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Old 09-03-2020, 10:18 AM
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Default PT 2020.9 - Still can't open old PT5.1 Session files

While the ability to read SD2 files (again) in the new release of PT2020.9 is welcome, there still is no way to convert or import older PT5 sessions. I still have PT 9 on an old MBP but those who don't have a computer with an old PT install are still up the creak if they are trying to open old session files. This will be an increasing problem now that many albums recorded on older rigs and are up for re-release / remixing for 20/25th Anniversaries (which I'm doing quite a lot of these days)
Avid need to release a small program to convert older session files to PT 9 or above.
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Old 09-03-2020, 11:06 AM
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Default Re: PT 2020.9 - Still can't open old PT5.1 Session files

Well, I've just tested a couple of older Pro Tools projects with PT 2020.9. While I don't remember off the top of my head which icons were for Pro Tools 5.1 vs., say, 5.0, when I do command I to get info on the project file, it does indicate if one's a PT 5.1 session vs. 5.0. In any case, while PT 2020.9 was unable to open the 5.0 sessions (in which the icon looks like a circular brown reel to reel tape), it did open and convert the SDII files on what seemed to be the 5.1 sessions (in which the icon has the name Pro Tools in it with blue on blue stripes on the top and a green background on the bottom of the icon). I couldn't open, though, the 5.1 sessions by double clicking the icon; I had to use the open session dialogue and navigate to the 5.1 session and select it to open it. I currently have my Macbook Pro partitioned with an earlier operating system on the smaller partition with PT 10 in that partition--I'll still have to keep that in place to convert the PT 5 sessions that I still haven't converted yet; but it does look like I can use PT 2020.9 to convert the 5.1 sessions.
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Old 09-03-2020, 11:31 AM
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Default Re: PT 2020.9 - Still can't open old PT5.1 Session files

The files with the tape reel icons are PT5 / 5.1 sessions. The others are PT6. I'm not able to open 5/5.1 files in PT 2020 either by click on the file itself, in the open session dialog, or through session import dialog.
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Old 09-03-2020, 11:34 AM
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Default Re: PT 2020.9 - Still can't open old PT5.1 Session files

My bad. The green icons are PT5.1 - reel icons are PT5.

You can open 5.1 in PT 2020.9.

Thanks for pointing that out
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Old 09-03-2020, 11:37 AM
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As far as I can remember, you need PT10 to open PT6 or earlier sessions
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Old 09-03-2020, 11:49 AM
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That was previously the case, but as I tested just now, PT 2020.9 will open earlier files--but not 5.0.
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That was previously the case, but as I tested just now, PT 2020.9 will open earlier files--but not 5.0.
That may be because PT5 files are OS9
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That may be because PT5 files are OS9
I don't think this relates to OS9. My Macbook Pro is partitioned, with the smaller partition booting up as OS 10.8.5, and I have Pro Tools 10 installed on that smaller partition. Using Pro Tools 10, I can open both PT 5 and PT 5.1 projects on that OS 10 partition.
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Good then. Sometimes people move files via CDROM or FAT filesystems which drops the resource fork. If you have had it on HFS all the time should not be a problem
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That was previously the case, but as I tested just now, PT 2020.9 will open earlier files--but not 5.0.
I've been able to get 2020.9 to open old sessions by changing the file extension to .pts, but because the original files were SDII it doesn't include that audio in the session timeline and the filenames in the bin are greyed-out. Yes, it asks me to relink them, but should that cumbersome step be necessary with this new SDII functionality?
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