Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

iMac 7 4GB Memory
Digi 003
Eleven Rack
Mac OSX 10.5.8
Pro Tools 8.04

Dig 003 is the Master clock and ElevenRack is slaved to Digi 003 via SPDIF. Audio output to monitors originates at the Digi 003. ElevenRack is only used as an input device and passes its I/O to the Digi 003 via SPDIF cables

Problem: When loading a specific song, when Pro Tools gets to the "Restoring Tracks" startup message, Pro Tools crashes.
Other Songs load fine and I can create a song with no issues.
I suspect that there is some I/O issue between the ElevenRack and the Digi 003.
Is there some way I can delete the I/O setup and then rebuild the I/O paths after the song has loaded?

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

I don't think so. I think the I/O setup is set up as part of loading the session.

It might be that the session itself is corrupt. You could try to import the tracks to a new session, a few at a time. Maybe you can narrow it down to a track.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

This is happening to me a lot lately. I can work on a session, save, close, and when I try to re-open the session, Pro Tools crashes, freezes my whole computer and I have to hard reboot. I have to create a new session and import the session data for the corrupted session. But if I try to import all the tracks at once, it crashes again. If I import the tracks one at a time, which takes a LONG time, the entire session gets imported without issue. So then I can work on it for a while longer, but when I save and close and try to re-open again, it crashes. The cycle goes on like this.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

If I were you guys, I would be looking for an offending plugin.

First, why not try: pull out all non-digi plugins, try to open your un-openable sessions.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

Doesn't make a difference - if it was a bad plugin, it wouldn't load at all when importing the session data. But, for me, it loads when importing session data, but not the entire session.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

This means it could be a plugin in my opinion.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

ok I'll try the Shift-Open trick.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

definitely not a plugin.

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

I'm consistently getting this issue with a session as well and it's driving me crazy. Things will be going smoothly, then pro tools freezes, I get the beach ball, session crashes, need to hard reboot.

Then after rebooting (twice - once hard reboot, then one regular) if I try to open session is crashed on the session is corrupt and I can never use that file again. Thank god for session file backups. I then use most recent backup and restore session from there and save as restored versions.

Any figure out what could be causing this unfortunate bug?

Re: Pro Tools Crashes during "Restoring Tracks" portion of startup
 

fixed??