Error 9073 on Mac G5

[eightron]

Hi! While attempting to convert (dub) old Minidiscs to WAV format, I experience errors almost similar to the one described here. At approximately 5:03, the dreaded 9073 appears. I have browsed through many threads containing error 9073 issues, and have tried their respective suggestions from disabling Spotlight to removing Norton Antivirus as well as those in the General Troubleshooting guidelines (trashing Prefs and the like) but to no avail.

Below are the specifications:

CPU:
Mac OS X 10.4.11, Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5, 2GB RAM

Hard disk:
Maxtor 6Y160M0, 12.5GB available out of 152GB, SATA, Journaled HFS+

PT:
Pro Tools LE 7.0, Digi002 rack (Firewire connection)
[Edit: 44.1kHz, WAV, 16bit]
Have attempted various Playback Engine settings including
128 Samples, 1 Processor, 95%, Level 4
1024 Samples, 2 Processors, 95%, Level 4
512 Samples, 2 Processors, 95%, Level 8

At the moment, I am unable to obtain an external Firewire hard disk nor upgrade the Mac G5 and / or Pro Tools due to budgetary limitations.

I also understand that in a Mac environment there is not much necessity to defragment the hard disk. However, I have observed that after deleting / creating relatively large amounts of video data in iMovie projects (10+GB) this error occurs more frequently. In fact, the previous few times I have experienced this 9073 error was immediately after a video project transfer and / or deletion. After much random tweaking in the past, however, the problem was resolved - in both high and (relatively) low disk space conditions (6-40+GB remaining)! Now that 9073 is back, could this be the underlying cause, given that I had just created a 14GB iMovie project?

Thank you all in advance for your assistance.

[Phil Ogden]

Have you seen this? Could this be your answer?


Pro Tools stops recording after about 5 minutes (5:03), seems to hang with a SWOD for up to a few minutes, then throws a DAE error -9073.
This is a known issue in LE 7.0 and HD 7.0/7.1 (Mac) when the session has track names longer than 31 characters.

It was fixed in LE 7.0cs4 and HD 7.1cs4.


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[eightron]

Hi Phil,

This may seem to be it - will confirm further occurrences and follow up whenever possible. Thanks for the info.

Best regards,

eightron