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Unable to record more than about 10 minutes before file size limit error

I'm trying to record a podcast in Garageband with 2 iChat tracks. Randomly between 10 and 20 minutes of recording I'll get an error reporting that "an error occurred. Result Code =-35" twice then an error that the files can't exceed 2gb. After I acknowledge the errors the files disappear and can't be recovered. I got a good 18 minute recording and both .aif tracks were under 100mb so I don't think I'm really exceeding the limit.


Is this a bug in Garageband or is there something I can do to resolve the errors?

GarageBand (Mac) '11, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 2:06 PM

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Jun 26, 2011 2:51 PM in response to HangTime

I'm capturing on a Macbook with 2.4ghz Core Duo 2 with 4gb of RAM. I'm capturing to the internal hard drive which I upgraded to a 500gb 5200 RPM drive. There is 266gb free and I haven't noticed anything unusual happening when the error occurs. During the recording we've been trying to do today it happened once after recording approx 9 minutes.

Jul 1, 2011 7:45 PM in response to iTatton

Ok, I'm completely baffled now. I eliminated the original machines we were doing the recording with and I moved away from Bonjour for iChat and we used Google Chat (still in iChat). I started a new capture on my Mac Mini and hit the exact same problem. We got 17 minutes into our 4th actual recording attempt, hit the same error -35, and lost everything again... The tempo was set to 40bpm and this time I captured to an external drive that I know didn't lose connectivity. Like my previous recording attempts, the recordings weren't in the Garageband package contents. I found previous ones we started and stopped, but there weren't files for the 17 minute capture.


I specifically made a point to change every variable from the Macbook recordings and I'm still hitting the same brick wall. I really don't understand what could be causing the problem.

Unable to record more than about 10 minutes before file size limit error

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