Freeze on load

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Hi

I’m running the latest version of Shotcut on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine.

I worked on a work project all day, saved regularly, managed to do a few exports.
And at some point, Shotcut froze and shut down (nothing big here, it happens sometimes) but now when I try to load into my project again, it just freezes again and shuts down.

Reparation failed and it just freeze when I try to load the original project.

Other projects open just fine but this is the very one I need badly…

By looking at my system monitor, I noticed Shotcut seems to use only one out of my eight CPU units. It obviously tops at 100%.

Any clue or hint of what I could do about it?

Here’s the project:
insecurity_interview.mlt (375.8 KB)

Thanks a lot in advance.

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I do not own a Ubuntu, but telling your shotcut version and system specs is something useful and plus have you checked how much ram it took of your CPU Or laptop. I am currently at a place where I don’t have access to my PCs (and it’s my grandma’s house), So I can’t open the mlt project right now, but my best guess is that your project is filling up your ram that’s why it’s crashing.

I actually don’t know this thing, and as it’s a Ubuntu, there are different ways to solve this problem from a windows or Mac. So even if I knew the answer, then I would have been only knowing the answer about Win and Mac.

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The project file says version 21.03.21 - a version number is always more meaningful. There are newer versions but not yet recommended for stability.

<property name="resource">insecurity_interview.mlt</property>

Your project includes itself. Obviously, that is not a good thing. We try very hard to prevent you from doing that, but somehow it happened. I tried to manually fix it for you:
insecurity_interview - fixed.mlt (375.0 KB)

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Thank you! I’ll make sure to do so next time!

I just tested your fixed project and it seems to work perfectly (it opens at least!). Thanks a lot!

What do you mean by the “project includes itself”? How did I manage to do that?
I’m a beginner, so maybe it’s a thing I’m not supposed to do that I’m not aware of?

Thanks again! And thank you @Ar_D as well!

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Possibly you dragged your project file from your file manager to the timeline and dropped it there. There is supposed to be code to reject that and sometimes show a dialog like “You cannot add a project to itself!” I just tested this on macOS where I am at the moment and could not make it include itself. If you figure out how please let us know. Thanks

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If I did that, I think it’s nothing more than a keyboard error or a dubious mouse drag… :confused: But I’ll let you know if I find any clue about what happened.
Thanks a lot again for saving the day!

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