[Darva Campbell]

Here are the other things I’ve heard people try:
-Clean your cache.
-Copy and paste your sequence into a new timeline.
-Sign into your computer under another admin user.
-Reboot your computer.
-Do a permissions repair via disk repair.
-Navigate to /YOUR_HD/Library/Preferences. Then rename the com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist file, or move it to the trash
-Log in to your computer as the root user. Once you are logged in as root, relaunch your Adobe software and repeat the process that generated the error. After you have verified that the software functions correctly, you can return to your regular user account. For information on enabling the root user, see the Apple documentation on enabling the root user account, located here.
Update your system software to Mac OS 10.7.x

I have tried all of these things, but the only one that has worked for me is the audio preference change I spoke of earlier. It sure is frustrating, though, isn’t it!?! 🙂

[Darva Campbell]

I’m in PP6 – but this has happened to me a dozen times. Changing my audio hardware preferences has solved the problem each time.

[Darva Campbell]

This problem has occurred for me a couple of times. The fix has always been in the PP6 audio hardware preferences. Try setting the hardware preference to System Default Input/Output. If that is already selected, make another choice – then hit your timeline and play it. Then set it back to whatever you want to set it to. This has worked about a dozen times for me.

I also clean my cache while I’m at it . . . can’t hurt. 🙂

[Darva Campbell]

I have had the same problem – often after a crash CS6 will not playback upon re-opening. The same issue – space bar will not playback, clicking the arrow will not play back – but it does make the box appear – as though it is playing back.

I’ve discovered it’s almost ALWAYS (I think I can actually say always!) a sound issue. I’m also a composer, and sometimes have Logic or another music program open. Every time this has happened EITHER I have imported a sound file Premiere doesn’t like, OR I have Logic open with music set at a different hz . . . When I close Logic (often after an hour or more of trying other fixes and cursing Adobe) it solves the issue every time. . .

I’m hoping by answering this here not only will it help someone else, but maybe NOW I’ll remember to check other sound programs that might be open before trying all the other fixes . . . 🙂

[Darva Campbell]

Clearing the media cache and emptying the render files seems to have solved the problem for me. I do it every time I quit now.

[Darva Campbell]

I’m having the same problem. I’m running Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro – 12 Core, 16 gig. My projects and files are all on an external 2 TB hard drive — with 1.8 TB of space still free.

I’ve edited the same trailer several times tonight — I’ve been up all night working on it — and each time the program quits after several hours of work is done, and when I try to reopen I get the same screen: Scratch Disk Write Protected or Unavailable. It asks if I want to go ahead and open the file and put the scratch files in my document folder.

I can open the file this way, but when I export the video the audio track is just white noise.

I’ve deleted the media cache from inside Premiere. I can’t FIND the media cache from my finder, though I looked for it for about two hours.

I’ve also deleted the rendering files.

The “auto save” files are also affected, so I can’t just revert to them to solve the problem.

I’ve been looking on help boards all night while my project loads and reloads . . . any suggestions?

Does anyone know a way to “rehook up” the audio files that were transferred to my document folder to the original folder so I can use the footage I edited?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.