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That might be. But you like us are stuck making a case why that would only lose some data but not all.It looks to me like the filenames (with drive and folders) might be too long.
I thought that too, but doing a quick count it looks like around 150 characters and Windows should be OK up to 256 characters.Edgar wrote:It looks to me like the filenames (with drive and folders) might be too long.
steve wrote:I thought that too, but doing a quick count it looks like around 150 characters and Windows should be OK up to 256 characters.Edgar wrote:It looks to me like the filenames (with drive and folders) might be too long.
Do we have results on the drive tests yet?
Yes, interesting.Theophilus20 wrote:But, interesting News:
I did run the machine the Sun morn with one change.
I selected the option for Norton AV to run in "silent mode" for the duration of my use today.
I had no errors.
I suppose we should have guessed that. Norton has been found to delete the blue waves as you record them on the screen and cause the error messages you saw when saving projects. See: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46&t=75392 (there is a link to a web page where you can complain to Norton at the end of that topic).Theophilus20 wrote:I did run the machine the Sun morn with one change.
I selected the option for Norton AV to run in "silent mode" for the duration of my use today.
I had no errors.
Everything saved to all destination folders with no error messages.
360steve wrote:Yes, interesting.Theophilus20 wrote:But, interesting News:
I did run the machine the Sun morn with one change.
I selected the option for Norton AV to run in "silent mode" for the duration of my use today.
I had no errors.
Which version of Norton are you using?
Gale Andrews wrote:I suppose we should have guessed that. Norton has been found to delete the blue waves as you record them on the screen and cause the error messages you saw when saving projects. See: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46&t=75392 (there is a link to a web page where you can complain to Norton at the end of that topic).Theophilus20 wrote:I did run the machine the Sun morn with one change.
I selected the option for Norton AV to run in "silent mode" for the duration of my use today.
I had no errors.
Everything saved to all destination folders with no error messages.
If i had to take a Freddy Kruger Swipe in the dark at this, id guess that Norton is auditing and checking different files in the background while im recording. And prob often comes upon the temp file im saving into. Because the audit is randomly generated, when Norton happens to trip across that particular file is the instant when the audio is lost. But, also, because the file check audit is in a random order. The time at which that temp file gets opened is a different time each week, which might be the reason that there seems to be no pattern to the length or when the audio loss starts.
This is a complete stab in the dark at this point.
But, if i remember, there is a way to exclude files and folders from being checked in Norton audits. I dont remember how this is done but will look into that and see if that makes a difference over the long haul.
With an offline computer and a small amount of files on that computer, the Norton audit is bound to hit that file in the course of an hour to and hour and a half
But I see the "Cannot Save" problem for AUP and autosave file quite often (while I can export to the same location) and I don't use Norton.
This does not explain projects apparently being complete on the screen when you save them, but having audio silenced when you reopen them. If Norton had really been removing AU files in the saved _data folder, then Audacity should show you a warning about missing audio data block files.
Honestly, i have looked in the past at the completeness of projects, but, cannot for sure remember if they were projects that had problems saving or not. Maybe the few projects that i have looked at, were complete and thoes didnt have problems saving. I have done it, but rarely. So, now i cant remember.
I would guess or at least hope that the projects where audio was silenced after you reopened the project were already silenced when you saved them, but you did not notice.
That is possible. i will have to look each and every time.
Gale