I recently took the OS 9 HD out of my Quicksilver 933 and put my OS X SSD in with the OS 9 SSD that had already been in there.
OS 9 SSD was a duplicate more or less of the older IDE HD. They existed side by side.
Taking the HD out, ProTools suddenly is having trouble finding things. My first encounter was with the Waves 4 reset script and "HFS Extent Table" was not to be found in its usual spot. Then when I started PT it asked me for the location of the Waves 4 folder, and then proceeded to not be able to find several files for a project, and at least in one instance, I couldn't find some specific audio files used in that session. Most everything loaded, but a few were missing.
I got this message
"The original disk allocation for this session cannot be used. One or more drives could not be found or are invalid for this session. As a result, disk allocation has been modified. Would you like to verify the allocation?"Im wondering if some of these randomly missing audio files aren't on the HD, and if perhaps there was some random confusion between the two drives? Most of the audio files are where they should be in their folders and don't cause troubles, but a handful are definitely AWOL. Makes me think that perhaps the SSD was tied to the older drive and occasionally was storing data between the two without me knowing, and it only shows up now that the original disk is no longer available.
ProTools seems very confused about things recently. I also had another project ask me to locate a fade file, but only in that instance. It can find about 90% of the project resources it seems, but a few are either not there, or it needs help finding them!
Anyone else experienced this or something like it, particularly with changing out drives?
I will get around to checking the HD, either put it in an enclosure or install it physically back into the computer, in order to see if those audio files are there.
Thanks to anyone who has some answers!!