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Hey guys, last night i had a surge and my stupid surge protector didnt work...anyways, cool edit was running while when it happened...when i restarted my computer it gave me the option to continue the mix i was working on, i continued...but after that it kept giving me the message an error has occured (im running windows xp). it kept doing that for about 20min so i decided to uninstall it then reinstall it...same thing is happening, everytime i go to either save my mixdown or add a file it gives me the error message and sut downs CEP....please help me...im in the middle of a song that ive been working on for a very long time and nothing seems to work.

thanks a lot.
 
Dual HDD's

if you have a second drive letter maybe you could try installing it there.
Or try going to computing.net and asking
 
i dont have a second hdd...ill also post there, thanks...any other suggestions..please...

thanks
 
i cant even open up my song onto the multitrack now...it says its opening but then it just freezes...sigh...can anybody help me?
 
would that work if i installed another hdd and installed it to the empty one?
 
This sounds stupid but... try it anyway :D

I hope you saved all your .wav files in a folder outside of cooledit, if not, copy all the files you can, and save them in a folder not in cool edit.

Uninstall CEP, then remove it from your registry. Re-boot your PC. Install CEP off a fresh Download or the CD, depending on how you bought it. It should work from there....
 
CoP on to something

Get the wave files first and try and open them in Soundforge just to make sure they are good.
To remove stuff from the registry you need to go to File > Run > regedit...............
Make sure you are comfortable before this.
BEFORE anything though, get those wave files OFF the machine and on a CD or another HDD.
The work is everything.

You can always reformat the HDD.
 
can anyone explain to me how to delete it from the registry?

so if i reboot will i get any msg telling me that files are missing from the registry and cant continue loading?



and yea my files arent saved in cool edit


im a mess right now, ive been working on this song for so long and was about to complete it.

thanks
 
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Do any other songs open up okay? even the CEP theme song? If they do, you may not need to un-install Cool Edit, it could just be the session file that's damaged.

If the Song was stored in it's own folder, you could try creating a new empty project with a slightly different name, then open the wave files one at a time, insert them into the multi-track, and save it under the new name.

If this works, you will of course lose all the settings/effects, and have to set everything up again, but as long as the tracks themselves are okay, things could be worse!!
 
Strryder said:
Do any other songs open up okay? even the CEP theme song? If they do, you may not need to un-install Cool Edit, it could just be the session file that's damaged.

If the Song was stored in it's own folder, you could try creating a new empty project with a slightly different name, then open the wave files one at a time, insert them into the multi-track, and save it under the new name.

If this works, you will of course lose all the settings/effects, and have to set everything up again, but as long as the tracks themselves are okay, things could be worse!!
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none of my sessions open up
 
computing.net

the site above has excellent help.
you can learn how to back up your wave files and use regedit

Good Luck
 
if i clear it off my registry will i have any problems on restart?

and how do i clear it from my registry? can someone tell me step by step where to go? thank you.
 
Dude, before you do that...empty your temp files. If XP is like every other version of Windows, then the path is probably

C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Look in that folder, b/c it's the default folder where CEP stores files that are in session...if you have any of the little CEP icons in that folder, delete every one of them.

CEP is most likely hanging b/c when it boots up, it checks the temp files...if there are any there, then it knows a session crashed, and it tries to load the session, but if the files are damaged (they are, btw), then CEP sometimes gets caught up in a little loop.

Anyway, try that first. I have kids who unplug stuff all the time, lol.
 
chrisharris said:
Dude, before you do that...empty your temp files. If XP is like every other version of Windows, then the path is probably

C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Look in that folder, b/c it's the default folder where CEP stores files that are in session...if you have any of the little CEP icons in that folder, delete every one of them.

CEP is most likely hanging b/c when it boots up, it checks the temp files...if there are any there, then it knows a session crashed, and it tries to load the session, but if the files are damaged (they are, btw), then CEP sometimes gets caught up in a little loop.

Anyway, try that first. I have kids who unplug stuff all the time, lol.
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thanks ill try that
 
i did what u said...and it started up normally, but now when i open up any session and for instance i want to close CEP and it asks if i want to save, i say "yes" yes to all" "no" "no to all" it always gives me the error and shuts it down..
 
word_play said:
i did what u said...and it started up normally, but now when i open up any session and for instance i want to close CEP and it asks if i want to save, i say "yes" yes to all" "no" "no to all" it always gives me the error and shuts it down..
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Okay, the good news is you're half way there. The corrupted file is gone. The bad news is that I probably made you delete a file that CEP needs in order to save ANY session information, which is why I should be tarred and feathered...HOWEVER, you CAN fix it now by re-installing CoolEdit (sorry). I think this step had to be done, though...b/c if you re-installed with those files still in the temp directory, it should have given you the same exact problems after reinstallation.

BTW - Let us know if this works, okay?
 
BTW - Do you remember if when you deleted those files in the temp directory, did you see any that were pretty huge...By pretty huge, I mean some were maybe 3 or 4 mb, but then one was 10X larger?

The other thing I'm thinking is that it'd probably be a really good idea for you to defrag your harddrive BEFORE you reinstall CEP...the reason being that when your computer runs the checks it does before degragging, it should catch any problems like truncated files (it's where a file is seen as part of one, and part of another, and it can happen when CEP crashes WHILE it's doing one of it's self-saving things in the background.

I have no idea why I typed all that, lol, but from one bad experience I had, I'd recommend AT LEAST running "scandisk" before you reinstall CEP to see if any registry errors pop up. Then, run the "ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS" thing to get rid of CEP, then reinstall it.

Last thing...if during the UNinstallation, it asks you if you want to keep some shared file that is not being used, but which is harmless to leave, hit NO...don't retain any of the "old" CEP.

Good luck...
 
thanbks a lot chris, im gonna try all what uve said and get back to you...i cant remember if i deleted any large file sorry.

thanks again, i greatly appreciate it.
 
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