Open another project and then without closing the the project you opened try to open the project you cannot open directly. I tend to remember that something like this worked for me when I had a project which failed to open otherwise.
Try creating a new Project. Then import Tracks from the old corrupted Project into the new one. I’d do this one Track at a time, verify it works ok, then save, then import next Track.
Did you add any effect or plugin that you don’t often use?
Can you see where the loading gets to when Cubase stops working?
Try removing the VST folder and see if the project loads, then you will know if it is a plugin. I’m afraid that a little detective work is on the cards.
It’s insane how much hours autosave has saved me. Mine is set to every 3 min and wildly 20-30 backups. If crash/corrupt thing happens then worst case scenario 5-10 newest is corrupted, usually the freshest. Food for thought.
Ok now…
I’ve trash the pref folders
All plugins pass the scan at startup
Open plugin manager then update plug information.
Cubase Crash at the end of the process.
Remove all VST 2 from the VSt folder
Cubase scan VST3 with success
Put VST 2 in their folder one by one then update plugin information at each one
I finish to put them all and didn’t find one that crash Cubase.
Apologies if you already tried this, but make sure you have moved absolutely every 3rd party VST…meaning all effect processors, all VST instruments to a temporary folder where Cubase can’t see them including Maschine and Massive. This way when trashing preferences, Cubase will re-build and the ONLY VST’s and VSTI’s Cubase sees are the factory Cubase VST’s. No 3rd party VST’s. Then you don’t even need to worry about the plug-in manager.
Once you have done that, can you re-start Cubase, open an empty project, then click on the corrupt project .cpr and attempt to import a track?
Already try that…
As soon as Cubase reach THE project, it crash
As of now, I move on re record all the part that I’ve done in the last couple of hours before before the big crash, so I can continue to work.
I just want that to not happened again.
First, I’m very sorry that you lost all the work. I know how that is and it really is terrible.
As you go forward, I’d suggest using the “Save as New Version” feature. When the project is developing, as it reaches a new stage of being completed, save it as a New Version. That way if it goes bad, you’ll only be one step back. Yes, you’ll wind up with perhaps many versions, but that’s better than seeing a project go down the drain.
I had the exact same issue last week… I solved it by creating an empty project. Then I opened the project with issues/crashing without activating it. Then I selected all, copied and pasted to the empty project.
But before you do that, try activating the project with issues. If it still crashes try the first suggestion.
It worked. In my case I’m assuming the project was too big it was a live show project I had to create smaller projects. In all the years I worked with Cubase this was the first time. Anyway good luck.