Max Patch not opening?
Hi there,
I was wondering if someone could help me out in figuring out why this max patch won't open...I recently saved it and closed it and I think my computer overloaded...and now I click on the patch and it opens Max but nothing pops up. There is definitely information in there because it has 147 KB in it, but nothing comes up. What do I do! This is a pretty big patch and I spent hours on it so I really need it back.
The file is truncated - meaning that the hierarchical structure of the patch is now incomplete and cannot be properly read by the Max interpreter as it is as some amount of the end of the file is missing. You can check/verify this by opening the file in a text editor and comparing it to the end of a known working patch. If you are using Max 7 there may be a way to use the crash recovery feature, but I am (still) on Max 6 so not sure if that will work in this case - especially as Max probably would have brought up a dialog about recovering edits on the subsequent launch to your incident/accident. If thats not successful, or If you are in Max 6 or lower - Best case - you may be able to retrieve what still remains of the patch by manually altering *a copy of* the problem file using a working patch as guide - perhaps a recent backup of that patch (you have one of those, right ?) - as to how to close off the nested hierarchy which hopefully will not entail too much guesswork - if it still does not open the MAX window should at least report an error when you try to open the file - and perhaps provide a clue.- Good luck...