Andrew,

Your suggestion is a bit easier said than done (see below) but before I follow it, may I ask,

-- have you ever heard of this sort of behaviour before? i.e. BIAB or another program glitching and deleting itself?

-- if I do follow your advice, and the check reports that the disk is fine, what would you then suggest that I do?

This is a 2 TB, 7200 rpm USB drive. Before and after this incident, it has worked / still works fine when I copy to or from it, or read / write as I access and edit files which are on this disk (i.e. leaving them in place, not copying them to my PC's internal drive and). I've done this , for example, with files used by Word, Excel, Mixcraft, Sonar, and video editors (e.g. Vegas). I am able, via Kontakt, to have 10-12 instruments reading from this disk at once. It is only when using BIAB 2020 did this or anything like it happen.

To follow your suggestion, I'd have to copy apx 1.5 Tb from this drive to another. In theory it should mean simply selecting all files on the source disk, hitting Control + C, pointing in Windows Explorer to the empty destination disk, hitting Control + V, and waiting. In practice it never goes that smoothly -- often it involves babysitting the process, which sometimes fails, or for some reason forces me to copy certain individual folder / subfolders manually. It can become a long process involving creating detailed checklists to deal with these "stragglers".

Your advice to back up the disk first suggests that the chekdisk could mess up the disk. That would mess me up big time as far as music is concerned. I happen to have a spare 2tb hard drive to copy to, but it is only 5400 rpm, which I know from experience hits performance badly when working with Kontakt and audio apps. If the source disk you want me to check does get messed up in the process, I'll still have the files on the backup, but that's too slow for my purposes.

In other words, what you suggest would seem to require an inordinate amount of work and risk just to troubleshoot your program, which as mentioned is the only one I have behaving this way.

So again, have you actually seen this happen elsewhere, and if the disk check says the disk is fine, what would you advise next?

Just trying to avoid jumping down a time-consuming rabbit hole to determine why BIAB deleted itself while everything else on the disk remains intact and useable / editable from this disk. Bearing in mind that setting up BIAB from scratch again, including the installation of all the Real Tracks, also takes some hours; I'd prefer to minimise how often I need to do that
.



Last edited by lingyai; 07/15/20 09:25 PM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDj_VanH3g