[deardaddy]

Updating this thread with another strange thing which happened to me today.
After editing 18 chapters of an audio book, I offline bounced each chapter and imported them in the session (note that I always save session before doing each bounce).
While I was bouncing chapter 12, Pro tools crashed (spinning ball for ever), I had to force quit PT and then restart the computer as PT would not start again.
Note that I had to force shut down the computer as it would not shut down or restart by itself.

After restarting the Mac and reloading the session, only 3 bounced chapters were in the session and in the bounced files folder. Checked session creation date and most recent backup session, it looks like I lost more than 30 minutes of work (audio files + sessions).
This sounds impossible as when PT records any audio file, it exists somewhere but here it has been deleted.

If you read my first post, I was mentioning I lost data after using an archiving software. Here I lost data and did not do any archiving.

I also want to mention that PT has become really unstable some days.
It can crash when doing offline bounce or mixdown, when doing a back & play or even starting another software.
I thrashed all the prefs.
I installed PT latest version
I did not install new software or new plug in.
Did not update OS lately.

Any ideas ?
Should I uninstall completely PT and clean install it ?

I'm lost because I have a great computer which is working great but PT is unstable and I'm losing data recorded by PT.

Thanks for your time.


Pascal