Corrupted REAPER project?

[Serendipity Records]

Hey’all!

I’ve been working on a project in REAPER that now crashes the DAW when loading. As my fellow REAPER users will know, the “startup logo” shows the startup sequence in small script as it unfolds. It appears that REAPER crashes each time one of the VIs used (PolyMAX by UAD) is being loaded. However, when loading a different project featuring the same VI, I do not have any issue.

I have updated REAPER to the latest version, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the VI in question (to the latest version) -- not to mention a bunch of SSL plugins which I initially thought were the issue.

[EDIT: I have attempted to open backups of the project. No luck there.]

This is on a Mac M1 MAX (if that is relevant?). Apart from browser and a messaging app, nothing else is running.

Thanks guys!

 

[VomitHatSteve]

Do you have a .rrp.bck file of the project? If that will load, it will put you only one revision behind the latest version, and you can work from there

If not, .rpp files are mostly just text files, and you could try opening it up to see if you can find what's broken to excise it