Gordon:

First and foremost thank you for your continued help!!

Second, please except my heartfelt sympathy to you and you countrymen on the loss of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

Third, I am a he (at least I was a few moments ago at the loo). wink

Here is where I am:

Before I purchased my BiaB 2020 ProPak, I contacted PG Music regarding the version I needed to purchase because I DID NOT want to install or run the program from my Windows PC. I asked a specifically IF I could run BiaB from the back-up USB flash drive and the answer was YES. I was told that ALL versions could be run from an external drive. I also watched the video that showed the options for installation.

It wasn’t specifically mentioned was that ONLY versions installed on external USB HARD DRIVES could be run externally, NOT the BiaB ProPak version with an extra USB flash drive that I purchased and paid extra for in the hopes it would suffice (and save me some money).

I'll leave it to the forum members to decide if I am stupid or this was somewhat misleading or incorrect information from sales...

What also was wasn’t explained is that I COULD have installed and run BiaB on an existing hard dive I already have connected to my PC. For that reason, I plugged in the USB flash drive I purchased, didn’t see any “Option 1 (Run from external drive)” so I installed it on my PC.

Fast forward to the last few days; for reasons unknown to me and PG Music Tech support, presently BiaB and RealBand crash constantly. BiaB will crash if I try to rename a Utility Track. RealBand will crash if I try to import or drag & drop any audio file. In addition, BiaB is displaying other erratic behavior.

So I have decided to try completely uninstalling BiaB from my PC (for a 2nd time) but this time reinstalling and running it from an external hard drive which I was told would be the same thing as if I had originally purchased a MegaPak with an external drive.

IF this resolves my crashing issues, I will try some of the other steps you outlined to see if they get me the results I am after.

I will report on any progress or lack thereof after the uninstall/reinstall.

In the meantime, thanks again!!