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I'll go fix that.

Koz

Was that it? You put a date in your name and the machine got confused? If it is, then you know how to fix it next time. If not, then there's something else wrong. When you're producing original content, it's a good idea to Export recordings as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit . That's your protection backup i...

In case that looks a little too obscene, that's the production list for this picture.



That's not trick photography. People have hamburgers here from all over the world for this experience.

Koz

It an error saying perhaps it's not writable or my disk might be full, That's also the error you can get if you used unsupported punctuation marks in your filename. Today is not 1/27/20. It's 2020-01-27. No slash marks. Upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, -dash- and _underscore_. That'...

"Cannot detect recording device" pop-up. What is the recording device? If that happens again, Shift+Command+4 and draw a box around the message. That will save a picture to your desktop and you can post it on the forum and give us a head start solving this. What did you call the performan...

older spinning-metal drive

Can you hear it clicking and clunking as the machine works or as it starts? Solid State Drives don't make any noise.

Koz

Your problem isn't strictly "skipping." Your signature is "something fills up."

Koz

Nothing to your specific problem, but be able to tell us how large the drive is and how much room you have. Also, there is a way to manually defragment the drive. Fragmentation is when Windows can't find one continuous chunk of drive to save the work, so it splits the work up and shoves it wherever ...

More as I find it.

Koz

To start with it's fine. But after a while (20 minutes say) I can see that the recording waveform pattern is starting to sort of 'stall' Get that accurate number. That can be part of the diagnosis. 22 minutes, just after the Agnus Dei The good-ish news is you know how to make it fail. The really fu...