Defraging my computer

[303lovesit]

Hi all! :D

I currently have 84 gig used up on my hard drive and is a 120 gig one basicly I havnt defraged it atall really for nearly a year do you think it will fck anything up if i do a defrag as I can remember last year doing it and it fuck all my tracks up coz it couldnt find the rite audio files ect!

Good idea, bad idea???

You think it will fuck my tracks up and is there a way round it so it dosnt!

Niceone!! :D :D

[hatembr]

defraging requires some free space, the required disk space depends on the used space you have... i don't know how to calculate this exactly; but it shouldn't fuck anything on your hard drive as far as u have enough space. May be last year your drive was full, and the os didn't find where to write swap files....

[Juho L]

The defragmenting requires 10% free space of the selected drive.

[303lovesit]

What i mean is the last time i defraged my comp it repositioned alot of the audio files that i recorded from my hardware
so when i loaded my tracks up it said that it coudnt find the audio files
and i lost the files thats i recorded because they have been moved..

8O

[hatembr]

wierd! what did u use to defrag it ?

[Juho L]

What i mean is the last time i defraged my comp it repositioned alot of the audio files that i recorded from my hardware
so when i loaded my tracks up it said that it coudnt find the audio files
and i lost the files thats i recorded because they have been moved..

Now you've done something weird. Defragmenter only physically rearranges the files on the hard disk.

[hatembr]

may be you've shut down your computer while it was defraging ?

[303lovesit]

Nah mate,

I dont think i would be that stupid 8O

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

:?:

[Juho L]

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

That's odd. Never done that on me.

[picato]

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

:?:

It's very rare, but sometimes my Cubase doesn't really find some of the audiofiles for certain songs. But there's no problem to find them again, since Cubase puts up a dialog box asking: Do you want to search for missing audioparts? And then it usually find them again. Another way to "update" them is by clicking on the wave icon in the audio pool, whitch sometimes help.
Are you sure that the files really was completely removed from your drive, or are they just not only found? :?

[saba]

Jesus!

A contiguous drive is crucial for top system performance! After all, it is the slowest component in your system. And the difference between fragmented and defragmented in speed is day and night. I mean, why does a fresh install of windows feel so zippy?
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[303lovesit]

OK Ive gavered the problem!

When im working on a track say i have lots of midi parts on the go as well as audio well when im ready to get one of my midi parts off as audio I usually open another screen with nothing on it and copy my midi part out of my track and paste it in to my clean version for quallity reasons then record it off as audio then I copy the audio part then paste it back in to my project but I think when i defraged it last it must of moved it about a bit and like you say do a search for the file but when u record a part off it usually names it audio 001 or what ever it names it at but when i look for the missing file it brings up say 15 files named that part obviously coz Ive recorded it off and the computer names the part!! so is there a way of when u record it off to name the part instantly so when it searches for it next time I can find it instantly!!!


Does that make sense??? :roll: :D

[hatembr]

that's too compliacted m8!! :)
y don't u record in ur project directly, then clean the wave pool??

[saba]

Does that make sense??? :roll: :D

Really need some punctuation there :( Its all verbal diarrhea.
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[picato]

Does that make sense??? :roll: :D


No... :D I'm pretty sure that you won't encounter this problem if you just stay in the same arrangement, if you understand what I mean.
:? I don't really understand your point about "getting better quality" by recording the single audio files from midi in another window. :? Quality of what? When I'm going to record my miditracks as audio I usually mute all the other tracks beside the one I wil rec, and an empty audio track of course. Then sometimes I switch the synth to single mode and record that particular track from single mode rather than multi, if that is what you mean with better quality...?
I think that whatever sequencer program you use, it's not mentioned to record the audio files otherwhere and then import them like you do. Then you'll just get problems like these, I guess...

[303lovesit]

Basicly i cut my midi part out of my track and do it in a fresh one because when im in the middle of a very large track i start getting stuttering problems with just the midi parts and they slightly stuter in terms of skiping notes and ect and is very noticable so I usualy paste it in fresh one for that reason. but yes i always do it in single mode too.

[picato]

Basicly i cut my midi part out of my track and do it in a fresh one because when im in the middle of a very large track i start getting stuttering problems with just the midi parts and they slightly stuter in terms of skiping notes and ect and is very noticable so I usualy paste it in fresh one for that reason. but yes i always do it in single mode too.

Strange... Exactly how many midi parts are you talking about. And are they full of controller midi data as well?

[303lovesit]

maybe 5 sometimes!!! can still do it with one though aldepends on how far im in to a track!!

[picato]

maybe 5 sometimes!!! can still do it with one though aldepends on how far im in to a track!!

That's even stranger than strange... :?

Dou you use an old computer like a pentium I 100 Mhz or what? What soundcard. I've used about 30 tracks in some of my arrangements + audio and that works pretty fine. To be honest I really hate sequencing on computers since there's always problems of some kind. If I had your setup I would sure be crazy. :roll:

[303lovesit]

pentium 4. 512 ram . 3.06 process speed 120 gig harddrive

audiophile sound card.

4x4 midiman interface!


Oh and believe life would be so much easier if i could find out the cause!!!

Thanks for the help by the way :D

[Hollowcell]

Does that make sense??? :roll: :D

Really need some punctuation there :( Its all verbal diarrhea.

im not usually the one to pick on writing styles (unless im working here in japan), but i have to aggree with saba on this one 303.

a few .... ,,,, and maybe even - - - would make it a little easier to read. i dont mean any offence though 303. im one of the biggest offenders of bad written english on this board - and im an english teacher here! :lol: