host $als }
} catch { }
}


It will find you all the .als projects that uses that sample.
Very useful if you are like a chaotic person like me and you have just a fucking folder for hundreds of projects all sharing the same samples/recorded/processed/cropped XD.


Cheers!