[Darryl Ramm]

And again, this is wasting your time.. you should value your own time spent here at something, hopefully more than the cost of a monthly subscription. All the problems you are having are the flakey cloud storage stuff in Pro Tools First. Pro Tools standard (aka “real” Pro Tools) using local sessions have none of this crap to put up with. The thing you, and other users, have control of that will immediately stop all these problems is to stop using First. Otherwise it’s kind of advice that hitting yourself with a hammer in the head hurts... if folks just want to play, sure do whatever. But if this is causing folks frustration just get off this mess. If not Pro Tools Standard, there are lots of great other DAWs (as mentioned).