Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

hey everyone i have been in a slight situation the past few months trying to really figure this out but i cant, every time I'm in a mix of a song i get these errors like 20 min into the session that first reads DAE error -9073, something about the DAE engine is too slow or something like that, then when i use elastic properties i get another error that's is error number -9473 it has something to do about elastic property i don't recall exactly the error information but can someone please help me!!!

I'm running on a Intel mac with a 003, control 24, pro tools 9.1 with operating system leopard

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

Are you on Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard 10.6?

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

Where's your hard-drive? You shouldn't be using the internal system drive for audio. You need an external drive... and NOT USB. Must be Firewire or better.

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

That narrows it down to about 30 models in the last 5 years... More info, please be very specific, model, CPU, RAM, OS version number. As previously stated, what are you using for an audio drive? Hopefully a separate Firewire drive, and preferably not a huge slow drive with tons of files already on it...

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

10.6

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

no i am new to this im actually using the internal secondary drive with just audio files on it, meaning that my pro tools files are running into my secondary hardrive and not an external

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

i have a intel mac the tower, 3.0 ghz, 4gb ram, leopard 10.6, im using and internal secondary drive since i have 4 hardrives in the tower

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

10.6.? if click the Apple in the upper right and About This Mac, it will tell you the exact version.

What brand/model internal hard drive is your secondary drive? Is it 7200RPM? How many GB's is the capacity and how many GB's are available? When was the last time you cleaned off and reformatted it?

Have you tried to record onto one of the other 2 "non-System" drives to see if they worked any better?

Have you ever run with just 2GB of RAM, just to see if maybe you have a bad stick of RAM? That happened to me once and it kicked off error after error.. 2GB ran smoother than 6GB with the bad stick. I slowly rotated the sticks around until I found the combination that singled out the bad stick.

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

its a 10.6 and yes its 7200 its a 500gm and it had 405 gb remaining, the problem is i dont know how to defragment on mac and or reformat, i didnt try the ram stick yet but i will try

Re: Major dae error help -9073 and -9473
 

That's your problem - I had the exact same problem and went crazy searching here to find the repair. My reasoning was that a secondary internal drive would be faster than an external drive. So just to compare I went out and bought an external firewire drive for my Pro Tools operational drive and the errors completely disappeared. I now use the internal secondary drive just as a backup for my songwriting drive. Try it - get the fastest firewire external drive you can buy. Be sure to change the default drive in settings.