BR - saving an edit when the hard drive is full

[Mr. Tingle]

I've just opened an edit to find nothing there

Then I remembered that the drive had become full up when I tried to render the mix. So I quit T2 and it asked me if I wanted to save the changes before exit, alas I said yes!

Anyhow, Tracktion obviously tried to save but there was not enough room, but neglected to tell me, so I lost the whole song

If a warning dialogue box could popup when there is not enough room it would certainly help on these rare occasions.

N.B. T2 also dosen't inform when rendering a song if the destination drive is full, it simply cuts the wav file short.

[Mr. Tingle]

If anyone can think of a way of retrevieing the old edit I be greatful (bearing in mind that it's been overwritten), it's impossible right?

[rpc9943]

get a larger hd.

RonC

[Mr. Tingle]

get a larger hd.

RonC

helpful

[Mr. Tingle]

Beno - any chance of confirming this?

[Beno]

I'll have a look next time in front of my testing machine only...I don't have anywhere near a full hard drive. But I'll get it checked as soon as I an fill up my drive and give it a go. But I would not expect a fix quickly. I'm sorry you found this out the hard way, but never work with a drive that is close to being full. It is just asking for trouble.
Ben

[Mr. Tingle]

Sure, good advice. It just kind of crept up, you know how it is.

[rpc9943]

no i dont. and ive been booked for 2 weeks in a row straight.

RonC

[freeztar]

You should keep your harddrive at 10% free space. Not only will it save you from these type of problems, but many others that occur from windows running out of swap file space.

[Mr. Tingle]

no i dont. and ive been booked for 2 weeks in a row straight.

RonC

you must have a very big hard drive.

[rpc9943]

2 40gB ide's 1 80gb SATA

RonC

[will.record.for.food]

congrats ron...Tingle Im sorry to hear this.

There have been a few times where I lost some audio, but just due to my own stupidity. One time, I had an akward ending to a song that didnt really end.

I copied one little cymbal and placed it at the end.

I then thought I had a better sounding sample, so I deleted the little cymbal, wiping out my whole Left overhead track for the whole song.

[koolkeys]

In a case of my hard drive is bigger than your hard drive, Ron; Just ONE of my hard drives is the size of all three of yours combined. Not to mention my other drives. Maybe YOU need a larger hard drive. Or maybe not try to act snooty. Maybe I'm the only one who noticed, but you sure didn't come off the right way with me. Then again, your sense of humor is often lacking here, so who knows.

By the way, and I'm just curious Ron, not trying to dog you. But are you attempting to make a living doing this, or do you have some school to go still? I only ask because it is VERY rewarding to be able to support yourself doing something that you love, and I wish everyone could do so. I'm almost to the point where I'm doing that. I still work a part time waiting tables position. But I long for the day.

Sorry to go off topic.

Koolkeys

[Mr. Tingle]

congrats ron...Tingle Im sorry to hear this.

There have been a few times where I lost some audio, but just due to my own stupidity. One time, I had an akward ending to a song that didnt really end.

I copied one little cymbal and placed it at the end.

I then thought I had a better sounding sample, so I deleted the little cymbal, wiping out my whole Left overhead track for the whole song.

luckily I'd just uploaded a mix of the lost song onto the web for reference. I downloaded it and I'm currently in the process of rebuilding it.

here's the original if you'd like a listen:

http://www.michaeltingle.co.uk/mixes/simpleness.mp3

I'll post the re-construction as well if you'd like to hear the difference.

[Mr. Tingle]

Just in case anyone is interested I've finished re-constructing the song:

http://www.michaeltingle.co.uk/mixes/simplenessv2.mp3

What do you think, close?

[bare in mind that I still had the audio, but I did have to do all the fx and midi again (drums, piano)]