screwy MIDI editing in 9.02 (again)

[williemyers]

I think this is a 9.02 specific problem.
had a re-occurrence of a problem outlined here;
http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =1&t=61351

short version - when MIDI data is selected, then copied or dragged to a new location in a track, some of the data copies or drags - - some of it stays in the original bar.

phoned MOTU and "Brian" (nice guy) was helpful (and patient!) as I ranted through what was going on. his sugg. was replace the MOTU prefs folder and the MOTU prefs file, then restart.

It did work - - correct MIDI editing came back - - but it's a bit of a pain because there're a *lot* of prefs in that replaced folder. but if you've had your MIDI editing go all screwy, replacing will at least get you back up and running....

btw, had this problem with my DP 9.02 (the latest) install on my OSX 10.11.3 volume.

[labman]

What we do Willie, is with each new version of DP, we toss the main DP prefs and plist, and rebuild them. Then quit DP, and back them up in a specific Clean DP prefs folder. Then, when anything goes wonky, we simply replace the prefs folder and plist. It does take about 20 minutes initially, but then it is only seconds to replace and reboot DP. And we have the peace of knowing we are fully clean and good to go.

[williemyers]

excellent idea, labman! I had not thought of keeping a "spare set" of clean prefs lying around to correct a corrupted set. thanks for that - - off to do it now!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Or you can use TimeMachine to restore the old plist and cut out the middle man...

[Shooshie]

Or you can use TimeMachine to restore the old plist and cut out the middle man...

Time Machine will be storing the corrupted prefs. You won't know how far back to go to get both your latest preferences and a clean copy. The best way is keeping a clean prefs folder for instant replacement.

Shoosh