cant restore old songs...

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MartyMcFly

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Hi guyzzz.
Im having trouble importing some old songs into ProTools 5.3.1. I made these archives of some old songs before I swapped HDd's. So now I go to put them back onto Pro tools and it will import like maybe 10 wav files and then it will hit that "one" wav file and it says, " Error copying file or folder. Cannot copy Bass_5: Invalid Ms-Dos Function" I know the files I need ARE there. it just wont let me take them off the cd...
Any help is appreciated.
 
Did you try transferring the files to the hard drive first? Try that, and after you do, make sure that they are all NOT set to read-only. Not sure if that's the issue -- it shouldn't be if your just importing files -- but it might cause something to go funny under the skins.
 
Alchuck...
I just tried to drag them off the cd onto the desktop. It will transfere about half of the waves but it will just get to that "one" or 2 files and it has a brainfart. Like I said in my first post I know the files are on the cd but it just will not take them off. Ill check what you said...
 
I suspect that you got a corrupt file or two there, if they won't transfer at all. Are you using CD-Rs or CD-RWs? A week ago a friend had a CD-RW with her business' QuickBooks data backed up on it. We restored it into a new installation of Quickbooks on her new computer. The file looked OK, it was listed in the directory and all, but it failed at the very end of the export process and turned out to be corrupt. I could even copy it sucessfully to another drive, but it was still a bad file and wouldn't work properly.

If the OS won't even let you copy it you are probably hosed. Or possibly there are data recovery steps that might be taken to get some or even all of the WAV data out of the file...
 
Alchuck...It was that they were read only. So i went in and manually un read onlyied them and BAM!. its fixed.
Its kinda wierd cause why would say 15 files be ok but 25 of the rest be read only...I dont know... but thanks for helping me...
 
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