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My computer crashed while rendering the final mixdown of a track. My fan sucks, CPU got too hot, mobo did emergency shutdown. Upon restarting live and attempting to open my .als, I got the following: "The document "rubberbands.als" appears to be corrupt"

Is this the kiss of death? Or is there something I can do? I tried rolling back to an earlier system restore point (I'm on XP) but that didn't work. I created a new doc and tried dragging the individuals parts from the expaned .als drop-down but it justs gives me the same error message.

This track was totally finished and I was about to send it to my label! I'm super pissed/bummed over here- ANY info would help, thank you.

Hi there mate

That sucks big time

my sympathies as I had this myself on the title track of an album that I just finished.

I couldn't retrieve the files but learned long ago that this sort of thing WILL happen from time to time (regardless of platform or DAW)

The only thing you can do is ensure you make incremental saves to your tracks in future.

It's a harsh lesson but in my case it meant I lost only 2 hours work and not 3 months.

you have no backups or other saves of this track whatsoever?

if so then you certainly live dangerously!

Yeah backups, hmmm. What are those?
Anyway I rebuilt the track in 2 days and it's better (of course). Still, wackness for sure.
Thanks,
B