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Old 01-06-2013, 02:39 AM   #1
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Default Reaper won't render -output file problem?

Hi,

Im a new user- and I've encountered a quite basic problem.

Reaper won't render.

When i try to render a project, i get to the rendering file window- which says 'output file - no output'

And below that -

'Render status:
The target drive/path does not exist, is unavailable or in use'.

I've kept the output file directory and 'render to' settings at default- ie, sending to the Reaper Media folder. I've also tried changing them to no effect.

I've tried uninstalling reaper, and reinstalling.

Any suggestions from the community?

Many thanks-

(I'm using 10.7.3 on a macbook pro. And the Reaper 64 bit version. )
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Old 01-06-2013, 03:19 AM   #2
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try a different target path.
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Old 01-06-2013, 04:40 AM   #3
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Thanks Mingustoo- is changing the target path the same as changing the output directory? (ie - where the rendered file is stored?).

If so, i've tried changing that - and I get the same result regardless. Not able to render.

Is there any thing else that might be the problem?
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Old 01-06-2013, 05:31 AM   #4
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you might try clicking on the disk in finder and making sure you are permitted to write to that disk. I am new to Reaper as well(long-time Protooler), just trying to help a brother out.***edit**yes it should be ( to your question)

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Old 01-06-2013, 04:25 PM   #5
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When you choose Render from the File menu, click the Browse button and set Reaper to render to your desktop-- just this once-- it's convenient. If this works, set it to render to a place that makes sense for your workflow.

I've seen this problem when the target directory doesn't exist-- like after I've finished one project and deleted the detritus.

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Old 01-06-2013, 05:49 PM   #6
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also ... check the length of the filename.

I've had a similar issue. After many freezes ... eventually did a render out, only to be stop with a similar message.

The filename was too long ?!?!?
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Old 01-10-2013, 03:28 PM   #7
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Many thanks for the suggestions- I've tried directing the output to the desktop, and using a very short file name. Nada!

any other ideas?

This is really frustrating, I sincerely believed Reaper might be a way of escaping the bad old pro-tools days....

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Old 01-11-2013, 08:42 AM   #8
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Others can chime in here, but I think you need to trash some preference files, if you haven't, and then rebuild permissions for your drive.

Have you tried the 32-bit version of REAPER? I'm grasping at straws, but at this point, we need to try more options.

Are you able to render WAV, MP3, anything?

There is some stunningly simple reason this isn't working. Keep after it-- ask every question you can. REAPER is great.
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Old 02-18-2013, 04:22 AM   #9
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I am having this issue as of today and I have been using Reaper for quite a while now.
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Old 02-18-2013, 04:30 AM   #10
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So what did you change between today and the last time it worked? Which of the suggestions in the thread did you try? What is your operating system and what is your render path?
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Old 02-18-2013, 05:38 AM   #11
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Hi, I asked the original question. And so far it's still a problem. Someone mentioned that it might be an issue with permissions. If anyone on the thread has a suggestion of how to resolve that - i'd be really interested to know.

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Old 02-18-2013, 08:02 AM   #12
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OSX standard remedy when weird things happen: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10331328-263.html
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Old 05-04-2015, 12:50 PM   #13
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This was happened with me. I'm fix this just quitting the Reaper and opened the project again.
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Old 12-01-2020, 03:53 AM   #14
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hi
The phenomenon you describe, happened to me for the first time when I upgraded version 6.14 to 6.15
I did not understand what was going on and had never encountered this problem before.
I quickly realized that the problem with the upgrade and something in version 6.15 was not working. At least for me.
I went back to version 14 and everything works perfectly and normally.
Today I tried to upgrade to version 6.17 again, thinking that in the meantime they have fixed the problem ...
But again I encounter the same phenomenon.
Currently 6.14 normal in this respect. I recommend that you first go back there until they solve the problem for us.
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Old 01-06-2021, 11:04 AM   #15
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I have this problem now after changing the SAVE drive to dropbox. It doesn't matter what paths I set/change, I can't render!
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Old 01-06-2021, 11:06 AM   #16
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I had to re-save the project in a different folder and it worked. Maybe something to do with dropbox using the folder??
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Old 04-19-2021, 05:41 AM   #17
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I had this message as well and nothing worked, then I realised that the folder I tried to output to had a space in the name, and it's never been a problem before but suddenly with both 6.15 and 6.27 it stopped working (I was a bit overdue with an update as well so I updated trying to solve the problem), so I closed Reaper, renamed all my folders to names without åöä and spaces, and then it worked.
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Old 12-21-2021, 11:39 PM   #18
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This happened to me, out of the blue yesterday.

Trying different things made it work - the advice above to have no spaces in folder names worked.

However the issue seems to be around whether or not you have ticked the box which adds the output file to a new track in the project. If you have previously rendered the project and so have a track in the project with the output file name then you get the error message. Delete the track containing the output file from a previous render and the error message disappeared and it worked again. I didn't try incremental file name change, which also might have made it work.

And then, this morning, none of the above mattered and it rendered to an output file with a previous render in the project. However, when I did have the error message, doing the above, did make it work again!

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Old 01-12-2022, 01:09 AM   #19
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Probably has nothing to do with everyone else's issues, but thought I'd mention it, just in case.
I'm a Windows user, dabbling on a Macbook M1 Air. I had the same message yesterday, when trying to output to an external drive. What hadn't occurred to me, initially, is that Mac OS doesn't use the same formatting system as Windows, if your drive is formatted in FAT32 or NTFS it won't/can't write to it. They can be read, just not written to.
Renders fine to the Mac's internal drive, however, it's woefully slow compared to my Windows setup - 1m 4s for a 3 minute song, compared to 5s on the Windows machine.

I believe, if you format external drives to exFAT, they're writable in both Windows and Mac OS.
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Old 01-14-2022, 12:21 PM   #20
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NTFS is read-only on macOS. FAT, FAT32, and exFAT are read/write on macOS.

There are a few 3rd-party utilities that make NTFS read/write on macOS.
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