Cantabile 4 not loading after crash (Windows 11)

Hi there,

I’m Robin and recently discovered Cantabile and used the Lite version in a live performance on my laptop. I works great and I am really enthousiastic about using it more and thinking of buying although Lite seems to have everything I need…but…

I installed it on my studio desktop computer, something went wrong and now I cannot get the 64bit version to load. 32bit no problem.

I uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times, it keeps starting up in Crash Recovery mode (I check all the boxes) and it does not go past the Getting Started screen.

Of course I scanned the forums but have not found a solution yet. I might have missed something so if you someone could send me in the right direction it is much appreciated.

Thank you,

Robin.

Hi Robin

Welcome to the forum. I will tag @brad, the creator of Cantabile, for his suggestions.

@brad

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Hi @Robin,

Could I get you to send me a debug log:

  1. Start Window’s File Explere
  2. In the address bar, type or paste: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Topten Software\Cantabile 4.0 (x64)
  3. Send me a copy of the files log.txt and settings.json
  4. There may also be a sub-folder “Crash Reports”. Check in there for any recent crash reports and send a copy of the most recent one (if it seems to be dated when you last tried to run Cantabile).

Hopefully that will be enough to diagnose it, otherwise I might need you to manually create a crash report - I’ll provide details if necessary then.

One thing you could try if you just want to get up and running again would be to rename the folder Cantabile 4.0 (x64) to something else (eg: Cantabile 4.0 (x64) (Backup)) and try running Cantabile again. That’ll reset all your settings as if you’d just installed for the first time.

Brad

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Hi @Brad,

Thank you for taking the time to check. There is only a log.txt file, no settings.json.

Also changing the folder name does not change anything. The program will not go past the Getting Started screen.

Since I am a new member here I cannot post attachments so I sent it to your email box.

Thanks, replied to your email.