One of my Cubase 9.5 projects just shuts the whole program down when I hit Save. No other projects have this problem.
If it’s relevant, the first time I tried to open the project today before the issue arose, I did get the warning: “A backup project newer than this project exists!
Do you want to open this backup project?” which I get from time to time; it always puzzles me, and I can’t recall which I tend to select, but I said No, and then it asks if I want to Delete or Keep the backup, and I just said Keep, just to be safe, I guess. It then told me it had created some backup called [filename]-01, then I proceeded with the original. Then I get this problem of it shutting down Cubase when I hit Save.
I’ve tried opening that -01 backup project, ditto the subsequent -02 and -03 ones, which seem to have been created each time Cubase has shut down by itself, but they’re all 0KB, which explains why they can’t be opened. I have tried doing Save As, but after naming the new file and hitting Save, Cubase shuts down and the newly saved file is 0KB.
What I also notice is that Cubase creates .bak files for projects, and as with the other proejcts, there’s like a string of them relating to this project, with their ‘date modified’ dates being around May 2024 sorta time. They’re all named [filename] with ‘-01’, ‘-02’ etc sequentially.
So what do I do to salvage the project? I did do my periodical hard drive backup to my external HD a few weeks ago (in between last opening the project in question and experiencing this problem today), so would it possibly work if I were to say, delete all Cubase Project and .bak files relating to that project in my PC hard drive (which presumably doesn’t delete the raw audio) and then drag & drop the previously backed up Cubase Project & bak files for that project from my external HD to the respective folder on my PC? I guess that in part depends on whether whatever’s caused this corruption happened today or before the last backup.
If not, how do I go about doing a salvage job? We’re talking hours and hours of work, many stacked recordings that were subsequently painstakingly comped and micro-edited, etc.