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Old Pro Tools Sessions
I have a question - I have Pro Tools 2021.10, and I got some old Pro Tools 7 sessions... I tried to open them, but I got a message box saying they couldn't be opened because they were an old version of Pro Tools. Is there a way to get around that, or am I just not going to be able to get them open?
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Re: Old Pro Tools Sessions
More info is needed.
1-what platform were the old sessions done on(Mac or PC)? 2-what platform are you now running? 3-If the old sessions were done on Mac, were they done in SD II file format?
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2 - I am using a PC 3 - All of the audio are .wav files Tried that, and got the exact same message. |
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They're WAV files? You're lucky! I went through this same thing as a project to keep me busy during early pandemic lockdown days and it was a pain dealing with some of the SDII files (especially tracks that had lots of edits etc).
What ended up working for me in a lot of cases was to create a new session and then use import session data to import all the tracks from the old session. Good luck!
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OK all, I feel dumb.
The files began with "._" (because MacOS to PC)... as soon as I took that off, hey presto! It works! |
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Glad to hear it.
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Re: Old Pro Tools Sessions
I discovered a little quirk that might be of use to someone investigating this topic.
Since PT2020.something, PT is able to open and convert pretty old PT sessions and convert SDII files. Great. A few of my oldest sessions, though, I think they were PT v.5, could not be opened when double-clicked on the file in Finder. Solution was simple; use the 'Open…' in File menu in PT, and they would open and convert without any issues.
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