Saving a damaged Logic project

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So last night I was working on a remix for someone here on WATMM. It turned out pretty damn cool but all of a sudden Logic crashed. 'Whatever', I thought and started Logic again and loaded my save file. I played 8 seconds of the track and Logic crashed again. It just freezes and shuts down and it does this with all the auto saves, and all the old save files (even the very first one I created which means that it probably isn't a plug in that causes Logic to crash).

 

I don't feel like starting all over because I have put so much work into the automations and I won't be able to recreate it.

 

Do any of you have any idea what I can do so save my project? Is there some way of importing every single detail from one of my saves into a new project? I've tried using the import function which just ended up with me scratching my head.

 

Help!

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Have you tried disabling some of your plugins? It might be that one of them has gone awry.

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Yep - so my guess is that the project itself it corrupt.

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Yeah, no idea... I've never had this happen before.

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Another thing is, I've tried bouncing the tune in offline mode but that causes it to crash as well.

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Maybe try freezing all the tracks? Or perhaps bounce in place?

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have you tried comparing the corrupt track with a working track in a hex editor? Maybe you can fix it, copy and pasting some data?

 

Could you elaborate on that?

 

Btw. I'm on a Mac.

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Massive was fucking up my project. Fuck you, Massive.

 

Anyway, thanks for the help, guys!

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Massive was fucking up my project. Fuck you, Massive.

 

Anyway, thanks for the help, guys!

 

Brilliant! Glad you found fixed your problem.

[awepittance]

i don't have a solution to your problem but this is the 2nd time i've heard of Logic corrupting an entire string of saves. I've never heard of a program ruining earlier iterations of your session like that.

 

edit: yeah when all else fails remove NI plugins, they are the most bug prone mother fuckers in the plugin world at the moment. I'm surprised it was massive though that's considered one of their 'stable' ones

Edited August 19, 2010 by Awepittance

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i don't have a solution to your problem but this is the 2nd time i've heard of Logic corrupting an entire string of saves. I've never heard of a program ruining earlier iterations of your session like that.

 

edit: yeah when all else fails remove NI plugins, they are the most bug prone mother fuckers in the plugin world at the moment. I'm surprised it was massive though that's considered one of their 'stable' ones

 

You're right. I've had so many problems with Battery 3 you wouldn't believe it.

 

Btw. I've fallen in love with TAL Elek7ro.

[Boxus]

cheers on the troubleshooting, i used to get a lot of similar problems in logic 8 and at least once it seriously destroyed a project i was really getting into. 9 has been a lot more stable so far though.

 

elek7ro is awesome, i've just been getting into it too. automat is still my favorite au synth for sure, though it can be pretty buggy when you have a few complex mod envelopes goin on