(If this question has already been answered on a previous thread, please point me that way.) I've been using Digi 001 since just after it was released, with very few problems. But one thing that has always vexed me is the backup process. I do voiceovers full-time, so I usually wait until a client's folder reaches around 700 mb, then back it up to Toast, using the Files and Folders option. (I drag the entire session into Toast: ProTools icon, Audio Files, Session backup, any MP3's that were created...exactly what was recorded on the hard drive.) This works fine, until I want to go back to that CD and open a session. When I click on the ProTools icon, the session starts to load, then stops and asks for the location of the audio files, for example "Please Locate Boeing_32." No matter how I respond, the session opens up with blank spaces where the audio used to be. When the session was first recorded, the audio was allocated to one of the partitions on my secondary hard drive. I get around this problem by dragging the archived session from the CD back onto the audio drive, so it's not the end of the world, it's just...troublesome. To make it even stranger, one time out of ten the archived CD session actually opens! Like I say, I've been backing up my work like this for years. Have I been doing it wrong all this time? I'm using ProTools LE v5.1.1, and Toast Deluxe v4.1.2. For what it's worth I'm still chugging along with a G3 B/W 350. Sorry for bringing up a topic that likely has been beaten to death sometime in the past. Thanks for your help. Jim Barton

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I do the same thing with newer versions of toast and PT and I do it across multiple DVDS and it works fine. I think you defitenly have to copy the session back to a valid audio drive, I'm amazed that any ever opened off the CD. Mainly it seems its jsut confused as to where the Audio files are. I have my sessions and audio in the same place and when I copy it back it works fine. you might want to try doing Save Session Copy first, then burning that to data CD. hope this helps