[SOLVED] Ardour 4 and opening older version session.

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[SOLVED] Ardour 4 and opening older version session.

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Hi guys!
Without not even noticing it my Arch box pulled in the newest shining version of Ardour. These days a guy found Interesting one of my recordings and would like to make a remix. "No problem! I still have my Ardour 3 (actually Ardour 2...) session with me, I will export the tracks to you!..." No way! Ardour 4 CRASHES vary badly when trying to open older version sessions... and what all that options are there for! In the old days the procedure was:

Start jack
Start Ardour
Profit

why all that options at startup? To make things harder??? (sorry for the rant...)...
Any of you experiencing any issue? If so, did you find any solution? I am seriously about to purge Ardour 4 and reinstall Ardour 3...
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Re: Ardour 4 and opening older version session.

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Thanks for your reply!

I have tried to compare the Ardour console output trying to open files I am able to import and this one that makes Ardour to crash and yes, I think it is a bug since the error that prevents everything from running is:

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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
watched PID no longer exists - releasing device.
I have been trying stuff with .bak copies of the sessions and the -2000 created by Ardour 4 and I think I have messed up since not even Ardour 3.3 can open the session now... I didn't try the Nightly Build as I don't like to install packages without pacman... but I suppose that it would not help since not even the version I used for recording (Ardour 3) can open the session anymore...

Well... It was a bug and I messed up trying to find a workaround... Got mixed feelings about it :oops: :x :cry: :cry:

I have basically lost an entire session... so bad...
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Re: Ardour 4 and opening older version session.

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CrocoDuck reporting after trying the nightly build:

unfortunately, it doesn't work... but I contact the developers. Wish I can at least help in solving a bug.
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Re: Ardour 4 and opening older version session.

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A bug indeed. Reported and solved.
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