Sorry if my subject line is not clear enough. I'm not sure how to even describe this problem it just gets more bizarre the more I troubleshoot it. I do long form narration (a long with other audio/video work) and ever since switching to Logic from Soundtrack Pro I've intermittently had to deal with corruption that results in a series of errors when I load a project about file lengths changing.
At first I thought it was corruption in the project file (and that is what it seemed in the case of past projects). In fact, in the past I would create a brand new project and just copy the tracks into the new project and that seemed to fix it in most cases. With my current project (in which I've recorded 10 out of 14 hours of audio) the actual files are now truncated. The audio data is all there but the headers seem to be corrupt. I've been working on this project for over a week--opening & closing logic to work on other projects, shutting the computer down, etc.--and never had problems. In the past what seemed to work is merging all the final takes of each segment into a single audio file/region. However, event that does not seemed to have staved off whatever is eating my files.
Has anyone else had this problem? Know of a solution?! i'd love some help restoring the corrupted files but mostly understanding the problem and how to avoid it in the future.
Mac Pro Quad 2.66ghz 24GB RAM Logic 9.1.8