Can't open shared Logic Pro X project

Hi all, this is my first post. I've searched for this same issue but haven't found a solution yet...I'm working with a mix engineer Juan, and asked him to share a Logic Project back to me via Dropbox so that I can tweak the project further, but it seems the file is becoming corrupted somewhere in this process. When I try to launch the project file, Logic crashes before anything opens. I don't really know how to read crash logs but it seems that Thread 0 is causing issues.

 

A few related notes:

• My original project (before engineer did his thing and sent back to me) still opens without issue, so it seems it is not a system wide issue, but rather an issue with the specific project file coming from Juan. The project with Juan's changes continues to open on Juan's machine without issue, but crashes on mine.
  We are using Dropbox to share projects back and forth. To share the originals with Juan, I saved my project (organized as package), then zipped, then uploaded zip to Dropbox. Juan followed same steps to share updated project back to me.
  Juan used about 8 external plug-ins that he always uses, but that hasn’t caused this type of issue with his other clients. I installed each of these plugins on my system, but to be fair I have never used them or validated that they are working properly. Would the cause be related to plugins?
  

 

I'm hoping maybe the answer is embedded in the crash log somewhere. Please let me know of any suggestions, thank you!

 

Crash log up to Thread 0 (let me know if sharing more would be helpful):

 

Process: Logic Pro X [1150]

Path: /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X

Identifier: com.apple.logic10

Version: 10.0.0 (2911.1)

Build Info: MALogic-2911035000000000~1

App Item ID: 634148309

App External ID: 15039901

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Responsible: Logic Pro X [1150]

User ID: 501

 

Date/Time: 2021-04-13 08:01:47.464 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G2136)

Report Version: 12

Anonymous UUID: E062308B-7C48-3CDA-A626-0BAFAE130B2B

 

Sleep/Wake UUID: 78975492-2CA4-40F5-896B-0DC882BCA815

 

Time Awake Since Boot: 3500 seconds

Time Since Wake: 2800 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 [0]

 

VM Regions Near 0x8:

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__TEXT 000000010eca4000-000000010fb14000 [ 14.4M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X

 

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f73a94e 0x10eca4000 + 11102542

1 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f63a868 0x10eca4000 + 10053736

2 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f63b3c0 0x10eca4000 + 10056640

3 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f63dd1a 0x10eca4000 + 10067226

4 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f15a38b 0x10eca4000 + 4940683

5 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f12825c 0x10eca4000 + 4735580

6 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f12cb2b 0x10eca4000 + 4754219

7 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f12cc6d 0x10eca4000 + 4754541

8 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111ca1dd7 -[NSDocument _initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 172

9 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111ca1cbc -[NSDocument initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 231

10 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111d7f2b0 -[NSDocumentController makeDocumentWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 644

11 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f23d47e 0x10eca4000 + 5870718

12 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111fdf5bc -[NSDocumentController(NSDeprecated) openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] + 915

13 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f15023a 0x10eca4000 + 4899386

14 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111ca1720 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _openDocumentURLs:withCompletionHandler:] + 805

15 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111ca12ea __69-[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:]_block_invoke + 935

16 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111ca0d19 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:] + 265

17 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111a8546e -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 744

18 com.apple.Foundation 0x000000011781136d -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 290

19 com.apple.Foundation 0x00000001178111e7 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 102

20 com.apple.AE 0x000000011a303f3a aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 544

21 com.apple.AE 0x000000011a303cb1 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 39

22 com.apple.AE 0x000000011a303bbd aeProcessAppleEvent + 312

23 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x000000011d5c1ddf AEProcessAppleEvent + 55

24 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111a80ccd _DPSNextEvent + 1833

25 com.apple.AppKit 0x00000001121fc7ee -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 2796

26 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111a7538b -[NSApplication run] + 926

27 com.apple.AppKit 0x0000000111a3fdbe NSApplicationMain + 1237

28 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010f1271c9 0x10eca4000 + 4731337

29 com.apple.logic10 0x000000010eca65c4 0x10eca4000 + 9668

Your version of Logic maybe is an older one than your mix engineers ? Logic 10.0.0 being the very first version of LPX, was known to be pretty buggy, also...

Also, was the Logic file ZIPPED before it was uploaded? They almost always corrupt if you do not zip them. To zip a file, go to the Finder, then right- or controlclick on it, then choose "Compress" from the contextual menu.

 

O yeah, and what Jakob said. 10.0.0 is ancient. It is always best if the collaborators use the same version of Logic.