Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:02 pm
Bob there's a lot of information missing for anyone to help you troubleshoot.
Tell us what system you're using (PC/Mac) and any hardware or software plugins you may be using.
Also, this looks and sounds like the database has become corrupted. What I would do is make a backup of both your project files and, the current Davinci database, there are detailed instructions in the manual and here on the forum.
After both have been copied and saved, delete your installation of DR completely. There is a built-in removal tool within DR installer however, even so you'll need to manually scan for remnants (this occurs both PC and Mac) to fully get DR off your system and cleaned up.
Make sure you copy both the database AND the projects to an external drive, or a drive that is not connected to your system, otherwise when you reinstall DR it will find and re-attach those old files.
Then do some routine cleanup on your system, how and what will depend on which platform you have. You want to make sure you don't have something in the core of your OS that might be causing DR to malfunction.
Then do a clean install of DR and try a test project to see if things go sideways again. If it's stable then try importing one of your project files. If things stay stable then your old database was corrupted. Once a DB becomes corrupt there's no fixing it, you have to start fresh.
See if that helps; others may have other or better troubleshooting to offer once we know what system setup you have.
Once you get things cleaned up and stable make it a habit to make backups of both your DR database and project files, so that if this happens again you can get back to work right away.