Akai MPC Live Software : Mpc Project File is Missing (XPJ)

Hi, I have contacted Aka i(Support) a couple of times but never received any answer.
I'm going to copy/paste what I emailed them and if any of you guys are able to help I would be extremely grateful

I am a Akai MPC Live user and a fairly urgent problem with a session that I cannot open anymore with the software MPC software (latest version).

When clicking on the XPJ file, the software opens but I am received with an error message saying MPC PROJECT FILE IS MISSING. and it gives me the path on where the XPJ file is located on my laptop (but that's actually the file that I clicked on and try to open).

Key information:
- This project has been created from the Akai Software (not in MPC standalone)
- I can still open all other projects with no problem
- Despite the error message, the project still opens all the sessions, tracks, BPM, even automation etc.. It's just that there is no song coming out of it
- The Project Data folder is at the right place and contains all the sequences, wavs, etc..

I have created for you a Wetransfer link so you can investigate it:
https://we.tl/t-7cstA9WYfc
I would be extremely grateful if you could fix this for me as I really need to finish this song and send it over soon.

Thanks
Adrien

Hey, thanks for the answer.

Makes sense that you cannot open it if you do not have the Plugins. But I obviously do. So the only error message that I'm having is the second one.
And as mentioned no sound is coming out at all right now, I do not have any work around

Theres no sound becuase your project folder is missing every single referenced sample. Just look inside the D5_ProjectData folder, there's no samples. Open D5.xpj in a text editor and you'll see the list of samples that it is looking for, none of them are in the projectData folder. For example, 006 Lead Moog 2-021-127-TK3T.WAV, SS - Massive Synth2-21-127-DWLP.WAV , Trap-Kick-Money Kik 2.WAV and so on.

Locate the original samples, copy them to the ProjectData folder, reload the XPJ and you should be fine.

Mmmmmm, that's very odd. But yeah this is part of the samples are used.
I'll have another go and try the way you described.
Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciate it !

Hi MPC-Tutor, I'm still trying to figure out really what happened, but based on your advise I understand that I should probably re-add all the files to the Project Data Folder

Can I ask how and when all these missing files names appeared?
Because even if it's going to be a bit tedious I can locate them on my hard drive and copy/paste them to the Project Data Folder ; however I do not find a way to obtain this list, as the only error message that I see is "MPC PROJECT FILE IS MISSING"

Sorry to be a pain and thanks for your help

Open the .xpj file in a text editor