Saving Packed Song File

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getting error

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When I try to save a .sgw file - I get the following error message
’error can’t append file’
I am using 6.0.3 build 2455

I’m just testing it and am using no compression.

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Does manualy (re)naming the file before saving help? (just change the name so it has a sgw extension or no ext may be enough) There was an issue in earlier builds that would require the filename to be changed. I don’t know if that bug has been addressed yet.

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Just tried a packed song file here Seven and it worked fine. Re-opened fine also.

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No - it does not seem to help.
I just tried to save it with the name ‘test’ with no extension
and I get the same error message.

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This problem seems to have re-surfaced in build 2457…using Vista

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I just tried resaving the same file and it worked here guys. Vista x64 32 bit app build 2457

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I am using XP-SP1
ntrack 6.0.3 build 2455
a 16 bit sound card (record 48k)
have a song with midi and wav files (very small just for testing - about 8 bars)
The .sng saves correctly and restores fine.
But when I try to save as .sgw (with or without compression) + changing the 'save’
name, I get ‘error can’t append file’ and now I get ‘error can’t find wav’ as well.

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AHA! See if taking out the MIDI tracks solves the problem. While a packed song should be able to contain MIDI tracks, there may be an issue/bug in that scenario. I ran into something similar. Taking out the MIDI tracks fixed it.

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OK Phoo - yeh that works - but not what I would expect.
So is it ‘supposed’ to save MIDI data as well? Or is it just for wav files?
Packed song without half the song is a half packed song :whistle:

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That’s a bug. As you say, half a packed song is half a song. Not too useful if tracks are missing. I guess an issue is what to do when unpacking and a VST instrument is missing that that MIDI track might be sending to (just like any other missing effect I suppose). Not much of an issue when using external MIDI.

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The problem is new to v6.0.3 and related to MIDI parts, basically the program tried to save into the sgw file non-existant .wav files for each MIDI part.
Build 2459 should fix the problem. Let me know if you still have this or other problems with the new build.

Flavio.