I am to help my father with arranging some music he composed. He is working on a recent MacBook and I own a PC. In both cases Cubase 6 is working fine, however after he bought me Cubase 6 the current project (cpr) won’t load for me.
The progress window makes a brief appearance but inmediately pops an error message, stating:
Le project “nameOfMyProject.cpr” n’est pas valide !
wich from french translates literrally as:
The project “nameOfMyProject.cpr” is not valid !
A forum search didn’t return relevant answers.
Could you please point me to a solution ?
How can I get Cubase to tell more on the issue ?
I am ready to edit the cpr file manually if that can help (stripping paths ?).
Both of us have installed all the applications from the Cubase 6 retail bundle, only that I opted for the 32 bits version (I have to assume that he is running the 64 bits version on his MacBook). Missing plugins would not prevent the project to load AFAIK.
So in short, the only known difference from his rig and mine is that he is running Cubase 64 on a 64 Mac, and me Cubase 32 on a 64 PC (W7, i7).
And yes, we are under a rather tight deadline Now that the dancers are here he hasn’t the disponibility to compose and I am in charge now, beside the need to arrange the current project.
Are you using any VSTi’s on the project or plugins that are Mac exclusive?
Plus, when you copy a project over, make sure you get the entire project folder with all the internal files, not just the audio files. Finally, there are issues that I had previously when working cross platform. When Windows gets a Mac file, especially from a CD rom, it sometimes sets to “Read Only”, make sure to go into properties and check on that.
The file was sent by mail as it’s just below 1MB. There’s still the option of a corrution that way (edit: will use an USB key this time).
My dad is more of a composer than a tech saavy, the project is merely more than a couple partitions. Again, only the VSTi from the retail bundles were installed on both sides.
So, no plugins that I know of, not even audio files in the pool (I recreated the ‘Audio’ folder locally but it has to be empty).
I’ll try to remove all references from the VSTi on the mac, just keep the parts and eventually some automation tracks.
I’ll keep you updated. Any more hints will be welcome meanwhile !
Below 1 meg? Yeah, that’s a problem. A single audio file will cross the 1 meg space within seconds (depending on how complex it is). So it sounds like there are things missing from it. (Many of my songs are over 1 Gig in size).
If you can, definitely save the raw (uncompressed) project on a flash drive. That should take care of it.
Now that the dancers are here he hasn’t the disponibility to compose and I am in charge now, beside the need to arrange the current project.