Drambo crashed and now doesn't start at all

Parglanda · August 11

Drambo crashed unexpectedly the other day (I don't recall doing anything special/resource consuming with it) and since then, I am unable to start the app. The screen goes black, I see the logo and after a couple of seconds it goes to desktop. I've tried switching the iPad off and on, starting other projects/templates, deleting some files to free space and I updated to the latest os. I still haven't reinstalled Drambo because I'm worried my projects/settings etc. will be gone. All the other apps function normally. I have iPad Air 2020.

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Please help me because now I can't use Drambo at all and my iPad became worthless:D I'm attaching the latest diagnostics files that I found.

number37 · August 11

You should be able to safely try offloading, then re-downloading Drambo without losing any settings or projects. But to be safe, try to have at least an iCloud backup of your iPad.

Offloading can be found in Settings / General / Storage. _Do not_ enable the general offloading setting. Find Drambo in the list, tap on it, then select to offload it. Then start Drambo and it'll download fresh from the App Store.

This doesn't always fix things, but it's (relatively) low risk and does sometimes help.

Parglanda · August 11

Thank you for the suggestion, I didn't know you can offload it like that! But in the meantime, I think I've found the culprit!

I think that my latest midi mapping was corrupted - I made a backup, reinstalled Drambo and it turned out that the same problem appeared only when I put that midi mapping file in MIDI folder.

My wild guess (please correct me if I'm wrong) - since all projects, even the default project share the chosen midi mapping, nothing could start because everything had that problematic mapping selected from the start.

I can send the mapping which was causing problems to be checked. Without, everything seems to function correctly:)