I'm trying to ressurect some old mixes (2004) and I dug up an old DVD and tried to copy the SAW folder with my Windows10 PC. No luck! It would just freeze. So, I went to my Windows7 pc, success! I can open the session on the Windows7 PC but if I copy the folder over to my
Windows10 PC, even just opening the folder in FileExplorer will cause a crash--actually, it's the mouseover that does it. If I clear the mouse from the FileExplorer box it will not crash. Then when I allow the mouse to hoover over the open explorer box, crash!


Furthermore, if i try and load the EDL into SAW I get the usual 'find files' message, click on a folder to find the files and boom, explorer goes down!

I would prefer to mix on my Win10 PC as it's fully loaded with all my plugins. Can anyone figure this one out?

It's like the folder is poison. It does contain 20bit files but that can't be it right?

The computer is fine otherwise. I can run ProTools,AbletonLive,SAWStudio all with big sessions, no problem.

I tried Blending the session, no luck.
I tried copying the files to another location, different hard drive, no luck, same explorer crashes.
I tried Shellexview, disable all the Context shells, no luck.

This isn't a BSOD crash, just File Explorer going down.

Other file windows with audio files do not cause the crash...head scratcher!