System
X3e 64
Win 7 64
i7 2600k
2 x 7200 Barricuda drives (this project was being run from and recorded into ONLY the C drive)
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Focusrite Scarlett 18i6
Focusrite VRM Box attached and active VIA SPDIF (but bypassed via the VRM software... this is a new device on my rig)
What happened...
As I said I had returned to an old project to clean it up. After which point I was going to start working on it again. I did a little bit of cleanup/reorganizing into the new Save As "Clean Up" but then got off track and started recording into the project. I did not do anymore Save As's after that instead just saving into that project (STUPID).
I did a bunch of guitar takes into a new track (outboard effects). That track seems to be intact because I was not editing it. After that I realized my original guit takes could be better (dual recorded clean tracks for amp sims). I recorded a bunch of takes into the existing tracks (these are the tracks where the clips are missing).
After getting a bunch of really good takes and making notes for them all to prepare for comping today I created song segment markers and made my comp splits. For some reason (and I posted about this last week) this project has decided to ignore the record grouping I thought I had enabled (I probably screwed something up but I think this may be part of the problem that led to the crash). So I manually sliced everything up across the two sets of clean/sim tracks and the outboard effects track one at a time so they all matched (because the clips weren't properly grouped and it was refusing to allow me to create new groups for some screwy reason).
I went through the comping process and got a really nice sounding selection but it was a general comp. I wanted to tighten up the fades and splits.
This is where the trouble began...
I had about 7-10 splits in the project. I had only really had about half of those where I actually strayed from the one best track. Because my clip grouping had failed and I wanted all the changes to be represented in both tracks I selected both of the tracks so that any changes made to one would effect to other (of course this selected all the clips in both tracks). I adjusted the first split/fade no problem...
THEN when I moved to the second split things went all funky. I had been zoomed way in so I could not see what was happening beyond the first fade. When I zoomed out everything after the second fade was GONE and I was getting erratic screen behavior. It looked like maybe the clips just weren't rendering and that maybe they were still there (I could see little lines where I thought the splits had been but they had actually been moved to AFTER the end of the project). I closed the project and reopened it hoping it was just a glitch. No dice, same deal. So I tried to slip edit one of the slivers thinking somehow the clips had somehow slip edited themselves to slivers and BOOM.... full crash, windows reporter pops up then the Cake crash reporter thing.
I saved the crash report (wherever those things get saved by default) and opened the project again to see what I could see. I zoomed WAY in to the slivers (which did seem to represent the original splits but were WAY off from where they had been originally... almost like they had all be dragged to the end of the project which was about a 2.5-3 minute project and now was 5.5-6 min project) and sure enough the crossfades were there but no audio.
So it retained and moved the splits/x-fades but not the acutal audio. I do not think I hit any weird key combos and I have no idea what keybinding would cause such mayhem. I can only guess that maybe it was trying to apply my x-fade edits to ALL the splits at once across both tracks (because everything was selected) then threw up on itself.
So yeah... likely my fault for trying to force that type of editing but I though it would be fine.
Anyway... I just need to find my tracks.
Ugh... sorry, I R dumb.