Migrated to C4, some set lists cause Preload error?

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Finally had some downtime and am migrating to C4 on all my rigs. Some set lists load fine, others give me a message like this:

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All was fine on C3, on 3 machines. What’s the cause/fix? Thanks!
Tom

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Solved: I found this in Verify, there’s one song that I think is causing the issue:
Failed to load ‘C:\ALL BAND FOR BACKUP\Cantabile\Songs#_HEY BARTENDER - ALL EWI-SWAM.cantabileSong’ - Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. (Parameter ‘index’)

I deleted that song and resaved the list, it opened without error. Then I dug into the song and there were 2 old bindings from old Vsti’s I’d forgotten about long ago that never caused an issue in C3, fixed those and all seems good so far.
Tom

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I had similar results with a few conflicts on my switchover but the majority was retained without issues.

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I still use v3 - it is reliable and stable on my three systems. Every now and then I try out v4 to see what is new and if it converts all the racks, songs, setlists well. A while it worked but I couldn’t justify taking the risk of changing a running system.
Today I installed v4303 on my oldest live system (from 2016) and Cantabile crashes right after start of the application - not a good sign to switch from v3.

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That’s why I’ve waited so long to move to C4 so I waited until I had some downtime. But I have to say it was actually pretty simple, and C4 is a separate installation, so if issues occur just open C3. So far C4 seems to be good for me. Plus, the improvements in bindings and show notes, etc. are important to me for live work. Quite often in C3 there were some things I just couldn’t do, or they required an intensive workaround.

My larger concern is changing to Win 11, which I may do at some point. I know it will take quite a while to change over all 3 of my PCs.
Tom

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My newest music laptop that I built up to replace the oldest one some day has Win11. It works fine with Cantabile v3 but I blocked Windows updates as soon as I proved that it is reliable and stable.

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