I/O Error result code -36: Logic bug, or Mac OSX bug?

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I/O Error result code -36: Logic bug, or Mac OSX bug?

Hello-

I encountered a problem in Logic Pro 8 today that severely damaged one of my audio files in my session. I was working in the sample editor, and I went to copy and paste an audio fragment. When I tried to paste the audio, this error came up:

"I/O Error, result code = -36"

After that, the cursor turned into a black and white spinner, and the audio file that I was working with suddenly was altered in a way that somehow erased a portion of it in the song. I had to ability to undo, view the changes in the audio file, etc, etc. It was damaged irreversibly, and I had to end up re-recording that segment. Does anyone know why this happens, and is it a bug in Logic?

BTW, I have over 500 gigs free on the external drive that I am recording to, and nothing has changed, hardware-wise on my system in over 6 months... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 4 GB RAM

Posted on Jan 11, 2009 9:21 AM

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noeqplease

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Jan 11, 2009 9:25 AM in response to Adam Nitti

Adam Nitti wrote:
Hello-

I encountered a problem in Logic Pro 8 today that severely damaged one of my audio files in my session. I was working in the sample editor, and I went to copy and paste an audio fragment. When I tried to paste the audio, this error came up:

"I/O Error, result code = -36"

After that, the cursor turned into a black and white spinner, and the audio file that I was working with suddenly was altered in a way that somehow erased a portion of it in the song. I had to ability to undo, view the changes in the audio file, etc, etc. It was damaged irreversibly, and I had to end up re-recording that segment. Does anyone know why this happens, and is it a bug in Logic?

BTW, I have over 500 gigs free on the external drive that I am recording to, and nothing has changed, hardware-wise on my system in over 6 months... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This sounds like one of two things that I have seen with this error :

1.- your external hard drives' connection to the computer is not 100% stable (loose cable...dusty environment...)

2.- Your audio device, is ti FireWire too? Is it daisy chained to this external hard drive? Maybe the order of the daisy chaining needs to be looked at.

Cheers

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Eriksimon

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Jan 11, 2009 9:47 AM in response to Adam Nitti

Adam Nitti wrote:
Hello-

I encountered a problem in Logic Pro 8 today that severely damaged one of my audio files in my session. I was working in the sample editor, and I went to copy and paste an audio fragment. When I tried to paste the audio, this error came up:

"I/O Error, result code = -36"

After that, the cursor turned into a black and white spinner, and the audio file that I was working with suddenly was altered in a way that somehow erased a portion of it in the song. I had to ability to undo, view the changes in the audio file, etc, etc. It was damaged irreversibly, and I had to end up re-recording that segment. Does anyone know why this happens, and is it a bug in Logic?

No, I think it is an *OS X* flaw, for this exact same thing happened to about 3 to 4 % of my iTunes library.

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Adam Nitti Author

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Jan 11, 2009 11:25 AM in response to noeqplease

Thanks for the reply. Yes, my interface is Firewire, as well, and I do have them daisychained... The computer is connected to the hard drive, and then the hard drive is connected to the interface. Do you think this is the best way to connect? Also, these cables are pretty new and I suspect they are ok... However, I will try some other cables, too, to see if it makes a difference. It just makes me nervous that this problem could be intermittent and sneak up on me. Thanks again-

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