Posted December 28th, 2007, in: Uncategorized

UPDATE: Possible Fix Here 

Was attempting to import some soundbites into a project in Digital Performer 5 and I got this error:

Resource Map Inconsistent With Operation (-199)

There’s not much documentation on this subject out there, at least not that I could find in a minute or two with my high-level googling skills…

The files are from a Digital Performer project, the Project File of which got destroyed by my recent Hard Drive Crash… They are “.mg” Sound Designer II files (which would normally be .sd2 or in the case of DP5, sometimes .L or .R) “(Dot) mg” means they are “merge” files… In DP, you can ‘flatten’ a track by selecting the region and choosing “Merge Soundbites” from the Audio Menu, resulting in one “.mg” file rather than many files, a new one for each edit, you would normally have without the ‘merge…’

They will not open with other programs I have tried either: iTunes, Quicktime (haven’t tried ReCycle, but if I get that installed any time soon I will and I’ll update this)…

One speculation I have is that these .mg files are ones that refer to mono tracks but that were acting as stereo tracks in the DP5 project, due to Mono-To-Stereo effect plugins… See, some of the .mg files work and just two out of around 15 or 20 don’t… their file sizes look good and all… I was just thinking maybe there’s a dependancy thing going on somehow.

Then again, they could just be corrupted.

Any suggestions out there? What the hell is a Resource Map?