How to recover a project file that is too big?

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In the last couple of projects I've been working on, I've developed many instruments and recorded a whole lot of ideas. Because of this, they tend to fill up with loads of complex instruments and ideas which causes ableton to crash when opening it (I assume too many instruments and files is the problem).

In a couple of my projects, I have feedback loops and various sends and receives etc, which makes it hard to just copy instruments to a new project, so I'm asking is if there's a way to get around this problem without copying instruments into another project, I can't think of any ideas.

[Stromkraft]

In the last couple of projects I've been working on, I've developed many instruments and recorded a whole lot of ideas. Because of this, they tend to fill up with loads of complex instruments and ideas which causes ableton to crash when opening it (I assume too many instruments and files is the problem).

In a couple of my projects, I have feedback loops and various sends and receives etc, which makes it hard to just copy instruments to a new project, so I'm asking is if there's a way to get around this problem without copying instruments into another project, I can't think of any ideas.

Unless you're making hundreds of tracks and hours of 64th note modulations I'm pretty sure that's quite abnormal. With the exception of new plug-ins I'm trying that are acting up, and that I usually throw out when something unacceptable happens, my Live 9.7 installation crashes maybe twice a month or less in everyday use. I view any crashes as unacceptable.

Sometimes a specific set have some issues. You can start a new project and use the Live browser to drag in the tracks from the old one. I'd do one at a time and save between each.

What version of Live are you using? 32 or 64 bit? Platform?

[Razz CE]

Why not move individual plugins in and out of your VST folder until Live can handle the load, then freeze tracks, rinse and repeat, etc.