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This problem started yesterday and despite going on live chat with Deryk, neither of us could figure out this issue.
I havn't used biab for ages due to illness, so I had an idea for a tune and decided to go for it. Now for some reason, none of the real tracks would play. I checked the RT folder and I was gobsmacked when I found it to be empty. At Deryks suggestion I deleted the BB folder and re-installed from 2016 upwards. After doing that, the RT are STILL not showing up. So, I downloaded a few RT sets and there's still nowt showing up in the RT folder despite watching the files installing. There's no other biab folder, so where the hell are the rts going to ? There's 9'5gb of RT in the RT folder so some are getting in but not others HELP
Driving me nuts
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Off the top of my head:
Are you sure that you BiaB is pointing to the right folder?
Have your searched your computer for RTs?
If you haven't I would search for RTs and see if any are on your computer. If not were they on an external drive?
You also may want to check your HD for problems. Viruses can do weird things and so can failing HDs.
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HI
That’s very odd
Personally I would look for them outside of Biab, just using the Windows File manager.
Assuming a standard installation of Biab on C: I would expect to see them at:
C: bb/ RealTracks I have the ultraplus build and have:
98.2 Gb – 117,896 files – 3,292 folders.
That a lot of files to go astray .
Each realtrack seems to have 2 files one .WMA and one .bt1.
You could try searching all you drives for *.wma and see if a lump turn up some where odd (maybe accidently dragged and dropped)
All the above assumes that you had your realtracks on C: and were not calling them in from say a hard drive or other location.
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Hiya Mike I've done all that. I've two hard drives in my pc one for windows & one for music which is D.
So, I've done a search and looked through all my bb folders including RT, but they just ain't there. Deryk is as flummuxed as I am
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Mario, when I'm at the install stage, it says D:/ BB, and they havn't gone anywhere else. I DID a check on my D drive and no problems were found.
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Hi Mario, when I'm at the install stage, it says D:/ BB, and they havn't gone anywhere else. I DID a check on my D drive and no problems were found. So are you saying in spite the above install path there are none on D: bb / RealTrack? Just as a matter of interest have they found there way to C: ? (say c: bb / Realtracks) Or any other plugged in drive? You say you say them go somewhere could you not try a few more and watch where they go. Something very odd here. Mike PS Another point is drive D an internal hard drive, or usb hard drive as usb drives can change their letter if other usb devices are plugged in the letter can depend on the order the devices are plugged in.
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Mike D is an internal drive which I had put into the pc when it was built for me. I've checked my C drive and they're not there. I'll download another set and see If I can spot where they're going
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…..and you do not plug any external drives into this PC?
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nope no ext drives when using biab only for uploading radio programmes to Canada
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Hi Graham,
When you searched your drives, did you do it manually yourself or did you use the Windows search function?
If you didn't use Windows' search function, click on the drive in File Explorer so that you are at the root directory level and then type BASS, ACOUSTIC into seach and see what happens. You need to type it exactly as I have with a comma after Bass and a space between the comma and Acoustic
Since BASS, ACOUSTIC is the beginning of a number of Realtracks, if the Realtracks are somewhere, search will find them.
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Furry,
Probably not it, but just to be sure (since I've seen it before)...when you downloaded the installers, you did actually "run" each of the downloaded installer files and tell them where to install the content, correct? Are you saying the installer successfully installed, but then there is nothing there?
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Furry,
Probably not it, but just to be sure (since I've seen it before)...when you downloaded the installers, you did actually "run" each of the downloaded installer files and tell them where to install the content, correct? Are you saying the installer successfully installed, but then there is nothing there?
Yews John that's correct
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Hi Graham,
When you searched your drives, did you do it manually yourself or did you use the Windows search function?
If you didn't use Windows' search function, click on the drive in File Explorer so that you are at the root directory level and then type BASS, ACOUSTIC into seach and see what happens. You need to type it exactly as I have with a comma after Bass and a space between the comma and Acoustic
Since BASS,ACOUSTIC is the beginning of a number of Realtracks, if the Realtracks are somewhere, search will find them.
Regards,
Noel
Thanks Noel, will do that in the morning, off to sleep here
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Either turn off your virus protection or look at the virus protection's file locker. Some virus protection programs delete files while others place them in a protected file locker.
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Either turn off your virus protection or look at the virus protection's file locker. Some virus protection programs delete files while others place them in a protected file locker. Thanks Jim I was wondering if it was that
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ok guys, turned off anti virus, re-installed biab ( 2018 ), did a fresh install, watched the RTs installing into D:/BB and yet looking at the RT folder there's nothing there. Did a windows search on C DRIVE AND D drive but that turned up blank.
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Oh I've also changed the download location to D:/ real tracks
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ok guys, turned off anti virus, re-installed biab ( 2018 ), did a fresh install, watched the RTs installing into D:/BB and yet looking at the RT folder there's nothing there. Did a windows search on C DRIVE AND D drive but that turned up blank.
This is probably far out there but by chance is your D:/BB folder in read only mode? Right click on that file and check all of the folder's properties.
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Hi Dan, I DO know where the RT folder is.
Everyone else, I'm doing a manual download of all the RTs, and that seems to be working fine
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All sorted. I paused the anti virus and did an umpteenth install, still no real tracks, so downloaded all the packs manually and that's done the trick. Would dearly love to know why it all went belly side up to start with !
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