Issue After a shutdown

[MaelG]

Hi,

i have a Big problem with one of my show.
After an shutdown, when i have reopen Arena, it's opening automaticatly on démo exemple composition . My lumiverse was lost too.
Advenced output and Dmx shortcut was good.
Arena 7.22.9

When i clic on my composition, Arena do nothing, not opening thé file . But arena Can Open more older file .

Now thé open récent thé list is empty, only Exemple file. But all my composition are still in my composition folder. And all work except thé file load during thé shutdown and it's this one i need . Thé file is in composition folder but impossible to open. It have thé good size. 6Mo. Arena Do nothing when i clic on my composition or when i load it by thé file menu.

Do you have an idea for solved that problème ?
I really need to reopen this file. My other save are old.

Thanks for your help.

Best,

[Zoltán]

You can try fixing the composition file by
opening the file in a text editor, should be kinda readable xml format
go to the end of the file,
delete the last open Clip section, to the last </Clip>
then add
</Deck>
</Composition>
to close tags, and save.

File damage can often happend with SSDs on unclean shutdown, as the drive might have not yet written the cache to disk, and how MLC SSDs work this can also affect files, which applications haven't touched.

[MaelG]

Thanks for your answer but, it's impossible to open thé file with notepad. I can open my other composition with notepad but not this one. All is empty but it's strange because the file is still at 6Mo.