"But I could play sound just ten minutes ago."

[newtonab]

I was recording earlier and had enough space to playback the audio.
Now every time I hit play I get an error message that reads:
"DAE can't get audio from the drive(s) fast enough. Your drive may be too slow or fragmented, or a firewire drive could be having trouble due to the extra firewire bandwith or CPU load."
I don't use a firewire though.
I've just used so much space that I can't even effectively use the disk defragmenter.

My next purchase is going to be an external hard drive to clear some space and defrag the computer.

3 questions:

1. Is there anyway I could clear space up again or fix the problem of not being able to play anything I've recorded?

2. is it a good idea to save sessions to an external hard drive? Are there any recommendations for what type of external hard drive I should use?

3. I have an IDE/ATA internal drive. Should I use this or record through an eternal hard drive?

Thanks

[Craig F]

more system specs please
tower or laptop
G3, G4, G5, Intel
Le or HD

the little things

[newtonab]

Laptop
XP Home Edition
M-Powered

anything else?

[fredson]

im having the same problem too and just looking to buy an external hard drive , but what i did when recording was 1) try increasing your cpu usage limit at play back engine
2) go to preferences> operation > and set the time of recording to like 20 or 30
3) uncheck the save backup at the preferences but this a bit risky but try to save your work , what i notice was that PT keep saving a back up copy at a spec time so i guess this might be putting more presure on the hard drives and i try not to save very often
when i did this it tends to not poping the error like b4 but to get an external hard drive is the best

[myke2242]

Can you playback other sessions on this same drive?

[fredson]

yeah but sessions with more tracks tends to give this errors often