On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:09:19 -0400, chris_ahrens wrote
(in article .com):

It is a mac session that was recorded in ptools 5 on a G3. I use
version 6.1.2 on my G4. These are the only files that were saved in
the audio folder. Since this is an external drive I am thinking that
the band didn't backup the session correctly, because this whole thing
is just too weird. I haven't ever seen anything like it. The weirdest
thing is that the session didn't even have an extension so once I added
.pts to the name then it would open and was all there except for the
audio files. It did the auto search and found nothing, so I started
looking on my own and didn't find one file in any of the audio folders
that even began to resemble an audio file. As far as the size of the
folders I am not sure because I don't have the drive with me currently.
The phone call is inevitable I was just really ****ed because the
bands backup drive is USB so I spent about two hours transferring files
to my Firewire drive before I realized that it was a waste of time.
That is a good idea with the DVD backups that is what I have started to
do but apparently this guy doesn't have a DVD burner in the studio, and
he has an all SCSI G3 setup. Does anyone remember if the B&W came with
firewire? If so, I might just go back to the coast with them and take
a decent drive to get everything.

thanks very much for the advice


If they simply dragged and dropped the session folder, you're probably
screwed. To copy sessions properly to some where else, you have to save copy
as form the file menu. I know. I have the scars to prove it.

Go back to them and have them save and copy the session properly, if they
can.

Regards,

Ty Ford


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