MY PROJECTS ARE GONE! MY PROJECTS ARE GONE

[pornflik]

Ok .Yes I am a newb not worthy of such a forum.I just got a 1640 mackie onyx W firewire /T2.2 .I have 2 active projects.About 10 tracks each maybe 5 minutes.anyway there gone.I can unpack them single track at a time(import)but they are not showing up under lib or act projects.how ?what?why? Thanks dude, now i shut up.

[jplanet]

Just go to the folder that the project file is in (it will end in .tracktion) and double-click to open in tracktion...

[AD80]

Yeah the active projects list is a little (lot) confusing sometimes. Just because its not showing up on the list doesnt mean its "gone". Like Jplanet sayd, you just need to find it on your computer and open the project again.

[pornflik]

Thanks guys.The prob is I tried to do that but it will only let me unpack clips 1 at a time.When I try to unpack the whole edit the clips dont show up individually at all.Just 1 big ugly blank edit screen.Although my color scheme is cool.So I guess its not an ugly blank screen.

[AD80]

Strange. So what do you have to "unpack" exactly. Is it an archive of the edit? If so try creating a brand new folder, then unpacking everything into that folder. But if its a project file, you just have to double click on it to open it. Or choose "open project" from within tracktion.

[Watto]

Can I assume you're making music for movies...?

[Lunch Money]

I'm confused about what the heck you're trying to do.

[pornflik]

no music for movies.And I'm confused also.For the last 2 days when I open up T2 my active projects have been there.Today the re gone.I can locate them on my hard drive but when I try to open the projects I can only get individual tracks(clips) to come up and not the whole project edit.I am having to import them 1 at a time and re-adjust them on my timeline.Anyone Understand?Holy Shnikies thats more typing then i have done in years.

[AD80]

I still dont understand what you mean by "I can only get individual tracks to come up". When you open your project you have no EDITS in your list? Just audio files?

[pornflik]

i have edit but when i open it no audio files open with it.

[Lunch Money]

Is it possible that you changed the drive letter or directory structure? Tracktion doesn't like it when it expects to find "D:\Tracktion Projects" and instead finds "E:\Tracktion Projects" or "D:\Audio Projects".

Drive letters sometimes automatically re-assign if you use removeable media (including MP3 players) and suchlike.

Greg

[djsubject]

& you might want to get the latest update from mackie (its free)

but i'm shure the vershion you have dosent let you double click a project file


& yes make shure nothing has chainged with where the data was saved like lunch money said

Subz

[chico.co.uk]

I'm almost convinced you're opening the individual MIDI or AUDIO clips, rather than the edit files themselves. Do this;

1) Open up Tracktion.

2) Click on the "Open Project" button

3) Browse to the folder where you keep your tune

4) Click on the file that ends in .tracktion, eg, MySong.tracktion. This should open the project with the edit and individual clips in the right hand window

5) Double click on the file that's listed as type "edit"


If that doesn't work, let us know at what point it went wrong. Cheers.

[zOap]

Actually, I have experienced this too. The edit is there, the files are there, but when I open the edit, it is empty. No renaming of folders, no reassigning of drive letters.

= BUG REPORT!

If this is what happened to this poor chap I don't know. I'm having a bit of a problem understanding what he tries to say...

[audiobot202]

I've experienced a whole project disappearing from the project view, associated tracks and all ! I saved it the previous session as normal, came back later after re opening T2 and it had disappeared off the radar. I had to search for it in the appropriate folder and I found it, even though T2 could not see it. I dragged and dropped it into Tracktion and voila it was back and I re saved.