Duplicating a track in PT2018.7 doesn't work. Why?

[senghor]

Hi!

I have a problem with duplicating a track. When trying to duplicate a track in a session - (in PT 2012.7) PT will open a new track, but there is nothing, only a new audio track without the recording that I try to duplicate. I have tried everything possible that I know.

This feature has never worked in 2018.7 for me. So I do it manually.

Is there something that I haven't understood?

Thank You for your help!

[albee1952]

I guess I am not clear on what's happening(or not happening). If I duplicate a track here(also on 2018.7), I get checkbox options to copy the main playlist, all playlists, plugins, sends and group assign. If I have everything checked, the duplicate is indeed an exact clone of the original track(with audio, plugins and sends in place at the same settings). If you have all the boxes checked but the duplicate track is somehow different, that would seem like "odd" behavior, and the first step in solving odd behavior is to trash preferences and database files(use the Trasher app from guitardom or get it from his website pro-tools-pc.com)

[Rich Breen]

Have never heard of this happening - show us a screenshot of the duplicate dialog box you get when you select "duplicate...".

[midnightrambler]

Yeah I use this all the time. Literally all the time. I don't think I've ever had a session where I didn't duplicate at least one track. So I definitely would have noticed if it was broken here.

[senghor]

Originally Posted by albee1952

I guess I am not clear on what's happening(or not happening). If I duplicate a track here(also on 2018.7), I get checkbox options to copy the main playlist, all playlists, plugins, sends and group assign. If I have everything checked, the duplicate is indeed an exact clone of the original track(with audio, plugins and sends in place at the same settings). If you have all the boxes checked but the duplicate track is somehow different, that would seem like "odd" behavior, and the first step in solving odd behavior is to trash preferences and database files(use the Trasher app from guitardom or get it from his website pro-tools-pc.com)

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This is true for me! If you don't though the checkbox - everything is just ok. But if You uncheck ie. "main playlist" - PT won't duplicate the track with audio. Just try it and report, please.

This on both 2018.7 and 2018.10.

[clutch]

If you un-check "Main Playlist" you won't get any audio duplicated with the track. This is expected behaviour as the main playlist is the audio on the track.
If you check the box, the audio will be duplicated too. Is this not happening?