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I have a recurring problem with recorded clips and samples becoming corrupted. The clips play fine while the project is open but when i save, close and then repoen the project some of the samples will be greyed out and an error saying the file is invalid will appear.




I cant see any reason why particular files disappear. I might record ten different sections when working on a project before closing and sometimes none are affected, sometimes two or three.

When I look in finder the corrupted files are there but do not play in itunes or vlc. I have a retina mac 15" that is three weeks old so dont think this is a hard disk issue (have verified the disk with disk utility and seems to be ok).

I use ableton in arrangement view and record material into abelton via a komplete audio 6 soundcard. I am using live 9.1 with OSX 10.10.3

Update: If I save the file but do not close the project and check the samples in finder I see that some of them do not play. However they still work in Ableton

abe989 wrote:I have a recurring problem with recorded clips and samples becoming corrupted. The clips play fine while the project is open but when i save, close and then repoen the project some of the samples will be greyed out and an error saying the file is invalid will appear.

Drive errors checked? Use "Manage files" to investigate files.

Thanks - yes 'manage files' helped - I am using a Hubic, a similar service to Dropbox, as cloud backup and it had created a duplicate 'conflict' version of some of the files and somehow made the original aif unreadable.


I am going to pause syncing for Hubic while working in Ableton and see if this solves the problem. I guess this is also why it did it at random - only when I was recording Hubic happened to be syncing.

abe989 wrote:Thanks - yes 'manage files' helped - I am using a Hubic, a similar service to Dropbox, as cloud backup

OK, great. I find that splice works really well for both backups and sharing. Unlimited storage AFAIK.