Please someone tell me I'm not completely screwed.

[sk8ersick666]

So I think I just lost a week's worth of work and a bands EP.

I'm using Reaper, the project froze..I closed it, restarted the pc, tried reopening it wont let me..it just gives me an error message and it crashes every time I try to open it.

Am I fucked?, Cause It would be really nice to know there is was a way for me not to loose everything I did..cause I was literally almost fkn done.

 

[BLUElightCory]

Can you access all the audio files in Windows? If so, you are not screwed. Copy them to another drive so if your computer's drive goes down you won't lose them.

I don't use Reaper so I can't specifically help you, but the Reaper dudes on here will most likely need more details (what is the error message, etc.).

If the actual audio files are gone, you are screwed.

 

[sk8ersick666]

i backed up the project in a hard drive but it was the raw project with nothing more that just the audio files, all my mixing, all my hours of editing, gone.

 

[AntonioPetrole]

i backed up the project in a hard drive but it was the raw project with nothing more that just the audio files, all my mixing, all my hours of editing, gone.

damn, sorry to hear that. Im sure someone will come up with a solution. Are you still in Grimus? I saw you guys in flemington a few weeks ago. I was in a gorrilla suit haha

 

[Terminus]

So I think I just lost a week's worth of work and a bands EP.

I'm using Reaper, the project froze..I closed it, restarted the pc, tried reopening it wont let me..it just gives me an error message and it crashes every time I try to open it.

Am I fucked?, Cause It would be really nice to know there is was a way for me not to loose everything I did..cause I was literally almost fkn done.

Pretty sure Reaper creates a backup project file for you for this very problem, it's not tagged as a Reaper Project File, the extension is called Reaper Backup Project File, so it wont showup in the file list when you try to open project files from Reaper itself but if you look in the project folder it should be there.

 

[Clockwork]

That's happened to me twice with reaper, where it froze and then crashes on startup every time. I'm trying to remember what I did. Sometimes running it as an administrator works, pretty sure thats what I did the first time after asking on the Reaper forums.

Edit: I remembered what I did last time, I went to the start menu, programs, reaper, and then "reaper (reset configuration to factory default)" and that solved it for me.

 

[storming heaven]

You could also try to open the project file in main window by holding ctrl+shift.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

I think there is a way in Reaper to open a project without any of the plugins (holding Alt or something). Maybe that could help...

 

[AdamWathan]

Failing all of that, Reaper project files are not encrypted at all. Some intelligent guy on the Reaper forum would be able to edit the buggy line in the RPP out using a text file and you'd be back in business.

 

[Ascendant]

And if none of the above works, system reset might be worth a try if there's a snapshot close to when this happened.

 

[MindMunch]

Big chances the problem is a buggy fx. Try to load your project with all the fx offline. To do this, go to "File -> Open Project" and check the box "Open with FX offline (recovery mode)". If it works, save it and then turn them back on one by one, maybe reset a buggy one if you find it.

If this doesn´t work, go to the project folder and look for the file "ProjectName.RPP-bak". Rename it to "ProjectName.RPP" and try to open it ("ProjectName" obviously is the name of your original project).

 

[sk8ersick666]

HOLY SHIT!!!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!

I opened with all fx offline and it loaded everything!!!...thank you guys!! you saved my ass!

 

[LeSedna]

i did something similar. There were many plugins from a specific free developper who are now buggy on my W7, and everything worked fine until I discover it was this very set of plugins which were buggy. It would even crash while loading them.

Find the one that is causing your crashes.

Before that, do a good copy of your working session somewhere else

 

[Uros]

Yeah, I always make project named something along the lines of "project name" basic, and then "project name" mixing, in which I mix. I am on Cubase tho. But, still gotta make sure.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

Get into the habit of at least numbering your sessions each day.
Open most recent project, Save as, increment #. Start working. At most you'd lose a day of work. To recover more recently than that use your autobackups.

 

[Uros]

What I always hated about those bkp files, is how fast they clutter up your project folder. I guess that it would be a good thing to set your DAW up so it does auto-backup every hour or so, instead of every 15 minutes, like Cubase default setting is.

 

[ahjteam]

Get into the habit of at least numbering your sessions each day.
Open most recent project, Save as, increment #. Start working. At most you'd lose a day of work. To recover more recently than that use your autobackups.

yup, I do this also.

 

[MindMunch]

HOLY SHIT!!!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!

I opened with all fx offline and it loaded everything!!!...thank you guys!! you saved my ass!

Glad to hear that. I had the same problem once and it saved my ass. BTW the problematic plugin was Lecto or LeCab2. Only happened once, though.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

What I always hated about those bkp files, is how fast they clutter up your project folder. I guess that it would be a good thing to set your DAW up so it does auto-backup every hour or so, instead of every 15 minutes, like Cubase default setting is.