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Workaround for export bug from iMaschine2 - Empty 0byte-files

Discussion in 'iMaschine' started by Thisco, 10/12/15.

  1. Thisco

    Thisco New Member

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    Yesterday evening I encountered the bug which a few people seem to have:

    1.On my ipod touch I choose "Export" a project
    2.After the export has completed I connect the ipod touch to my computer and open itunes
    3.I go to the "Files" part where I click on the iMaschine2 application logo
    4.On the right side I get an overview of exported projects
    5.I select a projectfile (for example "Heavy beats 2015 12 09.zip") and choose "Save to..."
    6.In the explorer window I choose a location and press Enter

    Everything SEEMS to be OK. However, when browsing to that location I noticed that the file wasn't a zip-file and has a file size of 0 bytes.

    In other words: the export is corrupt!

    The workaround I discovered after trying various things for a few hours on different computers and almost throwing the ipod out of the window:

    In itunes in the "Files" section, rather than immediately choosing "Save to..." first RENAME the file.

    Example: click the file "Heavy beats 2015 12 09.zip" until you see that you can edit the name. Rename it to "Heavy beats.zip" (at least that is what I did) and THEN choose the "Save to..." function.

    Hard to believe but then the files were no longer corrupt!

    Hope this helps anyone out until it is fixed.
     
    Thisco, 10/12/15
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  2. Nicholas @ NI

    Nicholas @ NI NI Team NI Team

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    If you're a Windows user I recommend to update to the latest version of iTunes. This issue should've been resolved awhile back with the latest version of iTunes.
     
    Nicholas @ NI, 10/12/15
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  3. Thisco

    Thisco New Member

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    Hi Nicholas,

    I am afraid that is not the case as I am running iTunes 12.3.1 which is the most up-to-date version.

    Oh well, I can work with this now but it would be worth checking out to make the process even smoother. For the rest, all is well because creating a the beginnings of a track on the go, then refining it at home on the full hardware is really great :-D
     
    Thisco, 11/12/15
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  4. freaky3000

    freaky3000 New Member

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    Hi Nicholas @ NI
    The Issue is still available (itunes 12.3.2) the problem seam the Date Time format when the IOS device is set to european time format. If this Time Format contains a ":" in the file name then file can not be stored on windows file system, because this is a illegal character. NI should have some "regex" used to prevent from illegal character.
    Before I don't let the device access the Localisation i had a "-" instead in file name.
     
    freaky3000, 25/12/15
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