Error Opening sesx After Saving From xml

Question

Greetings,
I'm not sure if this is a common error or not but here goes...
I just got Audition CS6. I have recently been working on some demos in Audition 3. I saved the most recent sessions as .xml with Audition 3 and am able to open those with CS6 (though the plugin settings don't transfer). After doing this, I have been saving the NEW sessions in CS6 as .sesx files. They save fine but when I go back to reopen one of those new .sesx files in CS6 I get the error message:
Error: The file is either corrupt or using an unsupported format
I'm at a total loss and searching that error message on the forum didn't seem to turn up any info. Has anyone run into this?
Thanks in advance,
-m

Answer 1

Yes this is another one of those situations where the Presonus driver adds some 'crap' in reply to an 'enquiry' from Audition.
You can fix it yourself (at least temporarily) so that you can at least re-open the files
Open the sesx file in a text editor like notepad (make a copy first in case you screw up)
Look for these lines toward the bottom of the file
    <outputPort id="8" name="[07M] FireStudio Tube DAW 7 (Phones L)"/>
    <outputPort id="9" name="[08M] FireStudio Tube DAW 8 (Phones R)ￕ￤]&#x9;[1]ﾫ'"/>
And
    <outputPort id="14" name="[07S] FireStudio Tube DAW 7 (Phones L)"/>
Note the dodgy characters
Edit the lines so that they look like this
    <outputPort id="8" name="[07M] FireStudio Tube DAW 7 (Phones L)"/>
    <outputPort id="9" name="[08M] FireStudio Tube DAW 8 (Phones R)'"/>
And
    <outputPort id="14" name="[07S] FireStudio Tube DAW 7 (Phones L)"/>
Save and that’s it though you may have to redo it every time you need to open the file (not sure on that part)