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Permalink Reply by Pete Warren on February 6, 2010 at 9:54am

All I can tell you is that I get a hang up opening v8 with HD from time to time. And from time to time, I mean once a month or so. I overcome it by restarting. That fixes it every time. I mean restarting the computer. That's on a Mac, so it only takes 30 seconds or so to do. Simple, but people forget this works sometimes. Are you on a mac or a pc?

The other solution would be to use someone's system that isn't having the issue, if you need to get that mix done quickly.

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Permalink Reply by Brett Wall on February 6, 2010 at 5:09pm

Thanks Pete. Do you think it could be a memory problem? I do not have a lot of room on allocated the C drive. It is getting low. Maybe I should rearrange some things and see if that helps. If not I was thinking about a clean reinstall. See any problems there?

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Permalink Reply by Pete Warren on February 6, 2010 at 7:56pm

Well, memory usually refers to RAM, not hard disk space.

You shouldn't need a lot of open space on your C or System Drive. Using that terminology, I assume you're using a PC, not a Mac (note I asked above). I don't know PC systems. I have a few friends who have attempted to make ProTools 8 run on a variety of PC configurations and operating systems, all Windows. They've all had lots of problems.

Sorry I can't help if it's a PC.

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Permalink Reply by Brett Wall on February 6, 2010 at 7:59pm

Oops yes. The one I have at home is a PC... Never had any problems with it until now. About ready to go back to Nuendo. Not sure why I left other than to pick up some extra work.

Right about the RAM also. But I noticed I had less than a gig left on System Drive. Anyway, it didn't work either.

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Permalink Reply by Pete Warren on February 6, 2010 at 9:25pm

I suppose that could be part of the issue. I've never run mine down so far. But the problem you had happens from time to time with v8. So you're not crazy there. BUT, it shouldn't be happening every time if your system is configured right.

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Permalink Reply by Brett Wall on February 7, 2010 at 1:56pm

Pro Tools is back! I had to download a tech utility and it fixed it. I have now saved that utility on my desktop. I had to reload some of my plug-ins like my Waves Mercury. It was gone when I opened it up. Not a big deal just takes a minute to reload those! Thanks for trying to figure it out Pete!

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Permalink Reply by Pete Warren on February 7, 2010 at 4:22pm

Yeah... Afraid I wasn't any help! But you should post a link to the fix so if others search the issue and find this posting, they'll have the benefit of your fix!

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Permalink Reply by Brett Wall on February 7, 2010 at 4:30pm

Okay, I will. I guess it's pretty common. It's just the PT 8 Tech Utility. Dumps Preferences, and Digidesign Databases. As well as plug-ins.

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=54&itemid=25974&d...

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