Importing audio takes FOREVER + beachball

[Dimak415]

Running PT 9.5 on 10.6.8 with i7 920, 12 gigs of ram and RME fireface 800.

Since I have had PT9, I have this issue with importing audio. Audio takes about 20-30 seconds to import. This wasn't really an issue for tracking, but now that I am working on some post production and sounds design, this is REALLY cramping my work flow. On other systems, dragging and dropping audio files into the Edit windows takes 2-5 seconds, and sometimes (10% of the time) that is the case on my system. For the life of me, I can not tell when it will and when it will not take forever to import files, but its getting frustrating. Already searched the forums, but maybe i missed something. Any help woulf be greatly appreciated

[RyanC]

Protools stores it's audio files internally in mono. If you import a stereo channel it has write two new mono files into your audio files folder and that's what takes a long time.

[Dizzi45Z]

Dimak415,

I feel for you. I have struggled with this problem forever. See my thread on this issue:

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t...+takes+forever