Auditions power of eternal crashing!

[Jarlskov]

I've been using Audition since before Adobe bought it, and it's always been the best audio editing program. But the last few years it has suffered an incredible amount of crashing. Today it crashes at least three times a week and causes me to spend from one to three hours making something, which disappeared when Audition crashed. I am madly frustrated that Audition has become directly counterproductive. When the program crashes, you can download a version that it thinks is the last saved version, I tried that once and it was a disaster. For some mysterious reason it never fetches the last saved version. When I tried, it downloaded a much, much older version than the ones I could load myself. Again directly counterproductive. I've been thinking about writing for a few years, but dropped the idea as I'm sure it won't lead to anything. But now I'm so frustrated that I have to spend so much extra work just because the Audition keeps crashing, so now I'm trying. Does anyone know what this is and most importantly what can I do to stop it?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

If you are getting actual crashes, then Audition will produce a crash log the moment it happens, which you can access via the Help menu. If you can copy the text from this and post it into this thread, we may be able to tell you what's causing it. The log files you are looking for will contain the word 'crash' in them.

[Jarlskov]

Thank you. I've looked for the log files, but it seems there are only logs for today.

Log file created: 02/29/24 09:38:39
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[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Are you attempting to use a google drive (or similar) directly with Audition as drive G? If you are, that's a pretty bad idea, even to have it monitoring another drive. We've had this before - have a look at this thread ...

[Jarlskov]

It is very mysterious that I do not use any cloud service at all in connection with Audition. I have a hard drive with my sounds and one where I produce. SO I don't understand the answer.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

It's at the end of your log:

System call RegisterDeviceNotification() failed -- drive could not be monitored, driveLetter: "G", lastError: "Error 1066:

Chances are that it will go on polling this drive, because that's a monitor line. Also, we noted ages ago that the session recovery is rather strange - what it offers you automatically is often nowhere near the last save - you have to locate that for yourself. No I don't know why.

[Jarlskov]

Yes, I understand that - and thanks. But now that I never use the G drive in relation to my productions, why is it looking for the G drive? More important; can I do something about it? I have no idea.

[tfujii]

I'm intermittantly seeing the same error in the logs when working on a computer that also has a remote drive mounted. To be clear, the remote drive is not being used by the Audition project itself, nor am I using files on it while working. The issue seems to be that because of where Audition stores its preferences in the User folder, sometimes a backup or mirroring service may access them and attempt to save those preferences to the remote drive. If this happens, somehow project files that were being worked on at that time become impossible to open as doing so causes Audition to load all the files, show them in the multitrack view, then freeze and crash.

Restarting does not fix this. Removing clips from the project files does not fix this. Reinstalling Audition or plugins does not fix this. Moving the project files and clips around to other folders or drives on the same computer does not fix this.

To fix this, I had to disable my backup services, clear out all the Audition preferences files, and then relaunch the project file. I suspect an easier workaround for those who are trying to rescue their work may be to move the files to another computer connected to a different Adobe CC account. Once again, if you're encountering this, the issue is not your project files, it's something to do with the Audition preferences on that machine.

[tfujii]

Small Correction: The other computer you move things to must not have any remote or cloud drives on it. If a cloud drive or remote drive is present on the machine (even if unused and disabled), it can break Audition.

[iceberg115]

lord all mighty i have to thank you. i've been after this all day because a fresh install of audition simply won't open consistently, if at all. it NEVER his the APPS list in task manager, only background process.

i first would get

"Audition is already open. Would you like to close the previous instance and restart the application"

Hitting YES is just a tease, really. it spins and waits and comes back to this same error on the screen.

i can nuke the Audition folder and it opens. YAY. the first time. BOO. back to same error.

30 minute with tech support was pointless so i went back to the startup logs anyway since i didn't want to dig through tons of error logs the tool collected (and support didn't know what to do with)

then i found:

Ticks = 1688 <35252> <MF.WinDirectoryChangeMonitor> <4> System call RegisterDeviceNotification() failed -- drive could not be monitored, driveLetter: "I", lastError: "Error 1066: The service has returned a service-specific error code.\r\n"

why? why does audition give a flip? in this case the *I* drive *Is* my cloud drive i have mapped to MY COMPUTER.

in the end, both are red herrings. i unmount my cloud drive and that error away and im back to not being able to get back into Audition unless I delete the Audition Folder.

so it is something to do with preferences.

Windows 11 - latest build from MS
AMD based machine
3060 video
Various sound boards (built into asus mboard - turned off - 2 external cards; mackie and a logitech gaming headset)

if anyone knows how to fix this, i'd love to have some ideas that don't involve nuking preferences every time. so far im good with it cause im not good enough at audio engineering to HAVE preferences, but i would love to get into the program when i want to.

[Jarlskov]

The solution should be for Adobe to get their act together and program Audition properly. In any case, the solution will not be that I have to buy a brand new PC, just to run Auditon on it.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

This ^ sounds like the sort of thing an AI bot would say - doesn't address the actual issue at all...