2024.1.1 Stuck on "Preparing terrain"

Hi I recently downloaded 2024.1.1 and spent the day building up a small residential project to be rendered.

When i was ready to export the program crashed. When i tried to re-open the file it gets stuck on " preparing terrain" and never opens. I have a 2023 apple macbook pro with the m2 max chip , 64 gb memory, 1 tb storage, 12 cores

Any help is greatly apprciated !