[The_Cartel]

Hi!

I have just replaced my 'audio' drive with a larger one. From 280Gb to 1Tb. Woohoo!!!

I named the new drive exactly the same thing as my old drive, Same format (Extended Journaled) Copied the entire folder structure across intact - and as far as I can see - all the paths to all my audio are exactly the same as they were on my old drive... Even the cute icons on the shortcuts in my sidebar are now automatically linking to the correct places in my new drive.

BUT...

Logic now can't find anything. Well lets be more specific, When I try to load a song there seem to be two types of files it can't locate:

1/ Ultrabeat samples. Ie: the .aif and .wav samples that I have loaded into my own custom Ultrabeat instruments. When loading a song a dialog box appears asking me to find these audio files for it...

Not such a 'show stopper' you may think, but I have anywhere up to 10 Ultrabeat instruments in a song - and, of course, each one has up to 20 samples... Multiply by 50 songs - yeah - you get the point - this is nightmarish!!!

2/ Audio files referenced in the song itself - with long file names. Logic seems to be finding audio files in the song with short file names, but then comes up with dialog boxes during song load asking me to find filenames that are TRUNCATED! argh! So instead of the file 'Kik-Reggaeton warm 01' I am asked to locate 'Kik-reggaeton wa#16E59'. Now I have a lot of reggaeton kicks!! Which one does it want? And note also - that in the audio files associated with the song - none of the file names have been truncated! So which one is it looking for????? Corrupted look-up table? Wha?????

Just to clarify too:
-Logic 7.2.3 (961.9)
-PPC G5, 2.5Mb Ram
-Osx 10.4.11

And the system drive has remain unchanged! I have just swapped out my drive with all my Audio on it. So my /user path and so on remains unchangted.

This is driving me NUTS!!!! I have a beautiful big new drive to play with, am bursting the seams of my current one and have an album to finish... I've looked on every Logic forum and group I can find and there is very little reference to this kind of problem, but I'm sure some-one else must have come across this before... There are some very cool tools in Project manager for resolving this kind of problem - but they only apply to EXS instruments and songs - not Ultrabeat instruments!

PLEASE HELP!!!!

And a further question: Does the Ultrabeat Instrument in Logic8 truncate filenames? Could I make this whole problem go away by upgrading to 8??

Thanks,

Dan