DP9 install, now generic doc icons

[SMS]

Since installing DP9 all my DP docs only show a generic icon. How to fix?

Thanks

Bill

[musicman691]

Since installing DP9 all my DP docs only show a generic icon. How to fix?

Thanks

Bill

Don't think that can be done unless you change each instance yourself. Haven't really noticed that but then again I don't much care what the icon looks like - I look at the name first.

[cuttime]

Oddly enough my DP9 docs still have the DP8 logo. No biggie, but I don't know what the fix is, either.

[billf]

Same here. Looks like a bug.

[bkshepard]

Have you tried repairing disk permissions in the Disk Utility app? That often fixes icon weirdness.

[bayswater]

All my DP 8 and 9 docs have generic icons. This must be because of different settings for defaults apps, etc.

[musicman691]

All my DP 8 and 9 docs have generic icons. This must be because of different settings for defaults apps, etc.

Could well be. When I went to open a DP session (DP wasn't running) out of curiosity I did a right click on the session icon (this was a session done in DP8.07) and selected 'open with' it showed DP9 as the default program to open it with. So I double clicked the icon and yep - it opened DP9.

So even though you can have DP8 and DP9 installed in the same partition DP9 becomes the default.

[musicman691]

Had a weird one happen yesterday. On the drive where I have all my sessions I have two folders. One for DP and one for ProTools. All the DP sessions had a DP8 icon for the program file. I started DP9. Went to a folder where I have some downloaded MIDI files; right clicked on one file and selected to open it in DP9. Did that so DP doesn't strip out the tempo data (does DP9 still strip that out or was that just earlier DP versions?). File opens up just fine. I do some work with it, periodically hitting cmd-s to save the file. When I'm done working I do a final save and quit DP.

Lo and behold I go to check that the session is saved where I think it should be and not in just the session I just worked on but the other 6 DP sessions I have all had their session icons changed to a generic blank white icon.

This is using DP9 downloaded from MOTU and not the one on the dvd. That one has other issues like the Channel Strip not changing when I go to an Instrument track from say an aux or audio track.

[bayswater]

When I bring in MIDI files, DP always asks if I want to "merge" its conductor track. It's never ignored.

As for icons: once DP 9 was installed, all projects had the new icon. Maybe you need to check whether DP 9 is the default application for DP projects.

[musicman691]

When I bring in MIDI files, DP always asks if I want to "merge" its conductor track. It's never ignored.

As for icons: once DP 9 was installed, all projects had the new icon. Maybe you need to check whether DP 9 is the default application for DP projects.

DP9 is the default for all projects because I set it that way. It was only yesterday that I lost the DP icon and things became the generic icon.

As to the tempo data why is there a post by b.g. in the DP Tips Sheet thread at this page: http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... &start=135 about half-way down the page stating that dragging a standard MIDI file into DP's chunks window strips tempo data?

[musicman691]

Update:
I have two boot partitions on my iMac; had to use one of the programs I have on the OSX 10.8.5 partition which only has DP8 on it. Those same DP projects I wrote about earlier had the DP8 icon on the project file. When done with the work I had to do I rebooted the computer into it's default of OSX 10.9.5 which has both DP8.07 and DP9 and the icons were generic; the DP8 icon was gone. All projects are on an external drive so they can be seen in whatever partition I boot into.

[bayswater]

As to the tempo data why is there a post by b.g. in the DP Tips Sheet thread at this page: http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... &start=135 about half-way down the page stating that dragging a standard MIDI file into DP's chunks window strips tempo data?

Dunno. I drag them into the TO. I get the message: "This drag contains a conductor track. Would you like to merge the dragged data into the sequence's conductor track?" with options to Ignore | Cancel | Merge