why do I have to force quit DAE?

[theom]

recently after I finnish a pro tools workday I quit PT fine but DAE hangs and I have to force quit it.

It isnt a big problem but It seems weird.
I tried trashing my DAE prefs folder, same thing still happens.

Any ideas?

PT le
dual 450 G4
os 9.2.2
001 interface
512mb ram
about 90 mb to pt and 90 to dae

[Mightypudge]

You may want to try increasing the DAE memory allocation. Sometimes when a program is short on RAM it will hang up on quit.

There were two recent posts on setting memory allocation. Give that a shot and hopefully that will correct the problem.

Peace!

[theom]

ok, tried allocating more mem.

same freeze on quit of pt le

the windows close but the mouse is frozen.
the finder icon is in the top right corner of the screen.
mouse and kb is frozen , I do the force quit and is asks
do you want to force quit DAE?

I hit yes and everything is ok. unfrozen.

I dont like it. It didnt do this a month ago.

any other ideas?

[lamp]

That happended to me yesterday,1st time. In the finder I had OMS open with PT and DAE and I think it was short on memory.Do you have other programs open also?

[valvebrother]

I used to have this quite a bit; with over a gig of ram, well allocated. I never found a fix except a clean install of everything (OS, PT, etc.)

[Severe]

Had it too, cant remember the fix. I think it just stopped on its own.(lol) Probably something I did unknowingly.

[Chompers]

Its because Digidesign programed all Digi 001's on a MAC to stop working at the exact time Apple announced it was going to Make digidesign a Pro Audio only software solution.

No more home studios for Digi's future.

[John H]

sounds an unlikely cure but it could be a corrupt system prefs file.

Remember you're setting and then delete the following files, they've been to blame before for a few errors like that with me :

Sound Preferences
Finder Preferences
System Preferences

drag them to the trash, restart and see if it helps.

If it suddenly started happening and it was okay before, this could solve the problem.

[DigiTechSupt]

Are you running Pro Tools under a base set of extensions? You can prevent possible extension conflicts by doing so.
Check this out:

Open your Extensions Manager control panel (Apple menu > Control Panels > Extensions manager).
Set your Extension set to "Mac OS 9.x base"
Duplicate the set and give it a name like Pro Tools or something else that lets you know what this set is for (the "Duplicate" button is in the lower right hand side of the Extensions Manager window).
Turn on the Digidesign extensions (Digidesign DSP Manager, Digidesign Stream Manager, Digidesign Direct I/O, Digi System INIT).
Turn on the Open Music System extension.
If you have extensions for a third party MIDI interface or third party plugins, you will want to turn these on as well.
After doing the above, hit the Restart button at the lower part of the Extensions Manager window. Upon restart you will be running in this new extensions set.

If DAE is still demanding a force quit, you may consider reinstalling it from your Pro Tools LE installer CDROM.

Gregg Montgomery
Digidesign Tech Support

[Severe]

Hey TechSupt,

While your here, can you answer a few questions about ..........hello?.................Techsupt?

Damn.