Opening Old Sessions in PT 8

[wwittman]

Anyone else finding this?:

Everytime I open an existing (previous version) session in PT 8, it a) takes a long time to find everything and render the waveforms the first time... and then b) seems to be having trouble with the disk usage to the point of being unable to run all the way through a song.

I'm finding that just about EVERY time I need to do a Save Session Copy In of the session, copying the audio files as well, and then the new copy, with all of its files put together on the hard drive one assumes, seems to run fine.

It's not a big deal.
but it is a BIT of a pain on a larger session.

[twix]

Ya it has to re-render the waveforms from previous sessions. This can take a little while. I haven't had any disk usage issues after that completes, everything runs fine. What is the error it is giving you?

[Bob Olhsson]

I found I needed to defrag the hard drive to run some sessions. After that everything ran normally.

[wwittman]

that's it, Bob,

it just seems like PT8 is extra sensitive to any fragmentation issues on the drive.
Doing a Save Session Copy In seems to put all the files back together in a way that makes it happy.

[Bob Olhsson]

I think it just fragments the heck out of the audio files when it creates the higher resolution graphics. Once that's done, it's done as far as I can tell.