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Slibby
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December 19, 2019
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Exporting Session, Saving copies of files causes audio to be corrupted

  • December 19, 2019
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As a precaution, I sometimes export my session and "save copies of associated files" - when I go to open an exported version the files are corrupt - either all white noise or one channel missing with gaps of silence in the other channel. Has anyone else experienced this?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 19, 2019

Where exactly are you exporting these files to? I'm only aware that people have had difficulties when they've tried this over a network connection - that's almost guaranteed to cause difficulties. If you want to save files to any sort of network drive the way to do it is to save them locally first, and then do the file transfer manually, rather than do the save to a remote drive. Why? When a file transfer takes place, the entire operation is under the control of the operating system, but a save involves Audition expecting to find a location always available - it cannot handshake a remote network connection where that isn't at all guaranteed to happen.

Slibby
SlibbyAuthor
Participant
December 19, 2019

Thank you for your response. What you're describing makes sense however I'm saving to a drive on the local machine, into the orignal session folder.  Each export creates a new "Copied_Files" folder and session. I've tried exporting several times, converting the files to mp3's and also wavs. Not all files become corrupt, and the type of corruption is different for the different file types. 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 20, 2019

I haven't been able to replicate this yet, but regardless of that, I can't see the point of backing up the audio files in a sub-folder on the same drive, I'm afraid. The sole reason for creating a backup is to prevent data loss if a drive fails, so putting copies of the files on the same drive completely defeats the stated purpose!