just got logic studio, need some help!

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just got logic studio, need some help!

hello, first time caller, love the show.
i've just bought logic studio which is great, and am using a newly acquired iomega 500 gb external drive to save all the audio etc. logic seems to be working fine except however when i am ready to start recording, when it seems to crash, the spinning rainbow wheel thing comes up and won't go, then i have to force quit logic AND relaunch the finder for some strange reason. i did forget to format the hard drive to max os x from fat32, could that be the problem? or something else? help! i'm haemorrhaging creativity here!

imac 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.11), used primarily for music recording

Posted on Jan 18, 2008 4:26 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 20, 2008 8:39 AM in response to alexmountaineer

Me too! In Logic Pro 7 I had all my projects on an external drive (160GB LaCie Porsche Firewire), and I would record to that drive. In Logic Studio, if the record path is set to that drive Logic will crash itself AS WELL AS the Finder whenever I press record. No good, no good. Do we just wait for a Logic update?

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Answer 2

Jan 20, 2008 8:58 AM in response to alexmountaineer

+i did forget to format the hard drive to max os x from fat32, could that be the problem? or something else?+

Yes. Backup your drive first, and reformat using Apple's Disk Utility to Mac OSX Extended, journaling off. Then restore your data back on the drive.

There have been a lot of similar messages here - I guess users are buying external drives from a local office or computer store, and just plugging them in without checking the drive's format first.

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