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I'm trying to open an old project from I guess Ableton 7 times and I get a serious program error. I should export the song for a trailer tomorrow so I'm in deep trouble atm. Any help? Screenshot below.

:edit: Software version Ableton Live 9.0.4 32-bit, also tried with Live8. System: Win7

fwiw I've been getting numerous crashes myself running a mac and either 9.0.6 64 bit or 32 bit.
For some reason old ableton projects increasingly crash ableton (in my experience)
Sorry I can't be of more constructive help.
Opening a new project and dragging in tracks one by one to identify the troublesome track sometimes seems to work. At least you get most of the project back that way ?

Hello and thanks for the answer... and yeah it's a really annoying situation that old projects break down so no worries about the non-constructiveness.

GUY SMILEY wrote:Opening a new project and dragging in tracks one by one to identify the troublesome track sometimes seems to work. At least you get most of the project back that way ?

This sounds interesting, but how can I drag the tracks one by one if I cannot open the old project? I can try dragging in the whole old .als-file but it doesn't seem to work either. Could you elaborate a bit?

Thanks!

Got it! It seems to work! Thanks!

:edit: but not as useful as I thought it would be...

So, I'm able to open the clip view side from the first 4 tracks. Structure is not there at all.

The error could be caused by a problematic plugin on channel 5. I think there should be a tool for editing .als files in a case like this. Removing one plugin could help in opening the rest of the project.

borg nagar wrote:So, I'm able to open the clip view side from the first 4 tracks. Structure is not there at all.

The error could be caused by a problematic plugin on channel 5. I think there should be a tool for editing .als files in a case like this. Removing one plugin could help in opening the rest of the project.

You can try disabling (temporarily) the vst plugin folder completely in preferences.
That way the plugins for the project won;t get scanned when opening it (or indeed when dragging the track in from the browser to a new project)
These are all workarounds, but hopefully enables you to get a semblance of your project up and running

Big thanks to Guy Smiley! Following your instructions, I managed to track down the problematic plugins and after installing older versions of them, I was able to recover the project.

borg nagar wrote:Big thanks to Guy Smiley! Following your instructions, I managed to track down the problematic plugins and after installing older versions of them, I was able to recover the project.

Great news. Glad I could help