"General Error" when opening files in Sonar XL 2.0

[alzarath]

Hi,

I'm running Sonar on a P4 2.0Ghz 512MB system with Aardvark 24/96 soundcard and Win XP OS. Just today I was recording a project andwas almost completely done. I saved the project to put the finishing touches on later. Later, when I attempted to open this file, the loading process would reach about 70% and then say "General Error" and refuse to finish loading. I was pissed, but thought it was a one time thing. So, I went back to a previous save and redid the parts I lost. I saved it and am getting the same "General Error" message on the latest version. This junk has never happened before, and going nuts losing several hours worth of work like this. The only partially unusual thing I'm adding to the project version that gets corrupted is a tempo change, where it goes to half-time. Can this be causing the problem, or has anyone else experienced this? Also, I did just download Kazaa onto my computer today, could this be causing a problem with Sonar? I'm at a loss and completely stressed, so any help would be appreciated.

[adam]

Interesting. I also have just started seeing general error for the first time. With me it happens occassionally while saving (something i do often). It saves, the bar on the bottom gets to about 70% and says general error. Then I hit OK. It doesn't crash, and when I say save again, it works. So far I haven't noticed any loss of data or audio.

Sorry I can't help, but I find it weird it showed up on me for the 1st time around the same time.

Oh, what about the safe open option? I haven't used it yet, but shouldn't revert to the last working save and start working. Have you tried it, or is this what you meant when you said:

"So, I went back to a previous save and redid the parts I lost. "

[Major Tom]

Oh great, gives me something to look forward to ! I 'm gonna back up tonight. Hopefully your track files are still in the audio data folder, I guess you could try to find them and import each wav or midi track manually into a new session, but if you have about 357 of them in there it might take a while. Better check with cakewalk support, maybe its got an easy fix.

[alzarath]

It took me a while, but I found the problem. Apparently, I had a drum section of one measure made up of 4 quarter-note slices from a couple different loops (I was basically creating my own fill). The file will not load with this for some reason. I take it out with everything else the same and it loads and saves fine. I don't know why this would screw anything up, but at least I'm able to open the file, even if I'm gonna be pissed about not being able to do the drums exactly as I want them.

[djc]

A Sonar bug perhaps?

[Major Tom]

I wouldn't give up on the creating your own fill thing, I cut and splice a beat or 3 together from audio drum loops all the time; bounce to clip, enable looping give it a name like comboFill3 and have not had that issue, it might have been a weirdness that happened to that one file that one time...