Missing Sound Files

wylie1 · Post by **wylie1** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:00 pm

Every once in a while I would get the Missing Sound File window.
Now I seam to be getting it on every Project.
If I select all and ok the songs opens and plays all right but when I save close and open again I get the same message.
Any ideas why this would keep on happening its starting to worry me.

Radiogal · Post by **Radiogal** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:41 am

Try a repair permissions of the OSX drive and see if that helps.
Maybe your hard drive is about to die (almost full??)
It´s probably an issue with the search function to your disc.
Hope the Repair Disc Permissions will fix that for you. Otherwise, maybe it´s time to buy a new AUDIO HD...

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:09 pm

I will guess that these projects started life on another computer and that you are now noticing it in DP 7.24. With me, 7.01 opened my projects fine, 7.12 was a bit weird and 7.24 would generate this error.

First repair permissions. Fixes it many times.

If you still have the problem, do a Get Info on your project folder. Grant Read and Write privileges to all users then check Apply to enclosed items from the drop down menu and click OK.

wylie1 · Post by **wylie1** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:59 pm

Right now I'm just trying to backup my audio drive I thought I would copy the whole drive but some files won't copy "error -39"
I want get my priority files copied before I do any thing else.
error -39 is a RW permission error I think.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 12:36 pm

wylie1 wrote:Right now I'm just trying to backup my audio drive I thought I would copy the whole drive but some files won't copy "error -39"
I want get my priority files copied before I do any thing else.
error -39 is a RW permission error I think.

How you copy makes a difference. Drag and Drop gives you permission errors that won't let 7.24 find your files.

If pushing the files, Clone using CCC or TechTool 6. If pulling, use Migration Assistant or Time Machine. With DP 7.24, you will still need to repair permissions and run the Get Info / Apply to Enclosed Items fix. 7.24 is particularly tight on permissions.

Old projects that opened fine in 5.13/6.03/7.01/7.12 gave me this error in 7.24. Even if Get Info shows that everything is ok, run Apply to enclosed items anyway.

Get Info / Apply to Enclosed Items needs to be run on your Project folders. I never had to run it on DP itself but some have. You may also have to run it on the Application Support files in the User/Library folder.

wylie1 · Post by **wylie1** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:55 pm

Just had the scare of my life I tried running disk repair, it said the disk is unrepairable and the bloody disk unmounted my heart hit the floor

It came back after a reboot.
I was able to get all the latest stuff but there's still over 100gig of files I need to get off it and when I get code -39 unable to read 10"_Tom.wav files like that could be anywhere.
I'm going to purchase CCC I'm hoping it can get past these errors.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:01 pm

Isn't CCC donationware?

wylie1 · Post by **wylie1** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:09 pm

Is this it ? http://www.bombich.com/ccc_features.html
It says $40

martian · Post by **martian** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:42 am

ccc is great... use it every day,,

and yes it has saved my bacon!

disk utility is wimpy..

you need diskwarrior!

wylie1 · Post by **wylie1** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:19 am

I really liked diskwarrior but stop using it because I had an old version.
I just finished copying everything over its taken 3 days I've lost some stuff but no show stoppers.
Had no idea that my Audio drive was 8 yrs old normally switch them out about every 4-5yrs.
Where'd the time go

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:47 am

I've been using SuperDuper to clone drives for a while and I've always liked it.
I just read some interesting info about the new paid version of CCC in the SmallDog newsletter :

"In the past I have almost always gone with SuperDuper! because of its easy interface and its Smart Update option, where the clone operation does not re-clone everything, but just updates the clone disk to match the current state of the original drive. Carbon Copy Cloner has always been another popular choice, and the new paid version has a great feature where it can also create a Recovery Partition on the clone drive, something that SuperDuper does not do. The Recovery Partition is a new feature in Lion and Mountain Lion where you can boot with the option key held down and boot from a special partition to run disk repair, OS reinstall, password reset and other options."

So from what I see from this if you are using Lion or MLion the paid version of CCC might be a good app for $49,which btw is still less $$ than upgrading SD would be if you were upgrading to Lion or MLion.
I hope this clarifies things a bit.

frankf · Post by **frankf** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:04 am

I use SuperDuper. I just replaced my MacBook Pro startup disk and was wondering about recreating the Recovery Partition. I emailed Shirt Pocket, the developer, and the response I got back was this: First reinstall the OS, which creates the Recovery Partition, then Restore using SD from the clone. Worked perfectly.
Frank

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:31 pm

martian wrote:ccc is great... use it every day,,

and yes it has saved my bacon!

disk utility is wimpy..

you need diskwarrior!

Has DiskWarrior ever fixed anything for you? I mean something didn't work, you ran DW and then it worked. It never has for me - not once. I run it about every 6 months and see what it says it has fixed but can't say I ever saw a difference in performance.

Unlike Disk Utility. I have used this many times to fix drives that couldn't/wouldn't mount due to some corruption or the other. The last time was 3 weeks ago on a TM drive that became corrupted due to something stupid I did (hot swap eSATA just doesn't work). DW just kept saying it was unrepairable. Anyway, it took four passes with DU but eventually got it back up and running - then DW said it was fine.

Cloning is now part of TechTool 6. I prefer commercially supported software.

martian · Post by **martian** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:19 pm

thats odd.. becos my experience has been exactly the reverse!

disk warrior has rescued drives for me that were "unfixable" by disk utility..

its rescued disk that gave me the eject or erase prompt..

it has however just stopped working for me.. rebuilds the partition - gives a list of the files / fork/ resources and permissions it fixed..- but then says MacOS failure cant save rebuilt directory.. ( I need to look into that pronto ! ) I may need to upgrade it..

but seriously I have used it in "brown trouser mode" quite a few times

labman · Post by **labman** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:14 am

Diskwarrior has saved & rescued many many drives here. Just two days ago an apple security update rendered one mac pro unbootable. Then Diskwarrior to rescue, and all was squeaky clean again.

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