Track Notes (SWS/S&M) being deleted?

SerchOH · 01-15-2021, 04:56 PM

Anyone experienced track notes (SWS/S&M) being deleted? I mean, I made some notes on some tracks to make sure my reamp settings for each DI track were consistent through all the songs in a project and they seem to be gone, all of them... Feeling a bit lost, I don't want to start over again!

Thanks everyone!

cfillion · 01-15-2021, 05:45 PM

There was an old bug causing track notes and marker/region subtitles to be randomly deleted when switching project tabs. It was fixed in SWS v2.12.1.

https://www.sws-extension.org/download/pre-release/

(SWS is not part of REAPER, so SWS bug reports belong at https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues.)

SerchOH · 01-16-2021, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cfillion

There was an old bug causing track notes and marker/region subtitles to be randomly deleted when switching project tabs. It was fixed in SWS v2.12.1.

https://www.sws-extension.org/download/pre-release/

(SWS is not part of REAPER, so SWS bug reports belong at https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues.)

Thanks man, I aprreciate it. Right now I´m a bit desperate, seems like I´m gonna have to reamp almost every damn track again.

Some guy in a reaper user group in facebook said he´d had trouble with global notes every now and then, and said he used to do a backup of a .txt file that soterd that info in the root folder, but I can´t find that thing.

cfillion · 01-16-2021, 03:33 AM

Track notes are stored inside of the project file (.RPP). You might have a chance to restore the lost notes from an earlier backup (.RPP-bak).

Global notes had a separate data corruption issue when the notes contained slashes (fixed in 2.12.0). SWS_Global notes.txt is stored in the resource directory. To open it: Options > Show REAPER resource path in explorer/finder.

SerchOH · 01-16-2021, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cfillion

Track notes are stored inside of the project file (.RPP). You might have a chance to restore the lost notes from an earlier backup (.RPP-bak).

Global notes had a separate data corruption issue when the notes contained slashes (fixed in 2.12.0). SWS_Global notes.txt is stored in the resource directory. To open it: Options > Show REAPER resource path in explorer/finder.

Thanks again very much! I tried that and was finally able to recover most of the notes!

When I'm done with this project I'll update SWS, thanks again!

Sonorityscape · 03-24-2023, 04:32 PM

I've run into some recent issues with track notes getting deleted.

These will be notes that I have set before a previoius save point, then I'll make a bunch of changes, undo all of those changes and sometimes the track notes (from the previous save point) will be deleted in the process.

I haven't pinpointed the exact steps. I've only been able to repro it with a script a wrote that sets undo points. Perhaps that is what is causing it. I'm going to troubleshoot some more.