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Success!!! I was able to get the old PowerBook G4 on the network with access to the old projects through the netatalk server. Got DP 6 installed and the projects opened up just fine! Everything worked perfectly. The G4 only has 512 megabytes of RAM in it, so I went ahead and ordered a full gigabyte ...

Yes then I understand but that does not have anything to do with AppleTalk AppleTalk is just network protcol - for transporting data. Once your old projects were zipped into an archive with the data and resource fork in it. I should not matter which network protocol is used to transport that archiv...

Shooshie wrote:I think a simpler approach would be to get Dr. Who's Tardis, take a laptop with DP 8 back in time to the recording sessions, record them in DP8, and come back to the future. Maybe not as likely to happen, but definitely simpler!!!

I'd be down for that.

If these old project files/projects are g-zipped or tared. Theres is no reason per se they should reside on a share on an AppleTalk network. Using the AFP sharing has nothing to do with getting access to the files--I've got solid access to the archives. The reason for using AFP/netatalk has to do w...

What Michael said. It should be DP6 or later, so that you can both open the file and convert the audio to .WAV files. DP8 will probably work, and then you can save it to Windows format. Note: if the files have been stored on a non-Mac formatted drive (DOS, or MS Fat, for example) you may have lost ...

The part in bold, unless you walk us through the process we have no idea how far you've gotten. For instance when attempting to open a old OS9 DP project did it halt on the SDII files only? or is DP8 Windows incapable of reading the actual DP project file because of the resource fork issue? It soun...

Frankly, I don't remember when DP began to allow other formats besides SDII. I believe it was probably more recent than OS9. You'd do best to get a Mac for OS X, probably a fairly recent one. I open projects from 1990, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004, etc. all the time. I have to convert the SDII audio file...

Let's try this another way... Assuming I got ahold of an old Mac OS 9 system, and I put the files back on a netatalk server, and could access them from the OS 9 system--is it possible to open these files on a modern version of DP on a Windows system? What are the best practices for copying and movin...

Try this, though: Go to the Soundbites Window, select the audio files, and see if you can convert them using the mini-menu in that window. I have to do that even in the Mac version. It doesn't automatically convert them, but then again, that's how I've set up my preferences. I don't like things hap...

OK you know what's wrong and have it all figured then. I know what I've got. I know what I've tried. What I need is some advice on how to solve the problem, or pointers to folks who I could pay to retrieve the data for me. But opening the files in current DP on Windows did not work, and I do not ha...

I don't think there's anything naive about doing this. I'm somewhat surprised it doesn't work? I've pulled songs from OS9 and DP 2.7 into DP8 and OSX, so it is possible you're doing something wrong here. How exactly did you try to open the projects? IMO the best you can hope for is the audio and MI...

So, I have an interesting problem... I have a collection of projects that I recorded back in 2000-2001 on a G3 (OS 9), running whatever version of DP was current back then. The projects were stored on a Linux server running netatalk. I have .tar.gz archives of those netatalk shares (made by tar'ing/...

Thanks for the response.

Really disappointing that this isn't a no-brainer on this hardware. It seems like obvious functionality that should just work?

I guess the Audio Express is going back.

Would moving to an Ultralite make this situation different?

Let me try asking this another way... When I'm using Ableton Live, I use the MOTU ASIO driver and set the outputs to the Main 1&2 on the Audio Express. Now, the master fader in Ableton is linked to the levels being sent to my monitors. Obviously, I'd like to keep the master fader at unity and co...