Vegas Hangs Saving Any Project

Robf wrote on 4/26/2008, 4:29 AM

Vegas had been working fine. I have made many, many projects. Now when I save a project, Vegas hangs every time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled vegas, but I still get a hang. I have a over 1TB of hard drive space with GB of free space. I can recreate this problem very easily.

1. Open Vegas.
2. Save the empty project and it hangs.

If I open an old project I created, and simply try to save it, it also hangs. At the bottom, Vegas says “Saving project name.veg” The green progress bar is stuck at 100%. The application is frozen and must be killed. Clicking cancel does nothing.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2. I have 4 GB of RAM. CPU is a 3GHz Quad.

I am using the latest build 8.0b of Vegas. Please help.
Thanks,
Robert.

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MacVista wrote on 4/26/2008, 7:22 AM

Have you tried save as... and saving somewhere else, maybe with a different file name?

Robf wrote on 4/26/2008, 10:35 AM

Hello,

Yes, I have tried save as. It still hangs. Even a brand new project will hang when I try to save it the first time, even if the project is empy. I am really stuck here.

Thanks,
Robert.

Robf wrote on 4/26/2008, 4:22 PM

I have more information. I discovered that if I save to a directory on my C drive, it works. If I save to my E, F, or G drive, Vegas 8 hangs. This is new. I used my G drive previously for all of my projects, without any problem. Also, each drive is a separate physical drive (not a partition). Running a checkdisk, didn’t find any errors. Vegas is the only application I have with a problem like this. All of my other applications work fine with the other drives.

As a precaution, I went through the Vegas preferences dialog and reset everything to defaults and pressed apply each time. That didn’t fix my problem.

It looks like I can work around the problem by using the C drive. If you have any ideas to get vegas working with my other drives, I would appreciate it.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/26/2008, 8:08 PM

If you press Ctrl-Shift (i.e., hold both the Ctrl and Shift keys) and then start Vegas, this will reset ALL preferences to factory standard, not just the ones in the Preferences dialog.

Robf wrote on 4/27/2008, 4:39 AM

Thanks for the tip. I just tried it but it didn’t help. After that, I went and manually deleted all of the temporary application data in the vegas temp directories.
C:\Documents and Settings\<userdirectory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Sony\Vegas Pro\8.0

That didn’t fix the problem either. Any other ideas?

Darth A Booey wrote on 4/27/2008, 7:43 AM

>>>Any other ideas?

Are the extra hard drives external or internal? If they're internal, have you opened the case to make sure there's not a bunch of dust-bunnies in there causing the temp to rise? You didn't start noticing the glitches after installing any new hardware or software, did you?

I'm really at a loss here, but if all else fails, there's always the old standby: formatting and starting over. It's a last resort measure and you should make sure you have everything important backed up, but that would likely get rid of any odd conflict that may be causing the crashes.

Robf wrote on 4/27/2008, 11:39 AM

I have run performance and SMART diagnostics. The hard drives are good, thier tempurature runs about 95 degrees, which is good too, and the case is clean.

I am trying to avoid reimaging my drive as everythign else is OK and I have already created a new OS once this year. It will be a real pain reactivating my software because I am sure I will have to call Microsoft, Sony, Adobe, etc, for activating everything yet again.