[Stephanie Foxx]

The monitor flicker only happens when I'm in a PT session using 7.1.1 and namely, when recording. I've tried changing MANY on screen prefs (like keeping each track to be viewed small, not having the transport on the screen during record, etc...old school tricks/workarounds). I have the original 22" cinema display and have to use the $100 apple cable coverter in order to use the display with my Mac Dual-Core Intel Xeon. There was absolutely nothing wrong with my monitor so I was basically forced to chose this route when finally upgrading my Mac since it was either that or buy a new monitor. I am seriously thinking it is a power issue in my house but find it really odd that it only happens when I open a PT file. To my knowledge, it hasn't affected the actual recording of the tracks.

About the missing files: I have a feeling it was entirely user error and here's why: I created a session with ten mono tracks for a drum/guitar duo that was recording here at my house. I set up the session with each track how I liked 'em (master, auxs, labeled kick, snare, etc.), recorded the first of eleven songs, saved the file to its intended location with the SONG title for the name. The original file named SESSION was created on my desktop...turned out to be an oops. I did a Save Copy In and am afraid that the next step is what did in the first two TITLED SONG sessions...

I opened the original file that was on my desktop named Session. I DELETED the audio content from those files THINKING they had been moved to their new location when I used SAVE COPY IN. I removed all from the hard drive and well...I'm thinking they were still pointing to the files I needed in the saved song files. Live and Learn. Are there any fail safe tricks to making SURE the audio tracks are where they should be? I should have known better than to delete from the hard drive until finished with the recording of all eleven songs but my bad. The first two hours of recording were by far their LEAST BEST efforts so maybe it was fate...and I'm nice (sarcasm abounds). Being a drummer and listening to this guy's inability to play with a click was KILLING me so my inner nemesis self must have sabotaged those sessions.

I'm still hoping someone might have a fix besides to tell me "uh...you need a new monitor" since I don't except in the world of PT. With all the surrounding rumors of a change in the tides for Digi users, I'd HATE to think of myself as having to finally migrate to the OTHER guys' software since I, along with SO MANY like me, have been such a loyal digi user ('97 to current and making every upgrade along the way until recently). Thanks for reading. Therapy ain't cheap so I'm happy to have the DUC.