corrupt session file!!!!!

[Sounds Suite]

hi,
i have recieved the following message when trying to open a session in LE6.4 (digi 001) with windows XP "could not complete your request because: anerror occured while reading the document"........ is there any way to fix or try to se what is wrong with the session file? i have tried restoring windows to an earlier date but this has not worked, is there a restore in protools that will revert the file back to a previous state?? is there anything at all i can do????

thanks alot

Brett
Sounds Suite

[globaleric]

Hmmm... lots of XP questions here lately... Is there something wrong with the Windows forum or are you just anticipating more computing expertise over here in the Mac forum?

Anyway:

Step 1: Try opening the latest session file from the Session Backup Files folder, sorry, subdirectory
If for some very unfortunate reason you can't find one, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Restore the complete session from your latest audio disk backup
If for some very unfortunate reason you don't have one or don't know what a backup is, go to Step 3

Step 3:
- Create a new session
- Import to track/region all .wav files from the Audio Files fold... subdirectory of the corrupted session
- Rearrange all regions in the timeline, recreate all RTA plugins, recreate all sends and aux tracks and finally re-import or re-record all MIDI tracks
- Yes, this IS [bleep]ing cumbersome!
- Activate the Session File Auto Backup option in the Operation Preferences (might be different with 6.4), see also Step 1
- Get used to regularly backup your sessions on another drive, a DVD-RW or whatever, see also Step 2

hope this helps