There is a better solution- hope it’s not too late for you. You can open your project that keeps on crashing, then before it crashes (right click- copy) -copy all of your media files from the browser then paste them in a new open project. Then (if it hasn’t crashed yet)- copy your timeline and paste it into the new project. Quickly close down the crashing project and save the new one with all your preserved EDL and media. Might take you a couple tries. Hope that helps!
-Rob