Disappearing tracks!

[musicman691]

Happened again this past Friday. I had to go into my backup copy, but this time my audio tracks were missing. Poof! Gone! Very strange...BTW, they were all in a folder and I seem to recall the other tracks were also in a folder, so I'm going to stop using folders for a while and see if it happens again. Clearly I appear to be the only one with this issue at the moment, so it may well be some weirdness in my system. I'll be doing a clean install of 10.10.5 in the coming days to fix another issue with ethernet connectivity. Maybe that will help...

Track folders in DP or folders in Finder?

[monkey man]

This is a real long shot, and you've probably checked, but is the drive you're recording to anywhere near full? That can cause some strange stuff.

Yes, I've seen a torrent client do the sort of thing you're probably thinking of, Phil.

Even partially-downloaded files can disappear after quitting and rebooting a client if, upon boot-up inspection, it determines that there's not enough space to complete downloads.

If DP, for whatever reason on Mike's system, did this it would explain the files' disappearance.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

The tracks are disappearing during the session.

[musicman691]

The tracks are disappearing during the session.

Your drive may be going south

An interesting thing to try is can Finder find the tracks in some other place than where they should be? I'm now wondering if somehow the tracks are getting saved in some odd place?

[monkey man]

The tracks are disappearing during the session.

Cripes, Magilla!

[bongo_x]

I'm seem to remember this happening many years ago, but my memory is suspect at the best of times. It might be on the board here somewhere, maybe not a version problem.

[tommymandel]

Happened again this past Friday. I had to go into my backup copy, but this time my audio tracks were missing. Poof! Gone! Very strange...BTW, they were all in a folder and I seem to recall the other tracks were also in a folder, so I'm going to stop using folders for a while and see if it happens again. Clearly I appear to be the only one with this issue at the moment, so it may well be some weirdness in my system. I'll be doing a clean install of 10.10.5 in the coming days to fix another issue with ethernet connectivity. Maybe that will help...

Just so I'm clear, when you say the files that disappeared were in a Folder, you mean a sub-folder you'd created within the Audio Files folder inside the Project folder, right? Is that your usual process?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

They're also (predominantly) MIDI tracks. Folders are irrelevant. I was referring to track folder in the TO window.

[tommymandel]

Ah, now I see. Thanks. The loss of MIDI tracks always worries me anyway, since they're sort of in the cloud until saved, unlike Audio tracks. Sometimes I've used undo at the wrong time and shot myself in the foot as far as losing them. But I understand your issue is with saved MIDI tracks, usually in Track Folders in TO, and that has not happened here.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

If they disappear and then you save your only hope is a backup. I back up a lot!

[musicman691]

If they disappear and then you save your only hope is a backup. I back up a lot!

Not to be flippant but this is why the fingers on my left hand are permanently bent so they can hit cmd-S. I don't rely on autosave even though I have it set.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I never use auto save in any app.

[Shooshie]

I never use auto save in any app.

I don't either, but I DO use auto-backup. That has saved my ass so many times I ran out of fingers and toes counting them.

Shooshie

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Of course! Auto backup always!!!

[musicman691]

I never use auto save in any app.

I don't either, but I DO use auto-backup. That has saved my ass so many times I ran out of fingers and toes counting them.

Shooshie

I never use auto-backup. All backups are done manually and on a regular schedule.