I have a folder of multiple songs that were created with an older version of Ardour. I believe it was ardour 6. It is on an older computer.
I am unable to open these projects in Ardour 8 on new computer.
Three questions:
Do I need to open these projects (that were created with Ardour 6) in Ardour 6 or can I use Ardour 8?
If I need older version, Is there a place to download older version of Ardour for new computer so I can open these project files. I saw there was a place to download but the link was dead for me.
What is the best way to import projects into Ardour 8? Will archiving work in older version work better? Any easy ways or modifications I can do to the files to get these projects to open in Ardour 8?
The initial error I got was a hardware error upon loading the session. I tried on multiple older projects. I just rebooted and was then able to open the project so I really dont understand. This was not a one time failure to open but happened on different days and different reboots on many only older projects so it was weird. I just rebooted it and immediately tried again. Now it is actually opening and I am getting the conversion window about newer version of Ardour which is good.
After many attempts, I got it to open. I do run wine in some of these older projects (but not all) and have also updated wine versions since these sessions were initiated. I wonder if wine is tying up Ardour with a the previous session or if a service is still running ghost that tied up resources. Or if wine somehow is impeding the opening of the older session. Though these are just guesses. I will try to test other projects and see if I can replicate this error. But I am now guessing this may not be Ardour related.
If I have this error again, I will send you the project.