I can't get my saved video to open in opensg shot.

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on a dual core 64 Esus mother board. I have only 1 gig of randon access memory but it seems to be swapping memory to the hard drive OK and core temperaturs are running well under 70C when exporting. Doug

Hi,
Two things.
First you lack of memory could explain why Openshot is so slow. Only 1 gig is very light, especialy if you'll pass to Pangolin. Unity and Gnome3 have need of at least 768 mio. The last versions of MLT seems to need a lot of memory. :-(
Secondly, you could try this in a console (without any success) :
rm .openshot
and after run Openshot.

I can Open openshot from the icon. I cannot open Openshot from the saved OSP file. I also opened openshot and tried to open the osp file in it. I have about 40hrs in this video so far and I would sure like to save all that work. I realize 1G is very little memory but when exporting witch takes a lot of resources I have no problem rendering the same video with different music. I am down to about 25 megabits on my hard drive. I have cleaned the drive and removed a lot of stuff to a usb drive. It is the already saved osp file that I cannot open. Doug

You have done some clean on your hard drive. I hope that you have not destroy the folder called thumbnail created in the same time that your .osp file. If it is the case, it is normal that you can't open your project.
More explanations here : http://www.openshotusers.com/help/1.3/en_GB/ar01s05.html#sect2_21

Looks like the problem is solved. I went and bought some lumber and a dozen roses for my wife. It took the video 3hours to load but it finally did. I then exported it to the desktop. I opened Open Shot and put the video in the time line. A few clips were missing so I put them in and all looks well. I still have a little editing. I think I just did not have enough hard drive space for the swop file to work with the ram memory. I am going to put all video files on a second hard drive so I will have enough swap space. For now the Problem seems solved Thank You very much. Doug

MY computer can use more than 1 gig of ram. I need a new machine I guess. Thanks, Doug

Ah a Intel 2600 k or an AMD Bulldozer 8140 with a SSD (for sample OCZ Vertex 3) should be do the trick with (at minimum 8 Go of memory). My two centimes..........