RealBand has suddenly decided to not load my files I get the following error messages. "Error writing to wave file" "Error creating the output file" and "Disc full" I am using RealBand 2016 on my 64bit Win 10 computer. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Merry Christmas everyone.http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/smile.gif
Next step: Save that file somehwere else as a means of interim storage.
Try to copy that file from that interim storage to your RealBand drive. Do you get the same error?
If not, then the error is probably caused by RealBand. If yes, then the error is possibly a matter of how the drive has been formatted. If yes, what is the disk format: FAT or NTFS?
Does your computer have more than one hard drive? If so, are you running RealBand on the secondary drive? RealBand ALWAYS saves backups to the primary (C) drive. If you do a lot of saves then you may have filled the primary drive with backups.
" RealBand ALWAYS saves backups to the primary (C) drive. "
I don't think this is true. It think it saves backups to the drive it is saving to. I wish this was an assignable location. I have RB backups on the NAS at work from running RB there off the external drive and saving the files to it. (bottom image) I'm expecting phone calls because of it. There are strict rules on this drive as it is replicated instantly to multiple locations, and I forgot RB was going to do that! It was work related though, I was asked to record the narrations for a school offering online classes for the film industry. I love my job.
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Dave, 34 GB may seem like a lot (especially to me, who started in the 70s with hard drives that were large at 10,000 bytes), but it's not. Hard drives running Windows need room to swap data, and it should be at least 15% of the drive that is free. If you have a 256GB boot drive, maybe, but if your 34 GB is on a 1TB drive, no way. So, what is the total capacity of your drive, and what can you remove?
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My original statement is likely incorrect. A better statement is RealBand automatically selects the backup storage location; users can not choose where backups are stored.
In my case I run RealBand on a two volume system with "C" as the primary hard drive and "E" as the secondary hard drive. RealBand and all its accessory files are loaded on the secondary hard drive but RealBand stores backups on the primary. There is no way for a user to change this setting.
When I asked about why RealBand is storing backups on "C" while the program, accessory files and all user settings point to "E". The answer I received from support is the backup location is set based on the primary hard drive setting of the operating sytem.
My guess was PG Music made the decision on multiple volume drive systems to locate active and backup folders on different volumes to increase safety. But that is just a guess.
I can reproduce this easily; Open a SEQ file, save it using Save As and put it on a unique drive (I used my Temp Audio Directory drive which I NEVER save SEQ files to and had no RBBackup folder before doing) Then I made a slight change and hit Save .. this drive now had a RBBackup folder and a backup file in it. Again, it did not have any backups or RBBackup folder before doing this.
I'm pretty sure it backs up to the drive it saved to, and to me this seems like it could be much improved. 1. Having a backup on another drive is safer 2. Keeping track of where the backups are can be problematic .. I probably have backups on drives I wouldn't think to search if needed. C. Having them all in one place on a given machine would save time.
The default behavior is fine for most users, so I understand the default location decision. I just wish I could override it. In Other Words I wish this location was assignable for each installation.
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Morning everyone, thank you for your replys. When I turned my computer on this morning it automatically did a disc check and a repair before starting. Once started I have been able to load files into RealBand. However, it is still a bit disconcerting because I still don't know the cause. Later today I will carry out a few checks based on your comments and see were I go from there. Many thanks. Dave
When I turned my computer on this morning it automatically did a disc check and a repair before starting. Once started I have been able to load files into RealBand.
That's the symptom of a HD that have developed/is developing Bad Sectors/data corruption. Time to change the HD.
Get a 512GB SSD and you won't believe how faster everything works.
I've solved part of the problem. My files are saved onto my F drive and the programs on C, however, I didn't realize that an automatic backup was also saved on C. As regards the other part of the problem I'm not sure what I did wrong to cause the wave file to take up so much space. All seems fine for now but I'll keep an eye on it to see if it happens again. Many thanks Dave
You probably didn't do anything wrong. When drives start exhibiting weirdness like this, I agree with LtKojak; time to replace it. If it goes it can take hours and hours of work with it.
Where I work has a web division (my department) and an IT division. I see this regularly; people bring in a computer where the drive died. It is very expensive to try to recover this data. It may be salvageable, maybe not, but you have to pay either way. A new drive is MUCH cheaper and will likely improve performance, have more room, etc.
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I'm taking yours and LtKojaks advise and have ordered a Toshiba 512Gb SATA SSD. I already have EaseUS Todo Backup to transfer the drive. Many thanks for your advise. Dave
Dave There's a very good utility by the name of WinDirStat. It will analyze your disk, and show you exactly how much space is taken by each file, in a graphical format. Selecting each region on the graphic shows you which file(s) and the sizes being consumed.
You might more scientifically study just what is actually on that disk.
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