plugins taking up resourses all of a sudden?

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MartyMcFly

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Hey there...Well I have a digi-001 from protools. I also have waves gold.
The thing is this...I recently got an email virus and had to FDISK/mbr my whole system. I did save my protools sessions onto cd-r so I could restore them when I got my system back up and running. Well its up and running and now my plugins are talking up like 6 times as much of my cpu as they did before.
So far I havent created any new songs to see if its the fact that they are restored files instead of new ones. When I open up one of these restored files it asks me...

(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 the disk allocation has been modified. Would you like to verify the new disk allocation?)

Does anyone know what this is?
 
Come on...there has got to be someone out there who has expierenced this.
 
What's the rest of your system. specs?

I know nothing about the 001 file problem. Is it possible the file is still marked 'read only' because you copied it back from cd-r? Check the properties. Shot in the dark.

After that message, what options do you have?

As for the plug-in problem, post the system specs.
 
Well see the thing is...before this all happened the plugins never took up as much of my cpu as they do now. Therefore I dont think my system specs have much to do with it. I was monitoring it before I got the virus and had to reboot everything and everything was fine...even after I had the virus. But for some reason the plugins suck my cpu power now. It was only after the reboot. Maybe its the virus? BUt it was only some email virus. I checked it out with mcafee. I dont know of course...If I had all of the answers I wouldnt be here.
 
System specs might help give some clue and starting point, as to what is going on.
 
This is a tough one, Marty. Don't know what else you had to do to your system to get it running, but here's what I'd do:

1. Delete PT and re-install the drivers and software.
2. Verify that your CD-ROM drives still have auto-insert disabled
3. Verify that your hard disks are all DMA-enabled
4. Make sure your virus-protection software is NOT running in the background while you are using PT.

The last point is HUGE: Did you just have this software installed as a result of the tryst with the virus? I have a virus checker too; before I do ANYTHING in PT I disable Auto-Protect. I also, for good measure, Pause the Windows task scheduler. That damn virus checker -- I'm glad it's there, don't get me wrong -- but it will slow everything to a crawl if it's churning in the background.

Of course, make sure to "protect yourself" before going back online! Turning Auto-Protect on is kinda like a cyber-condom... Can I say that?
 
geekgurl said:
Of course, make sure to "protect yourself" before going back online! Turning Auto-Protect on is kinda like a cyber-condom... Can I say that?
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NO!

Despite your good advice, profane analogies like this one cannot be tolerated!

Oh crap, analogies has anal in it.

I have to go smite myself now. Carry on.
 
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