John, Thanks very much:

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I find it hard to believe that all your files were corrupted.


Me too. Corrupted may have been the wrong word. I personally think there may be something messed up in BIAB that my particular workflow is butting up against. I'm not getting a sense of robustness from this program.


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I think I would have just backed them up to another disk (or to a CD or DVD) rather than trash them. The fact that the files played correctly when opened from the HD version of BIAB indicates that they were in fact not corrupt, so the problem is most likely somewhere else on your computer.
The reinstall IS running better than the unistalled version.


Perhaps, do you have a hard drive going bad?


Even if I have bad sectors, windows constantly scans for them and it's hard for me to believe it's a HD problem w/ a fresh install.


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Have you scanned for viruses?


Yes and I'm running another scan right now... The quick scan I just did was clean. I have avast running in the background constantly. I'm pretty sure my computer is clean, malware wise.


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Did you install RealDrums/RealTracks to your computer's local hard disk, or are they still running on the external USB?


BIAB is on G:\bb and rd/rt is under H:\bb (I have 2 ssds and 2 hds in my computer). All 800gb of samples are copied to h:\bb


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You didn't happen to install BIAB under "Program Files", did you? Did you try running BIAB as "administrator"?


No and No but the last suggestion is a good one!


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I hope you have a backup somewhere of your own creations, so that you don't have to do the work all over again.


I should have said I wiped out all my recent tracks. I took screenshots of the chord changes before deleting. It's not that big of a deal.


If there is something messed up w/ BIAB I'd like to know what it is. I'm willing to work around anything but I've got to know what part of the program doesn't like what I'm feeding it!

Thanks again,

Ian

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