Pro Tools 8 "Could Not Allocate Space For Recording"

[DJ Xsinna]

Anyone ever get this message? It just suddenly happened. My external hard drive that I have always been recording to is 2 TB and I'm not even close to filling it so I am baffled by this sudden bomb that's been dropped on me. Any suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks!!

 

[thedreampolice]

Go to the workspace browser and you have to click on the setting to the left of your external drive and tell pro tools to use it as an audio drive

Sorry that's all from memory as I'm on my phone but that should do the trick.

 

[DJ Xsinna]

Cool!! I'll try that. Thanks my man! You're always a great help.

 

[thedreampolice]

No worries. Let me know if you need more help.

 

[DJ Xsinna]

Right on!

 

[DJ Xsinna]

Well, I checked my external drive and it was already set to record audio. It's a 3 TB usb drive with 2.5 TBs of remaining space so I've got plenty of space to record so I'm at a loss here. I've thrown away preferences, nothing.

 

[thedreampolice]

I assume you are creating the project and storing on the external and not in your my documents folder?

oh and windows or mac?

 

[DJ Xsinna]

I'm on a 2007 Mac Pro Quad Core. 10 gigs of memory and recording to a 3TB USB hard drive. After doing some research, I found out the PT 8 M-Powered doesn't like USB drives to well. At the suggestion of a fellow PT user and producer friend, I'm going to have to install a 7,200 rpm 1TB in the Mac Pro and record on that. What do you think?

 

[thedreampolice]

You should be able to make it work as is, but on a Mac that old I would drop a new internal in no doubt!

 

[DJ Xsinna]

You're right. And it was working as is until a couple of months ago. Just all of a sudden, that error message popped up - no more audio recording. Dang!

 

[thedreampolice]

Hmm, did someone format the drive?

 

[DJ Xsinna]

No. I just needed to add another internal hard drive. That solved the problem.