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If you use Time Machine, there is very likely an old version of Logic in the backups. See if you can find one and if so, open the projects there, save as a new project file and then try to open the new project file in 10.6.2. Good luck!

Update: I was able to import virtually the entire project into LPX 10.0.7. Saved it as a new project to my desktop. Tried to open it in LPX 10.6.2 and …SUCCESS. Saved it as a new project there and we are back up and running. There were a handful of small things lost in the transition, but about 95% of the original project is intact. Thanks again for all the help! This forum is excellent.

Ok, so a small breakthrough. I am able to import project data into LPX 10.0.7…

Well, that’s a serious bummer. Thanks for giving it a go. Out of curiosity, how were you able to determine the ProjectData file is the culprit? Maybe this is the universe telling me to go write new music instead. Edit: I just located a copy of LPX 10.0.7 on a backup from 2014. Will give it a try.

I agree completely. I'm not sure how a problem like this is possible on a piece of professional-grade software that has been in continuous development for the better part of 17 years. On the off chance that any of you have a moment to try to open the project on your side, I've attached a .zip file of one of the early project versions below. I removed all audio files to get it down to a reasonable upload size. Thanks again, everyone, for the suggestions and tips. Broken Leaves - Guide Mastered Draft.zip

Thanks for this information. I regularly backed up to Time Machine, but that’s the odd thing: every backup of this project (daily over a 50 day period) crashes Logic. It’s as if every single version of the project became corrupted somehow.

But how would I remove it from the channel strip when I can’t even get the project to open? Do you mean open a blank project with core audio disabled and all effects removed and then try to import?

There is the Dublin Delay guitar effect that is stock in Logic. That may have been used on this project. But I would presume bypassing all effects would have eliminated that as a cause?

Thanks for your efforts - I’ve already disconnected the audio interface and disabled core audio to no avail. I’ll keep trying various possible solutions. Is anyone able to interpret the crash log above?

I just tried this - when trying to import from file>import>logic projects, the moment I double click the affected project, Logic crashes.

sorry, i missed that. is the project on the same drive as the others? either way, try duplicating it in the finder, then moving (say, to the desktop). then try to open it there... also, you could try importing only select elements of the original into a 'virgin' project, see if anything imports; could be a long process, but if the project's important... try that. Yes, it is on the same drive as the other projects. I tried to create a duplicate of the project on the desktop and open it from there. Unfortunately, no luck. I am able to right click on the project, then go Show Package Contents > Media > Audio Files and select the individual audio files without issue. The individual audio files play just fine in iTunes when selected. Is there another method to importing into a "new" project other than using the All Files browser? As mentioned, I can't even click on the project in the All Files browser without Logic crashing. Because of that I am unable to see the contents/elements that might be able to be imported. This was a ~90 track project, so that could be quite a bit of work!

I tried to open the project in Logic 10.3.3, 10.4.8 and 10.6.0. Unfortunately, the same result.

Thanks. I've already tried this, but I am unable to select any version of the old project in the All Files browser without Logic crashing.

Thanks for the quick reply. I do not have an earlier version of Logic installed. I run 10.6.2. I may have an earlier version on my external drives. Would you suggest trying to open inside an earlier version of Logic?

Hi All, I am running into issues trying to open a specific Logic project that crashes Logic immediately upon attempting to open the project. I've already tried the following: (1) Disable core audio (2) open previous / backed up versions (ALL versions of the project crash Logic) (3) creating a new/blank project and importing the old project (selecting the project in the librarian crashes Logic as well) The project in question is a few years old (2017), but was a true labor of love and I'd hate to lose it. Part of me wonders if it's potentially a permissions issue (the file has been backed up on two external drives, and I did have some permissions issues on those drives recently). I have not yet reset those permissions. My understanding is that the current version of Mac OS X does not permit resetting permissions on the system drive itself. All other Logic X projects open without issue - the problem is limited to this single project. For that reason, I'm assuming the issue lies with the project file and not Logic X as a whole, but I can't be sure. I have copied what appear to be the relevant portions of the crash report below. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Process: Logic Pro X [2170] Path: /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X Identifier: com.apple.logic10 Version: 10.6.2 (5437) Build Info: MALogic-5437000000000000~2 (10U141) App Item ID: 634148309 App External ID: 841256562 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Logic Pro X [2170] User ID: 502 Date/Time: 2021-05-17 10:58:22.905 -0500 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H1030) Report Version: 12 Bridge OS Version: 3.0 (14Y908) Anonymous UUID: 46129172-B2C9-3D56-7147-7E3F9C2748E0 Sleep/Wake UUID: 0673710A-A8FA-4F07-9330-34CE7CC126C9 Time Awake Since Boot: 5500 seconds Time Since Wake: 3000 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000008 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb Terminating Process: exc handler [2170] VM Regions Near 0x8: --> __TEXT 000000010ef87000-00000001110e3000 [ 33.4M] r-x/r-x SM=COW /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X Application Specific Information: Dublin | 6b34edbe1e2428234532a9a90f0dda622834cd344de3e01f645f6cf5be04bce1 | 781cc937bdf8fcedde9f5ae075d75e80eb832333 | 2021-04-20_07:21:15 Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.logic10 0x00000001106f5064 0x10ef87000 + 24567908 1 com.apple.logic10 0x00000001107039f1 0x10ef87000 + 24627697 2 com.apple.logic10 0x0000000110707c9f 0x10ef87000 + 24644767 3 com.apple.logic10 0x000000011070c16f 0x10ef87000 + 24662383 4 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010fbc661e 0x10ef87000 + 12842526 5 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010fb62055 0x10ef87000 + 12431445 6 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010fb6228e 0x10ef87000 + 12432014 7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff318f8fd1 -[NSDocument _initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 172 8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff318f8eba -[NSDocument initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 231 9 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff319676c1 -[NSDocumentController makeDocumentWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 619 10 com.apple.logic10 0x0000000110416bf4 0x10ef87000 + 21560308 11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff31b6d3db -[NSDocumentController(NSDeprecated) openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] + 783 12 com.apple.logic10 0x000000011098773b 0x10ef87000 + 27264827 13 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c1935 __NSBLOCKOPERATION_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 7 14 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c1856 -[NSBlockOperation main] + 80 15 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c17f1 __NSOPERATION_IS_INVOKING_MAIN__ + 17 16 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c0a23 -[NSOperation start] + 722 17 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c0749 __NSOPERATIONQUEUE_IS_STARTING_AN_OPERATION__ + 17 18 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff369c0619 __NSOQSchedule_f + 182 19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff6e3992b9 _dispatch_block_async_invoke2 + 83 20 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff6e38d658 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 21 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff6e398cab _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 936 22 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff34385961 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9 23 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff34345767 __CFRunLoopRun + 2028 24 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3434491e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 462 25 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff32f70abd RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292 26 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff32f707d5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 584 27 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff32f70579 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 64 28 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff315b7039 _DPSNextEvent + 883 29 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff315b5880 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1352 30 com.apple.logic10 0x0000000110990630 0x10ef87000 + 27301424 31 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff315a758e -[NSApplication run] + 658 32 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff31579396 NSApplicationMain + 777 33 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010fb36b5d 0x10ef87000 + 12254045 34 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6e3e6cc9 start + 1/