StevenW wrote:I was working on the timeline and group post-clip levels connecting and disconnecting different nodes while I was testing different looks FPE's etc. On disconnecting a node on the post-clip level from the output, Resolve crashed and now every time I open it, it crashes on loading that one project.
As long as you can launch Resolve and see the Project Manager, you have a chance you can export the project to a new project. Do that with COPY in the title, then once it's exported, then import this COPY project and try to open that. If it opens, reset that grade and start again.
I have seen corrupted nodes happen on very rare occasions, but generally there are workarounds from which you can recover. (BTW, this phenomena goes back decades: my theory is a "bad bit" gets set to an illegal number or something, and the software blows up when it encounters it.)
Just out of curiosity, tell us what specific functions were in the node. I recently had some Red Giant OFX plug-ins blow up (big-time) in Resolve 17, and got rid of that very quickly. Generally everything else has worked fine. Filmbox, Dehancer, FilmConvert, and PixelTools all have film emulation modes that are convincing, reliable, and widely used.