Media Manager error codes 14, 20, & 34

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Media Manager error codes 14, 20, & 34

Hi all,

Been trying to media manager some projects of mine, only on one of my projects I keep getting errors 14, 20 and 34.

Have tried researching what the errors mean and come up a blank, does anyone have some insight?

Also I think its time that apple and other software companies either produce a list of what the errors mean or have error message that mean something to us. What is the point of an error message if we cant find out what the error is. Anyway enough of my rantings.

TIA

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 7, 2007 3:29 PM

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Answer 1

Andy Mees

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Feb 7, 2007 5:20 PM in response to KatAleena

File: CarbonCore/MacErrors.h
Contains: OSErr codes.

writErr = -20, /*I/O System Errors*/
dskFulErr = -34, /*disk full*/

dsIOCoreErr = 14, /*IO Core Error*/
dsNoPk3 = 20, /*package 3 not present*/

or maybe from the POSIX Error codes

#define EFAULT 14 /* Bad address */
#define ENOTDIR 20 /* Not a directory */
#define ERANGE 34 /* Result too large */

basically, without knowing the framework thats calling the error then its **** near impossible to determine its meaning

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Answer 2

KatAleena Author

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Feb 7, 2007 8:49 PM in response to Andy Mees

Thanks for your reply, I think I have figured out what 20 and 34 are in my case anyway. My Story....

Had a hard drive die on me with my project on it, sent it off and got it recovered but when I got it back I have to put all the .mov, .jpg.. etc back onto the files. Well this caused me heaps of problems because FCP did not want to automatically reconnect my media even after copying and deleting the file extension. So I had to reconnect my media manually which was ok but big pain. Accidentally some files got reconnected on the time line to the wrong media with the .mov extension and other without files extension got reconnected to the bin. Error 34 is duplicate files with the same name, when it tried to compact the files regardless of the fact one had .mov and one did not the OS sees it as the same file and we all know you cant have the same file in a folder twice. I noticed also that 20 was the same problem but it happened when a video had unlinked audio. So I fixed it by reconnected all the files that had errors to the files that had no .mov.

Error 14 has to do with my .jpg not sure what but they don't worry me because I can just move and connected them manually.

I hope this helps someone.
cheers.

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Answer 3

Andy Mees

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Feb 7, 2007 9:00 PM in response to KatAleena

thats some good detective work there Cataleena, thanks for posting back.

sounds like you had a bit of a nightmare on your hands, glad its looking up.
cheers
Andy

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