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snapshot won't load after external drive hiccuped and couldn't save.

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Hey guys, during a session on ardour 5.6, my external drive lost connection for a few secs while saving the session and I had to unplug and plug the drive back in. Now I get this error when attempting to start session:

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Session "/run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time (snapshot Ron's Never a good Time)" did not load successfully: Failed to load state
This is not an new session. I was just fixing up a few things.

the terminal spat out:

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ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: Input/output error
ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: Specification mandate value for attribute firs in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: attributes construct error in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag Region line 169 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Regions line 153 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ardour: [ERROR]: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Session line 2 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
run dialog

Errors/Messages:
ERROR: XML error: Input/output error
ERROR: XML error: Specification mandate value for attribute firs in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: attributes construct error in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag Region line 169 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Regions line 153 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Session line 2 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Input/output error
ERROR: XML error: Specification mandate value for attribute firs in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: attributes construct error in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag Region line 169 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Regions line 153 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: XML error: Premature end of data in tag Session line 2 in /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour at line 169:576
ERROR: Could not understand session file /run/media/harv/HITACHI/Ron's Never a good Time/Ron's Never a good Time.ardour
can my session be rescued??
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