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thenewyear · 10th May 2004

i've done gigs in PT without a back up once or twice using TDM & LE hardware.

What I usually do as a trouble minimising procedure is the following. This is mostly from the DUC of course & not all of it may be strictly relevant/necessary but i have done many many gigs & always do this beforehand & have never had any problem whatsoever.

1. Trash all volume.ddb, cache files, Digidesign Databases directory & the three preferences files.

2. Use disk utility (or the command line if you are Unix savy) to repair permissions on the system disk & to repair all mounted discs.

3. Freshly initialise a drive or partition for recording to.

4. Restart the machine & zap the P-RAM.

5. Launch PT set CPU usage to highest & record.

10th May 2004	#4
thenewyear Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2003 Location: Scotland Posts: 676 1 Review written	i've done gigs in PT without a back up once or twice using TDM & LE hardware. What I usually do as a trouble minimising procedure is the following. This is mostly from the DUC of course & not all of it may be strictly relevant/necessary but i have done many many gigs & always do this beforehand & have never had any problem whatsoever. 1. Trash all volume.ddb, cache files, Digidesign Databases directory & the three preferences files. 2. Use disk utility (or the command line if you are Unix savy) to repair permissions on the system disk & to repair all mounted discs. 3. Freshly initialise a drive or partition for recording to. 4. Restart the machine & zap the P-RAM. 5. Launch PT set CPU usage to highest & record. __________________ neil.