REAPER CRASHES WHEN OPENING NEWER PROJECTS

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REAPER CRASHES WHEN OPENING NEWER PROJECTS

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Hello folks,
Like it says on the box...I save each tweak to a project under a modified name so that I can move back or forward if things don't sound good after a few listens.
the last few of these saves won't load. Reaper begins the load, stalls & goes into the little holding pattern before reporting a problem and closing.
I've managed to reopen one of these after persisting for 1/2 an hour and saving it under a newer name in a hope that things'll be good but NO LUCK. My latest project, HSB, had some significant changes recently and I was unable to reopen the changed project so had to go through an earlier version and retweak as much as I could recall.
Any ideas what might be going wrong and how I might avoid this in future?
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Do older projects open normally?
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Not sure if this will help or not Ray, but you can try....

Open a new/empty project in Reaper....Click "File" (at the top left menu), then navigate to where your project(s) are, then click "Open", look at the bottom of the pop-up window & you choose "Offline FX"...
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This will let you load each plug-in one by one, & may help you find the cause of the problem, you may have a plug-in that's gone rogue dude...Let us know if this helps or not...
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Greg,
yeah, any project more than a week old opens.
Minerman,
I'll try that now.
Thanks in anticipation.
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When making all those changes to that one song ray, did you change any settings to reapers functionality or was it all just mixing changes and stuff song specific?
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Shannon,
No mate I didn't. I managed to open an ealier version today and deleted all of the VSTs I'd left in the FX folder but wasn't using. I then saved the project and it reopened...yeah. I tried MM's idea bt I was unable to open the projects through that process. ass I said, I saved & then renamed and saved & that opened with no problem, (though I'm going to try agin in an hour to be sure).
The newest VST/plugin was a reverb called ambient and I dumped Classic limiter as well as a couple of others.
I suppose I should keep records om the recordings like I used to in the days of tape but I'm much lazier now.
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I would just re-install REAPER. Un-install it first, you won't lose your own files, and re-install. Sometimes something as simple as re-starting your computer can solve it, too.
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