been working on a project for a while and suddenly I am starting to get the “a serious error has occured…” message while trying to load the project… I then need to go through the .bak files to find the newest one that will load and then re-do all the lost work again… but then it will happen again maybe not today but tomrrow or the next day!
I’ve not loaded any new sofware or hardware and I’m at a loss what is causing this!
where do I send the crashdump file to get the problem looked at?
I’ve had this happen to me a few times and I’m afraid the only solution I ever found was to rebuild from a new project. This isn’t to say that you lose everything, though, but it will involve a bit of work.
You say you can sometimes open the project so next time you can you need to go through everything in it and make copious notes of track types, plugins used, presets, audio files, edit points, eq settings, automation points… You may get away with saving some of this out as presets. Edit/automation points can be copied into Notepad for later pasting. Going from memory:
create a new project
recreate the required tracks (I wouldn’t trust track archive, something in the track data may be the problem)
load the required plugins and VSTis
import the audio files into the pool
copy over the settings (from presets if you managed to create them)
you will probably be able to copy over MIDI events without a problem
redo the audio edits from the notes you took
Save into separate projects as you go so you can back-track easier and feel free to juggle the order of things to suit what you’re faced with.
It’s a labour, I won’t kid you, but it might be quicker to do it like this in the long term and you’ll be more confident in the outcome. I hope the project isn’t too vast but it may only cost you an afternoon if you resist the temptation to cut corners by copying over too much, such as entire tracks.
Had the same issue sent the crash dump files to support along with system logs etc it’s been 5 days and still have had no response. Had to go back to 6.5 as 7 is crashing way to much
I have discovered that if I remove the east-west VST from the VST folder the song loads ok… however, the downside is that the east-west vst’s are missing from the project… I’ve had this before with guitar rig and BFD2… the empty project loads fine and you can start a new project ect… I think that somehow during the ‘save’ something with the VST is becoming corrupt… big pain in the butt!
my only workaround is to print the VST’s to audio and removing the vst from it’s vst slot before saving!