“Couldn’t import 1 of 1 items” from Superior Drummer 3

[David]

Please help me out of the Twilight Zone here. My workflow hasn’t changed, I’ll open Superior Drummer 3, preview MIDI patterns, maybe tweak them (or not) then drag them into the timeline in Reaper. This always works flawlessly…until yesterday. For no apparent reason, when I try to drag the clips into Reaper I get the dreaded “Couldn’t import 1 of 1 items” message. I understand some have had issues like this with video files, but this is simple MIDI data. The weird thing is, I can open the Reaper Media Explorer, find the same clip that wouldn’t import, and drag it from there and it works like SD3 used to, no problem. I swear I changed nothing on my computer and this just started to happen. Sometimes I like to edit the MIDI data in SD3 before I drag it into Reaper and now I can’t, plus now I have to open a Media explorer window anytime I want to add MIDI. Is there some magic button that I hit by mistake that’s causing this? Thank you in advance for your help!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Olof]

Can you drag MIDI from SD3 to the desktop? If not, there could be an issue with permissions in C:\ProgramData\Toontrack\Superior3, where temporary files are created for drags.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

[David]

It’s weird, some files I can, some I can’t. If I drag a clip in the SD3 timeline it won’t allow me to drag anything to the desktop. How do I fix the premissions issue?

 

Thanks so much

[David]

I figured out the permissions thing. That folder didn’t have write permissions. That was the problem. Must have been a Windows 10 update that changed the settings. The only thing that’s not working now is if I edit a pattern in the SD3 grid editor and then try to drag it in, it just transfers a standard beat, not what I edited. Thanks for your help.

[Olof]

David wrote:

The only thing that’s not working now is if I edit a pattern in the SD3 grid editor and then try to drag it in, it just transfers a standard beat, not what I edited.

This probably means that some old MIDI file is in C:\ProgramData\Toontrack\Superior3 and is write-protected. Delete all .mid files from there to fix it.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

[David]

I did as you suggested and it worked. I set up the folder so it wouldn’t be write protected, and deleted all the files. But as soon as I do 1 edit on a new project. It starts the problem all over again after the first edit. Looks like I will have to keep clearing out that folder.

[Olof]

Please open Properties for the Superior3 folder, go to Security > Advanced, adjust the size of the Advanced window so that the entire list there is visible, take a screenshot of the window and attach it here.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

[David]

Fixed it! There are 3 sections for  System, Administrators and Users under Security.  All the permissions were not checked under the Users section. I checked them all and now it seems to be working correctly. Damn Windows 10 updates, it’s the only thing I can think of that would have changed that without my knowledge. Thank you again, it was driving me nuts.

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Thanked by: Björn Gottfridsson and Olof

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