I have had this issue with several files recently. At some random point, the file announces that it is “truncating overlong block files”. "
“Sequence has block file exceeding 262144 samples per block. Truncating to this maximum length.”
The same message appears many times (currently, 22) every single time I interact with the file: making a change, undoing, saving. Playback is unaffected, which makes sense.
I have no idea what is actually causing this issue or how to prevent it. The message doesn’t provide useful information, and it given that it keeps appearing, presumably the truncation isn’t working. If there is an issue with part of the recording, the message does not indicate where it is.
This makes working on files incredibly frustrating and time-consuming.
The files are always large: 2-4 hours of audio, 4-6 tracks, 10+ GB. I will chase the file size issue separately as I know it’s been discussed.
I have over 1 TB free on the external drive in question, 100+GB of free space on the C: drive, and 128GB of RAM which the system reports is mostly free. So I don’t think it’s a working space or memory issue.
I have read the similar Warning - truncating overlong block file In my case I have no duplicated tracks. Since this problem has occurred across at least three unrelated files, I don’t think it’s a file issue.
I saw a suggestion to copy the content to a new project. This has not helped; the new project has the same error message, even after saving and closing.