What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean?

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2015/04/05 02:45:54 (permalink)

What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean?

So today, as I was closing a project, Sonar Plat asked me if I wanted to save.  I chose "yes" and got a dialog box that said "general failure".  So I saved manually, no error and then closed, again no error.  So, no data lost, but it did give me a fright.
 
Anyone seen this?  Just wondering what it meant?
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    karhide
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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/05 03:54:58 (permalink)
    That sounds more like a message from Windows more than Sonar.  Which version of windows are you running?

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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/05 06:39:22 (permalink)
    Have you checked the project to make sure it is OK?

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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/05 07:14:59 (permalink)
    I haven't seen "general failure" but i have seen "general error".
     
    This only ever happened when attempting to save  project but I can't recall ever having lost data because of it.
     
    I've yet to see this in SPlat

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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/05 08:51:48 (permalink)
    I have only seen the "general error" one time and was on a very large project. The solution was to bump up the File System I/O to 512KB (Preferences->(Advanced Mode at the bottom)->Audio->Sync and Caching). Until I did that it would not allow me to save at all, and I have left it at 512KB since without issues.

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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/05 10:52:06 (permalink)
     
    The general failure error massage is a Windows error message. It has many reasons why it would give this error message, depending on what else in on your pc

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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/06 05:16:38 (permalink)
    Hmm, it's possible that the error was "general error", and it was a very large project.  I will try mettelus' suggestion of bumping up the File System I/O to 512KB.  Thanks for the advice.
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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/06 09:24:24 (permalink)
    I occasionally get the general error message on saving.  A second save attempt seems to work.


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    Re: What does "General Failure" when closing/saving mean? 2015/04/06 15:39:15 (permalink)
    I've seen this too, both in SPlat and earlier.
    If I click the audio engine button to disengage it, it then allows the save.
     
    No idea why, but that's how I work around it.

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