Minor annoyance/bug

johnmeyer wrote on 12/9/2003, 3:02 PM
Once in awhile, when I start Vegas, I get this error message:

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:"

The F: is my DVD ROM drive. I never read any files from that drive from within Vegas. I have been unable to correlate getting this message with anything that I did or did not do in the previous Vegas session. If I start a second instance of Vegas after getting this message, that instance also gives me this error message. I get the message about every fifth time I start Vegas.

This is strictly a cosmetic bug, but like many bugs, perhaps it reveals something more sinister (or maybe not ...)

Comments

planders wrote on 12/9/2003, 5:01 PM
I've had this happen in various programs if I've accessed a file from a removable disk at some point, so that it appears in one of the 'recent files' lists. Once the file is pushed off the bottom of the list, the hunt for the file stops. Seems to be one of those issues where Windows is too dense to realize that a removable disk has been removed.

A quick glance at the registry entries for Vegas shows that it maintains a most recently used folder list which will include removable and network paths. There's also a list of most recent projects, stored in a way that I'd be a bit nervous to mess with.

Couldn't hurt to export a backup copy and experiment a bit...
donp wrote on 12/9/2003, 5:53 PM
I have only gotten this annoyance a couple of times. The last time not the same case a yours. I had copied an AVI from my "Vision series" CD in my DVD RW (A05) and imported into Vegas worked a little with the project and colsed Vegas and removed the CD from the drive. The next day I started Vegas again and it gave me the error:

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive ..."

I closed the error window and havn't seen it since and I havn't imported from the Visons CD in the DVD RW drive again either.
rebel44 wrote on 12/9/2003, 7:45 PM
"Open last project on startup" is in options. The first box uncheck and you will have no problems this nature.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/9/2003, 9:14 PM
I've had this problem when 1) I forgot to plug in my firewire drive and 2) had a file in the media pool that was from a CD/firewire drive.

Check your media pool.

I've noticed that Vegas has a handy feature with the "recent projects" thing: if you try to open a project that isn't there with the recent project list, it gives you the error message AND delets the entry from the list.

Cool. I with Photoshop did that!
johnmeyer wrote on 12/10/2003, 2:31 PM
"Open last project on startup" is in options. The first box uncheck and you will have no problems this nature.

That is unchecked (I just went back and looked to make sure).

I think the MRU lists are the likely culprit. I'll try using TweakUI to kill off as many of these as I can find. This probably isn't going to fix it. It's a minor annoyance.