Help plz! My sessions are not opening

[B O S S]

When I try 2 open some sessions it gives me the following message:
(Could not complete your request because: logical end-of-file reached (-39) while reading "aaa.pts")
Also when I tried to import session data it gives me the same.
I checked the answerbase and i didnt find any solution

all Audio files carried the icon of Quick time
Im working on PT TDM 6.2.3 on Mac OS X 10.3.2


Plz help me

[B O S S]

Also I would like to say that all of these sessions were on an external firewire hard drive (MAXTOR)
and i tried to open from my SCSI Drive & the internal Drive

[DigiTechSupt]

Please start with the steps in the 'General Troubleshooting' thread at the top of this forum, specifically those areas on trashing prefs and database files.

[B O S S]

Still the problem remaining..

the same error message for the same sessions

after uninstalling & reinstalling the full system.

Plese Help!!

[jeremyroberts]

try this:

1. make a new session (with the same sample and bit rate as original)
2. "import session data" -- do this slowly... a few tracks a time. verify that the tracks play back. set media options to COPY audio to new session.

This is a workaround for a potentially corrupted session file.

Another option when importing tracks (if plugins are giving you problems) is to set the import options to only import certain items (exclude items).

make sure tempo map is selected for 1st round of import.

hope this helps.

jr

[B O S S]

Again the same problem
I tried to import session's data

[frenchman]

external firewire hard drive (MAXTOR)

A few things to check for :

1- How was this maxtor drive formatted ? (HFS+, fat32, NTFS ?)

Some external drive come pre-formatted in FAT 32. If that is the case, you may be in serious trouble if the session is not saved in PC compatible mode.

If however the Maxtor drive was MAC formatted then the only constructive sufggestion I can make is to shorten dramatically the path to the files :
I have had problems with sessions which had a too long pathname.
We all like to keep things tidy by having sessions ordered in subfolders but this has an impact on the path to every audio file ! I noticed that Pro tools 6 seems less tolerant to this than 5.1.

Put the session folder directly in the root directory of the drive, rename it eventually with a short name, with no "special" characters and try to open it.
Eventually check if some file names are not too long or have again exotic characters : this can happen when you record on a track with a weird or long name.
Of course renaming files makes re-opening the session a total drag because of the relinking process, but if it works, it is better than nothing ...

good luck

[sleadley]

go to the last session backup in the 'session backup folder' and open the last session when ordered by date, if that opens then count your lucky stars, and hope that the 'real session' in not too much later.
regards
Simon L.