Temp file problem

[braindead]

I was recording our church service this morning and about 40 minutes into it a message popped up that an appdata temp file could not be found. Audacity could no longer record more than a couple of seconds. I noticed that a warning from Norton came up around the same time about a trojan that it found. Ended up losing all of the recording. Any ideas if Norton caused the problem and if it didn't, what did?

[kozikowski]

Is the machine connected to the internet?

I don't want to play Captain Obvious here, but did you turn your machine over to Norton for a full system scan? The one you have to wait an hour for?

Did you fill up your hard drive? Most programs will go nuts when the hard drive space runs out and Audacity will also go nuts when it tries to perform live capture into a highly fragmented drive. What are the capacity and space left on your drive(s)?

Most serous recordists stop virus and Trojan software and remove the machine from the internet during live capture.

Koz

[braindead]

I thought the problem may have been Norton. I still have 300GB on my hard drive so I know it didn't run out of space. I'll take your advice and take the computer off the internet and stop Norton during recording. Thanks for your response.

[waxcylinder]

The other thing that you may want to try - provided Norton can be configured that way - is to set the anti-virus to ignore/trust all .aup and .au files.

WC