<quotes repositioned and trimmed by admin> On 1-May-04, at 3:48 AM, paulthesinger wrote: > i'm still using logic 4.7 on my G3 with external scsi drive. it has > worked like a dream for years, but often now it crashes as i start > to record, with a loud splintering sound. > several times i have found a huge file has been instantly created > on my seperate, audio only hard drive...between 200 and 400 > megabytes! > when i play it back its often looped gibberish and sometimes a > half speed playback of an earlier file! > any body ever encountered this or anything like it? try a complete reinstall. OS 9 gets corrupted over time and more than a year is a blessing for it to keep working. you should also run DiskWarrior on all your drives first or if you are too busy re-install. The large file you see is the pre-allocated audio file that logic makes before recording, since Logic crashed you end up seeing the file. The same thing happens in ProTools under certain circumstances so don't worry about it, just delete it. -haven