[ardour-dev] Problem opening a session... any way to salvage it?

[Josh Karnes]

Paul Davis wrote:
>>3.  Now when I try to open it, the regions are all out of sync with
>>the source s portion of the xml file.  So the sources pointed to
>>"cleaned up" sources (that is, less than what is referred to
>>otherwise in the file), and the regions section pointed to all of the
>>not-yet-cleaned-up files...  so there were a ton of references to
>>sources from a <Region id= ... /Region> section in the xml fi le that
>>didn't map to a source from the source definitions.  I had to
>>manually clean all of these up.  Since on this particular tune there
>>were 60 (!!) piano takes, and it was something I could play in my
>>sleep, I just deleted everythin g with a reference to piano and redid
>>the piano track.  Anyway, it took a couple of hours.
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> did you consider trying the backup session file?
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Yes I did.  It was also screwed up in exactly the same way. ???