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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0010119ardourbugspublic2026-01-11 09:01
ReporterIndustrialPowerSound Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityN/A
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformMicrosoftOSWindowsOS Version11
Product Version8.12 
Summary0010119: Ardour crashes after loading step "indexing plugins" when opening projects by clicking on the .ardour project files
DescriptionArdour crashes to desktop after loading step "indexing plugins" when opening projects by clicking on the .ardour project files. However, opening Ardour.exe and open projects from the "recent projects" list or browse projects not on the list works, and does not crash on the same step.
Steps To ReproduceOn affected systems: click on any .ardour project file
Additional InformationI reported this in the Ardour forums as well, and another user on MacOS responded they had the same issue there and suggested I open a ticket here, see: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/problems-opening-projects/112791

This phenomenon happened "over night" about a month ago; it was working fine until then and hasn't worked since. I had not done any updates to Ardour at that time, nor recently installed any new plugins, but I did try to reindex/rescan all plugins again anyway, without it solving the issue.

I'm on an AMD Ryzen 7900x CPU with 64GB RAM, working off of SSDs (M.2 for OS/applications, SATA SSD for music projects).
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