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Old 13th July 2009   #3
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Originally Posted by solo-bration View Post
I get this (attached) error message every time I startup ptLE 7.3 on Windows Xp. I recently added a new external Hd to my system, but the drive name is not 11+ characters long. I just click no when asked to quit protools, it starts up and functions fine. What am i misunderstanding and how can I get this error to go away?

thanks!

hello there,

without insulting jmarkham in any way,the advice given is incorrect.

from PT 7.1 onward NTFS is the only file system used for XP systems.

i know this may sound condescending, but simply do what the error message tells you.
change the name(s) of your drives to shorter than 11 characters
(including spaces),
for me, i do something like 'media' or 'sessions'

that should fix the problem.
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