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Familiar error "Audition has reached limit of audio data it can use"

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June 24, 2021
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Hello all,

Longtime user, rare poster 🙂

I'm trying to process a very big session, and I'm receiving the error "Audition has reached limit of audio data it can use". This would be easy to figure out IF I was running out of space, but I'm not! To be sure, I've dedicated a 5TB hard drive **JUST** for the Audition Cache files. Unfortunately, the exact moment the Cache folder hits 250GB, it freezes up and Audition crashes. It won't go beyong 250GB despite my having 5TB free.

Please help! SteveG if you're around :). Thanks all!

Here's what my scratch disk/folder looks like https://www.dropbox.com/s/xs9r3nn1zgzg5cs/Audition%20Error.JPG?dl=0

-Alex

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alexdavismusicAuthor

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Hey again,

Here are some pictures:

That's the error message I get... Turns out that Audition is NOT asking me to delete some files!

Cache Directory 1 - 169GB

Cache Directory 2 - 164GB

-I've tried turning off Automatic Backups

-I've tried different file formats - NTFS and exFat (both result in exact same error)

-Have also tried putting the actual session on different drives

-Have tried this on 2 Windows 10 machines

I'm ready and willing to experiment to get this to work! I've invested a lot of time putting all of this together in Audition, and I'm hoping not to have to give up and try it in a different editor. Audition is my fav 🙂

Thanks Steve, looking forward to any insights/ideas you might have on this.

-Alex

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alexdavismusicAuthor

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BUMP! Anyone have any ideas? I have ample storage space, yet I'm still reliably hitting this limit, where the scratch folder won't hold more than 160-165 GB of data. Crashes when it hits that ceiling, despite having TB of space available. @SteveG_AudioMasters_ ?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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Well, it does say close, not delete... how many files do you have open, and how big are they? They all end up in the temp folder when you open them...

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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When it says this, does it also say 'Please delete some files to continue'?

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alexdavismusicAuthor

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Hey Steve!

Yes, it does say that.

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alexdavismusicAuthor

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In that case, you need to investigate exactly what is on the drive you think has so much space on it! This doesn't happen very often, so there's relatively little information available, but there is a thread about it you can read here (just ignore all the nice things it says about me 😉 ). The thing to mention directly though is what you have your Auto save recovery data time interval set to in Edit>Preferences>Auto Save. This is generally what fills drives up. The backup settings don't matter so much, because they only relate to session files - but Auto Save saves recovery data for the whole app - and if you are dealing with huge files, it's easy to run out of space, even on a huge drive.The chances are that you can delete most of the stuff that's there, especially if you've been working on long sessions.

The thing is, it's not just the temp files you can see that cause the problems...

I will investigate that other thread. thank you! I can say for now, that none of my drives are filling up though. 3.4 TB free on the drive responsible for the Temp Caching, and my OS drive + Audio Drive both have ample space at the time I get that error message. Thanks and will look through the thread now. Please let me know if you have any ideas!

-Alex

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