Project too large to open!?!?1

[Jeremy Garchow]

Struggling to open it or won’t open it?

[Max Frank]

After several attempts it still hasn’t opened.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

What happens exactly? Errors? Warnings? Your screen melts to a pile of stinky plastic, charred metal and smoke?

[Michael Sacci]

I had a friend asl me about this same problem opening up a huge project file (don’t know that exact size) w/ over 30 sequences in it. The problem was solved by him copying the project file to his system drive and it opened fine. The file was on his media drives before.

[Rafael Amador]

Yes. Where stops? And how did you “abort” the several attempts?
I don’t know if Jeremy will agree, but I would start trying to open a copy of the project from the AutoSave.
If this doesn’t works: putting the media offline. See if there is some corrupted media.I think the main cause of projects that do not open.
You can always try to open it in other computer, so you can see if there is a problem with the project file or a problem with your FC-System.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Max Frank]

Thanks guys,

Well, I finally got the project to open, but was getting ‘out of memory’ errors, and it quit before I could do anything to delete sequences, etc.

I’ll the tips above.

Thanks again for the help & concern.

Wayne