Project empty after restart

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hi All,
I’ve just come to my Octatrack this morning to find the project I was working on last night has vanished. All MIDI tracks are unassigned to channels and all trigs are missing.
On the audio track side of things, I had six flex machines and one thru machine, all have reverted to static machines and all samples are unloaded from slots, and all trigs/patterns are gone.
I frequently save my project and all parts, which was the last thing I did before switch off.
I have also checked that I hadn’t inadvertently changed to an empty bank, but it’s not that either.
The project IS loaded, it’s just all it’s content has gone.

Obviously, I’m somewhat concerned as the manual states that projects are auto-cached to the card, and I’ve been working this way for weeks without a problem.
Surely it can’t all have disappeared, I must be missing something…

Any thoughts anyone?

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Probably power circle or project reload help to load project again properly if there were errors with that.
Check flash card.

Edit: I meant power cycle… Power circle is also very helpfull because that’s what we are!

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@kodyjones other projects load successfully?

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Project > Reload.

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it’s the only Project I have/had. Reload doesn’t work either…

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Please create a new project and check if it also fails. Maybe it’s really a faulty CF-Card.

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Ohhh, speaking of CF cards, would I be able to use a CF card bigger than the included 64 GB? Like maybe a 512 GB CF card?

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You have got 64GB included? Not 16?
64GB is max for cards going into OT.

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I don’t have an OT, so I misread what’s included in the description. But why would the machine limit the user to using nothing more than 64GB? There are other CF cards out there with more storage on it.

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Could be a limitation of the filesystem? To be serious, why would you need more than 64GB…that would be a lot of samples and recordings. :slight_smile:

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How else am I going to record samples of all of the dogs in the world?

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OK, if this is your mission…maybe 64GB are not enough. :grinning:

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64GO = 120 hours, 5 days of audio non stop. :slight_smile:

You didn’t save your project?

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Ok just got home with the intention of trying a new project to see if this loads. (Incidentally, the reason I’d not done this is because the project file and associated audio pool were still there on the card, with slice info that I’d saves back to the file intact.)
So I removed my CF card, re-installed it, re-booted, reloaded the project, and bingo, all the missing bits were back.
So in summary, I don’t know what happend: the project was loading, just not it’s parts and sequences.
Hope this thread is useful to someone, if it’s not diverged too far from the original question by now.

Thank you Power Circle :smile:

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Well, NOW are larger cards out there, but not when the OT was created initially (at least not affordable ones). It’s already an oldie, you know?

And no, it’s not a filesystem limitation. OT supports FAT16 (partition sizes up to 4 GB) and FAT32 (partition sizes up to 16 TB). IMHO it’s a hardware limitation (maybe the card controller?), because many devices from that era have that 64 GB limit.

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Ahhh, that makes a bit of sense. It would have been nice if this part was updated with the MK2, which I don’t think should’ve been that costly (assuming it’s the card controller in question).