MOTUerror: Vector (trouble opening file)

[jborum]

I'm trying to open a DP session from a client. Double clicking on the file seemingly does nothing. File > Open or File > Load gives me this error. I try very hard not to bother this client with requests for MIDI exports or any other technical nonsense. What's happening here? Can I fix it? Could it be a version issue?



OSX 10.10
DP 8
Uncertain of client's version, but it has always worked in the past.

[synthtek]

Hi, sorry to bring up an old thread. Was there an answer to this? I'm getting this now on a track

J

[mikehalloran]

I've heard of this.

Do any track names in the sequence contain a percent symbol (%), other non-alphanumeric character, or punctuation? If so, remove those characters and try again.

If they were imported from other people, have them zip the files before uploading to you. Unzipping the files on your station should preserve everything including file names.

[jborum]

In my case it had to do with iCloud file permissions issues, even though I don't use iCloud for anything but my address book and calendar. Logging the whole user out or using a different user that didn't have iCloud set up helped. As best as I was able to determine with MOTU tech support, the issue was unique to DP8 on OSX 10.10. Upgrades of either one fixed my problem.