Old Sessions

[Picture Start]

I'm sure you have a good reason not to convert... but I can't think of one! Surely, you'd want to not suffer this ancient format in the future when it becomes even harder to open?

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Talbot

So I was able to open old sessions with this combination:

Pro Tools 10.3.5
MacOS 10.8.3

But it does convert the SDII files to WAV (or perhaps AIFF) files... Does anyone know what the last version of PT was that could open SDII files natively? I'm thinking probably some version of PT 9, but don't remember. Would kind of be nice if an earlier version of PT10 would, since I still have a license for that, but earlier licenses were all surrendered in upgrades....

[Bob Olhsson]

Apple has been threatening to drop support for the SD2 disk format since System 8 was released! I don't know about APFS but I wouldn't count on it not hosing the files exactly the way copying them to a windows or Linux disk will.

[Jeffrey Talbot]

Originally Posted by Picture Start

I'm sure you have a good reason not to convert...

Curiosity. Because I have a ton of sessions I'm really only interested in opening to see what's in them. I work in broadcast production, and I have absolutely no need to archive them. But I do see your point.