"There is no existing session at ......."

Installation & Configuration Windows
#1

Hello,

I’m trying to help a student running Ardour on a Windows machine. His project stopped working and when he tries to launch the project file or load the Ardour file from within Ardour there is a message:

“There is no existing session at \path\to\the\project\file.ardour”

I don’t think that the session folder was moved and the files seem to be all there.

Does anyone please have any suggestions?

Thanks

#2

Does that happen when you use “other session” (instead of “recent”) and manually navigate to the project?
Are there any maybe umlauts in the path? Is it on C:\ ? and owned by the user in question?

This particular error message shows if the given path (usually session-dir without project) is not a readable directory. – If the path is valid, check if its’ perhaps a permission problem (e.g. session was created while Ardour as Administrator).

#3

Thanks very much Robin for your reply. I managed to fix the problem. I think some files must have been moved but there was nothing wrong with the permissions. All the best