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Can’t Open Project (CS5)
I have a project created in After Effects CS5 (Windows) that refuses to open no matter what I try. It hangs at around 75-80% progress of opening the project every time, at which point I get “AE is not responding” error and I have to manually close the program.
I’ve tried every solution I’ve seen suggested, including moving all media to a different folder (then a different drive), opening a new project and trying to import the damaged project, trying same with all auto-save projects, cleaning the media cache, trashing the preferences, opening the project with caps lock on, no luck.
Anybody have any other ideas? Thanks very much.
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5 Replies
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Hi Kim,
Is it possible to try opening the file on another machine ?Presuming that you can open other files, what significant differences are there in the files ie; filesize, content (media etc), use of 3rd party plugins etc ..
Steve.
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Kim
You have tried almost all the methods. Give the project file to someone else and see if it works on other system.
Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
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Are you closing AE as soon as you see the “After Effects has stopped responding” message?
If you are on a Windows 7 box that can pop up rather too quickly and the program is actually still working fine. I see it all the time, I just let my computer catch up with itself and it’s fine. Only vary rarely does it actually stop working.
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I’m guessing that you haven’t saved projects incrementally, so you can’t step back to when the project did work? I hope you can get your project back, but take away from it the fact that you should always create incremental backgups as you go – you never know which plugin/keyframe/graphic could be the cause of something like this. I wish you luck with it…
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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Thanks everyone – I was finally able to get it by opening the project on another machine that also (coincidentally or not) was running CS6.
Huge relief, and thank you for your input.
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