Is there a way too open a scene that's "too big"?

[ShinyAndroid]

Basically I've been working on a scene in Timeline, and it's gotten too big to open. I was going along, saving as usual. But when I went back to open the scene, it's too big and the error says I'm out of memory (I'm not).

I've ready that the Json has a limit in size before VAM gives up in opening.

But if I could just get in and reduce the keyframes in timeline, I'd be golden.

It's a lesson, obviously, to reduce keyframes before saving...but here I am.

Is there anyway to open a scene that's too big? I'd really hate to lose all this work. It would probably mean my retirement from making content, cause it's a lot of work to redo lol.

 

[KajaGoo]

I had that happen to me also. I would try moving all VARS from AddonPackages folder to another location, leaving only the latest timeline plugin there. Then I would launch VAM and try to open the scene. If it opens, just optimize keyframes and save it under another name, to be safe. Then move back all VAR files.

 

[Acid Bubbles]

@KajaGoo there was another duplicate discussion with solutions here: https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/is-there-a-way-too-open-a-scene-thats-too-big.36403/