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  • After Effects locks up while loading projects

    Posted by Guy Wiley on May 27, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    So I was working on a project a couple of weeks ago and in the process something happened (I’m sure it was me some how) and now when I launch AE the program opens just fine, however when I try to load a project, any project, AE locks up. It will load stuff (assets) into the project pane and that is it. It wont let me do anything else. I will try to click on another pane or something and all it does is give me the “wrong move” sound. I have to force quit the program just to get it to close.

    Any thoughts?? Thank you in advance. I am a novice with AE, but learning.

    Mac Pro running 10.5.7
    2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon
    6 GB 800MHZ DDR2 RAM
    AE CS3 8.0.2

    Michael Szalapski replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    May 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Have you tried trashing the prefs?

    To restore default preference settings, hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) while the application is starting.

    It’s surprising the number of errors this can fix.

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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  • Guy Wiley

    May 27, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    That did it!! Don’t know you, but you are the man.

    Thank you so much

  • Michael Szalapski

    May 27, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    You’re welcome! That’s what we’re here for. Thank you for letting us know that it worked. We appreciate knowing we’re doing good!

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

    No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

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