Show won't load or merge

Hi Bud,
here are some of the older versions of Hog III PC.
What was the original name of the extension name of the showfile? Was it .gz or .shw?
As far as i know shows created before 3.18 and some 3.19 will not load correctly with the current software v3.23.
Here are some of the legacy versions of Hog III PC which may let you open the original showfile.
www.flyingpig.com/support/downloads/archive.shtml

Here is another post that has the hog init failure which may have some useful information.
forums.highend.com/showthread.php?t=12058&highlight=Hog+Init+failure

Regards Cormac

You could try running a check integrity on the show file on a Hog PC running 3.1.9

This might tidy up any glitches.

I may be mistaken - but thats how you go back from 3.2.x to 3.1.9....

Well, I would love to run check integrity, if i could get the show to load.

As suggested, I'll try to download a previous version of HogPC (3.1.9) and see if i can load the show there.

It was emailed to me as a .gz file, so I think that thje problem may lie there as well.

It's possible if its passed thru a Mac it might have got messed up. But that's usually only if safari is involved in my experience. Good luck. If all else fails send file to high end. Usually they are pretty helpful

OK, so I downgraded my HogPC3 to 3.1.9. File opened fine. Saved a Backup file (other saved one was a .gz file).

Reinstalled 3.2.3 and the backup file loaded perfectly. What's a bit strange is that the original .gz file also loaded fine now.

I wonder if my original install of HogPC3 3.2.3 had gotten corrupted?

Anyway, very glad it worked. Show in question is a modification of a touring show in a venue with 110 VL-1000Ts. Last year I spent 2 days modifying my show to work in there, Really glad i don't have to go through that again!

Many thanks to all who replied.

Forget weird and Hurray for working! Glad you got it sorted.

Yeah, weird can be good or bad. Working is always good.