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Subject:SF7 warning when opening files Posted by: mtdub Date:3/13/2009 6:14:16 PM We are using Sound Forge 7, and when trying to open a sound file (.cda) from a CD, we get the error message, "An error occurred while opening one or more files. The reason for the error could not be determined." If we try the "Extract Audio from CD..." option in the File menu, the CD drive is not listed. This is logged in as a regular user. If I log in as Administrator, there does not seem to be any problem. But, we don't want to give our regular users administrative network rights just so they can open these files. So, what can we do instead? Even if they copy the files to their "D:" drive (their CD drive is their "E:" drive), we still get the "an error occurred..." message. We are using Windows 2000, SP4, on a networked computer with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. The computer is an HP small form factor computer. So, I don't know what other info you might need, but let me know and I'll try to get it for you. Oh, our specific Sound Forge version is 7.0a (build 262). Michael Wood LAN Administrator Family Stations, Inc. Oakland, CA
Subject:RE: SF7 warning when opening files Reply by: Chienworks Date:3/13/2009 6:41:08 PM You have to use the "Extract Audio from CD" function. The .cda file is merely a placeholder in the directory structure of the CD and does not contain any audio data. You've got a couple of options. There's lots of freeware/shareware CD rippers available that you could install. These will rip a .wav (preferable) or .mp3 (not so preferable) file from the CD that can then be opened and edited in Sound Forge. The other option is to set up the non-privileged users to be able to run Sound Forge as the administrator. There's lots of discussion on how to do this in this forum posting at realgeek.com. I'm not sure from reading that forum if it works as well on Windows 2000 as it does on XP, but it's worth a shot and won't cost you anything to try it. On the other hand, if i was in your situation i'd upgrade those PCs to XP which would give your users a much better experience anyway. 2K is rather user-hostile compared to XP.

Subject:SF7 warning when opening files

Posted by: mtdub

Date:3/13/2009 6:14:16 PM

We are using Sound Forge 7, and when trying to open a sound file (.cda) from a CD, we get the error message, "An error occurred while opening one or more files. The reason for the error could not be determined." If we try the "Extract Audio from CD..." option in the File menu, the CD drive is not listed. This is logged in as a regular user. If I log in as Administrator, there does not seem to be any problem. But, we don't want to give our regular users administrative network rights just so they can open these files. So, what can we do instead? Even if they copy the files to their "D:" drive (their CD drive is their "E:" drive), we still get the "an error occurred..." message. We are using Windows 2000, SP4, on a networked computer with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. The computer is an HP small form factor computer. So, I don't know what other info you might need, but let me know and I'll try to get it for you. Oh, our specific Sound Forge version is 7.0a (build 262).

Michael Wood
LAN Administrator
Family Stations, Inc.
Oakland, CA

Subject:RE: SF7 warning when opening files

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:3/13/2009 6:41:08 PM

You have to use the "Extract Audio from CD" function. The .cda file is merely a placeholder in the directory structure of the CD and does not contain any audio data. You've got a couple of options. There's lots of freeware/shareware CD rippers available that you could install. These will rip a .wav (preferable) or .mp3 (not so preferable) file from the CD that can then be opened and edited in Sound Forge.

The other option is to set up the non-privileged users to be able to run Sound Forge as the administrator. There's lots of discussion on how to do this in this forum posting at realgeek.com. I'm not sure from reading that forum if it works as well on Windows 2000 as it does on XP, but it's worth a shot and won't cost you anything to try it. On the other hand, if i was in your situation i'd upgrade those PCs to XP which would give your users a much better experience anyway. 2K is rather user-hostile compared to XP.