LSP won't load my sequence

[Jimbo]

HI,

Pretty frustrated with LSP at the moment. For some reason of late, the actual program would not open. I have done a complete fresh install, but now it won't load my sequence file. It comes up with "There was a problem loading this sequence".

I am now concerned on whether I have lost about 3 months worth of programming. I had 2 backup copies of the file (I load one onto dropbox and copy another copy onto a usb harddrive). Both of these come up with the same error. Ever since I purchased the new license and downloaded the updated version (which I had to, to activate my license) it has been a lot more unstable and moody.

I have an i7 4470K, with 8 gig ram. If anyone has any ideas as to what may be causing this please let me know.

 

[Superman]

Hi Jimbo,
Give this a try for your sequence.
In the default sequence folder where you are saving your sequence you should see a *.BAK file of the sequences.

EG = Christmas_Song.msq_080214_23446.bak

these are progressive files saved by LSP. In order to use them Simply delete the last part of the file name to make it a *.MSQ file and try to open that one.

Christmas_Song.msq

Hope you get some result out of that

 

[fasteddy]

When you say a complete uninstall do you mean your just using the uninstall program or do you also delete the folder manually as well and start fresh.
I would try uninstalling and then deleting the folder (make sure you back up any saved effects) and then reinstalling fresh.

 

[Jimbo]

Well I found a saved copy of the file on a usb stick of the version I saved 2 sessions ago. For some reason that loaded OK. So I just finished redoing where I was up to.

When I did the reinstall I did delete the folder. When I don't delete it, after install LSP doesn't open.

Thanks superman for telling me about the backup. I looked at those and couldn't work how to load them. So I know for next time.

For some reason when this occurs, whatever was the latest ver
sion of the sequence gets corrupted and yeah. Not sure why this is. I have deleted the anti virus program and taken the computer off the net for now to see if this helps.

 

[Superman]

Just right click the backup file and hit rename. delete everything after.msq or ASQ if it's an Animation file

 

[arw01]

in settings you can adjust how often and how many backups it keeps too..


I might have corrupted one last year, but I progressively save too on top of the backups because I don't know if something I might do messes up what I had. At significant milestones in my progress I make a backup and change the name of the file.


e.g. I will have one that is just the beat timing marks, then I might do one with some chasses, and another with a series of macros all building up to the final.

 

[i13]

Superman's suggestion will only work if you have the file extensions shown. How to get them to show depends on your operating system but it generally isn't hard to do.