[ErikJames]

Up until tonight I haven't had a problem but all of a sudden, i 've got a problem. When I try to merge 2 audio tracks together I get an error message stating "There's noty enough space in your destination". Not sure what this means.

Any thoughts?

[Brendon]

You've been able to do this previously in Easy CD and DVD Burning's 'Sound Editor' ??

[ErikJames]

Correct. It's only this last time it would not allow me to do it. I would select the 2 tracks. Find Mix and merge in the drop down box and select. Then I'd get the error message.

[Brendon]

Okay, if you were able to do it before but can't now, then something must have changed. The drive filling up could be a suspect.

If you're getting a "not enough space at your destination", are you running out of room on the drive where you're saving your merged clips, or on the drive where your programs [and perhaps your temp files] live??

[ErikJames]

I'm at work now so I'll have to check later. I agree, something has changed. Currently I saved the previous merged tracks into specific folder, not a temp file.

When I do the merge does that automatically save to a temp file, without any prompts? If so, perhaps I have a few in a temp file I was unaware of?

[Brendon]

It's common for your computer to make/save temp files during operations like this, but a well-behaved application will delete those when it has finished. It's just that during the operation you might well need space on the drive for your original files, several temporary copies, and the final merged file.

If you're running low on space on the drive where you save your files, you might be running too low during an operation. If this is what's causing that error you'd be advised to clean up the temp files [ccleaner from HERE is a free download and is quite useful] and defragment the drive.

[ErikJames]

Alright. I tried it out and still nothing. I downloaded the CCleaner and it did it's thing. I'm stumped!

By the way thanks for helping me on this.

[Brendon]

Erik, where are you trying to save your merged tracks? The error message seems to be saying there's not enough room there. Can you check your settings, and make sure you aren't trying to send them off to your floppy or CD drive or some non-existent drive?

This shouldn't have to be such an epic task for you, but I'm game to keep trying to help

[ErikJames]

That's just the thing. I'm NOT trying save the tracks at all. I'm only trying to perform the merge function.

With the Sound Editor open it allows me to select tracks or clips I can add to the Sound Editor, similar to adding a track or tracks to a playlist. With these tracks I can change them. Boost bass or treble, add effects, or reduce snaps or crackling. With 2 or more tracks I can join them to reduce the pause between tracks or merge them to create 1 track from 2. If I have a live CD on my computer and I want to burn an audio disc, I can merge 2 live tracks together so between songs there's no break in the sound. This is what I'm attempting to do when the error message appears. This only occurs when I try to "merge". If I attempt anything else it works fine.

Before this happened I would merge the 2 tracks and save it in the same folder from which I took the 2 tracks.

[Brendon]

Okay, do you only have one hard drive, and if so how much space do you have free on it? [your temp files have to go somewhere] If you have defragged the drive and it's less than 700 MB you might really be running out of space.

I appreciate your persistence here, when many with less patience would have "spat the dummy and thrown all the toys out of the cot"

If it's not a matter of really running out of space, then something has broken in your program. Rather than spending much more of your valuable time trying to work out just where it has broken, since this is the first time I've seen a problem like this reported, it might be lots better just to do a clean install of the suite.

Your suite is a sub-set of EMC 9, so you should use these instructions to remove all the broken pieces of Easy CD and DVD burning, and then reinstall it. Just substitute what you have where the instructions mention EMC 9. If you are running in Vista, come back to me for a slightly different set of instructions. This should restore your Easy CD and DVD Burning to its factory condition.

Go well,
Brendon

[ErikJames]

I'm not sure if the hard drive was defragged. I did download the CCleaner and it...cleaned! But I can't find anywhere about defragging. Also, I do have windowas Vista.

Currently I have 105GB free on my hard drive.

Y'know I'm really curious here. I do have another way to merge music tracks using my old TDK CD-audio recorder. I think I'm the only one left with one! But thid really helps me understand my computer better, so again thanks for the help!!

[Brendon]

No, if you've got 105 GB free it's definitely not a case of not enough room on the hard drive. Either you have your destination set for a drive where there isn't enough space, or something has been broken in the program.

Here's the clean install instructions for EMC 9 or 10 in Vista.

Regards,
Brendon

[ErikJames]

Uninstall and reinstall is successful. I was able to merge 2 tracks together. Thank you for the help. I am very grateful.

[Brendon]

Not a problem. I'm really pleased you got it fixed. Again, thanks for your persistence.

Did you do a 'clean install' or did a simple uninstall/reinstall do the trick ??

[ErikJames]

I did the uninstall/reinstall. I tried this first and it worked so I left well enough alone!

Thanks again.