Recovering a file in CEP 2.0 or 2.1

[BlackoutSP]

Hi all,

I have been working with Cool edit Pro for a couple years now and i am having a recurrent problem that may have botched an hour of a live show i did earlier tonight. We all, im sure see the CEP does crash more than we would like it to, and usually recovers it's temp file as designed.

However, sometimes, it is just too confused and freezes before it can even load the recovered session. So, then i can still find this temp file (this one happens to be about 1.9 Gigs (3 tracks and roughly an hour and a half of showtime). The first half of the show was saved to .wav's during an intermission, but the program froze as the final song started.

this file still exists, and it is currently on 4 different physical hard drives, on two different computers so that i won't lose it, it is in the folders that CEP has designated as the temp folders, so i was hoping that the program would see it, and recover it, but that didn't happen.

I tried forcing CEP to open it as a waverform, but i get it SUPER-time-compressed (chipmunks to the extreme), and even after trying the time stretch effect (twice in series, because it was so compressed), it then only has about half of the information in place, it sounds somewhat like a constantly skipping CD.

Please help me out, and i would appreciate answers emailed to keith@blackoutstudioproductions.com please

Thank you all,

Keith McKinley

[lpdeluxe]

What operating system are you using, and how much RAM? I had constant crashes with 98SE but XP Home has been rock solid with CEP/AA.

[BlackoutSP]

Originally Posted by lpdeluxe

What operating system are you using, and how much RAM? I had constant crashes with 98SE but XP Home has been rock solid with CEP/AA.

i have 512 MB of PC2700 RAM, running XP home. 98 SE is what i used to run CEP on as well, it was horrid, as you mentioned (Win 95 was even worse), XP is much better, but i still have these rare issues once every few months.

-Keith