 disk fragmentation and Protools, I can't record because of hard drive? |
 Sat 1 Dec 2001, 14:07
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My mac powerbook G3 suddenly won't let me record in protools. When I put it in record mode and press play it says ' can't perform that function. Disk may be fragmented.'
I have about 900 MB of hard drive space left; I know I need more, but I had been using protools for a while with less. I opened a new session to try again, and it let me record if I used the crappy built in mic (just snapping my fingers near mic hole.) But it didn't work if I used the sound input port like usual. It gave the same message. When I closed the session-- not having saved any audio at all-- the file took up over 800 MB, with nothing recorded. I threw it away and got my hard drive space back, but I really need to use protools this weekend. Any suggestions? (especially if there was some cheap and fast solution) Thank you, jess |
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Tue 4 Dec 2001, 19:14
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I'm not at home to see exactly where it is, but in the preferences there's a disk or time allocation setting and yours set to 'unlimited' or 'open ended' or something like that. If you'll specify a time (like 6 minutes) your problem will go away. Pro Tools will see plenty of 6 minute blank chunks on your hard drive and let you cut your parts.
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jessp disk fragmentation and Protools Sat 1 Dec 2001, 14:07
jessp A correction: The message when I try to record re... Sat 1 Dec 2001, 14:14 cornflakeofdeath You need to defragment your harddrive. Go get Nort... Mon 10 Dec 2001, 04:36 singletrack Look for this. In ProTools, under the Set-up menu... Tue 11 Dec 2001, 21:36
Torrent Don't forget to set the recording length before yo... Wed 12 Dec 2001, 00:08 |
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