I am trying to mix some songs that I got from a PC-user on logic 5.5. Everything seems to work fine - logic tells me it is converting the song from windows format to' mac format and the it gives me a choice for the audiofiles(Wave,ASIO-format) to convert it to the CORE AUDIO format. this is where something strange happens. I'm getting an errormessage -5000 for each audiofile as the overviews are written. After this everything appear to be allright but it's not. the files are locked somehow and it doesn't help to repair or changing the permissions. I can play the files but I can't get into sample-edit except for a couple of seconds just when I have started up the song. Am I doing something wrong? Is it a bug? Is there a workaround for this? I have the windowsfiles on CD and have tried to copy them first to both my internal drive and my firewiredrive. I have also tried to copy the files from the CD using logic. have also tried to rename and convert the files to SDII and AIFF but they remain unable to open in sample edit. If anybody has got a hunch on this please fill me in! Håkan Folkesson

Håkan Folkesson <hakan.folkesson@a...> wrote: > I am trying to mix some songs that I got from a PC-user on logic 5.5. > Everything seems to work fine - logic tells me it is converting the > song from windows format to mac format and the it gives me a choice for the > audiofiles(Wave,ASIO-format) to convert it to the CORE AUDIO format. > this is where something strange happens. I'm getting an errormessage > -5000 for each audiofile as the overviews are written. > After this everything appear to be allright but it's not. the files are > locked somehow and it doesn't help to repair or changing the > permissions. I can play the files but I can't get into sample-edit > except for a couple of seconds just when I have started up the song. Hi Håkan, Try this: after copying your files to the audio drive,select them,and change their attributes under the info pane,so that you can both read and write on them.You can do this to a bunch of files,by changing the enclosing folder's attributes,and selecting the button at the bottom for applying to enclosed items It looks like the song file is the one causing the trouble,but also maybe that the audio files are also write-protected. Once they are all read-write enabled,you should be good to go. Cheers, Nick