Old 05-29-2023, 07:11 AM   #1
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I'm unable to open one particular project. It gets as far as "loading undo history"

and then either stops for ages until I prod it and it closes or it just closes at the

stop point by itself. When I try again and get the message about "there was an error

would you like to go ahead anyway" I select no and then go to recent projects to open

it again. It is now classed as having loaded because it went to the top of the list

but when I tried to open it it failed again and again. I can open all my other

projects so it doesn't seem to be a plugin issue. There is no message about what's


happening so I don't know what to do here. Could someone offer guidance please?

Thanks

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Old 05-31-2023, 06:41 AM   #2
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I tried "open project" from the File dropdown list and the project did fully open but then after 5 seconds just closes again. If I open it in the background while watching Youtube it stays open until I bring Reaper to the foreground when it closes again after a few seconds

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Old 05-31-2023, 06:47 AM   #3
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What was the error?
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Old 05-31-2023, 07:16 AM   #4
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There's no error as such it just says the project failed to open, the previous attempt to open failed do you want to go ahead anyway. If I open Reaper in the background it stays open until I bring it to the front
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Old 05-31-2023, 07:34 AM   #5
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There's no error as such it just says the project failed to open, the previous attempt to open failed do you want to go ahead anyway. If I open Reaper in the background it stays open until I bring it to the front
Did you try to open it with FX offline?
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Old 06-01-2023, 07:06 AM   #6
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Thanks that has worked! As I brought in the effects none of them caused the project to close so wondering why it did work (?) Thanks a lot
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Old 06-01-2023, 07:09 AM   #7
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Thanks that has worked! As I brought in the effects none of them caused the project to close so wondering why it did work (?) Thanks a lot
You are welcome! It means that some effect actually caused this. You can try to enable them one by one until something bad will happen.
Menu View -> Project media/fx bay (FX tab) may be helpful for this task.
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Old 06-01-2023, 07:34 AM   #8
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Yes that's what I'm referring to, I brought all the FX on one-by-one but none of them caused a problem....
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Yes that's what I'm referring to, I brought all the FX on one-by-one but none of them caused a problem....
Can you make a screenshot of whole FX tab from project media bay?
Is it the only affected project?
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Old 06-01-2023, 08:19 AM   #10
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Yes it's just been the one project I took screenshots but Reaper said they were too big and I need to resize but don't know anything about that so can't sorry. But the project has reopened a few times now and seems fine.. Thanks again
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Yes it's just been the one project I took screenshots but Reaper said they were too big and I need to resize but don't know anything about that so can't sorry. But the project has reopened a few times now and seems fine.. Thanks again
Ah, okay. For media we use external services. For example this:
https://stash.reaper.fm/
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