How to delete single sequence from project without clicking it

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Hi everybody.

Only used kdenlive for a month and ran in to a weird problem.

I copied four clips from a sequence with ctrl+c and then created a new sequence. Accidentally I hit ctrl+v while in the box to name the sequence and it pasted all the data from those clips into the sequence name. After that the program crashed.

When I open the project now everything works, but when I click the wrongly named sequence everything crashes. So I can’t even click it to delete it.

The project is quite big and I have worked on it for two weeks with over 200 clips, so I don’t want to start over.

How can I delete the sequence with the name that makes the program crash without clicking it? I tried finding it in my computers folder system, but I can only find a project file and not the file for the specific sequence.

And yes, I know it is a really weird mistake to make and I should have been more careful when naming the sequence… I worked to fast because I was in a flow and rushing through.

I can provide screenshots, if I haven’t explained myself properly.

Kind regards
Tommy Kjærsgaard, Denmark

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Hi @Tommy_Kjaersgaard, and welcome to the community.

Check the “<your_project_name>.kdenlive” project file for that weird name. It is a XML file and can be edited with the text editor of your choice. I recommend to create a backup file first before attempting to correct the sequence name.

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It worked! Phew!

If everyone ever makes the same mistake, the sequences of the project are named like this:

property name=“kdenlive:clipname”>XXX-name of sequence-XXX</property

They are the only ones called clipname, so ctrl+f finds them easily. I changed the name and now the whole project runs smoothly.

Thanks for your help.

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No worries. Glad it worked! Could you please mark the post as “solved” so that others do not try to answer, and others with the same issue see there is a solution. Thanks!