{"id":27550,"date":"2003-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=27550"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"fix-protools-error-drive-cannot-designated-audio-playback-recording","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/fix-protools-error-drive-cannot-designated-audio-playback-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I fix this ProTools Error? &#8220;The drive cannot be designated as an Audio playback\/recording volume because this is not a valid audio volume in Pro Tools on OS X.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This can happen for different reasons. <br \/>1) Check hard drives in the workspace and make sure the ( A ) column is set to ( R ) and not ( T ) <br \/>2) Trash volume.dbb file on all hard drives. <br \/>3) Trash Pro Tools preferences. USERS\/username\/library\/preferences\/Pro Tools preferences <br \/>4) If you have run the &#8220;restore&#8221; or &#8220;reinstall&#8221; of OSX and choose the save applications and files option, Pro Tools will not function correctly upon being restored, one symptom would be the error as noted in the subject &#8220;The drive cannot be designated as an Audio playback\/recording volume because this is not a valid audio volume&#8221; <br \/>Solution is to run the uninstaller from the Pro Tools 6x CD and reinstall. <br \/>Pro Tools at that point reacquires the drives as record volumes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34125],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the How do I fix this ProTools Error? &quot;The drive cannot be designated as an Audio playback\/recording volume because this is not a valid audio volume in Pro Tools on OS X.&quot; page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/fix-protools-error-drive-cannot-designated-audio-playback-recording\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How do I fix this ProTools Error? &quot;The drive cannot be designated as an Audio playback\/recording volume because this is not a valid audio volume in Pro Tools on OS X.&quot; - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This can happen for different reasons. 1) Check hard drives in the workspace and make sure the ( A ) column is set to ( R ) and not ( T ) 2) Trash volume.dbb file on all hard drives. 3) Trash Pro Tools preferences. 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