EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

Hi All,
Is there someone who could help me out?
For the second time ,and for some reason, some of my EXS Instruments has
turned into Logic document files and can not be used. It seems to occurs for
those instruments that has been recently used. As I have back it all up I
could mend it but it's pretty irritaing and time consuming.
Has someone else ran into this?
What I'm I doing wrong?
Please help me out
/AT

Henrik Andersson wrote:
> Is there someone who could help me out?
> For the second time ,and for some reason, some of my EXS Instruments has
> turned into Logic document files and can not be used. 

How and where have they turned into Logic documents? In Finder? That 
would be pretty much irrelevant as they can't be loaded from there 
anyway. Or don't they just show up in the EXS anymore?

- Sascha

>Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:
>
>Hi All,
>Is there someone who could help me out?
>For the second time ,and for some reason, some of my EXS Instruments has
>turned into Logic document files and can not be used. It seems to occurs for
>those instruments that has been recently used. As I have back it all up I
>could mend it but it's pretty irritaing and time consuming.
>Has someone else ran into this?
>What I'm I doing wrong?
>Please help me out

I don't think you're doing anything wrong at all.
This has happened to me too, with just a few odd files - also 
happened the other way round where Logic songs became a different 
file type. Computers do not work perfectly all the time!  :-(

You could do a few things:
1 - Restore from backup
2 - Change the file extensions back to .exs (assuming they are now different)
       You can do this one by one or use a batch file-type converter 
app (like xFiles)

Also, report this to Apple - maybe they can fix it in a new version 
of Logic. (What version are you using by the way?)

Regards - Colin

Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

Thank you Colin,
I Use Logic 7 and Logic 8.0.2
The first time it happened was in Logic 7 and today it was on Logic 8
Best
henrik Andersson-Tervald

Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

Hi Sascha,
They don't show up in Logic anymore.
Best
Henrik

Henrik Andersson wrote:
> They don't show up in Logic anymore.

Ouch! That's pretty bad.
So, are the file extensions renamed indeed?
If so, try renaming them back (just a few for a start, to see whether it 
helps, after that you may want to use a batch renamer, there's some free 
ones around).
Also, in case this doesn't help, when have you been running some system 
maintainance tools for the last time? OSX is really bad in some terms, 
especially when it comes to things such as disk permissions (this hasn't 
changed for one bit with OSX.5 and the sub-updates). I cannot recommend 
Onyx too much, it's absolutely excellent for all these maintainance 
jobs, I just fixed a friends machine in about no time, it suffered from 
several issues pretty much related to what you experience right now 
(missing EXS and Ultrabeat patches, missing samples, weird error 
messages). Onyx is free:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
In case you're scared of running it, I can almost assure you that it 
won't do any harm to your machine as long as you stick with the default 
settings. I've been using it sucessfully on some machines. Really one of 
the best system maintainance tools I ever used (including those for both 
OSX and Windows).

Good luck,
Sascha

Hi,

I noticed that 'old' Logic files don't need the .exs extension (and  
pre OSX 10.4 neither)
With the latest Logic * and OSC 10.5 every exs instrument file has to  
have the .exs extemsion.

cheers,
Renger

From: Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

>>  Some of my EXS Instruments have turned into Logic document files and
>>  can not be used.. ..Has someone else ran into this?

From: "Colin Shapiro" musos@... musos2za:

>  Change the file extensions back to .exs (assuming they are now different)..
>  You can do this 1 by 1 or use a batch file-type converter app (like xFiles)

From: "Sascha Franck" S.Franck@... saschafranck:

>  So, are the file extensions renamed indeed? If so, try renaming 
>them back.. > You may want to use a batch renamer, there's some free 
>ones around)..

Hi Henrick -

Colin and Sascha are right, I've seen this occasionally too - the 
extensions are missing, and the files are sometimes tagged as Unix 
Executables. Usually the files themselves are fine - just change the 
extensions (or restore them if they're missing) back to .exs and the 
files should regain the proper icon and be usable again by Logic/EXS 
(you'll have to restart Logic or refresh the EXS Instrument menu, 
however).

This has happened to me when the files were restored by some server 
backup software, but I've seen it in other cases too.. Sascha is 
right, OSX is kind of a pain in the ass with this sort of stuff 
sometimes, not to mention the whole Logic long-name-short-name 
nonsense..

-- 
Cheers, Joe Albano
ROOFTOP PRODUCTIONS NYC NY
Music Production  : http://www.rooftopproductions.com
Freelance/Consult : http://www.rooftopproductions.com/Consulting.html

Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

Thank you Joe
I understand.
/Henrik

Message posted by Henrik Andersson <henrik.a.tervald@...>:

Ok, I see
Thank you Renger
/Henrik