Damn.
Four solid day's work on this song, and I mean SOLID days (and nights).
Somehow, in the heat of inspiration, I didn't get round to making a backup.
Today I had one of those days when everything went wrong with my 'puter. Its all OK now, but when I try to open this project file, I get a very terse little message that says "General Error", with a box I can click to close without opening the file, and no other option.
I have tried the Safe Mode thing - pressing shift while opening. Even if I choose not to load any plugins at all, I still get the same message.
The file starts loading, then when the bar at the bottom says 9% - bang! "General Error".
I know its the file and not Sonar, 'cause I did a DriveImage restore to a known good installation. Sonar works fine with all my other files - just this one won't open.
The manual doesn't help. It only mentions using the shift key and not loading plugins. As I said I've already tried that.
The file was almost entirely MIDI - detailed, painstakingly crafted MIDI - so I can't even reconstruct it by re-importing the audio files.
So, does anybody know a way of getting into a file like this? I suspect its screwed, but I thought I may as well try.
Please don't lecture me about the importance of backing up, or I'll firebomb your house.
I'm going downstairs to gas myself now.
Four solid day's work on this song, and I mean SOLID days (and nights).
Somehow, in the heat of inspiration, I didn't get round to making a backup.
Today I had one of those days when everything went wrong with my 'puter. Its all OK now, but when I try to open this project file, I get a very terse little message that says "General Error", with a box I can click to close without opening the file, and no other option.
I have tried the Safe Mode thing - pressing shift while opening. Even if I choose not to load any plugins at all, I still get the same message.
The file starts loading, then when the bar at the bottom says 9% - bang! "General Error".
I know its the file and not Sonar, 'cause I did a DriveImage restore to a known good installation. Sonar works fine with all my other files - just this one won't open.
The manual doesn't help. It only mentions using the shift key and not loading plugins. As I said I've already tried that.
The file was almost entirely MIDI - detailed, painstakingly crafted MIDI - so I can't even reconstruct it by re-importing the audio files.
So, does anybody know a way of getting into a file like this? I suspect its screwed, but I thought I may as well try.
Please don't lecture me about the importance of backing up, or I'll firebomb your house.
I'm going downstairs to gas myself now.