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Old 10-16-2008, 04:45 PM   #1
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Default AHHHH! error opening media?!?!?

ok i have a problem...when i start a new project and drop in a new track i can record but then as soon as it's stopped, it pops up a message saying "error opening media" what the hell is that and why am i getting that message? ive got pretty much everything in the preferences set to "default". thanks guys.
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Old 10-17-2008, 07:54 AM   #2
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anyone got any suggestions?

i dont quite understand what buffer size does so that value might not be right, and if theres anything else like that im not aware of.
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Old 10-17-2008, 11:24 AM   #3
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I know I've said this before to others, but you've repaired disk permissions already, right?
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Old 10-17-2008, 12:14 PM   #4
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Be sure that the "Plugins" folder is with reaper.app -- without it REAPER will not be able to read any files, including .wav...
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Old 10-18-2008, 01:01 AM   #5
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actually im not sure what the disk permission is but im in the process of doing the repair now. my roomate is a computer tech guy and he found the repair but its taking a while.

and as for the plugins folder, it IS there where its supposed to be. sorry this is kind of confusing and frustrating.
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Old 10-19-2008, 03:36 PM   #6
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ok someone has got to have something on this......bump
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Old 10-19-2008, 03:40 PM   #7
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REAPER gives me mixed results when dropping in audio files from one of my external Firewire drives. Version by version, it works - it doesn't work - it works but it won't save - it doesn't work - it works and saves but the song file is corrupted.

So - are your media files on your startup drive or on an external HD? If the latter, copy them to your internal drive and try it again and let us know what happens.
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Old 10-19-2008, 09:31 PM   #8
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nah im not putting something in, im recording directly to the firepod from a senn. e 609 on a guitar amp. ugh! sorry these little techy problems are really annoying.
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Old 10-19-2008, 10:15 PM   #9
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If everything is set to default and you haven't saved the project, the audio files will try to get written in the Applications folder. This might cause problems.

If you save first to, say, your Documents folder, does it help?
Have you tried to fix the permissions on your HD?
When installing Reaper, are you sure copied the whole Reaper directory including subdirectories?
Does your user have limited permissions?

Those would be the most common problems.
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Old 10-20-2008, 01:57 AM   #10
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...

it is the same problem i had, a student encounter, other users have too ...

see:

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=27298
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=25652

try to run repaer from an usb-stick ( copy your reaper folder to it ) ... and it works fine.

all my reaper settings were ok, mac permissions also, checked my drive , ... had someone knowing osx very well looking at it ( he couldn't find any problem ) ...

i had to re-install osx ... and that did the trick.

???

W.

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Old 10-20-2008, 01:39 PM   #11
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weird. man i hope its not that drastic. i dont get why it would work completely fine for like two weeks and then just all of a sudden totally go haywire.

but tonight when i have some time i think i might sit down with it again and just try to do everything all over again and read SUPER carefully to see if theres something that doesnt sound just right.
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Old 10-20-2008, 09:21 PM   #12
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UPDATE: well im not sure exactly what happened, but i dled the newest updates to reaper and for some reason that seemed to have fix my problem. not really sure what happened there but at least its kickin like fried chicken again.
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Old 10-21-2008, 02:16 PM   #13
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i use the same ( repear ) folder all the time, i don't use the upgrade named folders.
one of my students told me she had it each time after upgrade's, and reverting to older did the trick.
as i don't have a preveous version folder i couldn't and had to re-install all.
today upgrades works great in the same folder.
haven't any idea what it can be. al is in place as all have to be, the same place were it was.

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Old 10-21-2008, 02:35 PM   #14
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yeah i thought it was kind of strange that if i used the older icon, it still wouldnt work but if i clicked on the "updated version" icon it works fine....so im not really sure what gives. still getting used to macs but with windows when you update something, theres only one version, and thats usually the newest you have dled.
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