Hi,

I just tried to export a mix and got a message back saying errors - insufficient disk space or disk errors. I've a huge amount of disk space 500 gig external drive. I've never had a problem exporting, in fact exported two days ago and this just came up today.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

EuroD

You're not really giving much info ... what size was your mix -- how many tracks, what's the total mix time, do you use wav files or mp3 files or what?

How much free space on your C drive -- that's where the processing for exporting the mix gets done, not on your external hard drive -- so your free space there is irrelevant.

When was the last time you defragged your system?

This doesn't really sound like a MixMeister problem -- it sounds like a PC problem.

The error response from your system here (if your drive is NOT full)

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insufficient disk space or disk errors

Is a core response error from your operating system pointing to a problem with your hard disk drive. The drive may be failing or your may have a bad USB connection to the disk itself (bad or loosely connected USB cable or slow USB port--an older 1.1 USB connection connection port on your PC vs. modern 2.0 USB connection may also be too slow. You should have your USB drive connected to a 2.0 USB port).

You should run diagnostics on your disk drive with the appropriate diagnostics from your disk drive manufacturer to make sure that a core failure of the drive is not in progress. Let me assure you, it does not matter if this is a brand new drive. Initial drive failure rates for new disk drives average up to 1% across-the-board for almost all industry drives. This means that for every one million drives manufactured by a given vendor, 10,000 of them will fail early (and among these 1% most will fail within the first few weeks to six months or so).

A USB disk drive is a regular SATA or IDE drive contained within a box that interfaces it to your system via its external enclosure's USB interface. It is a standard hard disk drive just like the ones internal to a PC.

BACK UP YOUR DATA FROM THAT DISK NOW!!!!, and then download the appropriate disk diagnostic tools from your drive manufacturers and use them to scan your drive for defects.

Thanks!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: tepmix,

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Originally posted by MadameFLY:
How much free space on your C drive -- that's where the processing for exporting the mix gets done, not on your external hard drive -- so your free space there is irrelevant.

I'm 99% sure that's your problem...


Gaz