corrupted my ardour file? Is there a fix?

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

So I zoomed way down to the sample level, which caused my computer to hang. I eventually resorted to rebooting the machine, and now the ardour session freezes whenever I tried to load it. I fear there is a corruption in the xml… is there someone who can help me recover?

thanks,

sunji

#2

Uh that would be Paul, not sean;)

But glad it worked for you.

     Seablade
#3

OMG, seablade, sean, you guys have saved my independent score of my friends independent film! I will give you free movie tickets and bare you a son!

#4

did not seem to do it, Paul. I rm’ed both of the instant.xml and it still hangs- any other ideas for fix?

#5

You need to rm both of these files while ardour is closed, and at the same time. Otherwise they propogate each other and you have this problem again.

    Seablade
#6

Remove /the/path/to/the/session/folder/name/instant.xml and possibly ~/.ardour2/instant.xml

Obviously substitute the real “/the/path/to/…” in the above example.