The good news is that it opens.
The bad news is it’s got a sequence with only 14 min of my 18 so I am going around the circle a few more times to other versions and opening them from other places with other system setting for scratch disks.
The weird news is that I had to make believe I was someone else. Yes I tossed buckets of render files and cleaned up the drives and got rid of most was in the autosave vault, but I really think what worked was logging on as someone else – but WHY??? Did my project have a 7 month itch? Do I need to dye my hair now?
any ideas on the why?
and a million thanks for the cure – now if I can only get one with a longer sequence to ipen