Opening PT5 sessions in PT8, Win-to-Mac

[thopman]

Hello,
I just recently installed PTLE8 on my Macbook black (for use with MBox2 Pro). I tried a few new sessions, and things seem to be working fine.

I then tried to open some old sessions I'd done on PTLE 5.x, but got a message (Error -39, I think? Something about "end of file reached" or something?). These old sessions were created on a Win XP system, using Digi Rack 002, FYI, about 4-5 yrs ago (I think?). It's some old archival stuff that was basically a dump from some ADAT tapes, 4 tracks only, no added plugs or effects, other than some auto-fades added for mixdown, from what I recall.

I just want to carry these forward from PT5 to PT8 for archive purposes. They originally came from a cassette portastudio, then to ADAT, then to PT5, if you can believe it! Yes, the quality isn't perfect, but I want to preserve this stuff.

One other thing, the FW400 drive the session is stored on is compatible, but it's formatted FAT32. However, I also tried copying the session from there to my Mac internal HD and tried opening it there. No luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Terry

[MASTERLINKSTUDIOS]

Not positive but I think you will have to open session on a pc and save as pt 8 session so it will be compatible with mac now.

[thopman]

Thanks for the quick response, but I'm hoping that won't be the case. I wasn't planning on installing PT8 on my Windows legacy setup. I had upgraded through 7.x, but was planning to decomission it. I still have the PC, though.

I saw somewhere that somebody was able to open files and upgrade on the fly (PT8 does some cleanup in the background, I think). Unfortunately, I wasn't that lucky in my first attempt.



Hopefully there is something simple to tweak?

Anybody else?

[daeron80]

Sounds like those sessions don't contain anything you need other than the audio, which is just four continuous tracks with the same start time, right? So you should be able to just drag and drop the audio files, one song at a time, into a PT8 session.

If you do need something more than that, can you open them with PT7 on Windows, resave, then open them on the Mac?

[thopman]

Thanks, daeron.

Yeah, other than the fade outs, I could probably just grab the sound files by track. There are about 20-25 sessions, but it's do-able.

Otherwise, I was thinking I might have to pull up in PT7, as you say.

Maybe something quicker/simpler will come up, but that's definitely a way to go.

Thanks, again, guys.

[DigiTechSupt]

Error -39 is an OS error usually indicating corrupted files.

Was this session saved with Mac/PC Compatibility enabled? If not, that may be a factor.

I think your best bet is what daeron indicated - just reimport the audio files into a new session.

[MASTERLINKSTUDIOS]

What if all regions aren't consolidated?