How did I do THIS???

Question

Somehow, and I've still not figured out what I did, or if this is a possible bug(and I was on the phone to an Apple Logic Tech, earlier today, for the better part of an hour, and he couldn't solve it), I managed to make, in the Inspector, on the right hand channel strip, the 'destination' strip, you'd call it, for most of its use,,,I managed to make everything above the part that reads 'In-Out' disappear. All of the insert slots just went walkabout. I was playing with synths last night, and using the Library to access the settings, and I'm suspecting that, or something that I inadvertantly did in 'environment,' but nothing I do can get these to show themselves again, to come back. The fader and pan work ok(I wouldn't use pan on that), but I had an EQ and a limiter and a comp, too, maybe, I forget,,,things you'd use on that strip. Oddest thing.
I did pitch a bunch of unused files associated with the tune, but, I did it 'in the bin' as advised by the manual(the big manual), and really don't see how doing that would make these insert slots disappear. They are also missing on the corresponding 'In-Out' channel strip in the mixer window.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for any assistance. I'm not so worried about damage to the tune, as I am that this might happen again, and for the fact I'm unable to figure out what caused it, and how to cure it.
Anyone have this happen to them? Should I re-install from the first disk, maybe? I'm a little chary of that. but others may know more about this. Screenset settings in subsequent new windows seem to have been affected, though they are properly intact in the window where the inserts are missing. Unless the screensets are template dependant, which they appear to be in some cases, I'm wondering if something is awry here, too. Of course, I'm keeping the
mystery project up, just so I can import the intact screenset settings from that one into others where I want the full nine that that window originally came with and still has. Most curious.
I realize that Logic Pro 7 users are used to only one window in the inspector, so this would be endemic to the new Logic Pro 8 only.
Pat
Message was edited by: PatrickRBrown

Answer 1

Before doing anything labor intensive, try removing the plist file for the Dock:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist"
Then restart. See if things are back to normal.
Francine
Francine
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