Help me, ERROR Loading SD Card problem

I spent a month working on a new track in 3.0 standalone—really putting in the time, fine-tuning sequences, adding and removing sounds, and perfecting the arrangement. Yesterday, I even took the day off just to make some final tweaks.

I finally finished it. Played it in full around 1 PM… and then it stopped. Now when I try to load it, I get this dreaded message:

"ERROR Loading SD Card/Velvet Oblivion.xpj"

I legit almost cried. The SD card itself seems fine—I can load older tracks, but this one? Gone. The project folder still has the samples, but the actual sequence data? Looks like I’ll have to rebuild everything from scratch.

Has anyone else gone through this? What the heck happened, and is there ANY way to recover it? I put so many hours into this track, and I’m seriously crushed. Any advice would mean the world right now."**

First, transfer the project to a different SD card and see what happens. Also reboot etc, a lot of loading issues seem fleeting. In theory it's possible to edit an XPJ but that's advanced stuff. Open the XPJ in something like 7zip (it's a gzip compressed file), extract it to a text file and all the data is there in json format (MIDI patterns, track files, project settings etc). Might be able to pull out some usable stuff - or perhaps it's obvious what the issue is when you look at the code.

Good luck trying to save this project, but remember to back your files up.