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Unfortunately, my concert was running in 64-bit mode and this still happened. But yes, a good point for others to note!

Discovered a solution! View here: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=96790&p=504915#p504915

After some creative exploration into importing and exporting patches, I have discovered a way to recover the contents of a corrupt concert, as long as you still have the concert file. Here's what you do: 1. Navigate to your corrupt Mainstage concert file (by default, these are stored in User/Music/MainStage). Right click your concert and select "Show Package Contents". 2. There will be a bunch of files ending in .plistZ, a "Nodes" folder, and a .layout file. Open the "Nodes" folder. 3. You should see a) your master channel strip files (something like 001 Reverb.cst, 002 Output 1-2.cst, etc.), b) files called "base.plistZ", "mappings.plistZ", and "uidata.plistZ", and c) a folder for every set in the show, containing folders for every patch in that set. As it turns out, the file structure of this "Nodes" folder is almost identical to the structure of an exported "Set" from MainStage. We are going to recreate a .patch file manually, then import it into a fresh Mainstage concert. 4. Create a new folder and name it whatever you want. Probably the title of your concert. 5. Copy the contents of the "Nodes" folder to your new folder and delete the files "mappings.plistZ" and "uidata.plistZ" from the top directory. Do NOT delete these files where they appear within your individual set and patch folders. 6. In the new folder, rename "base.plistZ" to "nodes.plistZ". 7. Now open Text Editor and create a file with the contents "/Applications/MainStage.app" and nothing else. Save this to your new folder with the name ".LSOverride". Finder should ask if you want to create a hidden file or something. Accept. 8. NOW. The top-level or your new folder should contain ".LSOverride" (hidden), "nodes.plistZ", and folders of every set in your show, containing folders of every patch in those sets. Rename the new folder to end with ".patch". Finder will warn you about showing a folder as a single file. Accept. 9. You should now have a patch file that you are able to import into a clean Mainstage concert. Open Mainstage, create a new concert, then press Command+I. (Alternatively, in Edit mode, find your "Actions" menu (the little gear with the arrow) at the top of your Patch List. Toggle the menu and select "Load Patch / Set"). Select your newly created .patch file from the finder drop-down and click Import. Mainstage should now load all the patches and mappings from your corrupt concert! 10. Rejoice, for balance has been restored to the universe once again. Optional: Remember the .layout file we saw in the concert's package contents? You can import that, too. Just go to Layout mode and select "Import Layout" from its little gear menu. I'm pretty sure you can also recover your master channel strips by moving them to the proper location in the new concert file. I haven't tested this, though. I hope this saves some folks from having to recreate their concerts that corrupt for bizarre reasons. Oh, and one final tip: BACK UP YOUR CONCERTS!

I'm in the same scenario right now... either I have to fix this borked file, or I have to reprogram a half a week's worth of work. If ANYONE has figured out how to fix these glitched Mainstage concerts, please let me know. I'm at the end of my rope.

Just tried your suggestion, but no dice. Can anyone who knows what the crash report is saying tell me why it's crashing in the first place?

I worked on a pretty massive Mainstage concert yesterday, about 300 patch changes total. Everything was running smoothly and I finished my worked, saved, and restarted the computer. After restart, I went to open the file. It goes through the process of loading all the patches, then gets to the end of the progress bar and says "loading concert", at which point Mainstage crashes. I am devastated, as the most recent backup is about a week old and I need a way to either fix this file or salvage the data within it. Note that I haven't gotten the "your concert is corrupt" message—it just crashes every time I try to load it, so I can't access the concert. I've searched around the web and tried various things (deleting plists, moving the "Nodes" folder to a new concert, etc.) But nothing has worked thus far. Can anyone help? Here's the crash log: Process: MainStage [16371] Path: /Applications/MainStage.app/Contents/MacOS/MainStage Identifier: com.apple.mainstage Version: 2.2.2 (420.4) Build Info: MainStage-4200400~1 App Item ID: 459585276 App External ID: 7983891 Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [551] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2013-07-06 12:02:35.897 -0400 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) Report Version: 10 Interval Since Last Report: 354 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 1 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 29 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1 Anonymous UUID: 3B4C66CC-C310-0DB9-2701-0E11FA4C7354 Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 Application Specific Information: Delegate cannot resolve external object from identity Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.mainstage 0x00136ced 0x1000 + 1268973 1 com.apple.mainstage 0x00136b48 0x1000 + 1268552 2 com.apple.mainstage 0x00136544 0x1000 + 1267012 3 com.apple.mainstage 0x0013646a 0x1000 + 1266794 4 com.apple.mainstage 0x000e650b 0x1000 + 939275 5 com.apple.mainstage 0x000573a4 0x1000 + 353188 6 com.apple.Foundation 0x9012f55b _decodeObjectBinary + 3507 7 com.apple.Foundation 0x9012e5f7 _decodeObject + 220 8 com.apple.mainstage 0x00137bef 0x1000 + 1272815 9 com.apple.mainstage 0x0000b198 0x1000 + 41368 10 com.apple.AppKit 0x98388bb3 -[NSDocument readFromURL:ofType:error:] + 646 11 com.apple.mainstage 0x0000b774 0x1000 + 42868 12 com.apple.AppKit 0x97f67968 -[NSDocument _initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 168 13 com.apple.AppKit 0x97f6762d -[NSDocument initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 308 14 com.apple.AppKit 0x983b7f18 -[NSDocumentController makeDocumentWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 383 15 com.apple.mainstage 0x000ac000 0x1000 + 700416 16 com.apple.AppKit 0x983c3d20 -[NSDocumentController(NSDeprecated) openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] + 898 17 com.apple.mainstage 0x000ac139 0x1000 + 700729 18 com.apple.mainstage 0x000be88f 0x1000 + 776335 19 com.apple.AppKit 0x982b5825 __69-[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:]_block_invoke_0 + 1907 20 com.apple.AppKit 0x98826029 __94-[NSPersistentUIManager finishedRestoringWindowsWithZOrder:registerAsReady:completionHandler:]_block_in voke_01187 + 40 21 com.apple.AppKit 0x983bfda2 __78-[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsWithCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke_01493 + 160 22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805ef7e -[NSApplication _whenReopeningIsAllowedDo:] + 164 23 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805ec10 -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsWithCompletionHandler:] + 750 24 com.apple.AppKit 0x97fb24d2 -[NSPersistentUIManager finishedRestoringWindowsWithZOrder:registerAsReady:completionHandler:] + 7594 25 com.apple.AppKit 0x97fa68d7 -[NSPersistentUIManager restoreAllPersistentStateRegisteringAsReadyWhenDone:completionHandler:] + 1206 26 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805ceb8 -[NSApplication _reopenWindowsAsNecessaryIncludingRestorableState:registeringAsReady:completion Handler:] + 254 27 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805cd85 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _reopenWindowsIfNecessaryWithAppleEvent:completionHandler:] + 211 28 com.apple.AppKit 0x982b504f -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:] + 287 29 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805c911 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 727 30 libobjc.A.dylib 0x994d1628 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:withObject:] + 77 31 com.apple.Foundation 0x9014341a __76-[NSAppleEventManager setEventHandler:andSelector:forEventClass:andEventID:]_block_invoke_0 + 121 32 com.apple.Foundation 0x90142f71 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 430 33 com.apple.Foundation 0x90142d6e _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 173 34 com.apple.AE 0x90430a35 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 331 35 com.apple.AE 0x90405fbe dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 44 36 com.apple.AE 0x90405e7d aeProcessAppleEvent + 318 37 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92b75c58 AEProcessAppleEvent + 100 38 com.apple.AppKit 0x98058cdd _DPSNextEvent + 1655 39 com.apple.AppKit 0x9805816c -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119 40 com.apple.AppKit 0x9804e5cc -[NSApplication run] + 855 41 com.apple.prokit 0x0239ac01 NSProApplicationMain + 424 42 com.apple.mainstage 0x00010b75 0x1000 + 64373 43 com.apple.mainstage 0x00003699 0x1000 + 9881 Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949359ae kevent + 10 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9228fc71 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 993 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9228f7a9 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53 Thread 2:: ExtendedAudioFileScheduler::WorkerThreadProc 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949348e2 __psynch_cvwait + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cf280 _pthread_cond_wait + 833 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91155095 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 71 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAFiles 0x02736bab ResolveFile + 52475 4 com.apple.music.apps.MAFiles 0x02736d01 ResolveFile + 52817 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 6 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 3:: ExtendedAudioFileScheduler::WorkerThreadProc 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949348e2 __psynch_cvwait + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cf280 _pthread_cond_wait + 833 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91155095 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 71 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAFiles 0x02736bab ResolveFile + 52475 4 com.apple.music.apps.MAFiles 0x02736d01 ResolveFile + 52817 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 6 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 4:: MTStream+MTThreadStage LIVE Processing: 0 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00569776 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97942 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 5:: MTStream+MTThreadStage LIVE Processing: 1 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00569776 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97942 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 6:: MTStream+MTThreadStage LIVE Processing: 2 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00569776 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97942 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 7:: MTStream+MTThreadStage SLOW Processing: 0 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x0056978f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97967 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 8:: MTStream+MTThreadStage SLOW Processing: 1 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x0056978f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97967 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 9:: MTStream+MTThreadStage SLOW Processing: 2 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9493280e semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x0056978f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 97967 2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00564d4f MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78959 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005649f2 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 78098 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 10:: MTFinalStage High Latency Thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94934c72 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91154a55 nanosleep$UNIX2003 + 189 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9115491e usleep$UNIX2003 + 60 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005622a0 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 68032 4 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00561dd0 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 66800 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 6 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 11:: CoreAudio HAL Input/Output Proc 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949327d2 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94931cb0 mach_msg + 68 2 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a632eba HALB_MachPort::SendMessageWithReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long, mach_msg_header_t*, bool, unsigned int) + 138 3 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a62d52e HALB_MachPort::SendSimpleMessageWithSimpleReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, int, int&, bool, unsigned int) + 70 4 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a62bbcd HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOWorkLoop() + 1287 5 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a62b617 HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOThreadEntry(void*) + 145 6 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a635b61 ___ZN19HALC_ProxyIOContextC2Emj_block_invoke_0 + 20 7 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9a62b53d HALB_IOThread::Entry(void*) + 71 8 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 9 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 12:: FileIOThread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949348e2 __psynch_cvwait + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cf280 _pthread_cond_wait + 833 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91155095 pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 71 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x005115e5 MDFileIOThread_IsBusy + 5221 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 13:: MTFeederStage High Latency Thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94934c72 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91154a55 nanosleep$UNIX2003 + 189 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9115491e usleep$UNIX2003 + 60 3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x0055f5ba MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 56538 4 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x0055e290 MTCoreAudioNewDriver + 51632 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 6 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 14:: SeqTimer 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949348e2 __psynch_cvwait + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cf2e9 _pthread_cond_wait + 938 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cf572 pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np + 47 3 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x972f66ad TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 177 4 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x972f6184 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 272 5 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x972f640d TSWaitOnSemaphoreRelative + 24 6 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x972dc1a3 TimerThread + 324 7 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 8 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 15: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949327d2 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94931cb0 mach_msg + 68 2 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x0231822d XServerMachPort::ReceiveMessage(int&, void*, int&) + 101 3 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x02335ae0 MIDIProcess::RunMIDIInThread() + 144 4 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x0233bc48 MIDIProcess::MIDIInPortThread::Run() + 24 5 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x02319805 XThread::RunHelper(void*) + 17 6 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x023192ee CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 196 7 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 8 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 16:: com.apple.mainstage:MIDI Clock Sender 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94934c72 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91154a55 nanosleep$UNIX2003 + 189 2 com.apple.mainstage 0x001d8705 0x1000 + 1931013 3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 17:: com.apple.NSURLConnectionLoader 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949327d2 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94931cb0 mach_msg + 68 2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x975cff79 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 185 3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x975d595f __CFRunLoopRun + 1247 4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x975d501a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378 5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x975d4e8b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123 6 com.apple.Foundation 0x9011637a +[NSURLConnection(Loader) _resourceLoadLoop:] + 395 7 com.apple.Foundation 0x9017a448 -[NSThread main] + 45 8 com.apple.Foundation 0x9017a3cb __NSThread__main__ + 1396 9 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 10 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 18:: com.apple.CFSocket.private 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94934be6 __select + 10 1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x97619650 __CFSocketManager + 1632 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 19:: com.apple.appkit-heartbeat 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x94934c72 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91154a55 nanosleep$UNIX2003 + 189 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9115491e usleep$UNIX2003 + 60 3 com.apple.AppKit 0x9823dc2d -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:] + 879 4 com.apple.Foundation 0x9017a448 -[NSThread main] + 45 5 com.apple.Foundation 0x9017a3cb __NSThread__main__ + 1396 6 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910ca5b7 _pthread_start + 344 7 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d4e thread_start + 34 Thread 20: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x949350ee __workq_kernreturn + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cd0ac _pthread_workq_return + 45 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910cce79 _pthread_wqthread + 448 3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x910b4d2a start_wqthread + 30 Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit): eax: 0x2b638020 ebx: 0x1cbf0fd0 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000000 edi: 0x1cbf1010 esi: 0x04c5bdd0 ebp: 0xbfffdea8 esp: 0xbfffde80 ss: 0x00000023 efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x00136ced cs: 0x0000001b ds: 0x00000023 es: 0x00000023 fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x0000000f cr2: 0x0cb38000 Logical CPU: 3