Suddenly not working - DAE error-4

[steve at Your Heaven]

My HD2 Protools 6.7 won't run (has been fine for over a year). No new hardware, software, or anything.

I used a PT7LE system to record a fairly simple (3 track) session, copied it (all on WinXP) after a Save Session Copy to a v6.7 compatible .pts file. This morning I go to run that in PT6.7r2. Now I get error DAE error-4. No session is loaded, this is while PTools tries to load. It gives the message, I click ok, Protools closes. Rebooting does not help, hard shutdown and turn on does not help.

A few weeks ago, someone sent me a very complex session (40 tracks) the same way (Save Copy to .pts from a v7LE system) which caused no problems and worked fine.

I removed PT6.7, re-installed it, I got the same error message just after it re-authorized a few plugins.

I have heard of deleting preferences, etc. Any suggestions, or does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Troubleshooting steps for XP

Rail

[steve at Your Heaven]

Bless you, Rail Jon, that got me working again.

[steve at Your Heaven]

Hmmmm, but now it's back.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

If your prefs or databases are constantly becoming corrupt.. it's time to check your hard drive or try reinstalling Pro Tools (or both).

Rail

[steve at Your Heaven]

Been crazy busy, tonight my first break in three weeks. I wanted to say thanks to Rail, this is the first I've had to check the board in a while.

It was definitely a prefs/database problem, and complicated by using the same session on different drives (while shifting between machines, etc.).