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I hate to say this, but I'm pretty sure you're screwed. Open the file in a hexeditor. If it's empty/almost empty, theres nothing there

Wow thanks. K, so it appears my file has been pretty badly corrupted. I'm no reverse engineering genious but using Hex Workshop I compared several flp files to see what I could find out, since I'm using FL6 and I wanted to make sure this method still worked. So in all files the two bytes after "dt" still point to the 22nd last byte. I also found that the 22nd last byte was always 31h. (h stands for hex of course). In my corrupted file, the 22nd last byte was not 31, but DC. Also, the first two lines were not 00000000 464C 6864 0600 0000 0000 0900 6000 464C FLhd........`.FL 00000010 6474 D282 0100 C706 362E 302E 3800 C811 dt......6.0.8... As they should be but 00000000 464C 6864 0600 0000 0000 1000 6000 D4F9 FLhd........`... 00000010 1200 5946 D000 C706 362E 302E 3800 C811 ..YF....6.0.8... So I decided to replace the first two lines with good ones, and replace the pointer bytes with ones pointing to the 22nd last byte. Then I tried to open my file. It started opening instruments and plugins, then told me the file was corrupt, then the alert disapeared and I was left with a frozen screen of FLStudio, all my patterns and channels were there, one of my mixer channels was now purple and some characters in the playlist (not pattern labels) had turned to squares. I'm getting close! I'll keep you guys posted. In the meantime if anyone has suggestions or would like to see the file, say something. I'll subscribe to the thread. PS It seemed to me that the plugin causing the problem was "mda degrade" which I actually didn't need in the file at all. Just a warning. If you want to mess around with a plugin to see how it sounds, backup your file!! no wait. ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR FILES. in the music biz, extra HD = good investment. EDIT: I tried to open the file again. Now everything seems fine till it tries to open mda degrade. Then it just hangs. I've tried renaming the plugin but it still doesn't work.