Quick topic here, had a trouble recently with ardour, corrupted config in C:\Users\hugoa\AppData\Local\Ardour6, while working on a session.
Computer was slow, restarted a few times, then couldn’t launch ardour after this, because of config issue. after checking in console, I reinstalled.
Got back ardour working, but now, I can’t load this session in ardour again for unknown reason.
Anyone her that can help ?
Thanks, good day !
Oh dear. This file is completely empty. 24MB full of NULL. – I do not have first hand experience with this, but it can apparently happen on Windows when the system powers off unexpectedly without the file being flushed to disk.
There should be a *.ardour.bak backup file in the session folder. With some luck that file still works. So delete Podcast\ Issa\ Padovani.ardour and then remove the .bak extension, renaming Podcast\ Issa\ Padovani.ardour.bak to Podcast\ Issa\ Padovani.ardour.
Other than that, all the raw audio should still be there below the interchange\ folder in the session dir.
The .ardour session file is a text (XML) file that can be opened in a text-editor.
The file you sent me is a “binary file” it does not contain text but is filled with hex 0x00.
Edit. except it is not. It is truncated at the end.
This is really odd that backup files get corrupted. Ardour just renames existing session files that once were saved correctly. only changing the filename.