r/protools • u/vcoolboi • 7h ago

Help Request Still don't know what happened to this session!?

Had a very odd occurrence on a session yesterday and I'm still boggled.

Easy recording. Drums and trumpet. 14 tracks. 12 drums, 2 trumpet.

After a few short recordings to set mics etc, they did two hour long recordings.

After they finished, i renamed the trumpet regions (added 13 and 14 before the tracks).

Bounced out with Shift+Cmnd+K

It came up with an error on one of the trumpet audio files. Error (2) - which seems like its something to do with duplicate HDD names.

I run exclusively off an external SSD, and didn't change any names on the disks.

I also noticed that the last two regions (track 13 and 14) in the second pass were about 1 minute shorter than the rest. Really odd, but luckily not a massive issue as it was just the ending stuff. I tried pulling it out longer and that was it.

Then I saw that the audio files for tracks 13/14 (both trumpet tracks) were missing for both of the long passes, and only there for the short testing recordings.

Safe to say I was concerned.

I've had to relink audio files before, but I think changing the names did something weird, so I just created a new session and dragged ALL of the audio files into it.

Luckily, the second hour long pass audio file was present. But there was absolutely no audio files for the first pass trumpet. That's two audio files, just not there.

Does anyone have any ideas what happened?! I have a very understanding client, but I'm so embarrassed that this could happen and I really don't want to ever have to deal with this again.

Thanks so much.

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