open song = DP crash

TOD · Post by **TOD** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:22 pm

OKay, so I started this track saturday. left it alone sunday. Monday one of my external Lacie drives starts making funny noises. (obviously ready to die). So me dumb-ass pulls out the USB chord of my MTPAV by mistake...I don't remember if my song was up. As I recall, I had everything including the computer off. Now This one file will not open. When I launch DP and then select the file, DP just quits, no warning no "unexpectedly quit message" Nothing.

My other files seem to open fine. This file has all the correct parts, the file, Audio Folder, Analysis Folder and Undo Folder. I can see the audio files in the folder. What I really miss is the MIDI, I had some sweet piano parts going.

I've repaired permissions, ran disk warrior, copied the file to multiple drives, de-installed and re-installed DP, and downloaded all the latest DP updates. I'm at my wit's end. Any help or should I just let it go?

My system is usually rock solid. I mean I crash maybe once every 6 months.

Thanks Tod

digsy · Post by **digsy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:35 pm

this happened to me once...

i copied the project folder to another drive and opened it from there and all was fine.

if this does not work then create a new account in osx - call it "studio" or whatever. log in and launch dp and your project. one of these methods should work for you.
good luck

digsy · Post by **digsy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:35 pm

this happened to me once...

i copied the project folder to another drive and opened it from there and all was fine.

if this does not work then create a new account in osx - call it "studio" or whatever. log in and launch dp and your project. one of these methods should work for you.

good luck

TOD · Post by **TOD** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:04 pm

Thanx, I'l give both those ideas a try

bralston · Post by **bralston** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:54 pm

Or you could open a new blank DP file and use the load feature to load the older sequence (from the file in question) into the new file. Sometimes the load feature is a good way to open otherwise corrupted files that will not open normally.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:31 pm

Great suggestion, Brian.

.. or should we call you "Brain"?

TOD · Post by **TOD** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:02 am

I can see hear the audio files in the audio folder so I should have no problem loading them, but what about the MIDI? am I SOL?

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:59 pm

The Load feature didn't work?

tripit@earthlink.net · Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:11 pm

I had an issue along the same lines, and it turned out that I had to trash all my DP prefs to fix the problem.

TOD · Post by **TOD** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:51 am

Frodo wrote:The Load feature didn't work?

Will be tryng tonight.

Should I trash the whole prefernces Folder? or just waht's inside?

jeb jerome · Post by **jeb jerome** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:34 pm

Same problem and Load started to work, but then crashed. Damn. I had even created another file as a backup before the crashes started, but neither of them work.

sschweyen · Post by **sschweyen** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:16 am

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to offer my experience to anybody who might be searching for this problem. I had the same problem with a file. every time I opened it, it would crash and give me the "unexpectedly quite" message. Even tried what bralston said. Nothing, same problem.

I transfered the file onto my i book, which has DP also and it loaded fine. I do not have all my plugs loaded on my ibook that I have on my tower, so that must have something to do with it. If you don't have another computer you could try loading it on a friends mac (that is if they have DP) Hope that helps.

sndhse · Post by **sndhse** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:51 am

TOD wrote:I can see hear the audio files in the audio folder so I should have no problem loading them, but what about the MIDI? am I SOL?

TOD, here's another few possible options you could try.
1) Hold down the shift key and load DP, this will disable your audio drivers and any plugins. DP will load up in "MIDI only mode" at this point you could 1) resave the file (DP document) or 2) create a standard MIDI file then drag that file into a new document, or 3) "Save as copy" with "Duplicate audio" checked. Close and Quit DP. Fire Dp backup, without holding the option key,
and try to open the new bkup you saved.
Hope this can help you

John

sschweyen · Post by **sschweyen** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:53 pm

ahh...good idea... I was gonna ask if theres anyway in those circumstances to load DP in some sort of "safe mode"