Temporary hang every few minutes while editing a session

Report · Apr 26, 2019

I'm a podcaster, and I've been using Audition to record and edit my podcast for years now. I've never had this issue before. I recorded an episode a week ago and I've been trying to edit it for awhile now. Every few minutes that I'm working on it, the whole application hangs. If I click on anything it grays out and says it's not responding in the app title bar. If I wait it out, it eventually comes back, and I'm able to edit for a few more minutes, and then it will do it again. I have over an hour of podcast to edit and this constant hanging of the application is seriously eating into my time and nerves. I've rebooted, saved a backup of the session files, cleaned off my data and cache space to give the application plenty of room, and checked to make sure everything is up to date. I even reinstalled the previous version of Audition and tried using it. I don't know if I've done something to corrupt the session file, but I'm 18 minutes into my editing (which has taken me a couple hours or more at this point), and would prefer to not have to start all over again. I think I'm losing a minute or 2 every 5 minutes with this application hang. I need to finish the edit and get the episode posted this weekend. I'm out of time and patience. I'm a hobbyist, not a professional, so please forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. I've searched for solutions, but have not found anything matching my problem.

I'm on Windows 10 running the latest Audition.

Report · Apr 26, 2019

An additional note. I do believe it is some kind of auto saving problem since it also hangs in a similar fashion when I manually save.

Report · Apr 27, 2019

Where are you manually saving it to? Saving to a network destination can cause delays and errors. Check in Preferences/Auto Save where the save path is set to. Having it set to Creative Cloud has been known to cause problems in the past. So probably best to change it to a local folder.

Report · Apr 27, 2019

I wish it was that simple. I'm saving to a local data drive on my computer. I do have several cloud spaces that I work on but not for my podcast. I export mixdowns to my Google Drive but I don't have enough space on any of my cloud accounts to keep my session files on them. My 2T harddrive was getting a bit full so I spent an hour or so last night clearing some space on it, thinking that might fix the problem, but it didn't help at all.

Report · Apr 27, 2019

Update: I turned off "Backup Multitrack Session Files automatically," and that seems to have stopped the freezing every few minutes (that interval was set to 3 minutes, so it was probably hanging for a minute every 3 minutes). It still hesitates and goes gray and not-responding for about a minute or two whenever I do a save. I've left "auto save recovery data" on (every 10 minutes) and so far I have not noticed a hesitation on that interval. So maybe it's something in the support files that is causing the problem?