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that is correct. I had at least 2 more files that had the same error with me making sure nothing else was sucking up resources in the Activity Monitor as suggested here.

paulstefano wrote:that is correct. I had at least 2 more files that had the same error with me making sure nothing else was sucking up resources in the Activity Monitor as suggested here.

So, does reducing Audio to Buffer help? Set it to 0 milliseconds and try to record. If recording won't start, set it to 10 milliseconds and so on upwards in 10 millisecond increments until recording starts.

Koz had this problem once, and now you and someone else apparently have a similar issue. Whatever it the cause, it's rare.


Gale

I'll give that a try, thanks

Let us know when you have done half a dozen recordings of reasonable length.


Gale

Hey everybody just wanted to say I think my issue was a bad hard drive. I was having general slowness on all tasks so I got a new drive. While cloning the old drive the cloning software reported lots of errors including on some of my audio files. I haven't actually tested recording yet on the new drive but I'm pretty certain I found the issue. Sorry for dragging everybody on my wild goose chase

Lucky you. Just in time.