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  • Bizzare Tiff Error – Project Lost?

    Posted by Dave Fleury on June 6, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Can anybody help me with this error message?

    After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking format plug-in “TIFF”.
    After Effects can’t continue: sorry, After Effects has crashed. See https://www.adobe.com/support/products/aftereffects.html for known issues. If you still can’t resolve the issue, please contact Adobe Technical Support (2). (0 :: 42)
    Before quitting, you have one chance to save your project (don’t use the same name as the original).
    After Effects error: deleting file “3380” — file is busy (delete) (-47). (3 :: 31)

    I have emptied the Cache, renamed the project, imported the project into a clean project, and different variations of everything above, nothing will get me my project back.

    PS All of the auto saves are giving me the same error.

    Stuart Paciej replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jason Brown

    April 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    I know it’s been awhile but I’ll respond because I found your question while searching for the problem I had.

    I found the solution to my specific problem. It occured when I had an image sized at half HD res – 960 x ??? and I changed the size to a full res HD image and purged the project to basically reload the image at full size. Project crashed and I had the exact problems you explained.

    The solution was to remove that source file from the folder where AE was looking for it. When I opened the project, it said I had one missing file and ran fine.

    So if you couldn’t find which file was giving you issues…you could start by cutting out folders in your project that contain TIFFs and keep reloading until you find it.

    Hope this post helps someone in the future!

  • Stuart Paciej

    July 8, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    Yes it has!

    My handy hint – you can mess about with the project so long as the caps lock is on (e.g preview deactivated). So you can remove the offending item from within after effects if you know what it is.

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