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Vegas won’t open project files after recovery
Hello everyone. I have a quite unusual problem with MAGIX Vegas Pro, at least as Google says so. Long story short: I’ve upgraded my PC and formatted my hard drive. I thought I backed everything up, but forgot my .veg projects. I’ve managed to recover them with a utility, including even .bak files, restored them to another direction, but they won’t open – Vegas says “the file is an unsupported format”, or even crashes with following description:
Application Name: VEGAS Pro
Application Version: Version 15.0 (Build 177)
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 15.0\vegas150.exe
Fault Address: 0x0000000000000000
Fault Offset: 0x0000000000000000
Obviously, these project files are corrupted. Is there any way I can fix them? Is it even possible? I tried to rename .bak files to .veg, but the problem remains the same. I’ll be extremely grateful for any help. -
7 Replies
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Hi Dmitry,
Sounds like maybe the utility you used to recover the veg file didn’t get it completely restored and therefore Vegas thinks it is corrupt. You might want to try a different recovery program or different settings.
Best Regards……George
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Thanks for the clarification, George. Can you by chance recommend me a useful software that can 100% guarantee recovery of my lost files? Thanks a lot in advance!
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Hi Dmitry,
I doubt there is any utility that will provide 100% guarantee to recover files, especially a .veg file. I have no recommendation other than do a search and read the reviews and try something different from the utility that has failed. Wish I could over more, good luck with it. If you find a solution, I hope you will post it here, so it may help others in the future.
Best Regards……George
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Thank you George! I’ll do my best to find just the software, and surely will share the info here. At the same time, I still hope somebody might have some ideas about the trouble.
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You seem to be using a very early build of Vegas Pro 15. VP 15 had eight updates/new builds with bug fixes after that. Try updating to the last build from here https://www.magix.com/us/support/my-service-center/product-downloads/
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Thanks Jorma, but I don’t really believe my trouble to be in Vegas build. I tried to recover a lost image as an experiment, but only got a corrupt file. I’m afraid George is right, my .veg files just wasn’t recovered right. I used Hetman Partition Recovery. Yesterday I tried MiniTool Data Recovery, and successfully recovered some of the projects, but only some. Unfortunately, I need to recover them all, or at least the latest ones I was working on. I’ll keep searching for a solution…
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So far, I’ve managed to recover few more project files. Almost all of .veg files were saved, but sadly some of them are lost beyond any recovery. I tried as many utilities I could use, but the result is so. The most helpful were R-Studio and MiniTool Power Data Recovery. So, the lesson is – back. everything. up. If I’ll come to yet another result (I’m still not giving up), I’ll post it here.
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