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There are a lot of possible causes for this. Perhaps you have incompatible plugins, or there are plugins in the session that are causing issues. Is it just the one session, or all sessions? Are the sessions on an external drive? Thumb drive? What format is the drive?
Try holding shift while opening the session, that may help to prove if plugins are indeed the issue. What exact version of Pro Tools are you running? 8.0.x?