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dansta2k
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Hi Guys
Not sure if you guys have ever experienced this(An error occured while reading the FLP file it may be corrupted, or some plugin caused an error while opening), It happend to me just today cause i was playing around with that stupid chrome plugin and it messed my project up. Tried to open it No luck.
I have just upgraded to FL6 I never had this problem in FL5 i might downgrade if this ever happens again HOWEVER
Stressing about I found a forum in which some guy says to use a hex editor and look for certain things n change blah blah blah. Since i was using version 6 it wouldnt correspond to what he was saying. So I just started recreating it but 5 minutes into that I thought it wasnt going to sound the same.
Well my point is that I did manage to restore the file, not fully though however I was able to keep the channels in the step sequencer (minus the stupid chrome channel) with all midi recorded notes, the proper fx inserts for each channel and panning/volume levels.
However the fx plugins i had were not there anymore and the patterns were not drawn on the play list anymore, It was fine redrawing them as i named my patterns quite well, and as for the effects I remember the settings i used and which effects i used.
Now for the good part(I have no knowledge of using a hex editor so im sure anyone can do this) Basically use a hex editor one i found was this: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download
its free
and open the corrupt file, Open another instance of the hex editor and open an FLP file which is a larger size than the corrupt one.
Now Look for address A in both hex editors, copy the value of the bytes (i had to type them manually) from the non corrupt file to the corrupt one up to address 14(inclusive) . I only had to type like 10 characters or some ****, but this saved me a lot of headache.
If you guys want detailed instructions on how to do this let me know and ill post some step by step guides n ****. Maybe not all files can be restored but it saved my ass!
Not sure if you guys have ever experienced this(An error occured while reading the FLP file it may be corrupted, or some plugin caused an error while opening), It happend to me just today cause i was playing around with that stupid chrome plugin and it messed my project up. Tried to open it No luck.
I have just upgraded to FL6 I never had this problem in FL5 i might downgrade if this ever happens again HOWEVER
Stressing about I found a forum in which some guy says to use a hex editor and look for certain things n change blah blah blah. Since i was using version 6 it wouldnt correspond to what he was saying. So I just started recreating it but 5 minutes into that I thought it wasnt going to sound the same.
Well my point is that I did manage to restore the file, not fully though however I was able to keep the channels in the step sequencer (minus the stupid chrome channel) with all midi recorded notes, the proper fx inserts for each channel and panning/volume levels.
However the fx plugins i had were not there anymore and the patterns were not drawn on the play list anymore, It was fine redrawing them as i named my patterns quite well, and as for the effects I remember the settings i used and which effects i used.
Now for the good part(I have no knowledge of using a hex editor so im sure anyone can do this) Basically use a hex editor one i found was this: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download
its free
and open the corrupt file, Open another instance of the hex editor and open an FLP file which is a larger size than the corrupt one.Now Look for address A in both hex editors, copy the value of the bytes (i had to type them manually) from the non corrupt file to the corrupt one up to address 14(inclusive) . I only had to type like 10 characters or some ****, but this saved me a lot of headache.
If you guys want detailed instructions on how to do this let me know and ill post some step by step guides n ****. Maybe not all files can be restored but it saved my ass!
