Import session data - access violation

[tonwurm]

Originally Posted by TracerY

Hi Tonwurm,

I´m still on PT HD 8.01 CS2 here due to my Digi Expansion Chassis and my PCI Core and Accel cards.

I sometimes still have this *importing session data causes a spinning ball* issue, but I figured out what could be the reason.

First reduce the number of tracks you are importing at once from another session,
try one track after to each other to check what track / plugins could be the reason for a spinning ball.

Special RTAS plugins tracks which are offering several (plugin) outputs often cause a problem while importing to a new session.

Also FXPansion wrapped VST plugins sometimes causing a spinninng ball,
try to sort out the reason for a crash that way by importing track by track.

Also check your I/O settings, I remember to found a crashing situation where I imported tracks with the checkmark import I/O session data also with an PT audio bus which was used connected twice!

Also importing a second time after a crash sometimes works fine.

Hope that helps,
greetings,
Goetz from Wonderlandstudio

Thanks Goetz

The issue you are describing has sometimes occured on my setup, but what I have is different and definitely a repeatable bug introduced with 8.1. Trying to import an aux-track from a project that has different I/O-Settings than the project you try to import to, leads to an error-message "Could not complete your request because An access violation has occured, while translating tracks". After that you are not able to save the project, sometimes PT hangs...

I think it has something to do with the new I/O-Setup introduced in 8.1

The only workaround is to deactivate input / output / send-settings in the import settings

[1511]

Here also; really difficult not being able to import bus paths.
I'm glad to see someone from Avid looking at this thread, though?
Chas

PT 8.1.1
OS 10.6.8
HD Accel 2

[studiojimi]

i did not have nor take the time to read this entire thread so i don't know if this is applicable or not but i had a session crash

access violation...could not save

and it told me i had bad wrong characters

i had used a / or - in the name of my session

maybe even on a file name

PT doesn't like some characters...even in the mac version which i use

after i changed the name (got rid of those characters --// all was cool

[1511]

I got you studioJimi. I think this is pretty much a PT 8.1 thing that came with the new I/O set up?
Thanks,
Chas

[s.d. finley]

Ok I have been having this issue and its been driving me nuts!! Info here is correct!! Make sure all of your busses and AD/DA I/O are named the same between the 2 sessions and everything imports perfectly fine. I thought it was the aux tracks causing the problem and it was they just had different i/o path names and once I changed the names of the aux busses i/o paths to be the same I have had zero issues. PTHD 8.1.1